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Post by Dr. Rumak on Mar 25, 2024 19:16:32 GMT -5
Alphaville
I'm not exactly sure what I just watched, but I might be just a case of what might seem futuristic in a sci-fi film of the 1960s not making any sense today. Dystopian sci-fi with a noir twist, but everything happens so fast that I couldn't follow.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Mar 25, 2024 19:20:05 GMT -5
The Zone of interest: I put this off—the reviews I saw conformed to what seems to be the consensus view here that it was a bit too surface-level and I just wasn’t in the mood to watch a film about the Holocaust, ever. Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar speech made me realize I needed to go, and it hit me deeply. It was not a surface-level film for me, one of the most thematically and sensorily overwhelming films I’ve seen in a while; Jonathan I shouldn’t have doubted you.
Marie Antoinette: I saw this when it came out and the main thing I took from it was its soundtrack, which I’ve listened to again and again remains an all-timer for me. When I saw it I was mostly oblivious to the casting choices, but now I recognize everybody and it’s really an all-timer cast too. The third act, though, really brings the film down. I put this with The Zone of interest because I was so impressed that I began to expect some acknowledgment of the outside world—again, nothing necessarily explicit but acknowledging the disjoint between Versailles and the rest of France and Marie Antoinette’s complicity in it, even if she’s not doing anything malicious from her own point-of-view. This is a film about rich society kids by a rich society kid, and (at least here) you get the sense that Coppola wasn’t aware of anything beyond her own social horizons either.
Touchez pas au grisbi: It’s classic French crime film but I’ve been spoiled by Melville—there’s just not that extra level here, that extra precision, bite, or humanism. I’m putting this here because Jean Gabin’s Max could have used a bit of the spark behind the sadness Rip Torn gave to Louis XVI, something Gabin did have in him. He’s supposed to be tired, and while that extra bit of psychological depth made this film stand out at the time it kind of weighs it down too. It’s an early outing for Lino Ventura, though, and his charisma lights up the room even though he doesn’t do a whole lot until the end.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Mar 26, 2024 7:17:23 GMT -5
Just saw and loved Late Night with the Devil and wow, according to Letterboxd I just murdered cinema. I hate AI a lot but the discourse around its use in this movie is overblown. Eh, looking at the top reviews on Letterboxd, a lot of them are just like “great movie, wish it didn’t use AI”. Looking at the ratings distribution, it’s clear that there isn’t some massive campaign to review bomb it. I liked it a lot too, but it does suck that some people involved wanted to sneak in some AI images as a trial balloon to gauge how people would react, or whatever the reason was for the AI. It’s clear that those images could easily have been made by someone involved in the production design instead of a computer program stealing from other artists’ work. And most of all, I’m pissed that all the work that went into making a very good movie is being overshadowed by the fact that someone used this film as a trial balloon to see what people’s reactions would be if they included a shitty AI skeleton drawing, and the fact that there was a backlash can almost entirely be laid at the feet of the people who were behind the decision to include the AI images. But when the people who are overly up in arms about this are so marginal a minority of the people who watched the film, I really don’t think it’s even worth getting upset about. Anyway, David Dastmalchian really needs to be cast in more things that aren’t just superhero content slop, because he’s super good in this.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Mar 26, 2024 8:03:59 GMT -5
Just saw and loved Late Night with the Devil and wow, according to Letterboxd I just murdered cinema. I hate AI a lot but the discourse around its use in this movie is overblown. Eh, looking at the top reviews on Letterboxd, a lot of them are just like “great movie, wish it didn’t use AI”. Looking at the ratings distribution, it’s clear that there isn’t some massive campaign to review bomb it. I liked it a lot too, but it does suck that some people involved wanted to sneak in some AI images as a trial balloon to gauge how people would react, or whatever the reason was for the AI. It’s clear that those images could easily have been made by someone involved in the production design instead of a computer program stealing from other artists’ work. And most of all, I’m pissed that all the work that went into making a very good movie is being overshadowed by the fact that someone used this film as a trial balloon to see what people’s reactions would be if they included a shitty AI skeleton drawing, and the fact that there was a backlash can almost entirely be laid at the feet of the people who were behind the decision to include the AI images. But when the people who are overly up in arms about this are so marginal a minority of the people who watched the film, I really don’t think it’s even worth getting upset about. Anyway, David Dastmalchian really needs to be cast in more things that aren’t just superhero content slop, because he’s super good in this. Oh for sure, though the one who straight up sobbed on the way home needs to do some processing and it ain't about their feelings about movies.
