are you silly?
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Look 2501, if Iâd wanted my kids to grow up pansies, I woulda named em Dr. Quinn, and Medicine Woman.
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The Christopher Guestians should basically run all comedies I agree.
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Oshimaâs Sunâs Burial is a beautiful beautiful film. It is also dirty and grimey. It shows the bottom dregs of Osaka 1960. Iâm really curious how much of that is reality versus fantasy. Itâs engrossing in showing a decent human just thrown in to bottom barrel gang life.
It has a great soundtrack. It has powerful female characters that are just as awful as the men and just as hoping for redemption. Everyone is a human and no one is saved.
It also has animal abuse which I canât abide. The film might have been 50 years ago and that dog is dead now. They make a comment about eatting it, so maybe they ate it after that shot. That would make it betterâŚI guess⌠I know I seem to harp on this point but I canât call art or âfor societyâ when art isâŚperformance. It is participation. Children and Animals canât give consent to pain or suffering. So having that in your media means I canât condone or endorse it. It says something that I kept watching after that very quick scene. Lord the film is really quite something, but just 5 seconds of it ruined. I feel gross and uncomfortable. It isnât even important to the narrative.
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could it have been one of those things were the animal death was faked but just happened to look realistic enough through camera trickery and editing?
Although I now know the terrible secret of Milo and Otis, so I guess some Japanese filmmakers were just like that back in the day 
it is a single shot of a man throwing a puppy on the ground.
Ghostbusters was pretty good.
I find calling the 80s âback in the dayâ kind of insane, especially since I recall Otis chilling around through a chunk of the movie with spines coming out the side of his snout
Yeah, well they also put a pug in front of a wild bear to see what would happen, and just filmed the result. I heard they went through several puppies and kittens during filming
crossposted from the ghostbusters thread, but I feel like one of the things I hated the most about ghostbusters was how much it fell for the modern movie thing of having to explain every detail of a franchise or a story
I mean, I like to think the original ghostbusters worked because it presented things as just is: they had a logo, the car, the proton packs are shown but never really tested like a bond gadget or anything. but the new ghostbusters has to explain every element of what makes up their whole operation down the minutiae and it feels like it ruins the kitschyness that ghostbusters requires to kind of work
Saw Purge 3 and holy shit, it was a pretty enjoyable film. I really like how thereâs really bad stuff thatâs just kind of there that doesnât need a lot of focus to convey the horror. South Africans coming to America as murder tourists was such a nightmarish concept that really didnât need to appear more than twice in the entire film to really give me the heebie jeebies.
Also, itâs got Michael Bay acting without the restrictions of a toyetic nostalgia franchise so thereâs a lot of attention to fires and the like. A good film, worth the price of admission if you are ok with seeing a Purge movie.
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Watched Hudson Hawk after joking with friends about its chances for a remake now that Hollywood is now in total âletâs dredge the 80/90sâ mode. And is even more bizarre than I remember. It uses cartoon noises and have a âwholesome family entertainmentâ premise and then they show you a decapitation because why not. It has some really sudden transitions and ellipsis and even a blatant âback from the deadâ moment that gets handwaved like a joke.
Itâs flawed as hell, doesnât know what it wants to be, some resolutions are lazy and the romance part is cringe worthy. But whatever it tries to do it does with such an eagerness and without fear of being silly that I cannot help to like it. And because it bombed hard the things I like it from it are things the industry have not hammered into my brain constantly for decades.
I may also spent around 12 hours (re)watching the Gundam movies, confirming that I am beyond salvation.
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