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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 7, 2020 8:35:00 GMT -5
My biggest takeaway is that Elizabeth Debicki remains really fucking TALL. It’s mind-boggling how tall she is in heels. Source: I am 5’2”. According to Wikipedia, she's 6'3". Which is tall, but, have you ever seen a professional basketball game? Because some of the players in National Basketball Association are even taller than 6'3". A few of them are even quite a bit taller than that.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Sept 7, 2020 11:06:09 GMT -5
My biggest takeaway is that Elizabeth Debicki remains really fucking TALL. It’s mind-boggling how tall she is in heels. Source: I am 5’2”. According to Wikipedia, she's 6'3". Which is tall, but, have you ever seen a professional basketball game? Because some of the players in National Basketball Association are even taller than 6'3". A few of them are even quite a bit taller than that. Nope, not a sports person. Also she’s a woman, and a 6’3” woman is vastly different than a 6’3” dude. My friend’s first husband was 6’4” tho, and I was boggled by that, too.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Sept 7, 2020 17:08:18 GMT -5
According to Wikipedia, she's 6'3". Which is tall, but, have you ever seen a professional basketball game? Because some of the players in National Basketball Association are even taller than 6'3". A few of them are even quite a bit taller than that. Nope, not a sports person. Also she’s a woman, and a 6’3” woman is vastly different than a 6’3” dude. My friend’s first husband was 6’4” tho, and I was boggled by that, too. Life is different when you're short. One of my coworkers is 6'6" and just towers over me (5'6"). I have also met Kristian Nairn (7') and Kareem Abdul-Jabaar (7'2) and they're both taller sitting down than I am standing.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Sept 7, 2020 20:40:17 GMT -5
Nope, not a sports person. Also she’s a woman, and a 6’3” woman is vastly different than a 6’3” dude. My friend’s first husband was 6’4” tho, and I was boggled by that, too. Life is different when you're short. One of my coworkers is 6'6" and just towers over me (5'6"). I have also met Kristian Nairn (7') and Kareem Abdul-Jabaar (7'2) and they're both taller sitting down than I am standing. Man, I can’t even imagine being, like, 5’9.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 8, 2020 6:40:25 GMT -5
House (1977) This movie is about a gaggle(?) a grip(?) a murder of Japanese schoolgirls who go and visit one of their aunts out in the countryside. To be totally honest with ya bud, it was completely bonkers and I don't really know what I saw so here's a random list of shit that I'm pretty sure happened and also my thoughts about this movie in no discernible order...
* The movie legit started off with title cards declaring it to be, "A Movie." More entertainment should tell you up front what they are. Turn on a PlayStation and it's "A Video Game," or a record and the first thing you hear is "Some Songs."
* All the school girls had nicknames based on their archetype (ie Kung Fu for the girl who was good at kung fu, Prof for the brainy girl in glasses) but one girl was named Mac apparently because she liked to eat. This wasn't a weird translation thing either because they are clearly saying "Mac." and I absolutely do not get it. One of the other characters asks the girls why she's named Mac and they're just like, "because she eats all the time," as if that somehow explains it. Maybe it's some sort of pun that only works if you know Japanese which I don't.
* Early on in the film, Kung Fu battles some possessed logs and ends up getting her skirt ripped off. She is not particularly bothered by this and spends the remainder of the film casually attempting to karate the fuck out of ghosts in her panties.
* Because this is a movie about a sleepover, one of the girls dies (or possibly turned into a doll) after a pillow fight with ghosts.
* I wonder if the man-eating piano from Mario 64 is based on the piano in this flick.
* There's a teacher that one of the girls lusts over. He drives around in a dune buggy and lives in a weird hippie commune where people speak English and French to each other. It's an apartment building in Tokyo but there's a pony tied up outside it and an old timey cobbler.