I don't think anyone from production has said why they used AI except for that they were experimenting with it. Remember that people's thoughts about experimenting with AI in creative media was different even a couple of years ago when this was being filmed vs. right now. I'm more likely to believe this was just people curious about how AI would work (and yeah, probably hoping to cut some costs, though how much would someone even be paid for that work?) than to believe these indie filmmakers were trying to sneak AI into the mainstream.
Agreed on Dastmalchian. He was fantastic!
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Mar 26, 2024 8:56:50 GMT -5
Eh, looking at the top reviews on Letterboxd, a lot of them are just like “great movie, wish it didn’t use AI”. Looking at the ratings distribution, it’s clear that there isn’t some massive campaign to review bomb it. I liked it a lot too, but it does suck that some people involved wanted to sneak in some AI images as a trial balloon to gauge how people would react, or whatever the reason was for the AI. It’s clear that those images could easily have been made by someone involved in the production design instead of a computer program stealing from other artists’ work. And most of all, I’m pissed that all the work that went into making a very good movie is being overshadowed by the fact that someone used this film as a trial balloon to see what people’s reactions would be if they included a shitty AI skeleton drawing, and the fact that there was a backlash can almost entirely be laid at the feet of the people who were behind the decision to include the AI images. But when the people who are overly up in arms about this are so marginal a minority of the people who watched the film, I really don’t think it’s even worth getting upset about. Anyway, David Dastmalchian really needs to be cast in more things that aren’t just superhero content slop, because he’s super good in this. Oh for sure, though the one who straight up sobbed on the way home needs to do some processing and it ain't about their feelings about movies.
I don't think anyone from production has said why they used AI except for that they were experimenting with it. Remember that people's thoughts about experimenting with AI in creative media was different even a couple of years ago when this was being filmed vs. right now. I'm more likely to believe this was just people curious about how AI would work (and yeah, probably hoping to cut some costs, though how much would someone even be paid for that work?) than to believe these indie filmmakers were trying to sneak AI into the mainstream.
Agreed on Dastmalchian. He was fantastic!
Honestly, I just read the "I cried on the way home," guy's review and thought "That's a bit much, but I also really don't feel like this guy deserves to be the main character of the day on Twitter or whatever for this. This isn't a professional critic; I can just ignore this and go on with my day." Yeah, Dastmalchian reminded me of Deniro in The King of Comedy which I recently had watched for the first time. I love the bit in the opening monologue where he's obviously just pettily calling out that one review that was asking if it was time for him to throw in the towel or whatever.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Mar 26, 2024 8:57:41 GMT -5
Oh for sure, though the one who straight up sobbed on the way home needs to do some processing and it ain't about their feelings about movies.
I don't think anyone from production has said why they used AI except for that they were experimenting with it. Remember that people's thoughts about experimenting with AI in creative media was different even a couple of years ago when this was being filmed vs. right now. I'm more likely to believe this was just people curious about how AI would work (and yeah, probably hoping to cut some costs, though how much would someone even be paid for that work?) than to believe these indie filmmakers were trying to sneak AI into the mainstream.
Agreed on Dastmalchian. He was fantastic!
Honestly, I just read the "I cried on the way home," guy's review and thought "That's a bit much, but I also really don't feel like this guy deserves to be the main character of the day on Twitter or whatever for this. This isn't a professional critic; I can just ignore this and go on with my day." Yeah, Dastmalchian reminded me of Deniro in The King of Comedy which I recently had watched for the first time. I love the bit in the opening monologue where he's obviously just pettily calling out that one review that was asking if it was time for him to throw in the towel or whatever. Oh yeah, I chuckled about it but people shouldn't be mocking him elsewhere. That's just mean.
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Post by repulsionist on Mar 26, 2024 14:15:10 GMT -5
The 'Burbs (1989)
Joe Dante's drive-in dust-up involving Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, and Corey Feldman. The back half of the film gets the laughs from me. Hanks's consumption of pretzel and sardine is masterful physical comedy.
Holes (2003)
Weird to see Andrew Davis (director of The Fugitive, Code of Silence, and Above the Law) apply many of the same elements from his big budget action films to good effect in this adaptation of Sachar's novel.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Mar 26, 2024 18:58:20 GMT -5
I babysat a little girl back around 2004-2006 and her name was Chani. I had to spell it to everyone who asked her name. I wonder if she's suddenly getting fewer questions about her name now that Dune is out.
