turns out Casino Royale is a pretty bad book y’all idk if
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i rewatched hellraiser 2, which is terrible but has SUCH GOOD SPECIAL EFFECTS it makes up for it. i keep thinking about how awkwardly straight horny the movie is, and how it all went over my head as a child, and i wish i had the innocence for it to go over my head again
OH I WATCHED HANDMAIDEN ITS MY FAVORITE I WANNA CLACKER VOLLEY SCISSOR SOMEONE NOW I CANT BELIEVE IT HAD A HAPPY ENDING. so glad he was like ‘everyone is expecting a twist so imma get that shit out of the way FAST and then make the whole movie about how ITS NOT A TWIST AT ALL. also men are disgusting’
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The only thing I got from this trailer is that someone seems to care about having a continuous thread of canon in Craigbondverse and I can’t imagine anything more enervating
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what about the page where james bond goes on and on about the superior comfort of a kimono style bathrobe
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It’s kind of a cool movie because it’s essentially a failed attempt at establishing the Hellraiser extended universe; Hellraiser’s own version of Lord of the Rings or something like that.
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value neutral re: this
I watched “Stronger”. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, as Jeff Bauman, A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Every single person in the movie is excellent. I’m a Jake fan and he’s real good here. and so is Tatiana Maslany, who plays his girlfriend Erin.
However, Miranda Richardson absolutely smashes her role as Jeff’s mother, Patty.
its a pretty good movie, overall. And doesn’t exactly feature the usual sort of cliched movie story you might expect out of a situation such as this. It does have one of the those slideshow endings, though.
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I watched that Ready or Not movie the other night and it’s a charmless version of You’re Next. Obviously an interesting premise (how many movies this year have been about the rich hunting the less advantaged?) but they don’t do nearly enough with it; nothing imaginative or shocking of note. The best example of this genre might still be Ice-T in Surviving the Game.
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uhh i had never heard of this before and it is wiiiiiiiiiiild
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9m9h9e9 really stuck with me too. I remember avidly following it as it was happening. Some great imagery and storytelling, far too compelling to be wasted on reddit comments. I still wonder sometimes what that was all about and whether I can buy a book by that person.
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Finally watched The Discovery on netflix, few thoughts/tidbits:
man, this movie makes me feel dumb after having seen it the first time… it sure did drop a lot of hints left and right, but i didn’t catch on to any of them, since i was waaaay too busy with following down a certain path that i have been wondering about for a while now.
If that was the Intention of ze autheur, i.e. drop snippets to make people classify that as a red herring for something they have thought about, and get misleaded - kudos, that worked well.
def gotta watch it a second time to make up my mind about a few things, especially how people behave in scenes.
all in all, wasn’t expecting anything, thus: a pleasant surprise.
I’ve watched half of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
…its pretty thin so far. I feel like a fair amount of it counts on you knowing a bunch about the real people depicted here and also caring at all about anything about them?. And the movie makes zero attempt to otherwise clue you into what the heck is the point?
I saw the articles and forum reactions but, yeah, Tarantino took a giant shit on Bruce Lee and I don’t get it (in general. But also because Tarantino is a big fan of martial arts film stars). And so far, there just hasn’t been much of anything, really. DiCaprio’s character has a mildly interesting thing going on about doubting his ability to act. Despite being a C level actor and also who gives a shit, he’s attractive and has plenty of money. But…it doesn’t otherwise seem to be going anywhere. And its just been really on the nose, like shoved in your face.
And Brad Pitt’s character is apparently an amazing street fighter and never gets in trouble for it and doesn’t have a rep preceding him for being a huge asshole. Even though that’s probably why he hasn’t gotten any stunt work jobs for a long time.
