balls, baby
George of the Jungle for movie night. Ebert gave it 
, amazed myself by agreeing
everyone is singing the PUSA theme
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Because Booji liked it here is my live review of Black Hawk Down.
immediately me: āOh Come On. Oh Come ON.ā
The African actors are lit color corrected so they are just evil black blobs with tiny white eyes
Also how noble the Americans are
You have to be kidding me
Is that Bad Boys playing?
Orlando Bloom is here
not even concealing his fucking accent
Jeremy Pivon as helicopter pilot is perfect. That guy should play Pilot forever
God this movie is drunk
The birth of all Operators Operating Operationally live on my television
Soon they will be in oakleys and beards and always have their guns on them
Who the hell is the character in this
Iāve met like 15 white men
Jason Issacs doing ātexasā
Josh Harnett is cool
Texas Texas Texas
Tom Sizemore is in this but he does not play Sizemore (Literal character name)
I cannot tell all these white fuckers apart
(How much am I supposed to read that they are āeliteā but are a bunch of 18 year old morons)
Who am I kidding this movie is drunk
Oh god dammit why phone home
WHY THE PHONE HOME
Texas Texas Texas
33 minutes the hawk is still not down
What coked up exec let this be 2 and a half hours
Little bird manevuers are fun
Wow I wonder if fresh tecruit Orlando will fuck it up!
Rear Projection!
God dammit orlando you fucjed us
You fucked up
Is the film that these peace time troops fucking morons?
Bugle music
PWND
52:24 black hawk down
There is still a WHOLE MOVIE LEFT
Black hordes are coming for our Texas boys
Josh sounds like Arkansas
Sizemore fucking done with that take
Multiple scenes where actors relax before the camera stops
THUMB TRAMA
This movie is about leaving your wallet at home
Then going home deciding not to go back out then remembering the kids are still at daycare
I cannot figure out who is Tom Hardy
Wow thatās Hardy?
I should have known the one making crazy faces
He looks like he weighs 120 pounds wet
The moments of violence are very violent
Gnarly surgery scene
UN TANK
One of the boys died unsure which
I think Hardy is still alive
dramatic music plays
NO ONE GETS LEFT BEHIND
NO ONE GETS LEFT BEHIND
The fuck is this ending
The fuck is this
Donāt get arthouse in the end
You dingdongs
Couldnāt decide on an ending so all the endings
OH MY GOD THIS WAS RIDLEY SCOTT
Scott got me in the end
The Duelists was way better
that this music is Hanz Zimmer also makes sense
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I watched Sisterhood (2016)
Didnāt know anything about it going in other then it being set in Macau.
Cried several times.
Can definitely relate pretty strongly with the main character on several points.
It stirred up a lot. Brought back a lot of memories of my time in China, and a few memories from other periods too.
There were a couple of stand out moments that I especially enjoyed.
When she goes back to a place and interacts with the young version of Ling who isnāt really there.
The pause, the line, and the line delivery for Seiās response to her husband asking her what she wants, all perfect.
I am crying again thinking about the movie.
Solid movie.
It pushed my buttons good.
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black hawk down is 100% ridley scott trying and failing to be his cooler brother
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Alicia and I have been watching entire series of mostly garbage movies, and right now weāre working on Shrek. We just finished 3 last night.
Hereās my theory on why Shrek 3 sucks really bad and Shrek 1 is actually pretty alright:
Shrek 1 is all about not letting the world define who you are. Shrek is an ogre, hated by the townsfolk and constantly under threat. He leans into this because itās easier than trying to actually be anything more than a monster. Fiona is a princess who burps, farts, uses snakes as balloons, and makes birds explode by singing at them. She lets her princess-hood define her and attempts to reinforce that to avoid being a monster.
By the end of the movie, Fiona is okay with her ogreness and Shrek is okay with his tenderness. They have both accepted who they are and who cares what the world wants from them?
You could definitely, definitely read this through a queer lens, but Iām not going to do that because Iād fuck it up. Suffice to say, it is explicitly about defying norms, expanding your own identity, and being who you are. Itās pretty alright, yāknow? Also, John Lithgow.
Shrek 3, on the other hand, is about how the kingās bloodline is extremely important, and how Shrek must accept his role as a father in a heteronormative relationship.
Specifically, the kingās (implied bastard) son is a big loser at a high school where everyone picks on him. Heās whiny, annoying, and doesnāt really have any understanding for other people. By the end of the movie, he has somehow changed completely and convinces everyone to stop fighting. Then he is crowned rightful king. The only possible interpretation of this is that he is the rightful king because of his bloodline, he just needed to find a way to express his innate kingliness.
Shrekās story is about how heās afraid his Ogreness will fuck up his ability to be a father. This is relatable, as someone who had a shitty dad, but the thing that kinda sucks is that the movie repeatedly stresses that Shrek is a bad dude for being hesitant about having children. I dunno, it just kinda stinks that the whole push is āgotta have kids to be a proper family.ā
Iād talk about Shrek 2 but itās mostly a series of āhey remember this other movieā jokes stored within a āmeet the parentsā fish-out-of-water comedy, which isā¦fine. Itās nothing.
Anyway, Shrek 1 is a movie about having a healthy abnormal relationship and Shrek 3 is about how your family is incomplete unless you have kids. Also kings are born kingly. And letās not get into the āgirl powerā shit with the princesses, which implies that their situations are shitty because they donāt try hard enough and are too catty.
Thank you for coming to my SHREK talk, please tip your waiter and donāt forget your complimentary onion.
SomeBODY
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Yeah, North by Northwest did not do much for me either. I donāt really think it was the technical details for me, but the movie as a whole does feel rather slight when it seems to want to be grandiose.
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that senile motherfucker wishes he could make a movie half as good as the last boy scout or true romance lol
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But what about the musical?
I appreciate your analysis, but I have to say that any point about defying norms that Shrek 1 makes is seriously undermined by its constant anti-short-people jokes. That movie came out when I was a middle schooler being bullied for my height pretty much constantly, and Iām sure it didnāt help!
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Good point. Rewatching these makes me remember how casually cruel media was in the 90s and aughts. Thereās a real gross transphobic character in 2 as well.
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i think shrek might be the unofficial end of the weird era of childrenās entertainment where the goal was just to make stuff as gross and abject as possible?
it wasnāt antonio banderas, was it?
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no itās larry king as āthe ugly stepsisterā
good lord, my brain sure erased that one
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That strain has continued, e.g. Captain Underpants
It is however no longer the dominant strain, blessedly
Having just watched 10 Things I Hate About You last night, yeah, wow. Every male character in that movie is a grade-A creep, honestly. And Bianca constantly uses ablist slurs etc
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watched Da 5 Bloods tonight
itās a little messy, but i really enjoyed it, and will probably rewatch. honestly, itās kind of the perfect movie for the moment weāre in.
i watched it too, i really loved the first part of it and felt so betrayed by how much i hated the rest of it. it seems like itās going to be so good and then in the end itās just the same bullshit as every other vietnam movie. i mean maybe marginally better but like all of the vietnamese characters in it are still 2 dimensional stereotypes, when in the beginning they actually seem like itās being set up to be something so much deeper.
like i was already pretty unhappy about the movie having so much actual documentary footage of real humans being killed and like extremely graphic pictures of mutilated bodies, but i at least thought it was going to be in the service of telling a story that actually acknowledged the humanity of vietnamese people, but the way the last act of the movie plays out is just the same exploitative and shallow bullshit as apocalypse now and full metal jacket all over again. deeply disappointing imo
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