I feel like tron was the most moebius of movies moebius worked on
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Hey that owned.
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this could be a film children would watch about a dog who builds a kit robot to be their friend, and their untimely separation & search for each other. or it could be about the fleeting nature of relationships, which are like dreams beginning and ending as you drift through life. and that sometimes it’s not possible to go back to how things used to be, better to reminisce about the good times you had. do you remember the 21st night of September
animation was cute, the time period was weird (world trade centre prominently featuring in lots of shots, Alf on the TV guide) and a bewildering amount of licensed products that weren’t product placements??
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they finally released the 4 hour directors cut of ridley Scott’s napoleon on apple TV and it’s a million times better… the theatrical cut, as I suspected, excised all the parts of him being uniquely weird and unpleasant… there’s a scene in which he calls a subordinate into his military office to ask him whether he thinks he should be eating Josephine’s pussy more and they both look extremely unhappy afterward… it’s fantastic. Like a sequel to Barry Lyndon.
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Mulan came on the Disney channel and it still has one of the most ice cold lines of dialogue in a children’s movie
At 1:22
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Winged Migration does not have a soundtrack by Clannad no matter how many times I ask “is this Clannad?”. the copy I have had extra subtitles that describe what type of goose are being shown and where they are migrating from & to. despite having about 20 lines of spoken dialogue and 90% screen time just having bird, it manages to be very French by including predation and hunting (cruel)
the in-flight shot tracking is incredible, how did they do it? consensus here is: robot goose, I dissent with ultralights
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i watched the ao oni movie, adapting the classic rpg maker horror game from 2008. it doesnt have the cell scene above but otherwise is pretty fun. for one thing it starts with a guy talking through the custom events in his RPG Maker MV project while a girl looks on adoringly, which i have to assume is the only way it’s ever gone down in real life. they end up in a mysterious house which seems to be following the same rules of the game, so they have to do all these horrible adventure game puzzles where you pull the book to get the key to open the chest to get the handkerchief to wipe the blood off the piano to read the code on the keys to open the safe etc… hard not to sympathise when the girl starts complaining about having no idea what to do next
for his glammed up movie appearance they made the blue oni into a cgi guy who skitters around making wet slapping noises and sometimes does those leaping movements beloved of fellow cgi critters like king kong, gollum and mr hyde. but it’s still fun seeing the remnants of the original character design in his huge pulsing head as he shoves it through doors at people. they did not keep the thing where he retains the hair of the last person he ate…
at the end it turns out the main boy has been dead all the time and trapped his bullies in his rpg maker game for revenge, but then it also turns out that this was a daydream the main girl had after playing his rpg maker game. the rare self-cancelling double fake out. there is a sequel and also an animated movie and i hope i get to check them out soon, even if the 3d version of the little guy on the cover of ao oni 2 makes me think of like garten of banban or something now… time flows like a river, and history repeats…
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Went to the drive-in theater to see Back to the Future. I was minorly obsessed with that trilogy in middle school, but hadn’t revisited in a very long time. When I was a kid, the second one was my favorite thanks to its fun, goofy vision of the future. I’m curious how I’d feel today if I rewatched all three.
In my memory:
- #1 is a classic Hollywood 80’s sci-fi comedy
- #2 is an anime OVA
- #3 is a fiddly educational 90’s PC adventure game that you have fond feelings about just because you could play it in the elementary school computer lab.
BTTF 1 held up very well! It’s just pure fun. The chemistry between the two leads is unbelievably compelling. My fiancee had never seen it before and she had such a great time with it. I noticed some fun foreshadowing for later movies, especially the throwaway line about the sports almanac. We’re probably going to watch the other two. Am I the only one that thought 3 kind of sucked back in the day? I have no idea whether I was right, or whether I just didn’t like westerns when I was 13.
Like a decade ago I used to hang out with this really fun trans guy who used to dress like Marty McFly all the time, but then did specifically a McFly outfit for Halloween once. Rewatching the movie, Marty makes perfect sense as someone’s gender icon. This confident, funny guy with his heart on his sleeve who spends his life baffled by every increasingly bizarre situation he bumbles through.
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The sequels get increasingly bad; the 80’s scifi action comedy is a one stop shop and doesn’t sustain gracefully.
I think part 2 is fun high-concept until it gets kind of just like a retread in an unfun way. But part 3 is still pretty lame and uninteresting.
3 was the only one I watched as a kid and thus I have no real strong connection to the series at all. I don’t think I’ve ever watched the other two movies all the way through, only seen bits and pieces when they are on TV
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I’ll always have a soft spot for Mary Steenberger’s performance, oh gracious + fainting
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as a child, the back to the future movies were my favorite because i was a little Rules Boy and I loved a movie that gives you a video game tutorial and seeing cause and effect and very clear setups and payoffs and rube goldberg machines and what if scenarios and BTTF had all of those. Star Wars was not The Trilogy to me BTTF was.