* Speaking of the teacher he's supposed to go with the girls to the titular house but ends up missing the train because of getting his ass stuck in a bucket after falling down a flight of stairs. This is going to be my next excuse when I'm inadvertently late for some event.
* The teacher, who has a time and a half trying to get to the house, I guess so he can make it with one of his students, ends up getting transmogrified into a heap of bananas.
* The character of Kung Fu was so intense that even having the upper half of her body eaten by a chandelier couldn't prevent her lower half from delivering a goddamn flying sidekick to a cursed image of a cat.
* The demon cat was super cute. Also unlike Mac I don't think the name that appeared in the subtitles (Blanche) was actually what the cat was named in the spoken dialogue.
* Was the trope of an unmarried woman dying alone with her cat a thing in 1970s Japan as well or am I reading too much into the fact that Gorgeous' Aunt was a cat lady who died alone with a demon cat?
* Like most horror movies the moral here seemed to be super conservative: Girls, if you don't get married right away you're going to meet terrible ends and die alone and end up haunting the shit out of other unmarried girls.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Sept 8, 2020 7:45:52 GMT -5
Life is different when you're short. One of my coworkers is 6'6" and just towers over me (5'6"). I have also met Kristian Nairn (7') and Kareem Abdul-Jabaar (7'2) and they're both taller sitting down than I am standing. Man, I can’t even imagine being, like, 5’9. My good friend is married to a guy who's 6'5" and she is 5'. Or as I like to say, five foot nothin'. They seem to make it work somehow.
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Post by nowimnothing on Sept 8, 2020 7:57:07 GMT -5
Man, I can’t even imagine being, like, 5’9. My good friend is married to a guy who's 6'5" and she is 5'. Or as I like to say, five foot nothin'. They seem to make it work somehow. My grandfather was 6'4" and my grandmother is 4' 10" (maybe a bit shorter now that she is in her 80's.) Here they are in high school, he is even scrunched down a bit: Their sons and grandchildren are perfectly average heights.
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Sept 8, 2020 13:25:33 GMT -5
Life is different when you're short. One of my coworkers is 6'6" and just towers over me (5'6"). I have also met Kristian Nairn (7') and Kareem Abdul-Jabaar (7'2) and they're both taller sitting down than I am standing. Man, I can’t even imagine being, like, 5’9. As someone who grew up as one of the shortest kids in my class and then suddenly shot up to 5'10" when I was 17, it's pretty great in that way that being average, so everything is built for you, is pretty great.
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Sept 8, 2020 13:29:57 GMT -5
So, in the movies the Predators are alien trophy hunters bagging human kills, right? And in this film, they're stepping up their hunting trips because climate change will render Earth unlivable, so they're taking the chance to harvest valuable human spines before the last of their cherished prey dies out. One Predator wants to help humanity so it escapes to our planet with lifesaving technology to give us. It's hunted by the other aliens as a traitor, hapless American soldiers get caught in the the middle, there's lots of pro-military propaganda, a big shootout, and all the other cliches are as you would expect. So, in the denouement our heroes open the thingy the alien traitor was going to give us and what do they find? A high-tech cyber suit built for killing Predators. I saw this movie and apparently the plot of this thing totally left my brain immediately after finishing watching it because I remember virtually none of this. So, where are we with the Predator franchise. One awesome movie and nothing else that rises above mediocre?
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Post by sarapen on Sept 8, 2020 14:12:50 GMT -5
So, in the movies the Predators are alien trophy hunters bagging human kills, right? And in this film, they're stepping up their hunting trips because climate change will render Earth unlivable, so they're taking the chance to harvest valuable human spines before the last of their cherished prey dies out. One Predator wants to help humanity so it escapes to our planet with lifesaving technology to give us. It's hunted by the other aliens as a traitor, hapless American soldiers get caught in the the middle, there's lots of pro-military propaganda, a big shootout, and all the other cliches are as you would expect. So, in the denouement our heroes open the thingy the alien traitor was going to give us and what do they find? A high-tech cyber suit built for killing Predators. I saw this movie and apparently the plot of this thing totally left my brain immediately after finishing watching it because I remember virtually none of this. So, where are we with the Predator franchise. One awesome movie and nothing else that rises above mediocre? The plot was guys shooting guns at each other. And yeah, the only awesome one was the first, all others including the Aliens versus ones are not its equal.
