that’s my new fav #2 (fantasy) method of getting rid of arch enemies 
(why #2? Well, dropping a piano from a skyscraper remains #1, the dedication and execution (pun unintentional 
) surpasses all other methods in my book)
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The exploding Coke can always impressed me personally.
I learned it from G Gordon Liddy, noted scumbag who also told me that it’s important to call the cops on anyone you plan on bombing with an anonymus tip that the victim is transporting explosives so that the cops will show up to arrest them and interfere with mediical intervention.
Rest In Piss, Gordo
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watched man of steel and bvs again, think i could now convincingly bullshit people that zack snyder is a marxist if i had a whim to. movies are very fun!
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I have watched just a mountain of netflix trash since being consigned to the covid dungeon.
Have yall heard of this movie called The Bad Batch? It’s a gonzo post apoc weird west type thing in the vein of Six String Samurai or A Boy and His Dog but shoved headfirst through a literal Annapurna middlebrow art film filter. Just complete shit, even Momoa (doing a horrific Cuban accent) and Keanu can’t save it.
Also watched the original Paranormal Activity for the first time. For a movie that launched a thousand imitators it sure is pure tedium. The most check your phone movie I’ve watched in months.
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New entry in the ‘Didn’t see that one coming’ club:
The Creator:
A bit surprised that this flick managed to be released on a seemingly small budget (for AAA-levels, heh), that it could be called Rogue Two ( 
) and above all that the US of Army is depicted in a … let’s say, not quite positive way, what with how they behave in Asia, which is a daring statement to make and slip by modern content watchdogs.
tl;dr version:
Ambitious, stupid Sci-Fi flick, and man, I missed those!
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i laughed at the scene where the tier one pipe hitters listen to Radiohead on their big combat drop
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looked it up and it’s definitely not the track i was expecting, which was “the national anthem” and definitely not “everything in its right place”
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I ended up watching the most recent Doctor Strange movie on cable as I stumbled on it flipping through the channels right as it was starting and I had nothing better to do. At one point I went “wow, what a neat Sam Raimi tribute shot”, then at the final credits roll I found out he actually directed it.
That’s the sum total of my thoughts on it.
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I recently watched Under the Skin, after having heard about it for so long, and I’m not sure it really did anything for me. It felt too simple and straightforward for how long it was, but because so much of the movie is extended shots of people staring at the screen or just regular people walking on streets, you can interpret any meaning and motivation you want onto any scene, which ultimately made it less interesting to me. Reading all this praise for The Zone of Interest makes me want to check that movie out, but I’m afraid I’ll be disappointed in it.
Last night I watched May December and I appreciate that it understands the true drama of hot dogs. It strikes an interesting balance between amped up melodrama, sometimes to comedic levels like that, and quiet loneliness that reflects the interiority of victim of the story.
I saw a clip of what I think was the beginning of this movie, where Dr. Strange and America Chavez are running on a collpasing bridge in some sort of alternate dimension, and it looked like Lava Girl and Shark Boy quality green screen work.
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i think a lot of film guys (including me when i’m being a film guy) will go off for a movie that’s mostly some really gorgeous images with a bit of plausible subtext. like you’re looking at the screen in order to see and/or hear neat things right
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I just watch The Creator on a plane and it was horrible. It’s warcrimes and racism for two hours until the main character has a change of heart and then it is just warcrimes. On top of “what if we were racist to robots? Pretty fucked up.” There is just treating Asians as this slurry of cultures (but now there is also robots). Much like Jade Empire they invented a new language for the movie called uh…New Asian. I can safely say it’s my 4th favorite Gareth Edwards movie. Felt like him suddenly becoming extremely powerful in holywood made his brain fall out. No regrets watching it on a plane. 1 out of 5 bullets to AI’s braincasing.
I also saw Barbie and it was great and complex and messy and what a joy. Felt like any complaint I would have about it wouldn’t exist if it was about A Boy Toy so I can just shut up. All the references to specific toys was cool and all the plastics! It was way weirder than I expected. And I cried at the parent-child stuff. Good Job Movie! 5 out of 5 empty boxes.
Got through 2 hours of Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning before the plane landed. Unlike the ring of power y’all could just drop this untraceable key just about anywhere and save everyone the trouble. The lesser MI movies the plot is really straining itself to make itself work and with 3 hours you have more than enough time to sit back and think how none of this makes a lot of sense and why don’t they just put one bullet in Ethan or the bad guy. Very good shot of trying to make Tom Cruise look tall (i say as a short-ish man myself). The best shot is Tom Cruise getting on a horse.
While waiting for the bathroom I saw 4 minutes of first class Lightyear and it has a whole lot of gun shooting and energy dagger ripping of aliens.
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To me the subtext is that the alien is, uh, alienated. That all the motion has no immediate meaning is the meaning.
