It’s cool to see the “detective gets the shit knocked out of him over and over” trope used to further Gosling’s push to be the most aggressively emasculated super-dreamy leading man in modern cinema.
I also realized I’m swelling into Russell Crowe’s physique, just 20 years earlier D:
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I rewatched Bring It On yesterday after High-Rise.
It was an alright double feature.
only temporary I’m sure but the nice guys filled me with joy for life, for now
At least you’re drinking again.
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i loved it, but the person i saw it with who cares more about like, understanding what is happening in mystery stories, did not care for it as much.
paul thomas anderson making a movie with no plot about a stoned detective in late 60’s los angeles is basically what i would describe as my dream film though, so the fact that i wasn’t absolutely over the roof about it might mean it didn’t actually come out as good as it should have.
i still liked it a lot though. if it wasn’t long as f. it would probably make a good double feature with The Good Guys (which i have not seen yet)
edit: in spite of being kind of high brow and conceptual in various ways, the movie also works in retrospect when you realize that it is basically a really long joke about how when you’re high AF everything feels like a vast conspiracy that is just beyond the reach of your comprehension
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I did not like IV i think I even said as much on sb1.
love IV. especially the Can opening and every time Bigfoot is on screen
soooo i have been watching all of the x-men movies (except last stand and the dumb wolverine ones because i don’t hate myself that much) because I realized I hadn’t seen any of them since their initial theatrical releases, and I realized the first two are probably underrated (by me)
before rewatching them, I would have said first class was the best, followed by x-2 and dofp, and then x-men 2000 at the bottom, but i was surprised by how well the first two hold up. i mean there are definitely some corny lines in the first one, but it works surprisingly well and i feel like it should probably get more credit for inspiring 21st century superhero movies than batman begins, in that it is a ‘first in the series’ that is willing to be more than just a stereotypical origin story.
the other big surprise was that first class really doesn’t hold up well at all, tonally it is just all over the place. i think it has some of my favorite scenes in the series, but all of that is padded out with really awkward stuff. they really should have just made a movie about magneto hunting nazis in south america, it would have been great.
dofp was also a lot better than i remember it being, but maybe it just benefitted from the goodwill the rest of the series had earned up to that point. they wisely ditch the x people who didn’t really work in the first one (though it is weird that banshee just… disappears, never to be seen again), and in my opinion mystique is written well enough to justify her arbitrarily becoming a main character thanks to the fame of jennifer lawrence. though it does feel like her particular talents are wasted on that character.
anyway i also just got back from seeing apocalypse leading up to this, and since it isn’t out in the rest of the world yet i won’t spoil too much other than my main first impression is: it is probably the closest thing to a live action version of the 90’s cartoon that they’ve done yet, for better or for worse. there is a lot more corniness and too-serious-to-be-camp discussion of like… power levels and stuff, but it actually works pretty well. it also does the lamest, laziest narrative trick to get magneto to go back to being sort-of evil that they’ve tried yet that is telegraphed from a million miles away, but whatever fassbender is great so who cares.
oscar isaac totally disappears behind a wall of prosthetics and makeup and a weird ominous whisper voice, i don’t know if that means it is a good performance or what but if i didn’t know it was him i would have had no idea it was him. weird decision, but bold to do that with such a hot actor in this, the reality in which spiderman and iron man both always have to take their masks off to deliver important lines.
anyway as is normal these days there’s some shit at the end of the movie that apparently has to do with another wolverine (both another wolverine movie and a whole other wolverine, as in, a clone or some dumb crap). it’s whatever, but i’m always more interested in the ensemble movies than the solo ones, even if deadpool was pretty good.
I thought First Class was obviously the worst, but I watched them in order as they came out so maybe it was just my youthful enthusiasm waning.
Dialogue has never really been a Pynchon strength (it’s usually functional if sometimes enjoyable for its weirdness), though, so I would probably default that to the adaptation more than the original material. I still haven’t seen IV, despite everything being something I would enjoy about it. Just didn’t get around to it, so probably just gonna grab a copy of it some point soon.
yeah I did too! I think 3 just left such a bad taste in my mouth that first class was a refreshing palate cleanser at the time
The second Wolverine is the only xmanz that comes close to being an Actual Movie you dumbo
I mean until the perfunctory lame superhero third act jamboree its just sort of a 70s Eastwood or Bronson toughdude movie that happens to have a mutant stabman in it
Oh it’s actually good? The first one was so horrible I couldn’t bring myself to watch the second one. I also don’t really like Hugh Jackman at all.
I enjoyed the second one, yeah. Not great cinema or whatever, but also entertaining.
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