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Sept 8, 2020 14:25:13 GMT -5
I saw this movie and apparently the plot of this thing totally left my brain immediately after finishing watching it because I remember virtually none of this. So, where are we with the Predator franchise. One awesome movie and nothing else that rises above mediocre? The plot was guys shooting guns at each other. And yeah, the only awesome one was the first, all others including the Aliens versus ones are not its equal. I do remember the shooting of guns. And the very terrible jokes. And the brain damaged Predator dog. I am amazed the Predator franchise has had legs this long. At least The Terminator and Alien had sequels that many regard as better than the originals. At least there's some sequel magic to try and recapture. But I guess anything done moderately successfully once in the 1980s is worth continually re-doing to squeeze out those apparently never-ending nostalgia dollars.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Sept 8, 2020 15:47:17 GMT -5
This weekend I watched IT Chapter Two (2019) and Alien (1979), two movies I had not yet seen. (I know, I know, I have some serious gaps in my cinematic history.) The former was well-made and the performances were solid all-around, and I like some of the changes and excisions from the original book, but the ending was weak AF. Not that I'm into relentlessly grimdark endings, but come on. And it absolutely should've made better use of Mike. The latter suffered not at all from my absorption of it via pop culture for the past several decades. It still managed to build dread very effectively, the xenomorph is properly terrifying, Ian Holm is so good at playing creeps, and I am convinced Ripley and Jonesy lived because they were the only characters in the movie to have any goddamn sense. You don't break quarantine protocol, dummies!
I think I'll go for Aliens (1986) next.
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Post by sarapen on Sept 8, 2020 18:23:32 GMT -5
Jason Scott Lee actually showed up in that Crouching Tiger sequel that showed up on Netflix a few years back and is apparently in that live action Disney Mulan but unless you were a big fan of shitty direct to video action flicks and stuff of that ilk there really weren't a lot of big roles for him after this one. I thought there was some stuff with a fake Kareem Abdul-Jabbar but I might be confusing it with one of the random Brucespoltation flicks that existed in the late 70s and early 80s. He was the bad guy in the movie Soldier starring Kurt Russell. That's the only other remotely biggish thing I know he was in, though, and I can't even remember if he even talked once instead of being an inscrutable and unstoppable menace.
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Post by ganews on Sept 8, 2020 18:24:53 GMT -5
So, in the movies the Predators are alien trophy hunters bagging human kills, right? And in this film, they're stepping up their hunting trips because climate change will render Earth unlivable, so they're taking the chance to harvest valuable human spines before the last of their cherished prey dies out. One Predator wants to help humanity so it escapes to our planet with lifesaving technology to give us. It's hunted by the other aliens as a traitor, hapless American soldiers get caught in the the middle, there's lots of pro-military propaganda, a big shootout, and all the other cliches are as you would expect. So, in the denouement our heroes open the thingy the alien traitor was going to give us and what do they find? A high-tech cyber suit built for killing Predators. I saw this movie and apparently the plot of this thing totally left my brain immediately after finishing watching it because I remember virtually none of this. So, where are we with the Predator franchise. One awesome movie and nothing else that rises above mediocre? I'll stand for the Adrien Brody one. It was attempt to get back to the franchise roots, it was interesting, lots of good character actors, and only one case of What An Idiot.
