I’ve watched a handful of scenes from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice on YouTube which I believe have told me just about everything I need to know about the movie which is, vaguely enjoyable, completely unnecessary, just like a lot of these 30 years later sequels.
I have no idea what role Jenna Ortega’s character played and I don’t really care. Sucks they waited so long and couldn’t put the Maitlands in it because Davis and Baldwin got too old to play ageless ghosts.
Movies of the year for me are I Saw the TV Glow and Busted Babies. I guess Eno is number 3 but I’m not sure if that counts as a movie. I still wish I liked Aggro Drift, but it felt like Demond for finance bros.
you are so right to say it thank you
Just watched Raising Arizona and was surprised I didn’t like it. Maybe I just Don’t like the Coen brothers that much. At least when they’re doing smart pastiches or send ups of established genres. I liked Llewyn Davis and A Serious Man. Bet I’d like Barton Fink too. But Big Lebowski and The Man Who Wasn’t There…? Pffft.
I’m here for this.
Yeah, I’m not a big fan of them, either. Blood Simple has a good soundtrack that; that’s about all I remember about Blood Simple.
Halloween Ends was on the other day, and it was pretty bad. If it hadn’t been on Live TV, as it were, I would’ve been skipping through a lot of people monologuing about their or other people’s tragic past. A lot of the dialogue is very like, Very Serious Episode of Cobra Kai kind of stuff. “I know what it’s like to be different and be hated by the whole town!” “You can choose fear, or you can choose the cherry blossoms; I choose the cherry blossoms”. Like, good lord. I know it’s crazy to complain about bad dialogue in horror movies, especially slashers, but like, nobody shuts the fuck up in this movie and every conversation is about the same thing.
I think I’d rather sit through the Rob Zombie Halloweens again than the David Gordon Green Halloweens even though I think they’re both equally pretty awful. Rob Zombie is a dude who wrote songs about Grandpa Munster’s car and never got over Texas Chainsaw Massacre and wanted to make movies where he could show the world his wife’s asscrack. David Gordon Green’s job is he writes and/or directs movies. That’s all he does. So, what’s his excuse for three total misses?
I only saw the first two of the new Halloween movies, but that was enough for me.
I guess the first had that scene where Judy Greer pops him in the face after faking him out, that was OK I guess.
The second one was so dire that I didn’t even wanna bother with the third.
At least his Exorcist movie did so badly that it looks like he’ll be off the horror franchise wagon for a while.
yea Raising Arizona was my favorite movie thru most of my teen years and early adulthood and probably the single most important movie for getting me to start thinking about movies and pop culture in general differently, sorry to say it but the haters are wrong. I’m aware it probably doesn’t hold up and might be kind of perplexing given the status of the Coens as like supreme auteurs of the world or w/e, you have to understand the context of this being the sort of thing you used to be able to just randomly turn on the TV to see playing on Comedy Central on like a weekday afternoon
in the very least you gotta admit the soundtrack slaps
I loved lots of pieces of it. Just for some reason I didn’t like it as a whole. I’ll accept being wrong.
I get not digging the extreme tonal shifts and being a live action looney tune, I wasn’t too big on it when I first saw it, I’ve loved it more and more every time I’ve rewatched it though
love it or hate it, at least now you can join me in the light of truth*
*“No Country for Old Men” is a gritty remake of “Raising Arizona”
put it near the bottom when i first watched it 15 years ago, rewatched it like two years ago and moved it to probably top 5
It is a shame that the film industry today does not really give filmmakers the chance to have an extended “im just tryign to figure out how this thing works” phase
Also this wasn’t intended to be hostile, apologies if it came across that way, I just love that fart kid so much and get excited whenever I have reason to post him
watched the johnnie to movie fulltime killer on my new old crt what a great experience… this is one of those movies thats never been released on hd video so it looked beautiful on here, lots of reflective surfaces and beautiful colors… the colors on crts and the contrasts are so good lol. johnnie to shoots the fuck out of a movie.
sometimes the content of videogames, even ones i adore, can feel like remixes of pop culture, and this is one of those movies that feels like a bunch of game designers watched it lol… and it itself feels like a bit of a remix where point break el mariachi and metal slug are different things they reference at points. it was sillier and more frenetic than almost any of his other action movies ive seen…
I watched Juror Number Two, Clint Eastwood’s last stand. It was very reminiscent of Twelve Angry Men to me, but with a twist. I thought it did a pretty good job making you care about both characters whose fates were intertwined and at odds. I was actually disappointed when the protagonist fails his test of character, and it came as a surprise. It was a straightforward movie but it was technically sound. The acting was decent; they did a good job making the jurors seem like subhumans. It was presented with some very classical drama pretensions, most notably in the back and forths between the prosecutor and the defense lawyer, but they worked. It didn’t feel ostentatious, like with another recent movie I watched, Megalopolis. The ending was good but didn’t hit as hard as it could have because there’s no foreshadowing about what it would mean for it to happen so it isn’t instantly intuitive what it actually means even though there’s only one real possibility in context. Overall recommend it, if you can find a theater it’s actually showing at.
I really liked the Hudsucker Proxy when I was in high school. That was probably my weird Coens opinion I guess.
“Ya know, for kids!” is a non-videogame thing I am always thinking about.
there are only 2 bad coen bros movies and they’re Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers
Hudsucker Proxy is great
