Watched The Sadness, which was just…gross and upsetting.
Amazon could probably save themselves a lot of money and just license this from Shudder and have searches for “Crossed” redirect to it.
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Okay just watched One Cut of the Dead and that’s definitely one of the best movies I’ve seen in a while.
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Watched two things on NightFlight:
- Auntie Lee’s Meat Pies
— A lot of goofy fun. I’m not really sure how to describe this other than Skinemax Motel Hell. It definitely has that strange kind of… 90s fabric softener commercial feel to the world in the same way that Ice Cream Man does and I really like that vibe; it makes some of the more tasteless aspects of this movie a lot more palatable because nothing seems serious or real. It’s kind of like TerrorVision or something, where it feels like you’re watching something made about humans by aliens for aliens. I put this off for a long time because it seemed stupid, and I probably shouldn’t have because it has one of Pat Morita’s more memorable roles as the sheriff. I think part of what makes this feel so like, alien is that it’s supposed to take place in some small little California desert town but it’s more like some small San Fernando Valley city than an actual shithole California desert town. I’ve lived in one of those for a short period and they’re a lot more bleak and miserable. More Texas Chainsaw Methacre than this Bubblegum Desert Dream Town.
- Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
— I came into this completely blind as to what Z Channel was and I had no idea about the guy this thing was actually about. So, it got pretty awkward when they reveal what he had done and then continues for almost 2 hours to blow smoke up this guy’s ass for being able to curate European movies that mostly just reached dickheads like Quentin Tarantino. Like, of course they have Quentin Tarantino and of course can’t shut the fuck up about absolutely nothing and of course he’s rattling off Films with titles like Love is a Revolution from an Embossed Bronze Cylinder by the magnificent French director Jean-Sergio Pierro Belmondo. This was way too long. A handful of people mostly just saying the same stuff with a fuckton of clips spliced from movies they had aired for two hours. I was ready for it to be done by the first hour, and then I looked at the timeline, and saw I had another hour to go. I think this would’ve been a lot more interesting had it focused more on the history of Z Channel itself and been less of a fluff piece on a program director who ultimately turned out to be a pretty awful person.
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I saw The Substance and it didn’t really do it for me. Not my thing. Very gross
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The final bits of Maxxxine just sorta made me go “wait is this a joke or is this what they’re doing.” Kind of a limp end to that trilogy.
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Ti West sucks. It was everyone’s mistake to trust that mfer.
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It is now the time for It East to rise
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I thought Sacrament was good. That’s his only movie I’ve seen.
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The Innkeepers was OK, outside of the dude in that being kind of grody. I didn’t understand the appeal of House of the Devil, etc.
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Watched Memoirs of a Snail today. It’s pretty good. If you like Harvey Krumpet or Mary & Max you’ll know what to expect, although I think it’s probably more depressing than either of those.
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I liked X fine and thought Pearl was better, but Maxxxine’s big reveal of the serial killer is her southern preacher dad doing some wild, insane overacting, with a limp fake out ending seguing into a questionable real ending…hell of a fumble!
At least Kevin Bacon seems like he had fun.
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watched the john candy/ally sheedy romcom “only the lonely” where he’s a friendly, knows everyone cop with an overbearing irish mother who is racist against the people of the mediterranean at large and she is an agoraphobic mortuary makeup artist who lives above a funeral home and paints the dead like whatever celebrity they look like and while it’s not as good as the premise makes it sound they have nice chemistry and it’s cute and like Maximum Chicago and the Culkins are in there a little bit in between home alone movies. and watching it i kept thinking this is the perfect kind of middle ground movie they should do a new version of every 20 years or whatever
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Green Book on the plane. Well, in two chunks on the way there and back. Minty was sitting next to me on the return flight and I’m pretty sure snapped some clandestine pics to use as blackmail material. Well try and blackmail me now asshole, I’m telling the whole forum.
After Green Book was over me and Minty synchronized pressing play on Blue Beetle so we could watch the first ~half of it before we landed, and it was so miserably horrific that in retrospect, it made it seem like Green Book earned its Oscar. At least Mortensen and Ali are fun to watch together, sorry I can’t say the same about decrepit half-Manzai pseudocomic George Lopez.
Interesting to see two modern movies in ostensibly widely divergent genres absolutely crushed under the weight of lib neuroses about racial politics.
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hear me out…
Blue Book
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They already make movies about fucking cheetos and pop tarts, yeah why not
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they’re making one about the little red slideshow goggles even
this is my favorite thing to do on planes I love watching people’s reactions to movies I can’t hear and can barely see
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i will always lol remembering how the guy next to me on my last flight started watching Avatar 2 after i did and then turned it off like 40 minutes in because it sucks
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for some reason seeing other people watching movies on planes always makes me think about how silly it is somehow. like i obviously love movies and love watching movies on planes maybe more than in any other situation, but for some reason when i see other people doing it i’m like. oh. here you are looking at your little picture shows… look how delighted you are by the spectacle of light and shadow and being transported to the land of imagination…
can’t explain it at all but for some reason it’s even funnier to me when people have their own movies on their ipads or laptops or whatever so they don’t have to watch the stuff on the plane’s entertainment system… like you made a little in flight playlist for yourself… its so adorable
maybe it’s because there’s just something kind of absurd about watching someone do something sort of immersive and solitary but in what is basically a crowded room full of other people? but like this is something that just happens in every public place now
as always i feel like tim robinson gets it
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