MUWT 2: The Quickening

I watched Inception recently and that snow dream made me want to play Goldeneye or Rogue Spear.

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So good it justifies the other five hours of movie or however long it is imo

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I’ve always felt that he back-kicked the shit outta that door, too.

I think Inception is just one of those movies I can watch over and over. It occupies a similar spot in my mind to the ones occupied by eXistenZ and Cube even though it’s way more Hollywood than those two.

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my in-canon explanation for why all the dreams in inception are so boring is because all of the people having them are like moronic MBA dudes

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nolan exclusively dreams of rejected bond action set pieces

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Last night I went to a midnight screening of the lost and recently rediscovered “gore cut” of 1994 children’s romantic comedy Tammy and the T-Rex. With a ton of gooey, graphic horror footage re-inserted into the film, it plays well as a legitimately good horror comedy. It’s the stupidest trash I’ve ever seen, but it’s funny as hell.

Teenage Paul Walker gets beaten up by bullies and thrown into his town’s “Wild Animal Park”, where he gets mauled into a coma by lions and panthers. A mad scientist steals his body, removes his brain, and transplants it into an animatronic t-rex. Yes, the dinosaur is robotic in the diagesis. And now it’s being piloted by a human brain. It can’t talk, but it can dial a payphone and do complicated charades.

Whenever the dinosaur has to use its hands for anything, the film cuts to a closeup of its head, and some dude’s arms in shoddy t-rex gloves get to work. It’s so flagrantly unconvincing, the crowd was losing it. In certain scenes, the implication is that the arms stretched to like 10 feet in length to e.g. reach the telephone.

There is also some really weird grasping at pathos that sometimes almost sort of works. Like, Paul Walker goes to his own funeral and his girlfriend covertly digs up his body so they can return his brain to it, but the body turns out to be totally rotten and filled with maggots, and he has to confront it. As a robot dinosaur. Then they go to the morgue and she holds up various dead bodies for his approval or rejection.

It’s currently touring thanks to Vinegar Syndrome, so if it comes to an indie theater near you, check it out!

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so a real prefigurement of Furious 7 huh

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Are there any shots of Paul’s feet and if so how would you rate them on a scale of 1 to 5.75 (out of 5)

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i saw knives out! it was … ok!! if you like cozy mysteries it is definitely worth seeing, but one of those things where saying literally anything else about it will constitute a spoiler of some kind.

after seeing it, we ended up talking about parasite even more than the knives out itself

renoir’s french cancan fucking rips

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I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again…

I finally watched Dolemite Is My Name and I absolutely loved it. Thank you for making a movie filled with fun performances and raunchy and a happy ending. Wesley Snipes and Eddie Murphy were amazing and the clothes were great who gives a shit about anything else

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It’s disappointing they danced around his queerness but also totally unsurprising considering it’s an Eddie Murphy movie though maybe tackling this has opened his mind a bit and he’ll finally make the Little Richard movie he mentioned in that Playboy interview. Boy that’s a good interview

Zardoz was cool as hell. Kept thinking like Death Stranding that critics would have no fucking clue what to do with it.

“How quickly will I know that QT wrote True Romance?” “Elvis and Sonny Chiba” .30 minutes later. “Wow this sucks. I’m quitting.”

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Sign me the fuck up lol

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I wonder how large the ancap grim fandango fanbase is

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Glottis Vommed

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Ian’s masterpiece of adventure

imagining an alt right poster type reaching the part in Casino Royale where Bond has a half-page internal monologue about Vesper being A Stupid, Silly Bitch who Ruins Everything Because Such is The Nature of All Bitches, And We Shouldn’t Have Gotten Her Involved In This, The Bitch! and just like

finally feeling seen

as Suave Superspy James Bond has this infantile breakdown because Girl got dropped into Spy Business and so he has to vent by calling her Bad Names

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also the part where Fleming/Bond is all "sex is the best when it feels at least a little bit like you’re raping your partner"

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