I tried to see the Man Who Killed Don Quixote when it was doing that Phantom Events one night thing, but the theater couldn’t get the feed. Seemed fitting that the curse would even reach me.
Somehow I missed Zero Theorem too. Can anyone vouch for that?
He was one of my favorite directors. It’s a mega shame he’s such a mega asshole these days. I had just gotten my Time Bandits map framed when he started spouting off about the Miramax dude’s victims deserving it.
this past weekend i watched the JCVD x Rob Schneider buddy action movie “Knock Off” and…as weird as i’d heard it was, i really was not prepared for it.
kind of amazing that after all of the incredibly strange movies i’ve seen throughout my life, i am still able to see a movie like “Knock Off” and feel bewildered, knowing that i’ve never seen anything quite like it.
I watched maybe 10-15 minutes of Zero Theorem a couple (few?) years back and said nah I’m good
I go back and forth on Knock Off vs Double Team, the two Van Damme/Tsui Hark fever dreams in which the fever was brought on by the miasma of coke that surrounded Jean Claude for every second of their productions. Which is the “better”? If someone only sees one, which should it be?
On paper Double Team, I guess? Mickey Rourke, tigers, Rodman as Q with basketball-themed gadgets (his character has no connection to basketball, the basketball refs are entirely because Rodman). Becoming The Prisoner for like 20 minutes, an issue resolved by creative Coca-Cola can use + the later Heroic Coke Machine in the climax?
but then
i adore knock off, the action direction is incredible, def one of the best jcvd movies, i feel like its the perfect material for him
double team also owns but it doesn’t feel like full speed hark tsui
yeah a large part of what makes “Knock Off” so mesmerizing is the cinematography. so many completely bizarre, unthinkable choices. JCVD receives a call on his cell phone and suddenly we are going through the circuitry of his phone, underground, through buildings, to the other phone. and it just continues on like that, nonstop. it’s exhausting!!!
I wasn’t going to bother with Color Out of Space but I went ahead and watched it because someone here (in another thread, I guess?) said it was actually good. And it was entertaining. I found myself kind of wishing they had played it just a little more straight, but I guess it would have been a lot heavier (and a different movie) had they done so.
I was also disappointed that Don Quixote was so
Jonathan Pryce’s performance was good, at least.
I have finally recovered enough from the one-two punch of Cats and When Will All These Star Wars End
1917: honestly the plot is kinda thin but that’s a poor criticism because it’s a film that’s so much about the moment-to-moment that to approach it otherwise is foolhardy. I loved it, it’s tense as hell, never drags and is beautifully shot
Weathering With You: SHINKAI FOOLED ME AGAIN
HE CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
Instead of watching the things I said I would, I rewatched Predator.
I feel like that was the correct decision
i watched the rock a few nights ago it was cool, didnt really look like i expect a michael bay movie to look but i was having a good time thinking about how much hideo kojima probably enjoys this movie
It’s pretty early Bay, so he hadn’t formalized his approach to things with rules such as “never let the camera sit still” but it was before he tried to shoot Transformers and realized maybe you need to move back to shoot giant things (seriously, those movies get so much more comprehensible when he realizes this, but he straight up does not for at least the first movie; comprehensible does not equal good).
well yeah that Gregson Williams soundtrack
I liked Color Out Of Space, but I’m not sure I can do horror anymore.
I saw Color Out of Space without realizing it was going to be, like, a horror movie until like a quarter of the way through. I was wholly unprepared. I wound up loving it though. I will also not be able to get certain moments out of my head, ever
I liked how straightforwardly they were able to modernize the specifically New England setting of Lovecraft
like it’s not at all relevant to the story to have Nic Cage be judgmental of his daughter’s boyfriend for being from providence and it comes out weirdly petty and prejudiced without knowing the reference and I admire that
also as I get older and have to deal with things like weird smells coming into my apartment as I try to work and take care of my animals I am increasingly interested in the idea of a foreign body that slowly drives everyone insane
I saw Weathering With You the other day. It’s basically a palette swap of Your Name, but it’s enjoyable enough. A few too many striving romantic jpop montages, but otherwise the soundtrack was really cool. Ambient piano that glitches out whenever magic starts happening. It sounds like a Kashiwa Daisuke piece now and then.
Wow, I just looked it up and apparently he soundtracked one of Shinkai’s previous films. They should have just gotten him again for this one, the influence was VERY clear.
I watched Weathering with you today and had the same thought except it reminded me of the Drakengard soundtrack instead. (I doubt anyone working on the Drakengard soundtrack also worked on this film)
I found it overall less enjoyable than Your Name and its message regarding climate change is so bad I regret paying money for it. It’s basically « Climate has ALWAYS been changing »
At one point there’s one Wise Old Man who goes « How could we even know how cold it was 1000 years ago?? »
Just climate change denying editorial cartoon level of intelligence on display
I also saw Midsommar yesterday and was blown away
Yeah, I was very confused about the movie in relation to climate change. Even though the movie literally ends with a permanently underwater Tokyo due to changed weather patterns, it felt to me like the film’s creators didn’t even THINK about climate change while making this movie. I couldn’t discern any actual point of view or commentary on the issue. It was a huge whiff. I’ve never seen a movie that is this simultaneously clearly in conversation with an important political issue and this oblivious to it.