Not a great sentence to have in the first paragraph of your movie’s wikipedia article
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also very accurate. that is what happens in the movie and it’s baffling to behold.
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watched “Hundreds of Beavers”. i don’t know how they managed to make this. a feature length, black and white, pure slapstick comedy full of dudes in the woods in mascot suits doing the dumbest fucking looney tunes shit possible. such a fun combination of purposefully fake looking motion graphics and miniatures and stunts and every old fashioned filmmaking trick in the book to pull off hundreds of great stupid violent gags. there’s barely any dialogue and what little there is is in service of jokes. even once it settles into it’s very straightforward video game/lock and key logic in the second half it never stops inventing new ideas. laughed out loud so many times at this thing. really a treat.
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Late Night with the Devil fails to deliver on every promise it makes. It’s got a promising first half, and good acting, then just doesn’t do anything with every element it sets up.
Reminded me a lot of the shovelware Netflix sci-fi and horror movies that seemed designed to get you in the door, keep you on the hook, then end without getting to the fireworks factory.
Very strange non-movie. It’s like a show that got cancelled after the first season, but, it’s a feature-length film.
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Completely agreed. The one thing that made it watchable was just the whole 70’s late night talk show conceit, just cuz it’s kind of fun to watch a crappy 70’s talk show (though it didn’t really capture the right vibe).
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just watch fernwood 2 night at that point
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I watched Civil War last week and thought it was excellent. There are some really bad takes on this movie. If you actually watch the movie and think that pointing out that Texas and California would never be on the same side is a good critique, you should re-evaluate everything you think you know about life and… well, everything really.
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I’m afraid it may actually be pretty good, and it’s not the “Texas and California” thing that I find objectionable (I think that’s kind of interesting honestly), my aversion is that I’ve hated the second half of almost every Alex Garland movie and I am extremely tired of people fantasizing about American crackups, especially non Americans
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it’s sad because i think a uk-focused civil war movie could still make the same points (seems like it’s mostly a movie about heroic wartime photographers and journalists?) and would also probably be more visually interesting too
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andy ngo’s in the credits
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yeah apparently they use some footage of his from various protests… also a big time loser UK journalist whose name i forgot is there for even more nebulous reasons. probably a deal breaker if the credits are the main part of movies you’re interested in
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just seems like an indicator that alex garland’s usual disastrously stupid writing might also feature disastrously stupid politics in this, his latest film
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i think the only thing of his i’ve seen was annihilation, which i kind of liked but felt its deviations from the source material were almost never for the better (not that it isn’t a work that could be improved upon through adaptation). but the soundtrack stuff when natalie portman finds the weird cgi blob in the end was so good i still liked the movie.
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of all the Alex G’s (me, him, and the musician) he is last place imo
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Scotch on the Rocks was a miniseries instead of a movie, though a bit hard to track down. time for me to rewatch The Wind That Shakes the Barley
literally could not think of a worse way to indulge the modern UK media elite than to get them to make a film about how great & worthwhile their actions would be in this situation
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i mean, i do not think this is a different situation from the US media elite
I liked Ex Machina and his tv series Devs, so I can’t agree that his writing is disastrously stupid. He was also a writer on Dredd!
I wouldn’t say it is a movie about heroic wartime photographers and journalist.
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he’s also behind Alex Proyas and Alex Cox in terms of directors named Alex
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I haven’t seen Civil War, but everything I’ve seen and heard about it suggest it’s dumb as hell, especially the words of the director himself:
“Why are we talking and not listening?” he asked. “We’ve lost trust in the media and politicians. And some in the media are wonderful and some politicians are wonderful—on both sides of the divide. I have a political position and I have good friends on the other side of that political divide. Honestly, I’m not trying to be cute: What’s so hard about that? Why are we shutting [conversation] down? Left and right are ideological arguments about how to run a state. That’s all they are. They are not a right or wrong, or good and bad. It’s which do you think has greater efficacy? That’s it. You try one, and if that doesn’t work out, you vote it out, and you try again a different way. That’s a process. But we’ve made it into ‘good and bad.’ We made it into a moral issue, and it’s fucking idiotic, and incredibly dangerous."
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