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Post by sarapen on Sept 8, 2020 18:26:53 GMT -5
* All the school girls had nicknames based on their archetype (ie Kung Fu for the girl who was good at kung fu, Prof for the brainy girl in glasses) but one girl was named Mac apparently because she liked to eat. This wasn't a weird translation thing either because they are clearly saying "Mac." and I absolutely do not get it. One of the other characters asks the girls why she's named Mac and they're just like, "because she eats all the time," as if that somehow explains it. Maybe it's some sort of pun that only works if you know Japanese which I don't. Possibly it's a reference to McDonald's. You know, the global temple to eating a lot.
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Post by sarapen on Sept 8, 2020 18:35:40 GMT -5
I saw this movie and apparently the plot of this thing totally left my brain immediately after finishing watching it because I remember virtually none of this. So, where are we with the Predator franchise. One awesome movie and nothing else that rises above mediocre? I'll stand for the Adrien Brody one. It was attempt to get back to the franchise roots, it was interesting, lots of good character actors, and only one case of What An Idiot. That was better than The Predator for sure. I think it's because it moved slightly away from the same old "Predator hunts a bunch of of guys but is stopped by a virile super-American" plot that every other movie relies on. The formula needs some more shaking up, dammit. It's like the Alien franchise - how many times are greedy corporate fucks going to try to weaponize the xenomorphs before they admit that they're just throwing good money after bad? Do a crossover with like Superman or Alpha Flight or something. Or show the corporate fucks succeeding and unleashing the aliens on the space-Soviet Union or some shit.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 8, 2020 18:55:40 GMT -5
* All the school girls had nicknames based on their archetype (ie Kung Fu for the girl who was good at kung fu, Prof for the brainy girl in glasses) but one girl was named Mac apparently because she liked to eat. This wasn't a weird translation thing either because they are clearly saying "Mac." and I absolutely do not get it. One of the other characters asks the girls why she's named Mac and they're just like, "because she eats all the time," as if that somehow explains it. Maybe it's some sort of pun that only works if you know Japanese which I don't. Possibly it's a reference to McDonald's. You know, the global temple to eating a lot. I thought that too but I don't know how wide spread McDonald's would have been in Japan when this movie would have been made since the first one opened only a few years before this movie got released.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Sept 8, 2020 22:05:21 GMT -5
This weekend I watched IT Chapter Two (2019) and Alien (1979), two movies I had not yet seen. (I know, I know, I have some serious gaps in my cinematic history.) The former was well-made and the performances were solid all-around, and I like some of the changes and excisions from the original book, but the ending was weak AF. Not that I'm into relentlessly grimdark endings, but come on. And it absolutely should've made better use of Mike. The latter suffered not at all from my absorption of it via pop culture for the past several decades. It still managed to build dread very effectively, the xenomorph is properly terrifying, Ian Holm is so good at playing creeps, and I am convinced Ripley and Jonesy lived because they were the only characters in the movie to have any goddamn sense. You don't break quarantine protocol, dummies!
I think I'll go for Aliens (1986) next.
Alien and Aliens are two of my biggest comfort watches*, Aliens slightly more because I saw it long before I saw the first one. * The Thing is another big one; I’m sure that says a lot about me, I just don’t know what.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 9, 2020 0:38:18 GMT -5
* All the school girls had nicknames based on their archetype (ie Kung Fu for the girl who was good at kung fu, Prof for the brainy girl in glasses) but one girl was named Mac apparently because she liked to eat. This wasn't a weird translation thing either because they are clearly saying "Mac." and I absolutely do not get it. One of the other characters asks the girls why she's named Mac and they're just like, "because she eats all the time," as if that somehow explains it. Maybe it's some sort of pun that only works if you know Japanese which I don't. Possibly it's a reference to McDonald's. You know, the global temple to eating a lot. After way too much workplace Googling, it seems that her nickname was probably a shortening of the English word "stomach" due to her insatiable appetite.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 9, 2020 7:24:12 GMT -5
No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers (1990) With a knockoff Karate Kid and a knockoff Rambo our of the way the third No Retreat, No Surrender decides to try its hand at being an undercover cop movie. It succeeds about as well as the previous entries did with their respective genres which is to say that it didn’t at all but Christ Almighty were there a lot of roundhouse kicks!
