I mean, Coraline was 11 years ago now so it’s been a while.
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That’s true. I can’t think of anything more recent that might fit the bill? The new Pete’s Dragon movie (also a few years old at this point) seemed like… surprisingly mature looking for a kids movie but I never saw it.
I mean I’m pretty sure I remember my brother waking up screaming about witches thanks to this movie
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watched Wild In The Streets (1968) and enjoyed it a lot, basically a paranoid political cartoon version of Prez: The First Teen President. a naive liberal senator turns to a rock band to help get out the vote, only to have his monster break out of his control and enact laws like “lower the voting age to 15” and “anyone over 35 gets sent to an internment camp to be dosed with LSD all day”. a lot of it is self-consciously campy and stupid but then it has these bizarre tasteless shots of, like, cops shooting teenagers as they storm the capitol, somebody’s bloody hand being pulled away from the barbed wire fence of the enlightenment camp, the main character’s mom screaming “i’m ARYAN! i mean, i’m YOUNG! i’m YOUNG!” as teen stormtroopers pull her into a car. there was a really wonderful part where the senator is tearing down rock posters from his preteen daughter’s room and yelling “from now on, you only read Little Women!” and she screams I HATE YOU DADDY. terrific stuff.
other than that my favourite parts of the movie were
(a) the rockstar’s entourage, who all get potted backstories that read like they’re Lupin III characters, like “15 year old whizkid financial genius and harvard graduate” and “typewriter heiress and masseuse”. the band’s trumpet player has a hook for a hand, which i’m positive must be a callback to hit barbarians single moulty. also, richard pryor is in it(!) and plays a character named “stanley x”.
(b) the main character’s dad looks like theodor adorno and my fan theory is that the entire script was written by adorno in a paranoid fever one afternoon after he called the police on that one student who flashed him her breasts in class.
(c ) the senator’s teenage son betrays him and turns up in a later scene with a case of Extreme Dylanification to show he’s now on the side of the mods
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The only movie my kid ever made us leave was unforgivable sub-Bay teen sfx action drama AXL because it was so unimaginably loud it hurt his ears
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have you ever been prouder
I finally watched Legend. Holy shit that ruled. How could every set look that good. And then. And then:
Blade Runner pillar.
I made a joke like a month ago about the blade Runner pillars showing up in other movies. And then it actually happened.
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yeah also the footage of the unicorn is reused from Legend in some versions of Blade Runner, as well
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Gonna watch the counselor just waiting to lean over and go “that’s the pillar from blade runner.”
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i love famke janssen so much in this movie. she knows she’s playing a totally ridiculous villain character so she plays it up so much and the movie is much better for it. sean bean is a good villain also, and ourumov is a nice totally inept villain to have as well.
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looking back, the bathhouse scene with xenia onatopp in goldeneye made 9 year old me real confused about what exactly “sex” was
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i love how goldeneye’s soundtrack is like “bond needs to be modern so let’s make the whole thing sound like b-sides from michael jackson’s dangerous” just non stop breakbeats and samples with ancient synths it’s really an amazing artifact
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Fatboy Slim’s first Casio
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i have no comment to add about this particular scene that would be appropriate to share here
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it’s really weird to look at screenshots of this movie and see, like, recognizable famous actor famke janssen (not to mention alan cumming), because when i watched the movie the first time those people just were those characters. somehow it isn’t this way for sean bean, not like i knew who sean bean was at the time but i guess he just didn’t feel like he inhabited the role as much.
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Wow I feel like this movie potentially explains some horny anime
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kinda feel like the 60s was just generally horny anime but irl
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i watched southland tales and i think that is on a basic level, like shot to shot, just a great movie to actually watch. there is obviously a certain kind of long, slightly dumb swing for the fences movie like that and cloud atlas that i am inclined to adore.
also yes my only frame of reference for media is metal gear solid so of course i enjoyed this a lot
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it’s funny how looking at stills of the actual cinematography from southland tales is nothing like the experience of watching or otherwise thinking about southland tales because the editing and the postproduction work is what makes it so insane
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Yeah there are very few stills from that movie that can communicate the whole of it. Maybe like a shot of Timberlake during the musical hallucination sequence, but even then.
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