Sense8 was cartoonishly racist, couldn’t stand it
Oh yeah, insofar as it’s huge strokes charmingly naive anti-capitalist space opera starring a janitor who discovers she’s a Space Princess and everything happening around her is dumb as hell but weird/pretty/cool I think it’s great.
I just don’t like how she has to get rescued by Dog Boyfriend, over and over, and her ultimate personal triumph is through not signing the Eat Them deed, or something? Though I guess a shortcut to physical prowess akin to “we upload all the kung fu” would be a rehash for the Sisters Wachowski. After telling her bees recognize royalty, Sean Bean insists “another fascinating feature of Space Eugenics is, you’re extremely good at Space Fighting?” Probably not. This sort of character doesn’t have to grow into the space occupied by their initiator into the Secret World, but it helps if they aren’t a total cipher or the actor has the sort of screen presence that makes watching cipher doings compelling. Find a Thing for Them. Jupiter got a Grand Tour of the Universe and Navigated The Planet Eating Bureaucracy and finally made a real choice and then the movie’s over, hope to see you next time!
The end is like “gosh, she did it, just luxuriate in the fantasy of Dog Boyfriend and the potential for further steps in the future” in a way that feels very Mid-Tier YA Fiction to me. I guess it’s analogous to the denouement of The Matrix, but that’s a direct Call to Action? I guess Jupiter is more about self care. She and all of us better know the importance of taking time for yourself. It’s not 1999 anymore so when you fly at the end of your movie let it be across the night sky with the half-dog boy you love and give them a kiss. We got our non-life-saving kiss into the first movie this time, everyone! This is just a kiss to be a kiss! The Kiss Has Value In Itself, so feel free to take a moment and perform The Kiss Itself!
Where am I and what am I doing?
I’m going to end up rewatching this to make sure I remember the things I think I remember aren’t I?
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brb founding a new Personal Brand on Neo-Kantian Lip Actions in Action-Adventure Cinema: Part 1 of 69
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only reinforces my suspicion that I’d like Jupiter Ascending more if I was more of an anime
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I will absolutely say that JA is guilty of the modern space opera crime that all ships in the movie are made of ducking tissue paper and have no weight to them at all.
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i got really high and daphny got me to watch midsommar by showing me gore and its probably one of the funniest movies ive ever seen, it was so delightful. fuck straight people. i was so happy for the traumatized girl with mental health crisis hair and jail clothes
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the only shit i remember from that movie is that in the background lore there’s a thing called THE VAGRANT WARS where everyone became homeless and started killing each other over solar panels and my friend in high school was absolutely obsessed with how stupid that was
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it was such a nice thing how protective he was of his clone. feels like most other things like this would treat him as a disposable villain
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I finally got around to seeing The French Connection (by the same director as Sorcerer) and Don’t Look Now (which is based on a short story that I like). Both were good.
I’m sure this is not universally true, but I’ve found that whenever a movie has that type of fake blood that’s a little too thick and a little too light-colored, it’s a movie that I end up liking.
A couple highlights from the Don’t Look Now special features, which I skimmed a little:
- Sutherland tried to convince the director that having second sight should help his character, not put him in danger. Eventually, the director just asked him, “Do you want to do this movie or not?”
- The stunt double who was supposed to do the falling platform scene in the church didn’t think the insurance coverage was good enough, so Sutherland did it himself.
Edit: I just remembered that I also have some trivia about The French Connection. The restaurant chain Popeye’s was named after the character in that film and not the cartoon sailor. They licensed the cartoon character at one point, though.
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powerful brand knowledge
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I got King Hu’s The Fate of Lee Khan and Raining in the Mountain on buray recently so got to spend this long weekend going through them
Lee Khan felt like a pretty good hangout movie for the first half, just chilling out with the Inn staff and the colourful characters that patronise it. Then it switches gears halfway through to tight suspense, eventually bursting into all-out action and then the standard King Hu abrupt ending. The colour-coded kung fu waitresses were awesome, as was Hsu Feng who barely spoke but just had that kind of ice cold presence.
Raining in the Mountain was pretty good too, but like Legend of the Mountain felt a bit meandering and long-winded. Really nice scenery and cinematography though. The entourage of handmaidens suddenly turning out to be mad flipping martial arts experts was a nice touch.
The Eureka releases of Hu’s films always come with video essays by David Cairns, and I can never really work out what his accent is, just the way he says words like ‘TaiWEHHn’, ‘espionEHHge’
Anyway next I wanna see The Valiant Ones and Come Drink With Me
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After having the trailer stick with me for years I finally saw I Come With The Rain. And it was great? I’m a sucker for arthouse films hiding as suspense films. This one had all kinds of arthouse. Here’s a scene of Josh Harnett putting together a computer with what sounds like Health (soundtrack by Explosions in the Sky, Radiohead, and Mt Zion Silver Orchestra.)
There are multiple shots in this film that are extremely upsetting. So heads up for that. It also got what feels like a different editor halfway through as the last hour is just montage after montage.
Around 80% through I figured out what the film was actually about and it pulled off that idea and that was cool. As far as the title I don’t fucking know man.
It also has this bizarre international cast. After seeing the credits I bet a number of Radiohead fans tracked this down and boy were they in for a surprise! Josh gets his ARMPIT bit off in the first two minutes.
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just an FYI for the true movie geeks out there, you’re going to want to read Harry Knowles’ ‘review’ of the pixar movie “onward,” a review of a children’s movie wherein the author expresses immense sympathy to the apparently unfairly maligned john lasseter, attempts to explain the multiple allegations of inappropriate conduct against him as ‘bad jokes’ and friendly hugs that turned into accidental ass grabs, and tells a supposedly heartwarming story about dragging his frail 75 year old father to a movie theater in the midst of a global pandemic, before you read the accompanying apology he wrote seemingly immediately after publishing this
only on aintitcool.com
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having seen Onward, he really could have picked a better movie to completely and utterly fall on his sword for
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gonna get ahead of the game and start writing apologies before i write the actual piece
this transformed me into a strong believer in the oxford comma
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when he give u that look 
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tim rogers is that you
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