It was also my favorite as a kid, I rented it over and over. Loved the rube goldberg mouse restaurant and the little rodential economy/intelligence network. George C Scott definitely terrifying. I should watch it again
for some reason I NEVER bothered to watch The first Rescuers
Yeah McLeach is so nasty. Iâm kind of surpised I havenât seen any âThe Rescuers down under was SO FUCKED UPâ video on my youtube recommendations feed. It seems likeâŚa movie that would burn itself into folks minds.
But then again, I had forgotten most of it despite watching it a ton as a kid (it was like, my second or third VHS tape?) and watching it as an adult made me wonder how I didnât get some kind of recurring nightmare about it.
I thought doctor sleep was improbably okay for what it is, but it was better before they go to the hotel at the end. then it just kind of reduces the supernatural stuff in the shining down to just zombie ghosts. it also feels like the 10th movie in a row Iâve watched recently and went to letterboxd afterwards to see a million people complaining about how boring and slow it is when the slowness was one of the things I enjoyed about it. it feels almost lucky when I watch a new movie thatâs slow, that such a thing is still allowed especially in something like The Shining: 2 Work 2 Play.
I donât buy for a minute though that anyone would abandon a money maker like the overlook hotel just over a couple ax murders now and then
Triple Frontier has me in knots from tension but I thought I would really like it and I did really like it. I like a movie about dudes doing things with logistic difficulties.
If only 200 million dollars was a burden for the assholes with it.
VelociPastor⌠actually wasnât bad, for an intentional B-movie. Usually, I canât stand the ones that are really really trying to be funny, and this one is like that sometimes, but, overall the cast and the commitment to spending no money won me over.
The battle at the end, between the raptor and the ninja army, is like, 1 guy in an inflatable raptor costume whapping his rubber head against four guys in off-the-shelf ninja costumes. Has a nice home-movies feel to it.
Joanna, a Goanna! She just wanted to eat some damn eggs.
If you havenât watch Three Kings, itâs this movie but much more fun and emotionally affecting
the last (only?) good peter berg film
wait⌠it was david o russell?
cannot believe you would mistake Three Kings a Troop Film in which not a single of the Troops involved grows angel wings and saves a human baby with the blessed balm of their noble tears live on screen for a Peter Berg joint
He did make (the Michael Mann produced) The Kingdom in which FBI agents go to Saudi Arabia and bond with a Saudi cop over their shared lust for old-testament revenge re: the bomber what bombed some americans while Berg squanders interesting action setups/conceits/gags through his patented âthree hand-held cameras with telephoto lenses shoot everything from random angles and maybe make unmotivated snap-zooms sometimesâ technique?
There was a ghost of promise, then.
The Kingdom is exactly as you describe after translated through the shrug filter but the literal last 15 seconds are absolutely chilling, and itâs sort of impossible for it not to take it as intentionally casting a huge shadow over the whole rest of the film. Bizarre but also good
Watched The Changeling (1980). I liked it, itâs creepy.
Story is pretty basic, only a few decent freaky moments, but itâs a nice slow horror flick.
the âI told her weâre gonna kill them allâ (or however he says it) + itâs mirroring in one of the Terrorist Antagonistâs family memberâs just underlines the whole âwe may be different people from different cultures, but we love our friends and our family and are united by our shared conviction to murder the hell out of anyone who threatens them or their general environment for any reason!â (violence as the common denominator uniting the US and its allies) thread w/ Saudi Cop Lead then adds âoh yeah the so-called Enemy is also thinking this way and if everyone maintains this mindset weâre locked in a revenge spiral for eternityâ which is
both extremely cynical and prescient? way to call how we almost went to war with Iran over some dumb chest-thumping bullshit?
now Peter Berg probably mows Definite War Criminal Eddie Gallagherâs lawn for free every Saturday to make up for the terrible things those Younger Millennial SEALs said about him and if you tried to draw the line between his ok movie and the culture that cultivated said group into a Consistent Revenge-Fueled War Crimes Locomotive heâd challenge you to a push-up contest and kick you in the ribs as soon as you hit the floor
watched the thin line or a thin line or a big line IT WAS AN AIRPLANE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT BEING A WOMAN CHEF and its peppered with the same frustrations that every âwoman in an industryâ has, which are valid but also something i want to get past to talk about accomplishments.
but thatâs what they did, it was struggle to success not struggle to struggle to struggle to assault lawsuit. which makes me happy
also i love watching bossy women work in a kitchen, especially when they have potty mouths. first airplane movie i ever enjoyed
OH the doc was made by one of the chefs daughters, and its her first film so a lot of it ends up being about one chef. shes a great chef and i like her divorce guy energy a ton, but if you want equal treatment for everyone featured youre not getting it
I watched Joker this week and I was unprepared for how much it was going to be âTaxi Driver, but itâs Jokerâ. Like obviously that was the pitch for the film, but I guess i expected it to be⌠less so?
Anyways it wasnât awful mainly because it is interesting to watch Joachim do his thing but it feels like the people behind this movie didnât actually understand the movie that so clearly inspired it.
My gf and I watched Mannâs Miami Vice, theatrical cut. WeâŚ
didnât like it very much.
Iâm sorry everybody!!
Like, I think the idea of it is cool. I liked the lyrical drifts away from the action, like when mullet cop stares off into the ocean during a plot-important conversation. The digital photography is neat. But we just did not enjoy the experience of watching it.
disgraceful.
Comrade.