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Post by ganews on Mar 27, 2024 9:05:09 GMT -5
History of the World, Part 1 We watched this as part of our round-number dating anniversary - a midnight showing at the student center was our second date. I haven't seen it in its entirety since. While there are some highlights, it's a lot of Mel Brooks worst impulses and recycling jokes. (Even future-recycling; I did not remember that "Men in Tights" was the exact same tune as "Jews in Space".) It's also even more gay jokes than in the past entries with The Producers and Blazing Saddles. Something like Spaceballs is B-tier Mel Brooks, but this is possibly his worst movie even below the Hitchcock mashup High Anxiety. Stick with the YouTube clips.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Mar 27, 2024 13:05:21 GMT -5
ganews I think the only reason Spaceballs had such a positive reputation as a kid (jokes repeated across 4th grade lunchroom table over and over again) was because no one had ever seen the own thing, just the 90s equivalent of youtube highlights: a few minutes on cable at a time.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Mar 28, 2024 1:34:34 GMT -5
Do not expect too much from the end of the world. A Romanian movie about Angela, a production assistant for an corporate safety film, spending a day driving around Bucharest (I’m surprised they don’t have one of those great Communist transit systems that moderates the traffic; this might also be the first film that ) interviewing potential subjects and letting off steam in between by filtering herself into Bobita, an over-the-top Andrew Tate spoof. It sounds kind of bleak, and it’s not a pretty portrait of the Romanian film industry (how many showbiz stories are from the perspective of someone at the absolute bottom of the production side, not the aspiring actress but the PA doing the grunt work whose exhaustion overwhelms whatever long-term ambition there may be) and also Romania as the frontier of European capitalism (couldn’t help but think of Toni Erdmann). It’s also incredibly funny, though, as Angela tries to keep herself entertained, sane, and awake throughout the day, both as herself and in the Bobita interludes, various ironies and in the general dysfunction around the clearly-ploorly-planned safety film. From Instagram/TikTok shorts to botched zoom meetings to part of the credits being in the form of a PowerPoint in editing mode it’s probably the best incorporation of ordinary digital media I’ve seen in a movie, or filmed anything. It’s really great…for the first couple of hours.
The last forty-fifty minutes is part of the shoot of one of the safety interviews. Up until now …end of the world had been a superbly-paced, light-footed film with perfect comic timing. The last segment is a single shot from the instructional film camera’s point-of-view, with lots of dialogue happening off-screen behind the camera (really frustrating to have that going on for over a half hour). It doesn’t cover any new ground from the first two-thirds. It’s just torture, too, because it’s so obviously poorly-planned and they’re trying to improvise their way around a bunch of decisions that either shouldn’t have been made or needed to be made and never were, often working at cross-purposes; I’ve had that happen on projects and it is probably my least favorite sort of interaction. I saw director Radu Jude’s previous I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians and felt that it was kind of weighed down by a lot of stuff that’s very stereotypically European art film, and …end of the world is weighed down by something that’s conceptually very strong but also undermines what came before, and not in a good way.
Marathon Man. Maybe it’s just that I’m still in the cool down from seeing this but this is real top ten material for me even with obvious flaws and odd points (Roy Scheider and Dustin hoffman are brothers?)—from the opening, offbeat car chase it never lets up, either on suspense or personality. The answer to “what’s worse than a Nazi doctor?” is funny, but it’s really chilling. I always think of Olivier as a pre-New Hollywood actor, with his later stuff being stagey for good (Sleuth) or ill, but he’s natural here, and near-unrecognizable.
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Post by ganews on Mar 28, 2024 7:04:12 GMT -5
Marathon Man. Maybe it’s just that I’m still in the cool down from seeing this but this is real top ten material for me even with obvious flaws and odd points (Roy Scheider and Dustin hoffman are brothers?)—from the opening, offbeat car chase it never lets up, either on suspense or personality. The answer to “what’s worse than a Nazi doctor?” is funny, but it’s really chilling. I always think of Olivier as a pre-New Hollywood actor, with his later stuff being stagey for good ( Sleuth) or ill, but he’s natural here, and near-unrecognizable. Anytime I see (or do myself) something a little risky, I say out loud, "it's very safe, it's so safe you wouldn't believe it".
