wish somebody would upload the game of death redux cut from the box set somewhere. the original game of death is an obscenity
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R.I.P. Movies
I can name more movies than I think I should be able to about women eating things that nobody should be eating.
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Leave it to the Italians to fuse Rosemary’s Baby with the Exorcist and come up with something at least somewhat enjoyable.
- Strange editing – there are several drawn out freeze frames in numerous scenes, as well as quick splices to seemingly unrelated scenes during some scenes (obviously The Exorcist influence shining through here)
- Strange characters – the young son is obsessed with drinking green pea soup via a straw, and the slightly older daughter is obsessed with this romance book that seems to be the source of her sassy attitude and foul mouth.
- Strange scenes that seem to lead to nothing or have no utlimate pay-off – there’s like, a three minute long scene where the husband is accosted by street musicians lead by a nose flautist who taunt him to ask for help in the darkness, and maybe he’ll get an answer, but that never seems to lead anywhere, and it’s never mentioned again. He just sort of tries to pretend they don’t exist, like being harassed by a group of street musicians is a daily occurrence for him during his walk to his car.
- Strange music. The music can get really chipper and funky, and not like in a Goblin way, just in a 70s funkadelic kind of way. Here’s a scene with a funky guitar accompanied by a wispy flute.
- There’s no priest character! Despite this being a very clear bite on The Exorcist, the closest we have to a priest is the ex-boyfriend and the doctor. Strangely enough, the family doctor winds up being the only character that puts forth any real effort to try to resolve what’s going on. You’re introduced to him laying out these sour breath mints in a strange shape on a newspaper while he speaks to Jessica, so you assume he has to be up to something.
- It’s only the best for baby boy – Campbell’s green pea soup.
- Goofy dubbing.
- Juliet Mills’ semi-regal accent and soft voice is like a sweet kiss of lavender for the ears and is easily one of the best thing about the movie.
Definitely a lot more interesting than I expected. It’s really just an Italian fusion of The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby, but it does some fun stuff and it does it with some style (not as much style as Argento, but, you know, they tried).
a wild dick johnson appears
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this clip is a spectacle enough, but the fact that it was decided this classic To Be Or Not To Be… speech would be, I dunno, “”“brought into conversation with”“” The Crow 2: City of Angels, of all possible texts available even in this context, and given several seconds of screen time as it plays on the TVs in this Blockbuster is fricken hilarious to me
an explication of the underappreciated relationship between The Crow 2 and Hamlet sounds like an English paper that gets written the night before finals need to be submitted
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it’s really horrible that this movie wasn’t called Hamlet 2000
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Do I need to say Das Boot (Director’s Cut) was great? It is great. It’s fucking awesome. It’s gross and bleak and tense.
Now White Tiger is about a German Tiger tank that may or may not be a ghost and the Russian operator that can talk to tanks. Which is enough to sell or not sell you on the film. The problem is that film is an hour and the other 40 minutes are devoted to Germany’s surrender and Hitler giving a speech??? Really not sure what that was going for. It seems to be all on youtube if you want to watch a film about a tank that may or may not be a ghost.
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It turns out waiting until 2020 to watch The Host was a great idea
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i watched resident evil: extinction today which i hadn’t seen since i saw it in theaters baby!!! dying sweaty carlos oliviera smokes a joint before blowing himself up in a suicide attack on an umbrella corporation facility. there are thousands of milla jovoviches in rei ayanami fishtanks!! the highlander guy directed it and the entire thing feels like a fucked up italian ripoff of the road warrior. milla tells a child that her sister is a homicidal bitch. this movie fucking rules!!!
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it is going to take me days to process that That was pop culture legend Enter The Dragon.
I really had to ride the skip button for Game of Death but those 11 minutes are fucking great and would have made Bruce Lee a star. Will watch Redux tomorrow.
The film adaptation of The Sisters Brothers is so weird. It’s like a violent Wes Anderson movie?
I mean, I think this sort of works better than a more faithful adaptation would have. I can’t remember the ending being so sappy though
Watched Tremors today for the first time in over 20 years and it still rules.
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It really does, it’s such a smelly movie
They are not afraid to give the audience a lot of goo to look at
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I watched half of Dawn of the Dead (1978) in a VR theater. Let me tell you: it’s almost as exhausting as a real theater, which is why I stopped halfway through. I’ll finish it later.
Also, I’m Me, so I set up Controller Companion so that I could take snapshots in VLC with the Quest triggers.
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I’ve decided to catch up on movies I’ve wanted to see and this is my list after 4 minutes of thinking:
Dawn of the Dead (old)
Scanners
Batman and Robin (hi @shrug)
Manhunter (hi @shrug)
Wishmaster (reporting for duty)
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I’ve dabbled a little in VR screening and think it’s best for movies with super-saturated colors, strobe effects, and disorienting pans. Something where super-wide viewing angles and the visual confusion accompanying that enhance the effect.
Hardware, a celebration of strobing blue & red flourescents and cathode tubes viewed from a millimeter away, works excellently
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