now you gotta watch Female Prisoner Scorpion, its biggest inspiration
currently on Amazon Prime
now you gotta watch Female Prisoner Scorpion, its biggest inspiration
currently on Amazon Prime
truly the citizen kane of japanese women in prison films
you know that bit in Kill Bill where it zooms in on eyes and the klaxons start up?
they needed the sound to get anywhere close to the STARE POWER of Meiko Kaji
can you make a movie entirely based on one womanâs eyes?
the answer is most yes
Yeah I think this is the standard reading. I mean maybe âgood guysâ is a little strong (they do murder a couple people who arguably donât deserve it) but they are the only sympathetic characters in the movie.
I saw Whiplash for the first time the other day.
That is one finely polished movie about ego and Jazz. I really dug it. I do like anything about the world of musicians in any shape or form, no matter how fantastical or real it is.
I have yet to see the other 2 films by this dude. Heard La La Land was good but have yet to get out to the theaters to see it.
whiplash was a lot better liked because jk simmons and not competing with moonlight
JK Simmons definitely killed it. Moonlight is another that I have not seen and want to check out as well. I enjoy movies but I donât hunt them down with great fervor which is why it took me this long to watch Whiplash. There is also a metric ton of constant media to consume which I will never be able to catch up with.
As a drummer,
Whiplash fucking rules.
La La Land ainât much. Donât rush out to see it.
this is a good movie
saw moonlight last week, I know Iâm late but like, fuck
how good is that movie
Got back from the movies, wife and I went and saw John Wick 2, The Wickening.
I thought it ruled but not as much as the first one. Wife liked it bunches but would not classify it as ruling.
Hey this King Kong movie was pretty rad.
Honestly though as lugubrious as Peter Jackson is his Kong had a better giant ape on dinosaur fight.
i finally saw star trek beyond punctuation, and i gotta say even though it wasnât a great movie it was definitely better than the second one, and also felt the most like a modern version of an og trek movie
in that the story felt suspiciously like it was originally written as a kind of boring plot for a 60 minute episode, that was then expanded with a few more random scenes of âcinematicâ âcharacter developmentâ and a needlessly high-stakes ending
so good job i guess
Hark and Jean Claudeâs collaborations are one of the better things to come from cocaine.
I saw Beat Takeshiâs Zatoichi. It was very bad and dull. It gave me a better appreciation for the real Zatoichi films.
The numerous pop culture references talking up the dance scene greatly exaggerated it.
What a boring film.
Someone point me in the direction of the hottest take on the Ben Affleck movie The Accountant
Iâm sure itâs out there
I refuse to believe the Accountant is a real movie. I saw ads for it a few times on Twitch while half asleep and thought it had to be a parody. It canât be real.
It is real
I think the best way to approach it is as a non canonical origin story for the Snyder murderverse batfleck
Jk Simmons is even in it as a federal employee vigilante accomplice
SPEAKING OF JK SIMMONS
I watched La La Land on a plane, which is the only way I would ever watch La La Land.
I think bov posted about it here, and if he didnâtâŚit was on discord. And everything he said was right.
Its script is fucking garbage. Iâm not some fuckin film school jerkoff, I dunno anything about three act structure or what the fuck everâŚIâm pretty ignorant! But I do know this movie lacked any fucking tension and was just 2 hours (!!!) of beautiful people having incredibly minor problems and thenâŚbreaking up?? While also succeeding. At making jazz fucking happen for white people or some shit.
The set design is frequently really fucking bad, often looking like something like two steps up from an IKEA catalog. Emma Stone is a poor barista! Yet she has some fantastical apartment covered with 70 year old movie memerobilia (sp), like she joined Saved by the Fucking Bell: The TCM Class. It also had that limited color palette, which maybe worked in that Dick Tracy movie (was that good?) but just grated on me here.
The songs are entirely forgettable when they sing though there was one riff that was pretty good and itâs popped into my head like twice and I felt dirty every time. I think Joey Ramone once said âany song that gets stuck in your head is a good songâ and I used to agree but nowâŚnot so much. I stopped listening to music for a long time cuz it reminded me of better times and made me very sad, so now if I listen to any old tune itâll be stuck in my head for days regardless of how good or bad it is. So I have some DUN DUN DUN DUNDUN bit from
La La Land stuck in my head and itâs fucking killing me. Send help.
I remember seeing a Ryan Gosling movie for the first time and thinking âThis is the new stud everyoneâs going gaga over? Iâm better looking than this twerp.â I thought this cuz I may have delusions. But in this movie and the Shane Black movie he did last yearâŚI got why people liked him. Cuz his character was a fucking idiot that I wanted to kill but I still didnât want to kill Ryan Gosling. Like his sister is trying to hook him up with some girl and heâs like âDoes she like jazz? I bet she doesnât even like jazz!â and I wanted to kick that character in the balls, cuz that character is me, but Ryan Gosling nailed it and carried this fucking piece of shit and so did Emma Stone, who was very lovely and charming despite having nothing to fucking work with.
Anyway, movie sucked, wish I watched Moonlight on the plane instead. (Is Moonlight actually good??)
I canât believe I wrote this many words about this terrible movie. Iâm just going to hit Reply and pretend this is going to the Axe.
Itâs a ârealâ good time and basically the closest thing to a Western seinen movie since, shit, I donât even remember to be honest.