Literally, sexual assault was a way of getting nudity into your movie in the US unscathed because then you could say This Scene Is Key To The Plot. Depictions of healthy sexuality were more likely to be censored as gratuitous. So: people would put sexcrimes on screen so they could sell tickets on You Will See A Boob.
Gross trends are almost always even grosser than you think.
In this film at least there is a whole lot of casual nudity. In fact the two sex scenes people are the most clothed.
I love his screen presence and his behind the scenes work has been continually interesting but heās like almost certainly a monster yeah?
I mean I also saw THE INVISIBLE MANIAC and that film is almost entirely an excuse to see boobs.
Alex Cox is coming to present a free screening of Repo Man in Boston next month and I am SO PUMPED.
donāt ask about the sequel, donāt even acknowledge it existed
instead try and get alex cox to talk about his adaptation of Death and the Compass!
ask him if heās in the running to direct Guardians 3
Continuing my BBS oddessy. A Safe Place is about a dude trying to stay in the pants of a girl that is completely blasted on drugs. Itās not hard to follow but it is just a cacophony of jump cuts fragments of conversations ramblings Orson Welles doing magic tricks Jack Nicholson with a moustache sheās in a bathtub now heās on a boat are these conversations connected???
In a real way it is probably better on drugs. It is hard to focus on sober because it is probably not meant to be focused on sober.
Thereās a commentary track and I am curious but not enough to watch the film again. Like are they going to go āwell we shot this 5 seconds of-oops okay well this shot-ahh Orson got this trick in one ta-ā.
To be clear I liked it.
casual reminder that the first released film with an NC-17 rating was Henry & June because of sex stuff (though, interestingly, it was almost Predator 2, probably because of Danny Gloverās pants)
having seen both in the past weeks, The Equalizer movies are weird reverse horror movies where Denzel is the slasher and the dumb teens are replaced by amoral-to-evil white dudes and also they are awesome
Really hope this doesnāt suck
Yeah my fingers are crossed.
But even if it does suck we got a sick ass throwback poster out of it.
I donāt think it looks great, from the trailer. But, they did make Venom do the double axe hands attack so
Saw First Reformed so Iām in a really good and optimistic mood about our future.
The Spy Who Dumped Me is like if someone smashed together an okay MI ripoff with a really good buddy comedy and itās stark how much more boring the movie is when the jokes have to stop for the plot
I also want to say it has an okay-ish car chase but, well, fucking Fallout happened
Mission: Impossible: Fallout is really good, you heard it here first
Had some friends over and watched Halloween 3 today. Did you all know that Halloween 3 is about a halloween mask company somehow successful and wealthy enough to run its own company town populated mostly by robots they produced, robots which they sent to steal a huge stone from Stonehenge and transport it back to the US so they could chip off tiny fragments of it and solder them into microchips to be placed on badges attached to their halloween masks, masks which theyāve marketed to children all over the country in order to set up the conditions to allow them to trigger the masksā microchips to cause bursts of occult energy that transform the childrensā heads into potato bugs and poisonous snakes that will then kill their parents with venomous bites, all in order to accomplish a new kind of human sacrifice for the televisual age?
I did know that. Halloween 3 owns and I wish they had kept the series a weird anthology.
I watched a new movie called āTaoā. I think its Netflix or Amazon.
Itās very obviously riding the coattails of āEx Machinaā. And if you ignore the fact that Alicia Vikander is a Hell of an actress, Tao isnāt really worse than Ex Machina.
It does flip a couple of things around and also brings in a couple of other influences. Basically so itās not plagiarizing.
Anyway, I didnāt hate it. But I also didnāt love Ex Machina. I watched Tao based on cover art alone (and because āTaoā is the magic dimension in Warriors of Virtue!). Had I known a synopsis, I may not have bothered.
this describes nearly every Hollywood comedy of this century
