cant stop thinking about how the halftime show scene in long walk was the most horrifying movie experience ive ever had. what a movie.
i just dont care about american perspectives on this anymore thats why im not interested in clint eastwood telling it, im sure its neat or whatever im just done with that side of the story. im a jerk i know i know
Iām very sad youāve all seen this Clint Eastwood movie but not Billy Lynnās Long Halftime Walk, which is criticizing the whole existence of movies like that
ok on this note we need to talk about the mule because there is at least one scene where octogenarian clint has a threesome with two Mexican gals who think heās sexy for some reason and a party scene where clint is just filming womenās asses like a music video. The horniest movie heās made in yearsā¦ terrifying stuff
I think a lot about what it must be like to take direction from clint on one of his movie sets. like does he just mutter some stuff and then trail off 30 seconds later leaving people to wonder how theyāre supposed to act
he gets pretty good performances out of his actors! and he made a lot of his best work when he was within a few years of 90! but itās difficult to imagine
like is this what itās like
Many people have talked about being directed by Clint and basically he doesnāt. Heās like, youāre a good actor, I hired you for a reason, you know what to do. Then itās one take and done, moving on.
when i watched unforgiven my idea of its production is that Clint read the iliad, went āthatās the best damn story I ever readā and got to work by just putting people on a cowboy set immediately
I saw that movie for a class like six years ago by this point and immediately thought it was brilliant. The book is pretty good too, but Ang Lee did something a novel couldnāt do and maybe only a videogame could come close to. To be honest I have also really enjoyed being a fan of that movie because to most people it seems like this unassuming mass media war film schlock, and it kind of short circuits people when Iāve told them itās fantastic and really cutting as both a satire and technological spectacle. I so so so wish I could have seen it in 60FPS and also I regret not seeing Ang Leeās other movie he did with Will Smith that was like 200FPS.
Both that and Gemini Man are 120 fps, but thereās literally only two theaters in the US that can show them properly, and the blu rays are 60 fps instead. Would kill to have a panic attack seeing billy lynn in 3d and have to pace around afterwards
iāve never seen billy lynn because i canāt watch it in 60fps 3d 
reading framerate numbers so many times in close proximity to film discussion and having cold sweat flashbacks to pouring over DCI white papers while going over theater proposals
just put this on and belly laughed at youāre welcome, dykes. delivered with incredible sincerity by a man who looks like the templar skeleton from last crusade
Literally one of the funniest things heās made in years. Imagining eastwood watching reggaeton videos and being like yeah I could do that at age 90
Sometimes you do a little racism while rebuilding the VFW with drug money, sometimes you get a pulled pork sandwich and a little strange,
rest in peace david bordwell, heās a legend to me, a huge influence on my perspectives on film
Now stuck in bed I watched movies:
LA Plays Itself: glad I watched it, gave me a ton of other movies Iād like to watch.
The Houseguest - perfect movie to have on a TV in a second language that I had seen before, the afternoon sunlight peering through the blinds as I drifted in and out of paying attention. Iād seen it before and it wasnāt good then and it wasnāt much better now. Thereās a scene where Ryan Renolds is running from the cops and the cop just starts open firing on a crowd he is in and Ryan has to shoot the cop to save everyone.
Die Parallelstrasse - was recommended to me by @dylan and was on my youtube download so watched it. Pairing it with LA just a pile of looking at stuff. Seeing the whole world I hadnāt seen.
Bill and Tedās Bogus Journey - i find Bill and Ted insufferable and had to delete the first one after 15 minutes and only the pain killers got me through this. i did like all the sets and 1991-isms but was much better served by
Cool World - I was warned this movie sucked and it owned? Just insane animation and set design for the entire run time. Bizarre backstory that does and does not matter. A happy ending that you can feel the studio execs fitting in. A great time was had by all.
Rebels of the Neon God as mentioned on this forum multiple times as the movie where guys steal Street Fighter PCBs. Feel like I am on an early 90s roll and should keep at it. After LA really noticed how much this movie showed Life In The City. And incredible first time direction. The characters all felt like real young people fuck ups who still have to wake up each day. Like Rebel with a Cause has this heightened melodrama to James Dean that is frankly shocking the first time I actually saw it. This is more grounded. Looks like I can watch some more of this director so yay for me.
Watching this directorās films in the order that he made them is rewarding because he has been constantly pushing outside of traditional pacing and format from the jump. Also, the three film run from Rebels to The River is probably the best way to get to know him.
Oh hey I watched this recently too. The depiction of Taipei felt so real that despite the depressing living conditions of some of the characters and overall detached / downbeat vibe it kinda made me want to go back there for a 4th trip.
Around the same time I got the blu ray I also bought the Chinese animated film Nezha. I didnāt know going into this that Nezha is actually the āNeon Godā of the title so that was a bit of a funny coincidence and I guess gives me a bit of extra context
A bunch of other movies I have seen lately:
Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters
this is basically Mamoru Oshii taking one of those episodes of Patlabor where some silly mundane thing is treated like some big serious philosophical / sociopolitical conflict and turning it into a full length mockumentary. Animated a bit like MiniPato but with photographs of the actors. Very weird.
Fatal Frame
This and Tachigui had been on my list for years, and both ended up getting Discotek releases on the same day. As expected from the trailers, itās nothing like the games, and in fact the camera seems to have the opposite role where it is sort of the cause of the curse that triggers the events of the film. It has all the usual tropes you get in Japanese stories set in all girls catholic schools, ie all the girls are lesbians except not really, itās just S Class. Itās okay I guess.
New Gods: Yang Jian
This is basically Steampunk Xianxia Cowboy Bebop. The main character is a laidback down-on-his-luck bounty hunter (with his double breasted flap hanging open) who lives on board an airship with his crew: a big gruff pilot dude with a scruffy beard, a crazy little red haired girl (who is also a dog) and ā¦ some non-descript skinny guy (no Faye analogue sorry). The main guy also pilots a small pointy fish-themed craft.
Despite all that though, it does kind of do itās own thing. The world it creates is pretty interesting, with all sorts of beast people living in dense floating cities. It goes full on xianxia for the final act, just all magical weirdness.
Bigfish and Begonia
This is pretty much a Chinese attempt at doing Studio Ghibli. Basically Spirited Away crossed with Free Willy. The movie is a bit oddly paced, some important events just get skimmed through really quickly. I enjoyed it though, lots of imaginative imagery and beautiful colours. Somehow, the way the backgrounds are painted and the way motion of characters is handled reminded me more of Rene Lalouxās Gandahar than Ghibli.
In the first five minutes a horse takes a dump on a kidās head.
White Snake
This seems like itās Chinaās answer to Frozen, at least at first glance. Itās a lot more violent than anything from Disney, with lots of bloody stabbings. It even has a sex scene. Take that Disney.
I want to watch the sequel, Green Snake, which is inexplicably set in a post apocalyptic Inception-style shifting city full of motorcycle chases and whatnot. Seems like itās only on Netflix though, so I guess I need to find a way around that.
poor things, didnāt really get on with all the cg that just made me think of bioshock and miss terry gilliam but i did get on with the script, and the costume budget
i wonder if steve martin has seen this picture