when i watch the big gunfight in manhunter i say holy shit pissss sout loud like the guy in the faye wong cranberries vid
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Criterion Channel has a Paul Schrader collection up right now so i rewatched Taxi Driver last night for the first time in probably a decade. gotta be honest: i canât see how making Travis Bickle a clown man would make that movie any better, but what do i know.
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my exclusive paul schrader opinions are that mishima is great but his bresson book is a mess
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I coincidently watched Mashima for the first time last night. My friend said the scene with where theyâre singing in the car on the way to Do the Coup was better than the similar scene in Wayneâs World. I have to agree.
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Yes, that was pretty wild and I need to rewatch it to make sure I got what I think I was supposed to get out of that bit (we were eating donuts and drinking grape faygo so it was perhaps not the prime environment)
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The Man Who Killed Don Quixote or Terry Gilliamâs Don Quixote is out in Japan apparently. So I picked myself up and went to the theater.
As Tigress said âThis was a better movie before it came out.â It literally begins with after 25 years here it is the film. Thatâs already setting it up to be judged. Then it turns out the first 20 minutes are about a disgruntled genius director (Adam Driver) getting their dick wet and trying to rediscover his roots.
It turns out his roots were seducing a 15 year old barmanâs daughter and lots of languid shoTs of this 15 year old. Shrugâs voice ran through my head the whole time. "Terry is a genius and he toiled to put his vision on the screen for 25 years. Here it is. Cancel Culture canât stop his vision. If he wants to put his surrogate macking on a 15 year old and frame it as his glory days than we just need to sit down in awe.
I didnât know how the film would end 10-20-30 minutes in because it wasnât clear what the film was. It was much more controlled than Gilliam is. Which Gilliam without style is almost nothing. It keeps flirting with Gilliam-ness and then pulls back to tortured misunderstood director everyone wants to fuck.
I actually heard a couple of laughs in the theater which well I didnât expect and I wouldnât call it a comedy.
Itâs not even that it thinks that highly of itâs genius director main character but he is the focus for the entire run time.
Eventually it ends like you expect it to. Did it matter? Did any of it matter? Does anything matter? Itâs out and Terry can be done with it.
If any part of this has labored in his head for 25 years Iâm sure it was being horny for a 15 year old. Who became a whore and must (not) be rescued by Adam? Look it is 10 year later so itâs okay now?
Thereâs also a rotting hog carcass so shrug maybe skip this one. Also there is alot of anti Gypsy talk.
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watched snake eyes sick movie
I had written off Gilliam after Dr Parnassus but was still hoping he would come back with one more banger.
Alas.
Thinking back on his earlier work though, thereâs been a gross creeper streak going all the way back to Brazil.
Still trying to tamp down the social anxiety enough to go and see The Color Out Of Space by myself but itâs only playing here at a couple of drafthouses and I donât want to order food/drinks and talk to a server I just want to watch my damn movie in peace so fuck maybe Iâll just wait till itâs streaming somewhere and stay home and watch Repo Man again instead
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everybody loves rick santoro
Eugh
Terry gilliam got hit hard by those elderly white guy brain parasites
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i rented Don Quixote but forgot to watch it and likeâŚi guess i want to see it, but yeahâŚthe white guy brain parasites.
watched the wachowskis speed racer, it whips, literally why would u bother making movies if u arenât going at least this hard
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as Speed sez,
get that weak shit off my track!
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god i saw that movie in theatres and i was like beyond the edge of my seat half standing CHEERING AND SHAKING for like half of the movie! the ending was SO CARTOON INTENSE i jumped out of my seat hollering
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I just want to make it clear in this thread that I may or may not have made a statement like this (I canât remember!) but in any case Rudie is invoking my terrible instincts for Toxic Irony re: perspectives of/on gross dudes and their gross dudeisms not representing the true + strong opinions of A Shrug.
18 YEARS
I had this on dvd. Who could have imagined that almost 20 years later the movie would be in the can and my first thoughts re: both Gilliam and Johnny Depp would be âoh, that asshole again?â
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Yeah Iâm surprised by just how little patience I have left for Gilliam. I liked Lost in La Mancha when that was new but now I canât imagine going back to it thinking what I do of Gilliam. Ever since he became overtly a reactionary chud I have had no time for this bullshit. He can make paeans to the power of creativity all he wants, but heâs a fucking hypocrite to do that after spending the last few years shitting all over marginalized people finally getting the same opportunities he received.
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iâve never liked brazil
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