i never wanna see human ryan reynolds again im with you
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gonna be thinking about mark dacascos listening to kyary kyary pamyu in john wick 3 for a long time
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i watched a cheesy 2000s horror movie called the convent which starred zombie nuns with uv glow blood and markings getting blown away and it ruled. it was, like, also a comedy? all the teens in it are Very Much Archetypes and while i wish they had more screentime to act like dumbasses i enjoyed it so much. thereās a scene where two gals have a conversation while sitting in separate porty potties. the guy who plays kelly from āletās get some shoesā fame plays the an absolute virgin idiot and i love it. a drag queen plays a gay satanist named dickie boy. the satanists in this movie are hilarious altogether. some b-movie horror icon i forget the name of doesnāt show up until the last like 20 minutes of the movie (the movie is only like, 80 minutes long lmao) and she is absolutely the best character. sheās the gal who voices catwoman from the batman animated series, thatās all i know her from. anyways itās on amazon prime i think and i highly recommend it
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I am 20 minutes into Rebel Without A Cause and it is surprisingly good butttttt how much of this is going to be bullying? Which is by far my most hated thing in films. I canāt stand it and every film where a group is just a pointless petty assholes to someone I canāt handle it.
My body is already tensing up so I am stopping it for the night.
The film does examine that there may be causes and reasons for teenagers outbursts and also maybe there is no clear cause.
Ford vs Ferrari was great, glad I caught it while it was still in theatres
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I had to stop watching yonder screener dl of KNIVES OUT shortly after the 50 minute mark for complex ptsd reasons but up until the trigger event it was cozy (if heavy-handed) I guess
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Was thinking about this movie last night and how the grocery fight did a really good job of āi want to beat the shit out of my bro, but also not actually hurt himā in one scene. It was really just the short short of Shelby picking to hit Miles with a loaf of bread instead of a can, but it did a lot for me.
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I know itās kind of dead in the water outside of technical stuff but it warms my heart seeing it pick up a bunch of attention at award shows
Bridge Over Rememagen is a real fun but downer war movie. A Bridge Too Far stars literally every Male Movie Star in the 70s. Itās also a much much more downer of a film. I didnāt really know about Operation Market Garden outside of FPS Maps and it was a real shit show. Every Actor gets a moment to shine but you are eventually worn down. Did make me say I need to see more Gene Hackman films dude is an ace.
Three Days of the Condor and Rebel Without A Cause are both classic films I honestly didnāt know much about. Condor has a really unnecessary Love Scene in the middle of a pretty good Man on the edge story. Thereās a turn that happens and I never did believe it and am mad again thinking about it. The actual A Plot is good and love how it ends.
Rebel finishing my above comments I had to watch all the bullying scenes at double speed and this film also kind of loses itself in the middle. There were really two drafts of the story and they decided to film both? James Dean is as great as the world thinks he is. Chris Pineās career seems destined for a James Dean bio pic before he gets too much older.
All three films I found good but not ones I was in a hurry to watch again and am going to think over how something like this becomes a favorite. Oh yeah I was drooling over the fashion in all of them.
Good Lord
The Hill (With Sean Connery) was intense. I really need to start maybe vetting these films? Fuck.
Like cover was Connery in fatigues alright cool war movie. No Inner British Army Prison for Deserters and Thieves Movie. I have never heard Brits use the N-word that much.
There are like always the sounds of military drills in the background and it is clearly fucking hot and has this live by a code and the ending makes Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence look positive by comparison.
Maybe I will choose what films I am looking for ahead of time.
Also a day later Rebel Without A Cause is fucking me up because how much I knew Dean for cool guy pose and his character is like super sensitive guy that cares and is repulsed and attracted to masculinity.
So itās up there with Full Metal Jacket and Taxi Driver in missing the fucking point.
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I took @parkerās suggestion and started my Michael Mann odyssey with Collateral. That movie ruled. My gf and I were immediately on board with that scene of Jamie Foxx quietly pitching woo to Jada Pinkett Smith on a poetic late night cab ride. This film really nails the night-in-the-city vibe. Itās amazing how much of a hangout movie it manages to be, even when every hangout ends in murder. Weāll definitely be watching more of this guyās films.
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watch the theatrical cut of miami vice
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blue collar is such a fun movie
ed begley jr reading catch 22
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and also blackhat and heat
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i saw 1917
i loved 1917
i am still waiting for the harrowing WWI horror movie that only exists in my head tho
I watched Rescuers Down Under for the first time in like, over twenty years. Probablly like twenty five.
The movie feels like a 45 minute film with twenty minutes of a Rescuers sequel bolted onto it.
The film is simultaneously incredibly tight and and completely incoherent in a way I canāt imagine a modern Disney animated film being. The medical horror scenes, the jokes about ANIMALS DYING, and one of the grodiest Disney villains ever, it feels like a response to all the Bluth and co animated films that found a niche in the 1980s.
Apparently it was a huge milestone in digital production too, because it was all animated in a computer. It doesnāt look bad somehow, though. The film is just packed with complex shots taking advantage of the new tech, and instead of looking stodgy and fake, it ends up looking kind of gorgeous?
Also, unlike a lot of Disney movies, virtually all of the characters feel like completely new designs with very few referents to older character models, except for ones that were literally from the the first Rescuers film. All the Australian flora and fauna gives the film a very singular vibe.
Oh yeah, and the film keeps going for a Mad Max style post apocalyptic vibe for then contemporary whichā¦sure is a choice that seems like a lot of Americans in the 1980s would make.
I think the movie has like, exactly one Australian voice actor in anything that could be described as a leading role. The Americans in the cast donāt even try for an accent, which just means you have a bunch of extremely American voice actors occasionally putting an awkward āMateā into their dialogue to imply that they are not Americans.
Itās a trashfire of a movie but is also kind of a great tech demo and animation showcase?
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I donāt know if I agree with this quote from a friend still but I found it yesterday and am thinking about it.
As a kid, my aunt recorded Rescuers Down Under onto a VHS tape and gifted it to me one year. Over my childhood I watched it so many times the tape broke. I loved that movie.
I recently re-watched it with my 6 year old nephews, and found myself kinda stunned by how much of the movie is devoted to the extended cast being terrorized by the massive poacher guy, like, easily half the movie is spent doing that. I ended up skipping a bunch of the scenes.
Weird how I didnāt remember a fraction of that stuff.
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I also loved it as a kid, but barely remember anything from it besides there maybe being an albatross character, and a goofy frill neck lizard? Also I think I liked the evil poacherās truck, I think it was called the Whippersnapper or something?
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