Monkey Man ruled. Monkey Man is for the children(it is very violent)
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MAN the Goonies fucking sucks! it’s fatphobic!! it’s racist!! it’s misogynist!! it’s VERY ABLEIST!! it’s fuckin Italophobic the Fratellis are THAT bad!! Holy SHIT what a bad movie lolol
i really, really loved this movie when i was a kid. Its not good!! Aaaaagh
only Cyndi redeems
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i think the one thing the movie does well is it really captures the energy of little kids - they definitely are always yelling
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That was the positive thing i remembered about it, the kids talk over each other like kids do. and their performances are fine kid actor performances. And hey its Cory Feldman and baby Sean Astin
What i forgot was that roughly 1/3 of the jokes are “fat kid” “Chinese kid” “Down’s syndrome coded guy with grotesque facial prosthetics”
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I always really liked the sets and the specific flavor of pirate curse treasure adventure. It looks like it was fun to shoot.
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its a horrible movie! I didn’t see it as a kid so when I finally watched it to figure out what the nostalgia was about, I was horrified at how absolutely repugnant it was on every level
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the 80s sure were a time
At least it spawned some good video games. and a good Bobs Burgers episode
also for all that Sloth is a horribly problematic character i’ll have “Rocky… Road?” and “HEYYYY YOUUUU GUYYYYYS” burned into my head forever
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So, there’s this interesting series of initially BBC produced documentaries called Up!. The gimmick is that seven English kids were chosen in the early 60s to be interviewed about their lives, inviting viewers to draw comparisons between them based on class and race and societal expectations about gender and etc. This was the only one planned to be made at the time, but instead the filmmakers revisted the same kids every seven years so that the latest entry (and possibly last, director died) is the kids at 63 years old.
I’ve been watching these about a week at a time and have found them pretty interesting. They get longer each time, which I like because it gives you ample time to catch up with everyone. While the first 7 Up is mostly (and only mostly) a lot of little kid noises and silliness, it’s worth watching/sticking through for some really interesting moments and to get the ball rolling in the lead up to its first sequel 14 Up. The aim was I guess to get a kind of cross section of various English upbringings in the late 20th century and maybe that’s foolish but either way it’s interesting. I have just finished 21 Up and found it the most melancholy one yet. There’s lots of things in it to recognize from my time being that young, mostly the way kids think and talk about themselves, not really the material status stuff. They say a lot of things that I’m sure they think is really thought through but… you know how time will make us all hypocrites and stuff lol
They are hard to find but they seem worth it if you have any interest and know-how to do it. Has anyone else watched them?
Edit: my use of interesting here is admittedly cagey, since I think the real affect of this kind of observation is only confirmed after a longer period of time. Will I think about these kids well after watching these? And how will I feel once I’ve seen them all? I am interested, is the least I can say.
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and the fucking “HeY YouUU GUYYYYS” bit was a just a reference to a children’s educational tv show from the 70s (the Electric Company)
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Sasw the first John Wick film. Wonder if the actor who played Perkins got paid by Larian for making the gith character so obviously modeled off of her image.
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The companions pretty much look like their voice actors afaict, they did a lot of facial mocapping
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all the gith look like sons of lee marvin
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Dreadful euphemism Tulpa
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Yeah, people were pretty shitty in 80s movies. I always forget how vulgar the kids in Monster Squad are. It’s like, oh yeah, I forgot about all of the casual homophobia that comes out of these kids’ mouths. Still probably Shane Black’s best movie.
Speaking of questionable 80s movies: I put on Revenge of the Nerds the other night while in bed; it was a movie I used to watch a lot as a young kid (along with Monster Squad, incidentally). They actually got a band to write a really bad theme song to it, and it sounds like Weird Al doing Devo, but it’s actually just the fuckin’ Rubinoos. It’s also kind of hard to give it a “movie tie-in song” pass because like, four years later The Dickies would do Killer Klowns from Outer Space and set the bar for that shit, and Theme Song to the Revenge of the Nerds doesn’t even rank. Man, fuck the Rubinoos.
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Do we need Kurosawa remakes?
Not really, yes.
However. Living (2022) is an Oscar-bait vehicle (honestly meant in a positive sense) for Mr. Nighy and subtle expression of emotions.
It even cancels out the horrible kitsch ‘Look how GREAT the Greatest of REALLY GREAT Britains’ back-patting that british cinema seems to celebrate oh-so-often.
They don’t make them like this very often these days, which is kinda ironic and fitting at the same time, it has change of the old guard written all over it.
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We only needed one.
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1—0, i have to reluctantly admit.
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Watched The Book of Clarence which is sort of a Jesus-adjacent dramedy that stars Lakeith Stanfield as a small time drug dealing scammer atheist who is the twin brother of the apostle Thomas (also Stanfield but doing a “Roman”(British) accent.). After he loses a chariot race to Mary Magdalene he owes his supplier a lot of cash so he decides to be a Messiah.
Despite playing out on paper like a Tyler Perry movie this thing is so specifically weird and interesting. Stanfield is basically the only guy with an American accent. This is a Full Black Jesus situation so everyone who is Jewish or Roma or not Italian is Black and the majority of them are doing or have an African accent. The thing gets most of it’s production power from shooting on location in Italy with goregous old architecture and sweeping landscapes. Anyway this shit is fucking fascinating.
Whenever Clarence gets an idea a light bulb physically appears above his head like cartoon. There is a hookah bar where if you smoke it you start floating in anti gravity with some pointlessly elaborate wirework that probably goes on too long. Omar Sy from Netflix Lupin plays a guy who basically seems to maybe actually be immortal (he also randomly speaks French). There’s an extended electro funk dance number that is being played on lutes and pipes somehow. We see some of Jesus’ expanded powerset which includes turning clay pigeons alive, giving a guy an infinite money hand, stopping rocks mid air like Neo, and wildest of all during The Last Supper when he says one of you will betray me (to be specific he says “One of you Negroes is a canary”) he uses his time stopping powers and freezes everyone in the Official Last Supper Position and theatrically goes “the guilty party will dip their bread in gravy” which Judas does and it all plays out like a Jojo’s scene. There is a running gag background plot where Benedict Cumberbatch plays a beggar who gets cleaned up and looks like Renaissance Jesus and everyone just assumes maybe he is Jesus and he gets crucified and it’s implied that this is the historical record getting fucked up.
Cast is definitely stacked/overqualified: Angela Basset and Alfre Woodard doing their typical dramatic mom roles, Babs Olusanmokun from Star Trek as a gladiator/slaver, David Oyelowo in a small but funny role as John the Baptist, James Mcavoy doing a really fun job as Pontius Pilate, ringers left and right.
Anyway this movie is overlong and overstuffed and too self serious by half but I had a lot of fun. Between this and The Harder They Fall, I hope they keep giving Jeymes Samuel budgets to play around with.
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Watched Miami Vice theatrical cut. Smarter people than me can talk about it better but I loved the vibes and the yearning and the longing and Colin Farrell’s moustache.
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oh yeah, the harder they fall was also like 50% better than I was expecting, it makes sense that this is the same guy
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