Finally got around to watching Green Snake AKA White Snake 2. It’s a bit like if Disney made a sequel to Frozen that was more like Furiosa.
Almost non-stop action, every few minutes there’s a motorcycle chase, or the Final Fantasy Spirits Within phantoms show up to steal people’s souls.
Very video gamey as well, there’s even a Dark Souls boss where the protagonist has to keep re-entering the boss portal to try again when they’re defeated.
The plot’s kind of all over the place, but it’s always introducing crazy new things. Just when you think the movie should be winding down to the climax, a cool spider crab bus driver lady shows up.
Haha, no worry about that here. He’s played as a major asshole the whole movie.
Word was rather than Dylan, he was inspired by Dave Van Ronk’s writings, who according to my dad who drove him around when he was in town for a gig years ago is actually a really nice guy.
Rewatched this last night. My muppet Christmas ranking will always be
Emmet Otter
Muppet Family
Christmas Carol
I was at the upper end of the muppet demographic when Muppet Christmas Carol hit already, and with it being the first post Jim Henson’s death effort even as a kid I couldn’t support some souless corporate entity pulling the strings (or working the mouths and the one arm on a pole as the case may be), so I didn’t see it til my partner had me watch it a couple years back. In retrospect I’d take it over those Frank Oz-less new ones from with the Flight of the Concords and Freaks and Geeks guys any day.
The Sesame Street small talk running gag in Muppet Family Christmas rules.
Somehow the family activity after dinner last night was me and my parents watching the compilation of all of the scenes from The Day the Clown Cried featured in that new documentary assembled in order on YouTube.
It’s pretty bad.
They were more interested in that than the Mr. T/Emmanuel Lewis Christmas special.
yeah by the time Anthony Perkins is monologuing over a bible in the shrubs while wearing a crown of thorns and stroking a metal razor dildo I’m thinking Crimes of Passion is right there with Eyes Wide Shut as a personal christmas classic now idk why they both happen to revolve around dumb hetro dudes being confronted with their stunted conceptions of sexuality and identity and marital psychologies in distorted darkly campy dream journeys with the final message of both films being: “fuck” but hey, Ken Russell, my guy (his little memoir I have around here somewhere is delightfully bitchy at times)
I had to go to work on Christmas Eve because people not me decided we were going to show Christmas movies for a few days and I sat in the theater and watched It’s A Wonderful Life so someone would see it
I genuinely and uncritically like this movie, and have for years. It disarms my manic cynicism
Also I lost my mind watching the scene at the train station where George’s brother comes back from college and Harry’s new wife says he got offered a job elsewhere and it starts this hauntingly devastating long take where the focus dials in and the walla gets turned down and the camera tracks Jimmy Stewart on a close shot and I’m watching this shit and losing my shit about how the funny little Christian parable is pissing on thousands of films with masterful mise en scene
Now I want to see Capra and King Vidor have an obviously communist American filmmaker knife fight up until I remember that Vidor did the movie adaptation of The Fountainhead
I watched Sonic 3 with my boyfriend last night. It felt mostly like a tombstone for the early 2000s to me. It was still basically passable, they didn’t do anything that really went against the character of Sonic. Jim Carrey was somewhat unpleasant to me in ways that are hard to put my finger on, as was the fact that the movie was overwhelmingly a comedy. I just want my absurd media to be naive and sincere, even “cringe” if you will. Sonic Adventure was the sort of thing that suspends its own disbelief while presenting everything to you even though you the viewer generally can’t suspend your own disbelief, and Sonic 3 is not that, and I don’t like that. The writing was also a bit too telegraphed for me. I felt like I was watching a tutorial about how to make a movie in 2024 at times.
I loved Temple of Doom as a kid. It was the most ghoulish and dangerous seeming of the three, which really appealed to little me. It’s also the most like Temple of the Forbidden Eye in Disneyland, so I’d feel like I was riding through the movie whenever I went on it. Also it has a lot of really good and iconic Indiana Jones stuff, despite being less clever and fun than even Last Crusade. I kind of like that all we know about Indy at that point is that he used to be a piece of shit, until he save kids from slavery and experience some really horrifying shit.
I keep getting tricked into thinking I’ll like his stuff because of how stupid the lighthouse and the Northman was. Maybe he isn’t actually making comedies and I’m misreading him…
for some reason I pictured this being said by Donald Fagen in a Steely Dan documentary but I guess they’re kind of interchangeable with Spielberg and Lucas bts
