Onward was like, pretty good
It didn’t attempt to be as metaphysical as other Pixar movies so it didn’t piss me off so much
Onward is 1000% a dad movie (but not a Dad Movie) so I get why you enjoyed it
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I’ll have you know it was actually a brother movie the whole time! His brother is his dad, you see.
Actually dad stuff in movies feels like a cheap trick and I always end up feeling slightly miffed about it. But they foil dungeon traps and fight a dragon and I thought that was fun. To be fair I missed a big chunk in the middle that I gathered would have been real boring when my 4 year old demanded pretzel bites so that probably improved the experience
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i saw exorcist 3. i loved it, i remember seeing a big part of the conversation between the possessed dude and angry old dad in a story of film, and people talking here about fabio angel so i was like ‘fuck it why not’ and veronica really likes it so she was excited
wow that movie does a lot of really neat music video stuff with how everything is so deliberately placed, so everything OUTSIDE of the dream sequences feels like a dream, because its just a little TOO crowded to be natural, or people are moving together TOO well to seem not rehearsed. i love it. i like how unsubtle they were about everything, i like that its an actual sequel
every time george yelled though it made me scared he’s really good at being triggering when you have angry man trauma! which is good to me cuz its believable
also why do all hospitals in 70s-90s movies look like hellraiser grey pits of doom?
they’re all like this in movies! like the archways and the nuns and shit. ive never seen a nun in a hospital. are these east coast hospitals? are they UK hospitals? where do i get one of the cool flying nun habits. but why? do you wear a cornet in a hospital to keep blood of you? or is it just cuz the charity hospital nuns wanted to look different? whatever i liked the movie
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watched salo. good movie.
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it was very hard for them to be grossed out by the poop eating because it tasted so good (it was mandarin oranges and fudge)
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i cant stop thinking about the fucking clock tower MURDER SHEARS
like when the doctor (coroner? nurse? patient?) CLAPPED them closed after george had trouble getting them to open at all
OR WHEN THE PERSON COVERED IN A SHEET HELD THEM NECKS HEIGHT SPEED WALKING AFTER A LADY OUT TEH DOOR! WHAT WAS THAT? THAT WAS SO COOL THATS WHAT IT WAS
and OHHHHH GOD when his daughter almost got decapitated and you can like SEE THE BLADE SLIDE AGAINST HER NECK AS IT PINCHES CLOSED ITS SO GNARLY IT LOOKED SO DANGEROUS that weapon ruled i loved the murder weapon!
are there any silly gorey movies where they use that as a weapon i want to watch tehm right now
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Recently I’ve seen two movies in a new subgenre that I’d call Lynchian Nonsense Nightmare Except The Metaphors Are Obvious.
Movies in this genre are a lot more accessible and immediately enjoyable than a regular Lynchian Nonsense Nightmare movie, though I imagine they have to tread very carefully, because if they end up -too- accessible they become Banksy movies and nobody wants that
Anyway the two movies are Vivarium and Koko-di Koko-da and I liked both a lot. Any other recommandations?
Dario Argento’s Phenomena
Thats where Clock Tower got all its imagery from
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yeah i was hoping there was more than that
I watched the Dragon Quest V movie. It’s entertaining enough I suppose but it feels like a bit of a mess and a missed opportunity.
Gonna hide the rest in because of spoilers:
Summary
Obviously when you adapt a 30 hour game to film you’d have to streamline and cut stuff, but a lot of key moments are glossed over, which kills a lot of the emotional impact those scenes could have had. Eg, the entire child portion of the story is over in the first 5 minutes, the reunion with Purrcy happens mid-montage.
For a game famous for it’s wedding scene, the movie doesn’t even include it as it just montages from the proposal to the childbirth in like 10 seconds.
The twist at the end is pretty bad, but I think the beginning is actually worse as it opens the story with actual SNES graphics and completely skims over the whole Bianca / Uptaten Towers bit, with the result being that when Bianca shows up again, their whole relationship just doesn’t resonate and feels unearned. Same with the gold orb, it’s treated as an important plot point even though it’s established in a blink-or-miss-it bit in the SNES montage (there’s a lot of montages)
Also kinda disappointed that there was no twin daughter, but I guess stuff has to be cut, etc
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The only good thing about the ending was revealing that the main character was a real human who had their brain temporarily wiped so he could play a fucking video game again. That’s peak Gamer Escapist Bullshit, like, what if they fucked up this presumably delicate medical procedure? I hated it in the best possible way.
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It made me think of Philip K Dick’s Maze of Death because I would imagine living through what feels like a full virtual life where you had a higher purpose, personal tragedies and traumas, a whole fictional religion where the gods were real etc would leave you completely broken as a person when you returned to reality and discover that none of that was real
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Appearing to rep the surprising emotional resonance @ the conclusion of the Direct To Video/Streaming (Even Though John Hyams Shot It in 3D, Gosh!) Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning when Our Blank UNISOL Murder Cipher has learned he’s a clone and the memories of Van Damme’s original zombie supersoldier murdering his family are implants that were meant to motivate him to do his handlers’ wetwork of his own volition. He acknowledges that the things in his head never actually happened, then informs said handlers that they killed his family, and takes “revenge” on them, suggesting he’s stuck with the emotional reality of the “memories” they gave him, despite knowing they aren’t materially factual.
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Whoa
The two new Unisols are good as hell
Wait did they make more after? There might be more than 2. Anyway the ones with the subtitles I can never remember
Reminder that John Hyams and NWR are due a Maniac Cop show this year.
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I am interested in this as long as the prison shower scene is Final Fight as fuck
for the first time in a very long time, i watched two excellent movies today: alexandre larose’s brouillard #14 (2013), and teo hernández’ l’eau de la seine (1983). a reminder that this can be a medium worth loving. i also watched a friend’s 4-years-in-the-making new movie with several mutual friends a few days ago, right before isolation began. it was gratifying to finally see it completed. moovy 
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