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Yeah, that is something I’ve been thinking about. How when you watch so many movies, the unconventional will probably grab you even more just by giving you a completely different experience than you’re getting from 95% of everything else you watch.
oh yeah it touched me deeply lol
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Cried a lot watching All of us strangers in a movie theatre at 1130 in the morning today.
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watched On the Beach, 1959 movie about a u.s. submarine captained by gregory peck that ends up in australia after a nuclear war. everyone waits around in melbourne to die of radiation poisoning or to get sick enough to take their issued suicide pills. in the world of the film the radiation never dies out and is just hanging out in the air forever and people in the southern hemisphere are just waiting for it to blow their way eventually. anthony perkins is also in it as the nice young guy with a wife and baby he has to eventually suicide with!
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Damn i gotta watch that. There are several of us on this website who went to university in the background of that screenshot
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Johnny Keep Walking — caught the sole (OV w/ subtitles) screening, and was pretty packed, much to my surprise.
Half the fun was experiencing the audience watching the movie, evening well spent it is.
(the movie? uh, some role-swap-cover-up-comedy, entertaining but nothing to write home about)
mission impossible 4 - i skipped the john woo one since i remember not liking it and the jj abrams one for obvious reason, this one was by brad bird and does indeed feel like a live action cartoon, at best like a sort of crazily exaggerated take on the kinds of depersonalized mechanical problem-solving exercises that the show mostly was (theres a good part abt climbing the sides of a skyscraper that made me wish i wasnt watching on a plane, which is a good thing to shoot for in a movie that will mostly just be watched on a plane), at worst like the broader and vaguer version (the bad guys are just a kind of empty handwave; the climax is a fight between superagent tom cruise and like a tenured university professor of game theory, taking place in a fully automated mechanical parking lot i presumed was a real thing somewhere on the basis i couldnt imagine anyone thinking it was cool enough to want to make up). i thought it was funny when the guy at the start got shot and it turned out to be bc he was distracted by his facial recognition implants tagging the one who did it and sending an alert notification to his phone with the word ASSASSIN. early adopter problems.
mission impossible 5 - maybe better at what you want from this kind of movie incl a cool questionably evil spy lady and a villain that’s basically just one of the pervert electronica musicians from the big lebowski. theres an underwater stunt section done reportedly for real which sort of feels wasted when everything in it feels/looks like a goofy videogame thing and the in-universe reason they need to do it is to load a security database with IK animations of simon pegg’s walk cycle. it also becomes ever funnier that the name of the fake spy agency is “the IMF” especially by the end of the movie when they’re announcing it posing around the villain. thats what you get for messing with the Impossible Monetary Fund, motherfucker! also funny is that the anonymous front record store lady at the start gets a line about how cool she thinks the tom cruise character is, just so we know to feel sad when she’s killed 15 seconds later.
in conclusion the main guy in these movies is called Ethan Hunt which is why for over a decade i thought they all starred Ethan Hawke (as himself?)
crocodile dundee - this one is funny bc the main guy just looks like someones leathery, slightly uncomfortable looking dad dressed as a GI Joe character for halloween and the structure of the movie relies on the journalist lady falling madly in love with him in a way he just… doesnt sell at all. the romance imbalance extends to the ending where she’s like shucking clothes off, running barefoot thru the streets of new york to be able to catch up to him and confess her feelings and he’s just, like, obliviously waiting at a subway station for the chance to literally go amble around nowhere in particular (“going walkabout” – it is also important to the film that crocodile dundee was raised by aborigines, so you’ll know its not racist when he asks every black character what tribe they’re from). like the love confession at the end is her yelling messages to be passed on by a crowded subway’s worth of friendly new yorkers while he just stands there waiting for a train… He (Crocodile Dundee)'s Just Not That Into You. maybe this lady just sucks though bc i think she falls in love with him when after complaining abt how many marches her starter bf goes to she asks c. dundee for his opinions on nuclear profiliation and is totally charmed when his response is, like, “i dunno mate doesnt seem like none of my business. bonzah. shes a beaut.” crocodile dundee also sucks, there are 2 different scenes where he sees a trans person and immediately grabs their genitals. a joke earlier in the movie is that he assumes new york must be “the friendliest city in the world” but the rest of the film suggests it really must be bc anywhere else would have shot this asshole!
here is the movie’s only good part: at one point they come across some kangaroo hunters and he scares them off by like holding up a kangaroo corpse and poking his rifle out from underneath its arm so that they think a kangaroo has a gun and get scared and drive away. he is implied to possess an australian version of jedi mind powers as seen in the part where a water buffalo is standing in the way of their car and he does the simpsons “touch of death” sound+hand gesture that causes it to asleep (still in the way of their car…?). according to wikipedia in the sequel he fights a “columbian drug cartel” so imo crocodile dundee is who they were cutting up with a chainsaw in that bathroom in scarface.
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