i think you would like universal soldier day of reckoning because it gets weird enough that i think it’d hold your interest outside of the violence
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i recommend that you try it! i do it all the time for stuff like this because i can’t deal with exxxtreme violence but sort of want to know what the movie is about or whatever
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no i like movies and violence
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ok then don’t i guess
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All his movies are adapted from stories he’s written iirc
blood and bone is an all time classic
adkins and white are geniuses but their absolute worst onscreen fight is their episode of the heavy metal anthology show. they are obviously very capable physically but they look like rock em sock em robots filmed by zack snyder’s uncle
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either there is a very dedicated wikipedian who writes all of them, or the sort of pared down plots they have makes them very amenable to this type of summary, but i find that usually when there is like a super long and detailed plot summary on wikipedia it just impossible to follow? like the people summarizing it fixate on really weird visual details without actually explaining how the scenes in the movie link together. but for these you can totally follow the whole plot of the movie, and then they even add in weird little details that are just vague enough to be captivating. like rather than explaining every action beat they’re like “then he brutally slaughters the three assailants” it’s great
but they’re all written in the present tense, which i guess is just wikipedia style. if you disconnect them from the context of the movie it’s like reading microfiction written by a sociopath or something.
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I watched both of those unisol movies before day of reckoning and idk if it really improved my understanding any more than being familiar with the series did. I remember thinking regeneration had pretty good action but not much else so idk if daphny would like it anyway
oh, wow, no, regeneration is canon
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If you like Zahler’s movies, you should try his novels as well (especially Wraiths of the Broken Land).
After watching Brawl in Cell Block 99, I imagined an alternate version in which he just kept moving on to more and more extreme and surreal prisons, Jacob’s Ladder style.
One fun thing about his movies is that he writes the music himself (with a collaborator). He even sings one of the songs in Dragged Across Concrete (and the characters in the film comment on his voice). I listen to that and the soundtrack to Brawl regularly. I even have them in my small vinyl collection. (One is “prison jumpsuit orange” and the other is “concrete gray.”)
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i haven’t seen it since it came out and reading the plot summary makes me wanna watch it again, I’m sure it’s better than I remember lol
universal soldier was my favorite movie when i was eight so im gonna watch day of reckoning i think. my memories are dreamlike because i watched it every day but it was also in 1993 so
thank you for choreographer name
i cant wait to disappoint everyone with which of these movies i do and dont like
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omg that rock em sock em description is so fucking on point
ive decided my new goal is to get daphny to watch re afterlife/retribution/the final chapter with me so i can convince another foolish soul that paul w.s. anderson is a genius
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cuz he is by the way. the only director who understands the potential of digital cinema as much as he does is like, Michael Mann
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I think (after an @ home rewatch or two) my thoughts on this eventually gelled into “what if David Ayer’s obsession with particularly American violent masculine tribal cultures/dynamics was filtered through an Actually Competent + Sometimes Even Very Good (!) Filmmaker?”
But it got dumped in January February and the reviews were bad and I have no idea about its rep, now. I’ve forgotten how to watch and read and think about movies.
I couldn’t even get through Den of Thieves.
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why didn’t you read this post, kojima
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I watched The Blackcoat’s Daughter. My favorite part was when I realized it was directed by the guy who played opposite of Gary Busey in the movie Quigley. It’s sort of easy to figure out what’s going on when you look at eyebrows a lot.
I saw Takashi Miike’s Dead or Alive (via Shudder). It was Rad as Fuck, but the scene with the pool and ladle was super gross. I need to check out the sequel(s?).
Doctor Sleep was one of the better X-Men movies.
I started watching The Black Swan, but I stopped at the awkward masturbation scene because I was laughing too much at her realization. Winona Ryder gets finer with age.
The Dead Next Door is absolute garbo that I would love to see remade by somebody with more style and competency. It’d still need to have Bruce Campbell dubbing like, three or four characters, though.
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