The first movie is kind of the ideal of what people describe as a “tight” script in that almost every single moment is simply a piece of exposition a setup or a payoff BUT the trick is that it’s executed with such heart and sheer hammy sitcom talent and bullshit blockbuster razzle dazzle that it really works.
These movies are so fucking Looney Tunes stupid. Doc’s insane bug eyed takes and screams. Marty’s wild physicality. Tom Wilson as the various Tannens is such a force of pure dipshit malevolence. So over the top they do practically work as silent movies.
2 and 3 definitely suffer from a lack of Crispin Glover he’s very, very singular and he definitely should have been the Seamus McFly in part 3.
Part 2 is definitely the Rules Boy heaviest and just a big bowl of candy. The hoverboard was an image so absolutely powerful that an entire generation of boys raised in the most sexist era of toys became obsessed with what is presented as a hot pink scooter for little girls.
This mental image is so strong that the 30th anniversary Hoverboard ad retcons it as some sort of badass x-games thing
The second two movies truly don’t know what to do with Jennifer and just keep leaving her around unconscious for two entire movies while adventures happen around her and it’s definitely a symptom of “the first movie had her there at the end so we had to bring her along”.
When I was a kid everyone hated 3 because it was “just cowboys” and I definitely wanted them to find yet another way to go to even more time periods and put a 3rd marty at the enchantment under the sea dance. Anyway as an adult I really love part 3 it’s fun and romantic and the main problem is that it’s really just the extended final act of part 2 rather than something that should have been a standalone movie.
Also as an adult I can definitely see these in continuity with all of Robert Zemeckis’ weird obessions.
I definitely am an Extended Universe Guy for BTTF with all the games and comics and whatnot exploring every angle possible.
Anyway, the picture of Marty’s siblings ACTUALLY should have disappeared in order from youngest to oldest based on the decreasing probability that they were getting together but I get why they made Marty the youngest for story purposes but they
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Marty’s truck was fuckin’ sick as hell
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It’s a Toyota Hilux, iirc?
So yeah, Marty knew what’s up, and Jennifer … she was 
mad in love with him.
THE HILUX, yes.
Let me believe in that, cmonnnnn 
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update: i’ve watched Ao Oni 2. it’s funny bc it has exactly the same character names and personas and pretty much the same starter plot of the first one, except THIS time the rpg maker guy stays at home when they investigate the house and is like watching the rpg maker mv versions of all the characters move around in his game build as they act out what’s happening in the other scenes. also the other characters figure out they’re in his game and are annoyed he made a whole game about killing them. it’s a very endearing effect bc a bunch of difficult/expensive scenes, like a chase sequence or peeling away wallpaper to find a secret door, are basically just represented via rpg maker cutscene instead. i kind of wish more movies would do this, just cut to little RM versions of the characters wandering around to save cash… if only doris wishman had access to this tech. there’s also a funny cut between the cgi oni monster eating a corpse and the RM version just kind of bobbing up and down over a sprite to represent the same activity.
i made a joke before this started that they were gonna put in all the goofy videogame puzzles that got cut from the first one. and its sort of true at least to the extent of visual references, so there are these oddly drawn out scenes where people examine a doll room or drag a chair around etc
a funny thing abt both movies is that hiroshi, the protagonist of the game, is treated in them like a spacey and inscrutable weirdo side character, which feels pretty reasonable as a way of adapting a videogame protagonist. in the games he gets this brief little bro moment with another character who dies so you can get away… in this one that becomes an endearingly homoerotic relationship between the two, and the big inspiring music swell at the end is when they finally “reset the game” to meet up after one of them was killed. i wonder if this is a callback to some fan reading… unfortunately i have to call bullshit on the end when at the climax the survivor escapes ao oni by essentially dodge-rolling between its legs, something that was NOT possible in the rpg maker engine outside of some very elaborate custom scripting.
another thing i like: like the first one, there’s a girl character who watches the rpg maker dev adoringly as he scripts in Ruby and stuff. but in the first movie she’s the heroine, and in this one she’s just kind of there. and so i enjoyed that at the climax when the dev is finally setting out to free his bullies from their RM death prison he turns to her and says “thank you, Classmate”. you don’t even know her name?! would definitely recommend this one if you only want to watch one ao oni film, for some reason
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How’s the Telltale Game where they were so excited to find Not-Fox?
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In the same way I have no idea how Lower Decks plays to people who have not watched 700 hours of Star Trek, I cannot judge how the BTTF the game would be to a non BTTF fanboy who isn’t excited to see like deep references from the novelization, the cartoon, or a sign they show in the movie for 5 seconds. Fox isn’t Marty in that one but he’s still in there as a couple Mcflys real quick. It is what is says on the box I guess a game with Telltale adventure gameplay that successfully evokes the manic tone of the movies. It’s not quite as good a fanfic as that one comic that takes place on the Biff-Earth.
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I really wanted to like that game, in general I enjoyed Telltale’s stuff but the whole time I just wished I was watching the movie