I dunno. pretty annoyed by this one, so far. I’ve never been a big Tarantino fan anyway. But, I feel like he’s been getting worse after Inglourious Basterds (which I liked).
so i watched The Irishman in like 20 minute increments sitting in front of my laptop after my wife went to sleep every night, which is probably the most stereotypically “bro” thing i’ve done in years, felt kinda fun
i did like it though? the ending is definitely the best part. it’s like the cinematic equivalent of that thought experiment people have before they get tattoos, where you think about what you’ll look like in the old folks home with an insane tattoo of bart taking a shit or whatever, except the tattoo is a life of remorseless crime in blind loyalty to people who are at the end of the day just as clueless and fragile as you are
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a few more thoughts–
ridiculous to say any of these actors are underrated but pacino really goes for it in this and i appreciate it
i wonder if jack nicholson and al pacino talked about pretending to be jimmy hoffa
it is an amazing display of restraint that there are no rolling stones songs in this
of all the weird comedian celebrity cameos, against all odds i sort of felt sebastian maniscalo was the best
with de niro playing an irish dude, pacino playing hoffa, and stephen graham playing a very hammy italian american guy, there almost seems like something kind of stunt-like about the casting
i didn’t find the special effects that distracting, but they were also like not that effective. it’s like they just ignored the fact that people show age in ways that aren’t just on their faces
the most distracting part is stuff like when they are saying that hoffa and tony pro “came up together”, and pacino just obviously looks like 20 years older than stephen graham
also graham is really good at scenery chewing this, and kind of unfortunately sort of lets you know that it could have been a much livelier movie if they had just cast younger actors for some of the flashbacks
but at the same time because the whole thing is sort of like sheeran reliving these things in his memories, it sort of makes sense that he wouldn’t really remember himself as an actual young man, but just a sort of slightly more able bodied version of his current self
it almost works in the movie, but apparently scorsese just cast those guys because he didn’t want to have to explain himself to actors he hadn’t worked with as much before
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keep thinking of these two recurring bits almost everyday
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There’s a video of Ray Romano on one of the late night shows, talking about how there were times when some of the guys like Pacino would just nail a scene. But…then they had to get up out of a chair and leave the shot or something. And they’d be like “Al, you’re supposed to do that like you were 30!”.
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I watched Ad Astra.
Its definitely another movie about dads and people losing their minds at the edge of space and becoming murderous and/or suicidal.
Its a decent movie I suppose. But the subject matter is a little tiring. Especially the bits about people always losing their minds.
And in this case, well ok Brad Pitt’s character, I guess its cool you learned empathy, after you killed some people for no reason and your dad was like “fuck you in space!”.
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I also watched this last night. Was really excited for this, cause I love near-future sci-fi stuff like The Expanse or Moon. What a weird flick.
I feel like Ad Astra’s story never even started for some odd reason, they just dicked around for the entire flick. Really cool world, interesting setting, really well-done effects, good acting, etc, just, nothing to the story at all.
Feels like they wanted to “make a movie like Interstellar”, and did that, without ever coming up with an event to base the flick around. Like, remember when they randomly got attacked by moon pirates and orangutans, and nothing whatsoever came of it? Or when the main guy killed the whole crew of the Neptune mission, and never like, was arrested for that, when he returned home? Or when he found his dad, he talked him down in five minutes, then his dad died en route home? Or, god, remember how they never bothered to explain what the electrical pulses were, that were the inciting action of the whole movie?
What a weird movie.
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I don’t see the problem with any of that
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I liked it fairly well, until he snuck onto the rocket and killed everybody.
Well the pulsing was the anti-matter drive failing. Because it was sabotaged by the scientists who got bummed out when the data they collected about other planets showed no life out there. So they…lost their minds and tried to sabotage the ship and destroy it I guess. But they didn’t have a chance to finish the job, because Dad Pitt killed them all by sabotaging the life support system. Not the whole crew went crazy, but he killed them all just to make sure. Because he REALLY wants to find life out there ok. And he didn’t come all this way to…
The space babboons was the dumbest shit
Yeah I guess the whole point was that Brad Pitt couldn’t care about stuff until he found out whether or not his dad cared about him. So when he found out the answer----I guess he could start caring about his own stuff.
Along the way, there were some decent moments of his vulnerability. But that’s about all I can really say in favor of this movie.
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