After a pair of feuding brothers’ CIA dad gets murdered on his birthday by some dude named Franco with a white mullet and matching eyebrows they must put aside their differences to karate the shit out of a bunch of goons in Tampa, FL and find out if they are bad enough dudes to save the President (played by then sitting US President George H.W. Bush).
The acting is terrible and the plot makes absolutely no sense but that’s not why anyone watches movies like this. We watch them for the retractable shoe knives, rocket launchers, countless flying sidekicks, uzis, and a cast of characters that includes Terrorists 1-17 (who are separate from Bank Terrorists 1, 2, and 3).
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Sept 9, 2020 9:04:46 GMT -5
This weekend I watched IT Chapter Two (2019) and Alien (1979), two movies I had not yet seen. (I know, I know, I have some serious gaps in my cinematic history.) The former was well-made and the performances were solid all-around, and I like some of the changes and excisions from the original book, but the ending was weak AF. Not that I'm into relentlessly grimdark endings, but come on. And it absolutely should've made better use of Mike. The latter suffered not at all from my absorption of it via pop culture for the past several decades. It still managed to build dread very effectively, the xenomorph is properly terrifying, Ian Holm is so good at playing creeps, and I am convinced Ripley and Jonesy lived because they were the only characters in the movie to have any goddamn sense. You don't break quarantine protocol, dummies!
I think I'll go for Aliens (1986) next.
I was also kind of shocked how much Alien still really fucking works even if you already know the vague outline of what will happen when I finally got around to watching it.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 9, 2020 11:18:06 GMT -5
This weekend I watched IT Chapter Two (2019) and Alien (1979), two movies I had not yet seen. (I know, I know, I have some serious gaps in my cinematic history.) The former was well-made and the performances were solid all-around, and I like some of the changes and excisions from the original book, but the ending was weak AF. Not that I'm into relentlessly grimdark endings, but come on. And it absolutely should've made better use of Mike. The latter suffered not at all from my absorption of it via pop culture for the past several decades. It still managed to build dread very effectively, the xenomorph is properly terrifying, Ian Holm is so good at playing creeps, and I am convinced Ripley and Jonesy lived because they were the only characters in the movie to have any goddamn sense. You don't break quarantine protocol, dummies!
I think I'll go for Aliens (1986) next.
I was also kind of shocked how much Alien still really fucking works even if you already know the vague outline of what will happen when I finally got around to watching it. I thought the same thing the first time I saw it and was also surprised at how creepy it still is if the bulk of your pre-existing knowledge of it came from comedic spoofs and parodies of the big scares (Space Balls I’m talking about you).
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 10, 2020 19:08:10 GMT -5
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964) way they went about establishing the main character, an undertaker known as Coffin Joe, as an evil piece of shit was by having him eat meat on Good Friday. Legit the first maybe 15 minutes of this are him demanding meat and then gnawing on a leg of lamb and cackling with glee as priests and townfolk look down upon him with disdain. Joe’s transgressions quickly move beyond eating meat on Friday during Lent to dismemberment, rape and murder as he embarks on a quest to live forever by having a son to continue his bloodline.
This movie is a weird mix of old timey horror movie tropes (Joe is a cackling evildoer in a cape and top hat, there are spiders and skeletons everywhere, misty graveyards, there’s a cackling fortune teller who predicts doom) and more modern gore and sadistic cruelty (Joe beats up a woman, cuts off a dude’s fingers with a wine bottle, maims a dude with a crown of thorns, and violently flogs another dude) with a super trippy finale. Somehow it all works. I’ve heard the later entries in the Coffin Joe franchise up the weirdness so I’ll probably check them out in the near future.
