I watched Us again this past weekend and I still think I like it more than Get Out, but I can also see why people didn’t like it as much as Get Out.
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Midsommar is very good! I’m still digesting it, so my thoughts are subject to change (I walked out of Burning thinking it sucked balls and now I think it was one of the best movies of last year).
Midsommar doesn’t quite hit the peaks that Hereditary did, but it also never fumbles the way Hereditary did in its descent-into-conventional-horror third act. Ari Aster is still the best at telling pitch black horrific jokes (the way the first act’s over-the-top foreshadowing pays off later is pretty funny in retrospect).
For me the standout scene was the reveal of what happened to the lead girl’s family. The slow dolly through the house as the firefighters discover the bodies. The image of the sister with the hose duct taped to her mouth, the vomit… Aster is so good at infusing his horror films with a thread of too-real family grief and trauma. It’s so interesting how he anchors these genre films using these huge rupturing scenes that feel more like something from a really dark European art drama, like a Haneke film or something.
I also appreciated the most realistic psychedelic mushroom visuals I’ve ever seen in a movie, combined with the most convincing tripping balls acting I’ve ever seen. Especially Christian’s face and body language after he drinks the tea around the end of the movie. I’ve seen that before and I’ve been there before. Luckily my trip had a happier ending though.
Anyway, the movie rules, go see it so we can talk about it!
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im gonna try to see it this weekend!
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i don’t think i talked about this here, but a movie i’ve been obsessed with recently and showing all my friends is Sion Sono’s Bad Film, which is a shot-on-video movie he filmed in 1995 and released in 2012.
it feels like talking about it gives away too much, but basically (this is VERY GENERAL): a fascist Japanese gang and a Chinese immigrant gang fight each other for control of Koenji in a near-future (1997) setting where the global economy seems to have sort of collapsed. but then it becomes about how the gay/queer members of the group kill their bosses because they were homophobic and transform the gangs.
he filmed it with Tokyo Gagaga and tbh i’m not sure how he didn’t get arrested, but maybe he was really good with permits.
it rules and i wanna keep rewatching it.
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seeing this Monday! i think i’ll like it, because i did like Hereditary, however i know a lotta folks who really hated Hereditary and sometimes i think i missed something.
caught up with Spider-Man Homecoming so I can see Far From Home over the weekend
why is Spider-Man the hero of this movie when all he does all movie is harass small business owner Michael Keaton
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continuing to be a member of the Bad Part of Society I guess by watching and uncritically enjoying the MCU as episodic serial entertainment
i liked the new one
I watched every MCU movie (except Iron Man 3 I think) and Endgame, while not really a good movie, completely deflated the whole thing for me. I have no interest in seeing new Spider Man at all. I’m very grateful
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what are you doing out here not watching the shane black one
like there are maybe five(?) of these where interesting directors brought their own style to bear and that’s one of them
I just missed it, what do you want from me
oh I’m sorry that the picture show hasn’t come back through town at any point in the past six years
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just documentaries:
shinjuku boys -
so fucked up theres no follow up to this
the decline of western civilization -
it makes so much sense that penelope spheeris also directed waynes world. the teenager interviews are insane
the weather underground -
i did a paper on pamela z, who does narration for this documentary. her voice is so unreal. anyways its cool only one of them got arrested
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so H E L L B O Y 2 0 1 9 features speedramps into dramatic slowmo crown-doffing by King Arthur in it’s Thrilling Prologue over which ian mcshane keeps VOing “fuck” and “piss”
THIS IS NOT OVER! I AM VENGEANCE ETERNAL!
