I think you’re confusing dennis quaid in reagan with thomas jane in ONE RANGER
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Eh it’s God’s Not Dead evangelical C movie slop, it’s in theaters purely on the dollar of rightwing financiers like that movie about stealing children and no regular person even knows it exists
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Oh yeah must be oops.
Yeah I’ve told people about this movie, and honestly I probably come across crazier sounding by just introducing it to people’s awareness than the movie itself.
imo the last couple years of like, high concept festival movies that are also surprise mainstream hits (poor things, anatomy of a fall, the zone of interest) have been consistently better than expected so we were due for a dud
among other things I think the substance was like, a very heterosexual film in a pointlessly retrograde way. the French should not be allowed to make movies entirely set in the US with entirely American casts imo… they wind up being heavy handed in an the wrong ways
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havent seen substance but imo ur expectations are set accordingly to enjoy beetlejuice beetlejuice enough
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Realizing I said Randy Quaid and not Dennis and am now sad Randy does not feature in either film
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Randy does play LBJ in a decent made for TV movie though!
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Boy Kills World is a fun almost video game romp of a movie. The video game part is both textual and barely metatextual in it’s framing. In the movie the boys inner monolouge frames some of his fights as P1 Versus P2 with a win statement but also plays in to how most videogame player characters usually are mute maybe deaf barely understanding the world around them and just running on vibes for the sake of violence towards a goal. Fun trashy fight movie with nice camerawork and choreography.
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My friend sent me a message saying “the substance is getting rave reviews” which is code for “We have to go see it asap” so I guess I’m going to end up seeing it whether I want to or not.
I went to see The Wild Robot with him recently, and he thought it was amazing as per the reviews, while I had never heard of it until he asked and I thought it was pretty good but will likely forget about it in a few weeks
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The thing I keep coming back to with The Substance is the scene where Margaret Qualley beats Demi Moore to death, which goes on past the point of dramatizing anything – even a character’s internal state and their rancor, even as a set-up for the “come down” when she realizes what she’s done – when Margaret Qualley starts kicking Demi Moore two dozen times in slow-motion. Finally it clicked that this was the mode of pornography. It happens this way because somebody was getting off on it, which is what makes any pretense of critique, satire, whatever, meaningless. And then it cuts to the carpet from The Shining. The mannerism of that is the come shot.
yes… I actually think you have to have watched a fair amount of porno to for this film to not outstay its welcome, and even then, frankly…
I still think some of the early-mid scenes of, eg, a lifeless demi moore being dragged around like a sack of potatoes into a closet are pretty striking, but this movie is so dull and intense and cruel and without character…
old movies nights from the last two weeks
Singin’ in the Rain raised a lot of questions from the crowd, mostly along the lines of “why are they singing and dancing for no reason?” “are they gonna sing again” “oh no!!”. youngest greatly appreciated Cosmo calling Don a cab, adding Duck Soup onto the schedule. wow could those boys dance
My Fair Lady left me with an embarrassing realisation that I imprinted way harder on Higgins than is reasonable. listening to him gripe about how inferior women are and realising how little effort the film makes to show him up for his rhetorical question regarding why can’t women be more like men?
oldest was much amused by Higgens repeatedly calling Eliza a guttersnipe, as they’d mostly heard it from sources like
Audrey Hepburn’s acting is great for the role, her brief few moments of inner emotion shine out while other characters chatter. and her ghost-singing-voice sounds just like Julie Andrews!
the 50th anniversary restoration is flawless (I last watched these films on VHS).
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also it’s just kind of perplexingly stupid that this movie includes all of this imagery and covers all of this thematic ground while seemingly not being interested in motherhood at all? like… it’s right there.
baffling disappointment imo
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don’t want to spoil a thing about megalopolis but
this is kind of in the movie
also there’s a weird coincidence of character name and super power that strongly leads me to believe someone showed him Jojo
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That child kidnapping movie is coming to Japan with wide release this week.
watched blair witch 2 and it brings me no pleasure to say it was pretty bad U__U goth kim director is fun though and some of the shots are agreeably berserk (i liked the sequence where she’s making eye contact with an owl while getting high on a gravestone and it cuts back and forth really intensely between them like five times while some horrible jock metal song plays in the background)… it’s a shame bc you kind of get the sense that they had something on their mind with all this stuff and the intentionally overblown acting, flashbacks, the weird pastiche old timey outfits that the townsfolk wear etc, that it was meant as a commentary or whatever on the horror of the time, like the Siren: Blood Curse version of their own movie. unfortunately actually watching it feels basically interchangeable with like Hellraiser: Hellworld, the one where they turn the cenobite cube into a multimedia cd-rom and solving it gets you invited to the WB version of the eyes wide shut party. and nobody wants that.
funniest thing abt it was how much of the dialogue revolved around wiccan representation which was a late nineties concern that i totally forgot about. sorry man 9/11 just happened i can’t have opinions about wicca any more, i gotta go join the army and die.
PS the first version i watched turned out to be a fan edit meant to undo the studio interference etc of the theatrical release but i turned it off when the titles came in to some bing crosby song about witchcraft or something. the marilyn manson version of the same sequence was less obnoxious!! idk which one was the filmmakers intent but it definitely seemed more a “fancut editor gone mad with power” kind of aesthetic decision.
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After hearing about the movie (movie? Special? Whatever) Ghostwatch for years I finally watched it and - ehhhh.
I could see it being scary in the sense that it aired on BBC with actual BBC hosts and news people and whatnot, and if you were a kid in 1992 and saw it on TV you might have thought was real.
Otherwise it’s just corny. I’m not gonna take a ghost named “Pipes” seriously, c’mon now.
Edit: I forgot that “Pipes” lives in the “glory hole” under the stairs, or something. I cannot take this seriously.
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