zone of interest is really great. we really do live in a world of mrs and ms’ hoss – from auschvitz to london, from san francisco to são paulo, from tel aviv to beijing. a story of actually existing fascism – and the fascist idea of “living space” – in no subtle terms.
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I swear to god no one in media can say Biloxi, Mississippi right.
Thanks Oscar Issac in The Card Counter. Also a lot of it was filmed in Biloxi because I identified it immediately so it is even weirder he doesn’t say it right.
Okay John Hamm in Bad Times At The El Royale said it right.
Edit: The Card Counter was cool, warning:torture.
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Saw Dune 2. Enjoyed it.
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watched “i’m your man” which is about a german archeologist who is dating a robot played by dan stevens partially as QA and partially as a test for like legal robo citizenship and it’s pretty good even though the conception of the robot is sort of just “data from star trek jokes”. a scene that falls flat is when there’s a black guy who meets the robot and starts touching his skin and feeling his hair and they try to make an analog to white people doing this to black folks and i said OH BROTHER out loud.
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i love how even german romcom dreck is very existentialist and broody
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extremely early 2000s voice gemini man’s got more references to mirrors and reflections than a calendar hung itself!!
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Rock Hudson and a group of like 15 Italian children run guerrilla tactics and kill the shit out of nazis in Hornet’s Nest. He drives a hijacked truck through the kids’ occupied village chucking grenades into every window, doing laps, as kids in the back shoot grease guns four on each side.
It got me thinking movies these days are too soft on nazis.
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ricky stanicky
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ricky stanicky is a movie i watched yesterday
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I’m gonna go see a midnight screening of the first sonic the hedgehog live action movie tonight. I haven’t seen it before and I want to know how hard the crowd there will be wilin’ out.
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instead of doing something worthwhile I’ve spent the last couple of weeks watching the ten movies of the “disney renaissance” (excluding the rescuers down under, I do not care about those rats, I’ll just assume it’s somewhere between mad max 2 and priscilla, it’s fine) in chronological order. here are my current power rankings:
- Beauty and the Beast
the beast waow
. look, I can never escape myself, none of us can, I won’t bother with coming up with post hoc justifications for placing this #1 when it’s just a feeling. well, one particular feeling anyway. - The Little Mermaid
looks way worse than I remembered but in a charming way, and redeemed by top tier songs. has the highest bangers/duds ratio in part of your world, under the sea, poor unfortunate souls, and kiss the girl. nice that there’s no cgi, except that one part right at the end. - Aladdin
this was the first movie I ever saw in a theater, I don’t remember that but apparently I hated the cave of wonders. well guess what now I like it, and I like genie too. a whole new world sucks, prince ali gets stuck in my head all the time. - Mulan
ruins a perfectly good romance between a boy and a girl dressed as a boy. the supporting cast here is all endearing, minus the bug. weird that the villain doesn’t get a song but it doesn’t really suffer for it - The Lion King
come for james earl jones, stay for jeremy irons. be prepared doesn’t live up to my memories of it. circle of life and can you feel the love tonight are still pretty good, though. the shading in this & aladdin are out of control, I like the more flat look they use for characters starting with pocahontas - Hercules
james woods and paul shaffer are great. let james woods sing! maybe don’t look into his politics! only has one decent song (I won’t say I’m in love). I do not like “herc”, I do not care about meg, the training sequence and the titan designs are fun though. backgrounds feel like an afterthought, this doesn’t really get better until tarzan. - Tarzan
only so low on the list because it’s not a musical. sorry, phil. - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
did you know that esmerelda used to be a Disney Princess™ and then they kicked her out of the Disney Princesses™? is it because this movie is bad? is it because its only decent song, the hellfire one, is about being horny, and they maybe don’t want to draw attention to that? the one redeeming feature of this was finding out they created software to animate the large crowd scenes, creatively named Crowd, and the Crowd-generated movements are delightful. - Pocahontas
looks great but ultimately garbage on many levels. I love that they made two disney movies about how it’s good to be nice to colonizers. colors of the wind kinda goes. the interludes with animal companion antics really fuck up the pacing of this one too. you can tell they’re starting to figure out textures on cgi cause the tree lady looks pretty decent
well now that I’m free of this stupid self-imposed task maybe I’ll watch an actually good movie. or maybe I’ll just watch the emperor’s new groove. I hope this doesn’t make me a disney adult.
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Watched The Holdovers. I thought it was very good.
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we watched werner herzog’s nosferatu and when isabelle adjani has to take fighting the vampyre into her own hands we keep saying it’s cause it’s women’s day
then i put on nosferatu maidens for reasons and ymer said the nosferatu women were laughing at him i said “it’s womens day”
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i watched carlito’s way a little bit ago and i think al pacino’s performance is one of the strangest A-List American Actor things ive ever seen its like a portrait of a sad clown
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it’s like it was pitched to him as a direct to video sequel to scarface in an alternate universe where he lived and went to prison
also the Sean Penn performance is hilariously antisemitic (I know Sean Penn is actually Jewish but I think he’s too catholic presenting for that to have been a good idea, as opposed to every Jewish Al Pacino performance which is a gift from Jesus)
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‘Ricky Stanicky’ is a way better 90s throwback gross-out comedy from the old Farrelly brother than the previous trainwreck Dumb and Dumber To. a perfect role for John Cena. Watch if you like William H Macy and dick jokes!
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lmao that movie sucked but it was worth seeing just for the brief tossed aside moment where we find out Dr. Robotnik helped the US government initiate a coup in Pakistan. What the fuck?
I had already seen the sequel and now I can say that that one is a WAY more enjoyable movie just because it tries so hard to actually do real sonic lore with the requisite level of camp, whereas this first one was a total normie kids movie with instantly dated hack jokes about:
- Hillary Clinton’s emails
- The Rock being elected president
- Amazon doing drone deliveries
- Rating your Uber driver 5 stars
The crowd at the midnight screening was very sparse and, surprisingly, included little kids. That was a bummer, nothing deflates a midnight movie crowd’s anarchic energy like actual children in the theater.
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feel the same way when he was in Dog Day Afternoon
Serpico + Dog Day Afternoon, wild-eyed radical Pacino is the best Pacino
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