I’m going to write a big essay someday on pre-9/11 and pre-internet rural white gun guy politics and the movie on deadly ground
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do you think steven seagal still believes that deadly force is justified in defense of plankton
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I wonder if he still has a powerpoint presentation ready about it.
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Just watched Star Wars: A New Hope (despecialized edition 2.5. Which was the newest version I could find, publically).
Man what a great movie. Its probably been about 11 years since I’ve watched the original trilogy. I love the 70’s movie style. Its not constantly begging for your laughs. Doesn’t have any heavy handed edits to force your suspense or to forcibly establish something. Allows itself to linger here and there. Its just fun and funny and adventurous.
The despecialized edition was solid, overall. Seems that A New Hope despecialized isn’t available in 1080p, so this was 720p. The colors could be a little too washed out, sometimes. And in a way which looks like someone messed with it (because someone did). With a few scenes fairing pretty badly, in that regard. But otherwise, it does a great job of restoring effects shots to ones which look more like the original releases.
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I think there’s a 4k version nowadays
Yup, 4K77
83GB
Well I didn’t see it on public trackers! Unless its from a different team. I just did searches for harmy and despecialized.
drives me nuts that there’s a 4K but no 1080p.
The Empire Strikes back is just shy of being overstuffed. Its very fun and has tons of stuff going on. It trades in some of that actually traveled adventure feel, which A New Hope has from that slightly lingering quality. But in trade, we get lots of planet hopping.
I had forgotten a lot about the details. Such as, where exactly Vader and Luke fight.
The writing for Leia actually suffered a bit. They have her diving scene by scene, from bit part to being harassed by Han to being some of her actual strong self.
I had forgotten how much Han does in this movie. Which brilliantly sets you up for what happens to him, later on.
Everybody says Solo’s first name as Hand. Even Leia. WTF.
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Return of The Jedi is a bit rough at the beginning parts of Jabba’s lair. There’s a bunch of little empty moments which probably aren’t actually all that numerous. But they stuck out.
Also, people ask to be taken to Jabba, when he’s like 8 feet around a very shallow corner.
I had completely forgotten about the pig guards. I had one of those action figures. Lots of play time with that thing.
I’ve always thought Leia’s disguise is brilliant. Even though I know its her, dozens of times over: my brain still resolves it as another weird Star Wars person.
Luke’s moves on Jabba’s hover yacht are still badass. And I like how they got R2 involved. Really, I’m a bit amazed at how much they thought to do with R2, across the trilogy. Having them as co-pilots in X-Wings is amazing.
I’m sure I realized this last time i watched these (about 11 years ago), but as a child I had always though the Death Star wasn’t completely destroyed. And what we see in Return of The Jedi, was THE death star. Partially destroyed, being rebuilt. But, its actually a whole new death star, not yet finished.
I’ve always liked the Ewoks and still like them. However, the saturday morning cartoon bit (which is probably borrowed from Star Wars, heh) about C-3PO being mistaken as a god and the others being prepped for cooking over a bonfire: is dumb.
Speeder bikes are still awesome.
Love how R2-D2 rolls around a super dense forest, like it ain’t no big deal.
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the force kick is the most powerful move in the galaxy
Rudie is here to say Once Upon A Time In Hollywood sucked. Immediately I was mad pedantically because the “old timey” footage had modern lighting and camera angles. Various different things and they all looked wrong.
Then all the stuff about Sharon Tate going to her own movie so that Tarantino and Hollywood could jerk off to feet and the concept of going to your own movie to see everyone loving it. Oh fucking great you gave yourself an award in form of a movie where everyone loves you.
And then it is about REAL MURDERS so I was on edge the whole time with dates and shit. And well. I don’t need to spoil it because I got the inverse of a boyfriend going “That’s Nick Fury” when a girlfriend walked out and said “I have to tell you about the real murders.” True Crime entertainment is a poison.
The Voice Over glossing over the plot and spouting fake movies (or real???) fuck off tarantino you aren’t doing anything. Yeah your music tastes are real cool and you love old radio look at all the old stuff you put in and then you still made your fucking movie orange and teal.
Warning: even if you ignore my complaints do not see this film if you have Mysomnia. There is a lot of fork on teeth and mouth sounds and that made curl into a ball in my seat.
Old Brad Pitt is great should have seem Ad Astra instead. He wears exactly a hawaiian shirt I have been eyeing in auctions so I really liked seeing a vintage 1960s 100% Rayon shirt.
Then the two jokes in the credits just sealed me into typing furiously on my phone as I walked out. It is a nice day.
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Oh yeah i liked this part.
Wow this film is dense with stuff to hate.
Bacurau (I’m going to spoil the entire movie) starts as a small drama with multiple characters in a rural Brazilian village, and it sure feels like one of these movies in which The Real Main Character Is The Village.
It lasts for about 40 minutes; next the village disappears from every map on the internet, a flying saucer appears out of nowhere, and a small family is brutally murdered off screen.
It turns out the flying saucer is actually a drone used by what I can only describe as Call of Duty players, who are a bunch of heavily armed bloodthirsty Americans led by Udo Kier coming to kill everybody. Each time they kill someone they go like « WOOHOO! 20 POINTS! LET’S FUCK » The point system is disappointingly never explained but at one point they kill a child and argue about whether It Counts or not. Keep in mind that at the same time the villagers are still acting like they’re in a drama and not in a parody
Anyway the CoD cast eventually gets owned by the villagers, the end
Good movie
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Thanks for spoiling it that sounds exactly like the kind of movie I would be tricked into seeing and then be mad at not being warned how upset it would make me.
gamers … gamers never changes…
funny how games of war closely resemble the wars of real life…
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hoop dreams is really fucking good
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Jojo Rabbit was better than I expected
I saw the animated film Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, about the making of Land Without Bread. I mean, I can’t not go see a film about the process of making a surrealist documentary considering I’ve been through it too.
The film was pleasant enough but really nothing special. Considering how boldly esoteric its subject matter is, I was disappointed to see it treated as a schmaltzy edutainment film about Buñuel learning not to let his artistic ambitions distract him from being a good friend. The film kept shallowly touching on interesting subjects and then going nowhere satisfying with them: whether art can damage capitalism, how a documentary can be both surrealist and at all coherent, the weird class dynamics of a bunch of rich boys making a miserablist documentary about the poorest town in their country, the ethics of falsifying events to paint a truer picture, etc.
The film devotes a lot of time to Buñuel and company talking about how Land Without Bread could save this poor village, but then it completely drops this thread and never tells you anything about what actually happened to it after the film came out.
The animation was pretty cheap too. Good musical score though!