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Post by nowimnothing on Mar 28, 2024 7:14:27 GMT -5
ganews I think the only reason Spaceballs had such a positive reputation as a kid (jokes repeated across 4th grade lunchroom table over and over again) was because no one had ever seen the own thing, just the 90s equivalent of youtube highlights: a few minutes on cable at a time. For me Spaceballs came out in middle school and I was a huge Star Wars nerd so I was beyond hyped for it. I even bought the novelization before the movie came out. It had been a few years since the last Star Wars movie and here was a comedy director at the height of his popularity ready to give us more Star Wars. Revisiting it, I agree it is B level Brooks, but at the time it isn't hard to see why kids loved it. After all it was spoofing a huge property geared toward kids and in a mostly kid-friendly way (it wasn't even PG-13!)
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Post by Ben Grimm on Mar 28, 2024 7:40:23 GMT -5
ganews I think the only reason Spaceballs had such a positive reputation as a kid (jokes repeated across 4th grade lunchroom table over and over again) was because no one had ever seen the own thing, just the 90s equivalent of youtube highlights: a few minutes on cable at a time. For me Spaceballs came out in middle school and I was a huge Star Wars nerd so I was beyond hyped for it. I even bought the novelization before the movie came out. It had been a few years since the last Star Wars movie and here was a comedy director at the height of his popularity ready to give us more Star Wars. Revisiting it, I agree it is B level Brooks, but at the time it isn't hard to see why kids loved it. After all it was spoofing a huge property geared toward kids and in a mostly kid-friendly way (it wasn't even PG-13!) That's kind of where I am (I was between sixth and seventh grade when it came out), plus it had Rick Moranis and John Candy giving it their all (and the rest of the cast wasn't bad), and both of them tend to elevate anything they're given.
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Post by nowimnothing on Mar 28, 2024 8:12:43 GMT -5
ganews I think the only reason Spaceballs had such a positive reputation as a kid (jokes repeated across 4th grade lunchroom table over and over again) was because no one had ever seen the own thing, just the 90s equivalent of youtube highlights: a few minutes on cable at a time. For me Spaceballs came out in middle school and I was a huge Star Wars nerd so I was beyond hyped for it. I even bought the novelization before the movie came out. It had been a few years since the last Star Wars movie and here was a comedy director at the height of his popularity ready to give us more Star Wars. Revisiting it, I agree it is B level Brooks, but at the time it isn't hard to see why kids loved it. After all it was spoofing a huge property geared toward kids and in a mostly kid-friendly way (it wasn't even PG-13!) I will say it was clear to me even at that age that Brooks didn't really understand Star Wars and that he was cashing in on something popular with the kids. I have similar complaints about the Family Guy Star Wars specials. The jokes are far too broad. Take the general plot, add a few jokes about the most public conscious elements of Star Wars (incest, marketing,) and some unrelated riffs. The Robot Chicken Star Wars parodies are superior in almost every way for actual Star Wars fans as opposed to the general public.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Mar 28, 2024 12:52:31 GMT -5
nowimnothing Also superior to much of the rest of Robot Chicken tbh
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Post by chalkdevil's night 😈 on Mar 28, 2024 16:20:45 GMT -5
I still like Spaceballs. I think as a kid, I'd seen it far more than I'd seen Star Wars. Spaceballs was just on TV more. Honestly, I'm not sure I actually watched all of the Star Wars movies until the 90s when my dad gave me bootleg VHS's he made for Christmas. Otherwise it was just random bits. I just knew the story from cultural osmosis.
I still have those bootlegs somewhere. Those are the pre-Special Editions, too. VHS probably looks pretty good on a LED TV right?
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Mar 30, 2024 17:40:13 GMT -5
I somehow missed every single detail about Love Lies Bleeding other than that Kristen Stewart is in it and it's kind of noirish, so I was able to go into the film blind. It reminds me a lot of Polite Society, another film which nailed its aesthetic and then flagged a bit in its second half, as the movie goes from a more-or-less grounded movie that we see from the fantastical perspective of one of the characters to an honest to god superhero movie. I found this quite underwhelming. There's lots to like about this movie, of course. For instance, it is Very Gay, and as such I assume that the Letterboxd Lesbian Contingent is going to insist this is the greatest film of the year, instead of, like, a 4/5 action film with some really cool cinematography and a handful of brilliant performances. (K-Stew is unsurprisingly quite good, but actual bodybuilder and newcomer actress Katy O'Brien is also genuinely very good in a role that didn't really need to be well acted to work.)
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Mar 30, 2024 18:35:45 GMT -5
We took my nine year old cousin to see the new Kong and Godzilla movie. I don't remember exactly what it's called, but it could credibly be titled "Kong: I am so done with this shit." Maybe it's just the fun of seeing it with it's target audience, but it was way better than it had any business being. Minor spoilers to follow.