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Post by oppy all along on Sept 13, 2020 3:04:15 GMT -5
Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020): Having watched Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey for the first time this week, I am now a storied scholar on the Bill and Ted franchise. On a whole the franchise seems to specialise in third act denouements, so it makes sense that the third movie of the series would be the best one. Bill and Ted facing middle aged man problems gives the movie a sense of pathos that only makes the big performance at the end all the more satisfying.
I'm still stuck on some of the family dynamics though. Bill and Ted telling their wives "we love you", and then Billie and Thea calling Bill and Ted 'Dads'... are Bill, Joanna, Ted, and Elizabeth a poly quadruple? Double couple? Do Billie and Thea know?
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 13, 2020 7:47:17 GMT -5
Today I watched a double feature of terrible late 90s movies that were probably better remembered for their soundtracks than for the quality of their movie-ing.
Bulworth (1998)The other day after talking about how awful the cover for the “Ghetto Superstar” CD single was with some folks in the ol' Shoutbox it occurred to me that I’d never seen the movie that caused said CD single’s cover to exist so I decided to fill in that gap in cinematic knowledge and watch Bulworth. I will say that the the cover for that CD single makes a lot more sense now since this movie was just as misguided and wrongheaded as that album artwork. I don’t want to do a summarization of each plot point in this flick so here’s a list of things in no particular order that surprised me about Bulworth. * Ennio Morricone apparently did the score for it, though there wasn’t anything particularly Morricone-esque about the soundtrack. * Early on in the movie Bulworth has a TV that always has Ric Flair wrestling matches on while he’s flipping through the channels. Though now I have pretty much every Ric Flair match ever taped at my disposal to watch whenever I want in 1996 I would have given my right arm for a TV that always had Ric Flair on tap. WOOOO! * Speaking of wrestling Oliver Platt is in this. The only other movie I’ve ever seen him in is that terrible WCW movie, Ready to Rumble. * There’s a part of me that wonders if Warren Beatty made this movie just so he could say the n-word and not get in trouble for doing so. * Beatty also spends about a third of the movie “rapping” in the style of an early 90s sitcom/TV commercial “rappin’ grandma.” It’s ludicrously terrible but after a point kind of becomes impressive due to his commitment to the bit. * ACAB all the way back in 1998 in a mainstream Hollywood movie made by an old white dude. Glad to see that problem’s been completely resolved two decades later. Overall this movie was kind of weird. It brought up legitimate issues with American politics and race relations but at the same time was kind of racist and problematic. Also weird was the fact that it depicted a candidate who ended up winning the hearts and minds of the public because he swore and “told it like it is,” and rapped (though literally this time) about how American society was failing because manufacturing jobs all moved overseas. Star Jam (1996)I’ve never seen the much beloved Star Jam before today and now know that at its heart it is a movie for small children that has a Pulp Fiction homage followed immediately by a cartoon monster getting pantsed with the punchline being a cartoon rabbit saying, “Nice butt.” Yup, that’s the joke. It also had a psychiatrist ask Patrick Ewing if he can fuck good because it’s a movie for small children. Overall this Star Jam shit sucked ass and I feel sorry for the kids who had this as their big pop cultural event.
