I only watched half of it on a plane, does he finally get to eat Hugh Grant?
Yes, absolutely and Peter Capaldi as well.
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glass is kind of interesting. it seemed like a big bummer at the time but the more I think about it the more I like it. it sets up a big superhero showdown, at some fancy large tower about to have some grand opening, has a chemical plant on several of itâs floors etc., and then⌠the characters never even make it there. never make it off the front lawn of the mental hospital. the final battle is mentally ill and disabled people getting assassinated and put down by cops (who have three leaf clover tattoos because they exist to wipe out deviations and abnormalities) but not before mr. glass gets his message out to the world/audience to stop letting them tell you youâre not exceptional and powerless, you have a place in this world etc.
Though I guess Iâm also just the biggest sap for mediocre movies now too.
I also watched that antifa supersoldier robin hood movie a while back and it was an awfully made movie, bad in every way except it was explicitly pro revolution, pro cop killing, pro wealth redistribution, pro riots and molotovs, anti war, anti incrementalism, anti church, instead of merry men we have the more gender neutral term partisan raiders, the crusades are depicted war on terror like, squads clearing rooms with longbows, later the sheriff of nottingham gives a speech about how they hate us for our freedoms. I kind of thought it was exactly the kind of thing needed to be made, it just needed to be made better, instead of in the form of what felt like a pilot for a really dumb amazon tv series. the beginning of the end credits have a little animation that plays and at the end it displays a line from the movie âif not you then who, if not now then whenâ but everybody else had got up and left by then, even the old people.
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a merry man
a partisan raider
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demonlover
i canât write my own review because i only have a 360p mp4 of it
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the best Vincent Gallo takedown is still 2 Days in New York
They screened Demonlover at the Harvard Film Archive last year as part of a very cool series on films about the early internet. Sadly, I didnât make it to that one. But I did have a great time with Kairo (AKA Pulse) and Chris Markerâs very weird documentary Level 5.
gonna start a letterboxd i think, my goal for 19 is to read more and watch more movies
oh yeah something I really hated about robin hood though was while robin is undercover and getting in good with the sheriff, the sheriff confesses his history of abuse as a boy at the hands of the church and later robin tries to put that it information to use in a one liner right before he kills him at the end. no. wrong. thatâs not the code robin.
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Iâve largely stopped watching movies outside of things iâm half paying attention to in anime club, but a few nights ago I watched The Night of the Hunter and boy does it live up to the hype.
Itâs a hard world for little things.
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Mitchum is the best
I just watched Terms of Endearment, knowing nothing about it (sometimes extremely good and well observed and sometimes itâs like Movie: The Movie; James L Brooks loves moving his people around but this isnât the structure for it) but when it got to the end turn and she starts talking to her kids I realized this was Space Ghostâs âIâm dyingâ speech word for word and I just lost it
âBe nice to the girls because theyâre gonna be real important to youâ
even as I cried a bit
I finally get that music joke too, Brooks is like a soap opera with the music cues. You can see it in The Simpsons sometimes
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I watched The Hitchhikerâs Guide to the Galaxy movie again for the first time in like 8 years and let me tell you
I was mad
The movie itself is as expected: frantic, poorly structured, generally just a series of strange jokes barely connected by consistent characters. So, standard Douglas Adams fare, although it certainly works better in every other format itâs been in. The movie never knows when to slow down and take a detour into a weird non-sequitur for pacing reasons, which is the brilliance of the radio show, tv show, book, etc.
BUT
I forgot how much they changed Trillian. Instead of being an astrophysicist who left with Zaphod because she was bored, NOW sheâs a dream-seeking traveler who wants Arthur to go to Madagascar with her within the first hour of knowing him, which is a TERRIBLE IDEA for personal safety, and when he doesnât go she sees it as a personal failing because heâs not ADVENTUROUS ENOUGH but really this whole structure is to try and show how Arthur needs to get out of his box, so yes the pixie girl trope returns and itâs infuriating. She also has, like, no personality. Sheâs much more sarcastic and active in the books/shows than she is in the film. In the film sheâs just, likeâŚthe grounded character.
WHICH IS COUNTER TO WHO SHE IS WHEN WE FIRST MEET HER AND
anyway
But for fuckâs sake Arthur is godawful in this movie. I mean, heâs always godawful, but in a fun, pathetic, extremely British way.
But Martin Freeman plays him as an angry, put-upon, whining, entitled piece of shit who learns nothing and still somehow âgets the girl.â And if the arc was supposed to be Arthur getting braver and more adventurousâŚwell, really he just gets more entitled and whiny so yeah.
I sort of hate Martin Freeman.
Anyway, Sam Rockwell as Zaphod is pretty great and heâs just George W. Bush on some sort of amphetamines, and it works okay. I prefer the radio guy.
Alan Rickman is the best part of the movie as Marvin, of course. Here to save the day again.
Mos Def plays Ford pretty dang well, but Fordâs character is never really given any time to be anything more than a shepherd for Arthur and a bystander for Trillian and Zaphod.
The point-of-view gun is such a Douglas Adams touch, and I do love it. But then Trillian saying âIt wonât work on me, Iâm already a womanâ is just so borrrring and bad.
Anyway, I hated this movie except when it was really clever, which was sometimes.
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Also, watched Mona Lisa Smile and Maggie Gyllenhaalâs character definitely read as gay for the first part of the movie and then she wasnât, which was disappointing, but the rest of the movie was Very Okay.
Thank you for keeping me from revisiting this movie, which Iâd begun to think I needed to do. I had no distinct memory if it, but a lot came back to me as I was reading that and, well, Iâm good now.
I do remember Sam Rockwellâs Zaphod being a fun W riff. Thatâs very 2005.
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went to see it with a girlfriend for my birthday I think, we both walked out sour
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Just doing my duty
One of the few movies I ever regretted theater hopping into.
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The weird thing is that there are flashes of brilliance. The Vogons look incredible. The Vogon planet where they get slapped in the face for having original ideas is both hilarious and thankfully not pointed out to be âOHH so this is why Vogons are like they are!â They trust the audience to figure that out. Hell, everything to do with the Vogons is pretty great and I think the truest representation from the original works. Theyâre just bureaucrats following the rules, including âThe president kidnapped himself, we must shoot the kidnapper to save the president.â Thatâs funny every time.
I donât regret watching it a second time, and with a little distance from my youthful reverie of everything Douglas Adams touched, I can see it as its own object. But when you have worse treatment of the ONE WOMAN OF NOTE in your movie than the books, who only have two named women that I can think of (Trillian and Eccentra Galumbits the Triple-Breasted Whore from Eroticon Six) then youâre really falling down hard.
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Its like they took trillianâs appearance in the radio series as the canonical one, ignoring that adams kept rewriting her in later versions to make her more interesting.
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