Not gonna lie, I had pretty low expectations, but they had me hooked in the first few minutes. Kong is intimidating, Godzilla is scary, but possibly the most terrifying thing I had never ever thought of before is Kong with a toothache. Godzilla gets top billing, but it's really Kong's movie. Godzilla gets some great bits, such as curling up in the Collesium like a cat in a shoebox and some spectacular fights, but the CGI artists did an outstanding job giving Kong an actual personality. I really want to see a cut subtitled with Kong's thoughts, Ideally voiced by Samuel L Jackson. Godzilla's less expressive face puts him at a disadvantage here, but it was really easy to follow Kong's train of thought. There were hundreds of things that could very easily have been stupid in a lesser movie that these guys nailed. They honored the legacy of both titans without drifting into camp. The guest star monsters came off quite well, especially Mothera. They even worked in a wink to the little flying princess fairy twins (although only one) without making it cornball. The humans, while really being only secondary characters, came off well. I especially liked that guy from Legion, and for once the scientists weren't complete assholes. The movie very cleverly drew inspiration from several movies, classic and otherwise. You had the fight from "They Live", Captains America picking up Thor's hammer, and so on. I totally expect Rick and reference this movie next season, 'cause portals. The only thing I can think of that might have made it better would have been Udo Kerr riding a flying dinosaur.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 31, 2024 11:13:50 GMT -5
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
One of those blind spots I'd never gotten to before now. Of a type I associate with what Crichton I've read: fun if very surface-level if you're not invested in his pop-science concepts. But another example of how the great, arguably overlooked Robert Wise (The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Sound of Music, West Side Story, The Haunting) had a unique talent for making hypnotic movies in which very little actually happens.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Apr 1, 2024 7:21:44 GMT -5
Barbie: Hey, I finally saw the movie everyone else saw! Heck, hey, I finally saw a movie! (Last one was, I believe, Dungeons and Dragons for my birthday last August). Anyway, this was very funny and delightfully weird. On a visceral, "I am having a great time watching this" level, Barbie triumphs. On a conceptual, "wait what is this even trying to say?" level, it's a big old mess. E.g., it has a lot of funny and incisive things to say about the patriarchy, except these things are largely said through the Kens, who are portrayed as a heretofore oppressed underclass who are literally homeless, jobless, and incapable of expressing their identity except in relation to Barbie. So...what they did was bad, but did they have a point? Is the movie telling us they have a point? I don't know? Is this supposed to be an inverted-mirror version of the last two centuries of gender politics? Kind of, but also not? Then the Barbies defeat the Kens by exploiting their petty jealousies and inducing them to fight each other, which kind of inadvertently reinforces this very incelish (heck, biblical) idea that manipulative women are at the root of all male conflict and insecurity. I think there were some wasted opportunities to talk about, e.g., how toxic masculinity is harmful to everyone, because it's never quite clear how and to what extent the fantasy dolls in the fantasy doll land are supposed to represent "real world" ideas of femininity and masculinity. There's also significant cake-having-and-eating, where cracks about Margot Robbie's looks and "White Savior Barbie" I guess are supposed to let them off the hook regarding issues of body positivity and race, etc. And who the fuck even knows what they were saying (or Mattel was letting them say) about capitalism and consumerism? Again, thoroughly enjoyed this movie, but...big weird fuzzy mess.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Apr 1, 2024 8:26:41 GMT -5
For me Spaceballs came out in middle school and I was a huge Star Wars nerd so I was beyond hyped for it. I even bought the novelization before the movie came out. It had been a few years since the last Star Wars movie and here was a comedy director at the height of his popularity ready to give us more Star Wars. Revisiting it, I agree it is B level Brooks, but at the time it isn't hard to see why kids loved it. After all it was spoofing a huge property geared toward kids and in a mostly kid-friendly way (it wasn't even PG-13!) I will say it was clear to me even at that age that Brooks didn't really understand Star Wars and that he was cashing in on something popular with the kids. I have similar complaints about the Family Guy Star Wars specials. The jokes are far too broad. Take the general plot, add a few jokes about the most public conscious elements of Star Wars (incest, marketing,) and some unrelated riffs. The Robot Chicken Star Wars parodies are superior in almost every way for actual Star Wars fans as opposed to the general public. I still laugh unreasonably hard every single time I think about the Robot Chicken bit with Palpatine taking a phone call from Darth Vader while he's already meeting with someone in his office. I enjoy Spaceballs, have seen it several times, and find it entertaining, but honestly, all I've really retained from that one is the "combing the desert" scene.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Apr 1, 2024 8:34:23 GMT -5
I will say it was clear to me even at that age that Brooks didn't really understand Star Wars and that he was cashing in on something popular with the kids. I have similar complaints about the Family Guy Star Wars specials. The jokes are far too broad. Take the general plot, add a few jokes about the most public conscious elements of Star Wars (incest, marketing,) and some unrelated riffs. The Robot Chicken Star Wars parodies are superior in almost every way for actual Star Wars fans as opposed to the general public. I still laugh unreasonably hard every single time I think about the Robot Chicken bit with Palpatine taking a phone call from Darth Vader while he's already meeting with someone in his office. I enjoy Spaceballs, have seen it several times, and find it entertaining, but honestly, all I've really retained from that one is the "combing the desert" scene. I still love knowing that the guy saying "We ain't found SHIT!" is Tim Russ, AKA Tuvok from Star Trek:Voyager.
