MUWT 2: The Quickening

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#4274

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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#4275

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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#4276

having seen Onward, he really could have picked a better movie to completely and utterly fall on his sword for

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#4277

gonna get ahead of the game and start writing apologies before i write the actual piece

#4279

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#4280

this transformed me into a strong believer in the oxford comma

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#4281

when he give u that look :star_struck: :two_hearts: :100:

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#4282

tim rogers is that you

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#4283

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

#4284

Onward is 1000% a dad movie (but not a Dad Movie) so I get why you enjoyed it

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#4285

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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#4286

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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#4287

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#4288

watched salo. good movie.

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#4289

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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#4290

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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#4291

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?

#4292

Dario Argento’s Phenomena

Thats where Clock Tower got all its imagery from

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#4293

yeah i was hoping there was more than that

#4294

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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