watched a three hour fan edit extended cut of David lynchs dune where they cut out a bunch (not all!!) of the internal monologuing and get rid of the 20 minutes of talking in the beginning and cut the part where Paul makes it rain. might be the best version of dune I’ve seen (I have only seen it on TV)
alia is the fucking best. this movie is so anime
I didn’t realize people disliked the intro he added, even though it’s totally unfaithful to the book it’s one of my favorite parts of his still
i like it more spread out over the entire movie. I like the inner monologue and exposition a lot because I do not fucking want to read dune
oh yeah the jodorowsky ass scene with the baron and his buddies is probably my favorite cinema representation of evil
when princess irulan finishes her schpiel and fades out from view, but then return and goes “oh, and I almost forgot to tell you something else about the spice” always makes me laugh. why did they do that lol
there were two deleted scenes that I was like WHAT THE FUCK WHY WOULD YOU CUT THIS. theres all this emotional stuff around Paul’s first kill that was AMAZING and at the end when thulfir kills himself after Paul offers his own life. those elevated the movie so much for me!! I can’t beleive they got rid of that shit. what a good edit. dune is toonami
it’s specifically the intro from the extended edition where a guy talks at you for 20 minutes about the entire background context of the dune universe, not the princess irulan one, which is maintained in every cut of the movie
Lynch loved having scenes where evil buddies got together, huh?
I need to watch this edit. I think i can convince @TooManyCookbooks
also had a realization that when i met porp she was basing like 90 percent of her personality and definitely her hair on stings character in this movie. she absolutely practiced that stretch and would do it all the time! shed put her hands on her hips and do his weird little face. she did this for like a year!!! before making her whole personality being a rapist, which still works with sting in dune i guess
sting’s rubber crested briefs are an all-timer in a movie thick with great costumes
the way the camera lingers in that scene is hilarious
I got as far into the famous fan edit of Dune as them reappropriating Irulan’s dialogue about the guild navigators as VO over the actual introduction of the guild navigators and turning a moment of cinematic storytelling which conveys menace into literary exposition before I tapped out
Why would you decide to fuck with David Lynch’s sound design of all things
I don’t speak or read Japanese so I can’t confirm, but I was told that the title is more accurately translated as “Circuit” — so I’ve always assumed that even though circuit maybe makes more intuitive/emotional sense as a title, whoever distributed it in English thought Pulse sounded better and was Close Enough
rewatched Bringing Out the Dead (and 24 Hour Party People) last night, very good if a bit overlong and draining, bloom cranked up like a 360-era Ubisoft. I guess the Schrader-verse has been resonating lately cuz I watched Blue Collar twice on my last day off (second time mostly reading about the 1970 wildcat strike) reminds me though my job ain’t that rough heh and ambulance drivers make $18-$20 an hour!? criminal. been reconfiguring a story, now incorporating the main character, a noise musician, getting a job as a mail carrier and in a way I guess doing some class-oriented sonic terrorism along the way. maybe I should keep that in the private threads so I don’t get on a list. fiction! takes place during a busy, rainy, no more than 8 years in the future christmastime in an even worse seattle
I watched By the Law this morning due to a 2-hour delay from an ice storm. What a perfect synchronicity. By the Law is a Kuleshov-directed Jack London adaptation from 1926. It’s set in Yukon and follows some prospectors.
Very early on, one of the prospectors snaps and shoots two of his friends middinner. The montage is brutal: steaming pot, dead facedown in a bowl of food, blood dripping on the floor, the crazed eyes of the murderer, the traumatized faces of the witnesses.
Everything that happens in the hour after this is gruesome and ugly. I loved it.
I watched Cure (1997) today. Dang. Did he really hypnotize those fools, or were they unconsciously using the hypnotism as an excuse to do the murder they always wanted to? You decide!
Great movie. I like Pulse more but still, great. In the abstract, it’s really funny that this movie’s villain is a psychology major dropout/fuckup obsessed with discredited theory who just ambles around being a vague nuisance, because nowadays the population of young men in America is at least 20% that… But in the actual movie he’s scary as hell!
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s movies feel so difficult for me to judge. I’ll frequently watch a movie he directed, find it middling at the time, and then it haunts me for years afterwards. As I rewatch his films and become familiar with their rhythms, moments that I thought were not quite working on my first watch become sublime.
In the end, I don’t really dislike any of his movies, because I know that one day I’ll rewatch them and they’ll hit completely different.
i regret watching it because in being so well made it turns every viewer into the protagonist and fills them with its evil
I watched I Love You, Daddy.
Mixed impression. I feel like a good argument for or against would sway me, I don’t feel strongly about it either way.
The casting was good except for Louis C.K. who is in it because it’s his movie.
He felt out of place alongside Chloë Grace Moretz, John Malkovich, and Edie Falco.
Charlie Day is in it, and his main gag is vividly miming masturbating during people’s conversations. It feels confessional. It wouldn’t be a very good gag if Louis C.K. hadn’t been publicly shamed for masturbating in front of people with questionable levels of consent, but since he has it’s kind of interesting.
Ebonee Noel is given a line about how everyone’s a pervert which feels cheap and self-insert-y, but aside from that the movie does a pretty good job at examining morality without giving clear answers.
It’s a mixed bag.
Kurosawa talked about how for him one of the central ideas in the movie is the irony that the protagonist’s life is strictly improved after he gives into the dark side