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Post by repulsionist on Apr 1, 2024 13:50:18 GMT -5
Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)
Really enjoyed Jack Black's rendering of Britney Spears's pop song during the end credits.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
Respectful, nostalgic, and so forth.
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Post by ganews on Apr 1, 2024 17:52:52 GMT -5
History of the World, Part 1 We watched this as part of our round-number dating anniversary - a midnight showing at the student center was our second date.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind We watched this also as part of anniversary week. It was date 3, our first dinner-and-a-movie date. Famously, this is the movie that saved the whole relationship. Being a Disney kid, she wanted to see Home On the Range, the movie with Roseanne Barr that put the final nail in the coffin of traditional animation. I talked her into seeing this instead, which I had read about in the local alt-weekly.
I had seen this movie again since it came out in 2004 but maybe not since 2012 because I did not remember that Mark Ruffalo was in this. (He always seems so old to me, but he looks like such a twerp here that his Bruce Banner casting makes more sense.) Gosh the movie holds up well. The story is great, the limited effects are great. I love the way the camera moves in and out of focus to evoke memory. The 2000s were such a heyday for the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, but Kate Winslet's character really takes that apart by declaring that she is her own person with her own issues. Jim Carrey should have gone full Hanks and not returned to wacky comedy roles. It's my favorite Charlie Kaufman movie.
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Post by Nudeviking on Apr 1, 2024 19:28:09 GMT -5
I watched a heap pile of cinema. Here are words.
9 Deaths of the Ninja (1985) - This movie was weird. There were ninjas and spies and army guys. Anthony Kiedis’ dad was a Nazi drug dealer in a wheelchair with a pet monkey in a diaper. There were paramilitary lesbians and a giant terrorist who just laughed and bellowed “Ya! Ya! Ya!” At times I couldn’t tell if it was supposed to be a parody or if it just seemed like it because of how ineptly it had been made. The fight scenes were mostly decent 80s Filipino ninja action but for a movie with the title and poster this movie has it seems like there should have been more of them and less guys randomly flying around in helicopters or talking to each other on their wrist watches.
Muppet Treasure Island (1996) - Wild that Tim Curry was the Muppet with the greatest amount of screen time in this. I also think it sucked that they had Jim be a real human boy instead of just letting Gonzo or whoever play Jim. I mean Muppet Christmas Carol I think had one single scene where a human wasn’t interacting with a Muppet (and that was cut out of the theatrical release) but here there are dozens of scenes that are just two humans talking to each other which is not what I want out of a Muppet movie.
Brawl Busters (1978) - I don’t know if it’s the terrible dubbing in them but not a single one of these Korean kung fu movies make a lick of sense until the last 20 to 30 minutes. While the plot might not make any sense the fight scenes are insanely good. It’s all flying kicks and weird weapons (including bladed oven mitts) and people bursting through furniture and/or buildings and it fucking rules.
Head of the Family (1996) - This was a surprisingly decent Full Moon movie that married a nearly noir-esque story of infidelity, murder, and blackmail with some classic Full Moon Features little freaks. This had everything one could want out of a Full Moon flick: boobs, gore, a little freak, and an incessant synth score that would feel out of place in any other movie but it also had characters that were actually interesting which is kind of a treat in these movies. Also just because I have nowhere else to mention this, the version I watched was up on Full Moon’s YouTube page and for most of the movie there was no effort to conceal tits or ass or full frontal female nudity but there was one instance towards the end (the scene where the titular Head of the Family licks a titty) that got poorly blurred out for some reason and then the block that I guess was supposed to blur out the breast (but didn’t really) randomly stayed on the screen for like another 10 seconds which was weird.
