the resident evile movies ranked:
2
michelle rodriguez soccer mom in westworld
1
the rest
the cg movies are better. there’s one where they’re just hanging out at an airport and all of a sudden zombies and then it ends with a rad anna tsuchiya song.
all slapbassy and shit probably because they had heard the heavy bass staff roll from re2.
ugh jesus christ
I’ve been meaning to grab Oily Maniac and Inframan you should upload them so we can watch them
Also Spectraman I need to find Spectraman
Will do!
All right, Inframan is almost finished uploading, and Oily Maniac is Handbraking. If anybody is up for it, tomorrow we can do Unconventional HK Superhero night if nobody else is doing anything.
Watching Knives Out. It’s really good. The line about Gravity’s Rainbow was hilarious.
knives out would’ve made a better columbo episode than a movie. also, they really broadcast everything pretty early on, so there’s no mystery. There’s a line the father says near the beginning that I felt was waaaay too on the nose and made everything seem a bit obvious.
Fell asleep to this around the 30-45 minute mark without being overly impressed. Was it any good?
It’s OK. Perkins obviously was really preoccupied with the style (there are some shots that are lit with bright red lights that give some scenes a OG Suspiria vibe), but I think the movie really would’ve benefit from having some heavy film grain or something to give all of these shots some sort of texture and depth, rather than just looking kind of flat. It’s definitely better than anything based on Hansel and Gretel has any right to be, but it’s not great or anything and only uses the Hansel and Gretel tale as a background for a witch story (Osgood Perkins seems to be into making movies about girls and the occult/supernatural). It’s not particularly scary – I feel like it just straddles the line of almost knowing how to be a little bit scary, but then it flinches and avoids it.
The clip of Akiba I posted in the axe is from Suzaki Paradise (1956). It was really good. Feels like a Wong Kar Wai film at parts. That all the settings are real in Tokyo does a lot and it is really neat seeing Tokyo 11 years after the war. Just the streets and everyone’s changing standards from Kimonos to western clothes. I admit without subtitles (eng or jap) I had a hard time following it especially with a baby and the two male leads looking identical. The characters feel lived in. There are multiple scenes of people being sad and smoking. Definitely should try to track down a version with subs.
If I didn’t say it already I also held a baby and watched Citizen Kane and maybe a film about a rich asshole unable to have feelings isn’t the best film of all time despite all the wizardry involved.
Edit: never mind that the main characters are the first generation that “came of age” after the war and all the inherit conflicts that happen from that.
R.I.P. Joel Schumacher
kiss from a rose plays whenever i enter several twitch channels, so, thanks joel schumacher for introducing me to one of the best songs OF ALL TIME.
The more time passes the more I think Batman Forever is my favorite live action Batman film aside from (obviously) 66. It’s the rare film that makes Batman more important than Batman’s villains.
And the excellent older gay/younger gay dynamic between Batman and Robin works bizarrely well as the emotional core of the movie.
Oh shit, he did The Incredible Shrinking Woman, too? I loved that as a kid!
Lost Boys rules, RIP
