I have only seen Guns of Navarone featuring Gregory Peck as the world’s greatest free climber. My impression is Force 10 is pretty bad.
the war/anti-war distinction is neat. Countdown for someone to tell me to watch Come and See.
Yeah I think Guns of Navarone is legit good and then they made that sequel many years later
Edit: I mean I’ve seen all this stuff 20 years ago so take with grain of salt
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Neither requires context
Also! Funny you should mention Full Metal Jacket as I’d recently watched this and now I have to see it again:
FULL METAL JACKET’s cryptic Vietnamese signs translated - YouTube
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huh, that’s not the message i got from that movie, but i haven’t seen it in years. basically put me off of war films for the rest of my life though, figured i just needed the one that said “war is bad and sucks for everyone involved”
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I guess Rudie must have meant that FMJ is a movie that’s paradoxically become a Isn’t war kind of bad ass? type film to certain people
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ah i would accept that, sure. i’ve been let down by other people’s perceptions of media many many times, see: Hotline Miami, Starship Troopers, etc. So this tracks.
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Never had someone yell the drill sergent lines at you?
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Yeah when I was in high school, everyone thought the drill sergeant was hi_lar_i_ous. Then I grew up.
The End
Obvious moral
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Nope! I was homeschooled baby
If my sister yelled the drill sergeant lines at me I would have laughed for three hours
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usually when people tell me they like full metal jacket i ask which half is their fav and their answer lets me know whether to keep talking fo them about movies or not
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I still remember when my friend joined the army reserves and came back from basic training with all these crazy stories, then I watched Full Metal Jacket and realised he just stole it all from there
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Believe it or not there are worse lines from that movie to have yelled at you than the drill sergeant ones
I like Kubrick but man that movie was a godsend for people who love to be both racist and sexist. Real game changer
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Lee Ermey’s performance in FMJ is objectively hilarious. it’s also objectively horrifying. both of these things are true
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In my new War Movie Dad persona I have not watched Full Metal Jacket but I did watched Jodorosky’s Dune and then listen to Pink Floyd and RX Bandits.
Turns out I knew all the facts I needed to know about Jodorosky’s Dune from people talking about it. Also will continue to take to heart how many of my friends know me and go “No you must absolutely not watch El Topo or Holy Mountain.”
Fucked up Alejandro was not given infinite money to make his conciousness extending project that would have caused the 3rd Impact. Turns out the most money is needed to make the most art.
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Have been watching Ghibli movies in an attempt to watch all of them since Netflix is apparently
now my hobby. Only yesterday is still the best one but I haven’t watched them all yet.
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I watched Soul and had a kind of psychically allergic reaction to it. Pixar just ain’t my jam (the first Toy Story is cool though). Felt compelled to articulate why it disturbed me so (questioning my sanity in the process but it’s an honest take).
Before we are born, and after we die, there is only The Cloud. We are data to be uploaded and downloaded. It’s the kind of sterilised post/pre-existence that only a college educated Christian cartoonist, dedicated to despiritualising and diluting their faith in the name of proliferation across an increasingly cultureless capitalist culture could come up with. No angels with harps, no devil trombones, just technocrats with clipboards and calculators. Remember, Jehovah can be spelled with an “i” (as in iPod).
I swooned in horror at what I can only describe as deeply superficial, demo reel dancing, demiurgical, Silicon Valley DMT dad doodling (with millions of dollars and probably just as many computers behind it) cast in a mould of maudlin middlebrow mid-life crisis, unconsciously calculating in the way only CalArts “creative content” can be. I could smell the storyboard sessions all over this thing.
This film doesn’t perform Jazz so much as it emojifies it. Seriously, Jazz is one of the highest forms of art humans have produced. Why do we get such measly portions of Jazz (one of which is fleetingly stunning (I want to excise it from the rest of the film and marvel at it)) vs. so much social mediaestheticised culturally denuded new age pseudo co(s)mic conspicuously corporate claptrap? + 30 Rock-style throwaway cutaways.
Also, Tina Fey passes as a better black man than an actual black man at the local barber shop! Oh, but she’s a young unformed soul, she’s not white, she only admits to choosing a “white lady” persona to piss people off in www.heaven.com. There’s a feeling that this is Black culture as a mere signifier, subordinate to some kind of neo-Mormonistic metaphysics I can’t believe anyone finds inspiring. The more I think about this film, the more insidious it becomes and not even through malice, but a specific kind of 21st Century American artistic bankruptcy. But maybe I’m thinking too hard about a kids movie, I’m sure they’ll love it!
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Damn, that’s good.
Also, did you catch that the Tina Fey soul, finally prepared to get on with the dismal business of living, plummets toward earth to inhabit a fetus, she’s heading towards… is that China, or is that India? lol
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