Death Kiss (2018) - I've watched a lot of movies in my time but I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this. Death Kiss is more or less the cinematic equivalent of a cover band in that it's got a random dude who looks like Charles Bronson doing Death Wish shit in 2018. Sure I've seen remakes and movies that are paying homage to earlier cinematic works but that's not what this is. Like Samuel L. Jackson was in a Shaft remake but he wasn't out there trying to look like Richard Roundtree in it. This shit's wild. The plot is kind of non-existent: A guy that looks like Charles Bronson does Death Watch shit in 2018 and Daniel Baldwin is also there as an Alex Jones style shithead on the radio but honestly that's all I'm going to guess anyone could possibly want out of a Death Wish clone with a Charles Bronson lookalike.
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ABz B👹anaz
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This country is (now less of) a shitshow.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Apr 1, 2024 23:11:12 GMT -5
Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) Really enjoyed Jack Black's rendering of Britney Spears's pop song during the end credits. Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) Respectful, nostalgic, and so forth. I was listening to the cover during the credits and enjoying it a LOT, and then it hit me at the chorus. I said to Mrs B, "WAIT, THAT'S JACK BLACK?!" "Yeah, you didn't know that?" Excellent cover!
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Post by Desert Dweller on Apr 2, 2024 17:06:24 GMT -5
Muppet Treasure Island (1996) - Wild that Tim Curry was the Muppet with the greatest amount of screen time in this. I also think it sucked that they had Jim be a real human boy instead of just letting Gonzo or whoever play Jim. I mean Muppet Christmas Carol I think had one single scene where a human wasn’t interacting with a Muppet (and that was cut out of the theatrical release) but here there are dozens of scenes that are just two humans talking to each other which is not what I want out of a Muppet movie. I only saw this movie once and I remember nothing about it. However, I am pretty sure that the Muppet Christmas Carol has more than one scene of a human talking to another human. Scrooge's nephew Fred and his wife are both played by humans. Those are short scenes, but they are in the theatrical version. I think? I never watch the theatrical version. But what the theatrical version cuts is the song between Scrooge and Belle, while a short dialogue scene remains. Anyway, the Muppet Christmas Carol is far superior to their Treasure Island. Though, again, I only saw it once and it was likely 15+ years ago.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Apr 2, 2024 17:18:27 GMT -5
I watched a heap pile of cinema. Here are words. 9 Deaths of the Ninja (1985) - This movie was weird. There were ninjas and spies and army guys. Anthony Kiedis’ dad was a Nazi drug dealer in a wheelchair with a pet monkey in a diaper. There were paramilitary lesbians and a giant terrorist who just laughed and bellowed “Ya! Ya! Ya!” At times I couldn’t tell if it was supposed to be a parody or if it just seemed like it because of how ineptly it had been made. The fight scenes were mostly decent 80s Filipino ninja action but for a movie with the title and poster this movie has it seems like there should have been more of them and less guys randomly flying around in helicopters or talking to each other on their wrist watches. Muppet Treasure Island (1996) - Wild that Tim Curry was the Muppet with the greatest amount of screen time in this. I also think it sucked that they had Jim be a real human boy instead of just letting Gonzo or whoever play Jim. I mean Muppet Christmas Carol I think had one single scene where a human wasn’t interacting with a Muppet (and that was cut out of the theatrical release) but here there are dozens of scenes that are just two humans talking to each other which is not what I want out of a Muppet movie. Brawl Busters (1978) - I don’t know if it’s the terrible dubbing in them but not a single one of these Korean kung fu movies make a lick of sense until the last 20 to 30 minutes. While the plot might not make any sense the fight scenes are insanely good. It’s all flying kicks and weird weapons (including bladed oven mitts) and people bursting through furniture and/or buildings and it fucking rules. Head of the Family (1996) - This was a surprisingly decent Full Moon movie that married a nearly noir-esque story of infidelity, murder, and blackmail with some classic Full Moon Features little freaks. This had everything one could want out of a Full Moon flick: boobs, gore, a little freak, and an incessant synth score that would feel out of place in any other movie but it also had characters that were actually interesting which is kind of a treat in these movies. Also just because I have nowhere else to mention this, the version I watched was up on Full Moon’s YouTube page and for most of the movie there was no effort to conceal tits or ass or full frontal female nudity but there was one instance towards the end (the scene where the titular Head of the Family licks a titty) that got poorly blurred out for some reason and then the block that I guess was supposed to blur out the breast (but didn’t really) randomly stayed on the screen for like another 10 seconds which was weird. Death Kiss (2018) - I've watched a lot of movies in my time but I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this. Death Kiss is more or less the cinematic equivalent of a cover band in that it's got a random dude who looks like Charles Bronson doing Death Wish shit in 2018. Sure I've seen remakes and movies that are paying homage to earlier cinematic works but that's not what this is. Like Samuel L. Jackson was in a Shaft remake but he wasn't out there trying to look like Richard Roundtree in it. This shit's wild. The plot is kind of non-existent: A guy that looks like Charles Bronson does Death Watch shit in 2018 and Daniel Baldwin is also there as an Alex Jones style shithead on the radio but honestly that's all I'm going to guess anyone could possibly want out of a Death Wish clone with a Charles Bronson lookalike. I want a Muppet movie where it’s all like a deadly serious kitchen sink drama with only human characters except there’s a subplot where the family are setting traps for a rat living in the house who is played by Rizzo the Muppet rat, who gets maybe two or three minutes of screen time, but is prominently featured in all promotional material for the film.
