The Clan of the Cave Bear asks the age old question: what if women were people too?
Daryl Hannah stars as a tall, blond (shampooed) Cro-Magnon adopted by a clan of dirty, matted-haired Neanderthals. more about 70s feminism/womens rights than anthropology. the makeup from the poster is used in one scene, the rest of the time is all green (trees) yellow (blond) and brown (everything else). most of the dialogue is sign language, performed very roughly
probably would have appreciated it more if I hadnāt watched in it 20-minute bursts while imagining a modern prestige series version of it shot in the style of a nature documentary
The books are kind of amazing in a bad way. Like, seemingly well researched and plausible worldbuilding for a paleolithic setting, mostly in service of story beats straight out of drugstore romance novels.
The main character Ayla is like, the biggest Mary Sue of all time. She effortlessly learns languages, is a skilled hunter, a good cook, devastatingly beautiful but grew up with another species (neanderthals) who all called her ugly so she has no idea sheās actually hot. Sheās a human lie detector. Sheās the first person to ever domesticate animals, and does so with A) a wolf, B) horses, C) a cave lion just for style points.
Her boyfriend has a dick so big it sends other women home crying but her thunderpussy is capable of accepting its full length, no sweat
nb thereās like 600 rapes per book, which goes with the dime store romance novel plotting of it but it is a huge part of those books (my mom was also super into these books)
idk, I thought the killer was pretty funny. I like how the narration is all like āyou must be a perfect killing machineā¦ you must have inhuman focus and precisionā¦ there is zero room for errorā¦ā and meanwhile heās bumbling his way through literally every murder and getting his ass kicked constantly
it was like he was trying to make fun of himself like hey haha iām a dumb guy too but of course David Fincher has never made a movie that isnāt ineffably smug and annoying
god is a bullet is maybe the worst adaptation of a decent book iāve ever seen so congratulations to the guy who directed the notebook, these fellas were really holding a torch for mediocrity by white directors last year, i think itās a bold choice to cut down like every conversation the characters have by 75% in your fuckin 2 and a half hour long movie so you can insert more shots of women having their noses broken
Having watched Hanagatami a week ago, I decided to go ahead and finally see The Drifting Classroom as well. Iād read somewhere that itās nothing like the comic, but thatās not true. It follows the basic story fairly closely. I wasnāt expecting it to be mostly in English, though.
I liked it, overall. It has many elements that I guess are standard in Obayashiās films, and at this point those things have become familiar to me and kind of endearing.
Seeing the movie made me want to re-read the comic.
i mean look itās been over a decade since i read it, i was a different person etc etc, but if memory serves the idea that the rape towards the end of the book was primarily experienced as one by Ayla coz old mate didnāt like, make the sign to make it culturally acceptable was interesting at least. and like, in a culture w/o patrilineage as a concept where sex is more divorced from power and ownershipā¦ like i can certainly see how that could interface w/ your classic bedrudged housewife fantasies
a new disc of the raid: redemption came out recently and i watched a very reasonably sized x265 encode of it just now. as you all may or may not know i have been a fangirl of martial arts cimema for a while.
one of the things i love about martial arts cinema is the way that the screen persona of the actors is established and developed across different movies. i havent seen their entire filmographies but im the kind of person who will seek out and watch a movie just bc it has an actor im fond of such as tony jaa or jean-claude van damme. so ive also been enjoying following the careers of iko uwais, joe taslim, etc. for several years now
that said i find the movie the raid to be a little unpleasant to watch at points, it presents this like constant intensely political-feeling police violence, numerous gunpoint executions, a bloody on-screen child killing, etc., and while i am known to be an enthusiast of what we might broadly term sicko cinema i obviously can find a movie to be a little too nihilistic or w/eā¦ this is one of those movies i find to be both repulsive and fascinating at the same time
thereās also a lot i dislike about the direction and filmmaking such as the fact that the camera never stops shaking lol (maybe the next cut will get rid of the rolling shutter)
the stuntwork and choreography are really good tho, ive probably seen it 3 or 4 times at this point lolā¦ i probably enjoy the raid 2 and the night comes for us a little more, i like that sort of sweeping genre drama, also i love that they have women in some pretty iconic villain roles lol
and i know people complain about new color gradings when new discs come out but sometimesā¦ they are good