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Post by repulsionist on Sept 13, 2020 17:19:23 GMT -5
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Manic man manhandles trans. The beginning of Jim Carrey as leading comic actor begins here. #floridaman
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Sept 13, 2020 17:23:40 GMT -5
I watched Christopher Robin last night. I quite liked it. Whoever did the voice of Pooh was perfect. I saw some bad reviews of this back when it came out, but I thought it was sweet, if somewhat predictable.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Sept 13, 2020 21:39:12 GMT -5
Guess it counts as a movie, but we just watched the live virtual reading of The Princess Bride by (a majority of) the original cast, put on by the Wisconsin Democrats. Watched (and donated) in large part just to annoy Ted Cruz, but still enjoyed it. Lots of technical difficulties, as one might expect, but it had an endearingly shaggy quality. Whoopie Goldberg played the mom and the booing old crone, Finn "Jesus he really is in everything these days" Wolfhard stood in Fred Savage as the grandson, Rob Reiner stood in for Peter Falk as the grandfather, Josh Gad (gamely attempting an Andre the Giant voice, which came out sounding more like Bane) was Fezzik, and Eric Idle took over as the Bishop, though sadly most of his lines were either muted or so delayed they were spoken over by someone else. (Like I said, lots of technical difficulties.) Wally Shawn (Vizzini), Chris Sarandon (Humperdinck), and Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya) were probably the three strongest performers, though as a medium Zoom tends to favor the hammy monologues. Patton Oswalt led a QA (with surprise guest Norman Lear!) afterward which was informative if, again, garbled and hard to hear in some spots. Lots of Andre the Giant drinking stories.
ETA: Oh, and Robin Wright and Cary Elwes remain annoyingly beautiful, even 37 years later.
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Post by ganews on Sept 13, 2020 23:34:49 GMT -5
covid week 26 movies
Yojimbo I've seen A Fistfull of Dollars at some point in the past, time to watch the original. Toshiro Mifune mixes it up for fun in an 1800s Japanese shitkicker town, manipulating two rival gangs into bidding for his badass sword-for-hire. He is far and away more calm and reserved than in his other Kurosawa roles, even once he gets found out and has the shit beat out of him until he's a bloody fright. One gang has a geisha house with a tough madame, but the other gang has all the best characters: the dumb, unibrowed, buck-toothed comic relief; the giant henchman who is head and shoulders taller than everyone else, including 5'9" Mifune; Kurosawa's sad clown Takashi Shimura as a brewer; and the flamboyant brother with the striped kimono and only pistol in town who points it ridiculously out of his kimono like the phallic object it is. With an assist from two of the remaining ~five townspeople left alive, the ronin comes back and takes care of business. "30-year-old Mulberry Field" is as good an anonymous name as any.
Somebody Up There Like Me A black-and-white movie based on an autobiography about a tough but go-nowhere Italian kid out of old New York who grew up to be a champion boxer, featuring a star who's fit but whom you wouldn't obviously cast as a fighter...and I'll take it over Raging Bull any day of the week. Seriously, Scorsese basically made the same story except with extra grittiness. Paul Newman's fighter is a real lunkhead and meshugga as everyone keeps saying, and while I wouldn't say he has a heart of gold (that's Stallone territory) he at least grows up. He's not abusive to his wife or child, even though he came from abuse himself. He looks around the streets, sees the bad ends of his old crew, and pulls himself together; very Old Hollywood. And the championship actually brings him happiness, even while knowing he must lose it someday. Everett Sloane as the trainer is less creepy than all his Orson Welles movies.
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Post by Lurky McLurk on Sept 14, 2020 5:51:06 GMT -5
covid week 26 movies
Yojimbo I've seen A Fistfull of Dollars at some point in the past, time to watch the original. Toshiro Mifune mixes it up for fun in an 1800s Japanese shitkicker town, manipulating two rival gangs into bidding for his badass sword-for-hire. He is far and away more calm and reserved than in his other Kurosawa roles, even once he gets found out and has the shit beat out of him until he's a bloody fright. One gang has a geisha house with a tough madame, but the other gang has all the best characters: the dumb, unibrowed, buck-toothed comic relief; the giant henchman who is head and shoulders taller than everyone else, including 5'9" Mifune; Kurosawa's sad clown Takashi Shimura as a brewer; and the flamboyant brother with the striped kimono and only pistol in town who points it ridiculously out of his kimono like the phallic object it is. With an assist from two of the remaining ~five townspeople left alive, the ronin comes back and takes care of business. "30-year-old Mulberry Field" is as good an anonymous name as any.
Are you going to do Sanjuro next? Sanjuro's my favourite, being a comedy of manners with unusually large amounts of blood.
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