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Rainbow Rosa
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not gay, just colorful
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Apr 2, 2024 18:38:42 GMT -5
I watched a heap pile of cinema. Here are words. 9 Deaths of the Ninja (1985) - This movie was weird. There were ninjas and spies and army guys. Anthony Kiedis’ dad was a Nazi drug dealer in a wheelchair with a pet monkey in a diaper. There were paramilitary lesbians and a giant terrorist who just laughed and bellowed “Ya! Ya! Ya!” At times I couldn’t tell if it was supposed to be a parody or if it just seemed like it because of how ineptly it had been made. The fight scenes were mostly decent 80s Filipino ninja action but for a movie with the title and poster this movie has it seems like there should have been more of them and less guys randomly flying around in helicopters or talking to each other on their wrist watches. Muppet Treasure Island (1996) - Wild that Tim Curry was the Muppet with the greatest amount of screen time in this. I also think it sucked that they had Jim be a real human boy instead of just letting Gonzo or whoever play Jim. I mean Muppet Christmas Carol I think had one single scene where a human wasn’t interacting with a Muppet (and that was cut out of the theatrical release) but here there are dozens of scenes that are just two humans talking to each other which is not what I want out of a Muppet movie. Brawl Busters (1978) - I don’t know if it’s the terrible dubbing in them but not a single one of these Korean kung fu movies make a lick of sense until the last 20 to 30 minutes. While the plot might not make any sense the fight scenes are insanely good. It’s all flying kicks and weird weapons (including bladed oven mitts) and people bursting through furniture and/or buildings and it fucking rules. Head of the Family (1996) - This was a surprisingly decent Full Moon movie that married a nearly noir-esque story of infidelity, murder, and blackmail with some classic Full Moon Features little freaks. This had everything one could want out of a Full Moon flick: boobs, gore, a little freak, and an incessant synth score that would feel out of place in any other movie but it also had characters that were actually interesting which is kind of a treat in these movies. Also just because I have nowhere else to mention this, the version I watched was up on Full Moon’s YouTube page and for most of the movie there was no effort to conceal tits or ass or full frontal female nudity but there was one instance towards the end (the scene where the titular Head of the Family licks a titty) that got poorly blurred out for some reason and then the block that I guess was supposed to blur out the breast (but didn’t really) randomly stayed on the screen for like another 10 seconds which was weird. Death Kiss (2018) - I've watched a lot of movies in my time but I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this. Death Kiss is more or less the cinematic equivalent of a cover band in that it's got a random dude who looks like Charles Bronson doing Death Wish shit in 2018. Sure I've seen remakes and movies that are paying homage to earlier cinematic works but that's not what this is. Like Samuel L. Jackson was in a Shaft remake but he wasn't out there trying to look like Richard Roundtree in it. This shit's wild. The plot is kind of non-existent: A guy that looks like Charles Bronson does Death Watch shit in 2018 and Daniel Baldwin is also there as an Alex Jones style shithead on the radio but honestly that's all I'm going to guess anyone could possibly want out of a Death Wish clone with a Charles Bronson lookalike. I want a Muppet movie where it’s all like a deadly serious kitchen sink drama with only human characters except there’s a subplot where the family are setting traps for a rat living in the house who is played by Rizzo the Muppet rat, who gets maybe two or three minutes of screen time, but is prominently featured in all promotional material for the film. and a dream sequence where Rizzo performs "Rapper's Delight"
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