since landline is down and there has been a pile of discs sitting there waiting to be watched, followed up with the next one:
Asteroid City
Wes A’s his way through a star-studded lineup, and this feels like a production where everyone of that allstar cast is back in school, eager to do their best, and only a few able to enjoy themselves while doing it.
They really don’t make them like this anymore 
really enjoying this now
yeah, I thought it was his most uneven movie in years after he got much much better at making basically well rounded crowd pleasers from moonrise kingdom onwards, but I didn’t regret my time with it at all and I enjoyed the unevenness
up next in offline adventures:
Baz Luhrmans Elvis:
Who’d thought a typical Superhero-movie template could be a good … OK, technically stating ‘documentary’ is pushing the boundaries more than just a bit, but mockumentary is kinda mean? … documentary’ish flick?
This movie knows it’s not serious, and leans into the fakeness of stardom, and it’s a wild ride (which i had to Split into Two Screenings to make it through, granted). Sparing you from the Little Less Conversation, Little More Action Please joke, aye.
Immaculate vibes though, this looks on par with Freddy’s Biopic, and only falls short when compared to Rocketman.
Wonder what I’ll put on next!
landline is back, so i finally got around to give Gojira Minus 1 a spin:
Survivor Guilt turned up to the maxxx, phewwwww
But WHAT a Monster of a movie, 4.5 
out of 5 well deserved!
finally watched furiosa
theater was almost entirely empty (there were 6 other people there besides me and my wife), they didn’t mask out the top and bottom of the screen so it looked like it had letterboxing the whole time but the sound was good (for once it hit the sweet spot of being able to hear dialogue but when it got loud, you could feel it)
good movie. Not the pure hit of adrenaline that Fury Road was, and interesting that in this version, the war boys did not use bloodbags.
George Miller’s video game fascination was palpable, he can’t write an action movie protagonist without making the protagonist as taciturn as possible. Dementus as an evil Mad Max analog was clever. A lot of clever choices in the script, overall
screaming internally because this can and should be automated (unless the picture was properly hitting the sides of the screen in which case the room is constant image width and fuck you everything not flat is letter or pillar boxed)
(addendum: lol you idiot, ARs under flat would still be pillarboxed in a constant image height room, how are you paid to do this)
saw fall guy and the new bad boys this weekend and they were both perfectly fun and well made if anyone is jonesing for competent action comedy that’s not too cloyingly post-Marvel
There’s like five movies out right now I’d pay money to see and I feel like that hasn’t happened in a decade at least
I didn’t think fall guy was that good
the guy ritchie henry cavill and jack reacher inglorious bastards was also surprisingly not good except for reacher
Are you being ironic here? I mean obviously it would not be good
I would still pay money to see it however! I’m stupid like that.
Speaking of Guy Ritchie he made a new-ish movie that I never would’ve known existed except of course it has been clipped for 30,000 “Badass gangster moments!” youtube content mill videos
No I don’t hear about a movie with jack reacher cutting out nazi hearts by guy ritchie and immediately think “obviously this is going to be a bad film.” Did you even watch wrath of man cuba, guy ritchie still has the juice when he gives a shit.
Could just tell from the trailer imo.
Anytime someone tries to bite Tarantino so explicitly it never turns out good.
we’re all blessed to be living in the josh hartnett renaissance right now and it’s all thanks to his role in wrath of man as “Boy Sweat Dave”
The mountain range is a homage to the Cadillac Ranch. The Sheriff Car has curb finder whiskers that were only on certain cars. The VW Beetles’ engines make the authentic flat 4 exhaust sound. When the semi-truck snores, it’s the sound of compression brakes. There are so many details this movie has that are there if you know what to look for.
But also it leads to questions like: do cars fuck? do cars get horny? Why is farm equipment semi-sentient and the road paving machine not sentient? There are sentient harrier jets, which means there was a war. There’s an american flag which means there was also a…
It was sad watching because it included the voice talents of Tom and Ray Magliozzi. Tom passed years ago and I listed to Car Talk pretty regularly. Also Micheal Schumacher, who is still alive but has not been seen since his accident. Dale Earnhardt Jr also makes a cameo as well as…Mario Andretti for some reason.
Storytelling wise it’s very weak, it has Lassiter’s fingerprints all over it. IDK how the cars can race each other when they just have to “try harder” to go faster. I do not believe that Lightning McQueen could be a professional racecar and not know how to counter-steer. Had I watched this as a child, I would have gotten upset that the green car would get away with attempted murder multiple times in front of millions of people. Larry the Cable guy is a contemptible oaf. They made 2 more movies after this. This feels like when pixar fell off because there doesn’t feel like there’s any magic to it.
It’s the Pixar property that most explicitly targets the youngest kids, who still go brrr and zoom playing with Hot Wheels. Like most Pixar movies are preteen type things but Cars is for 3 to 7 year olds. That’s why it appears idiotic to an adult brain and also sucks the most. It’s pure business-brained demography.
somehow accidentally did a Fucked Up Adventures of Pete & Pete Double Feature Theme Night of Snow Day and I Saw The TV Glow
we saw beyond the valley of the dolls. thanks ebert for writing a surprise gender “freak” who murders a bunch of people with her tits out
also the voiceover summarizing and moralizing over each characters arc is so silly i have a hard time gauging how ironic or sincere it is
