Dom introduced me to Panos Cosmatos movies, he’s a great source of recommendations for movies that fly under the radar.
I think of other types of movies when I think of Dom.
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The Rainmaker (1997)
7/10
Looking this up it make some nominations and was directed by Francis Ford Coppola? I just didn’t feel this movie. Lincoln Lawyer did the hustle of retail lawyering better and A Civil Action did single lawyer goes against big corporation better. The score was also annoying. A big orchestral score for a movie that needed more grimy in the room sound.
The highlights were the character actors though. Danny DeVito is perfect as a hustling lawyer showing Matt Damon the ropes, Mickey Rourke as the absolute scummiest lawyer I’ve ever seen, and Jon Voight as the annoying big shot high priced corporate lawyer
Did Top Gun groom boys to become gay?
To have watched all of this unfold, on the big screen, right in the middle of puberty, was simply not fair.
Now, I have heard the volleyball scene in Top Gun referred to as “homoerotic.” The volleyball scene is not homoerotic. The volleyball scene is homosexual. The volleyball scene is what circuit parties have been trying to be ever since. (Or at least that’s what I’m told. I’ve never been to one, as I am a lifelong Anthony Edwards.) To have watched all of this unfold, on the big screen, right in the middle of puberty, was simply not fair. I was outmatched. I knew which way my sexuality was going already, this scene was far from my first inkling, but it confirmed the whole situation in a way that was terrifying and thrilling all at once. Every gay man within ten years of my age will tell you the same thing. It didn’t corrupt us; in fact, the volleyball scene is the best argument against the whole “grooming” conversation we’re having. If other boys my age saw this movie and ended up straight, as I understand literally dozens have, then sexual orientation is undeniably an immutable characteristic.
The volleyball scene didn’t make us gay. It did make us do pushups.
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Posting again cuz I think it’s funny
Dr Strange 2 was a movie that was filmed and then released. Yeah. wanda’s totally dead, right anakin? Not sure what to make of this one because gotta be honest seems like they’ve been floundering a bit post endgame.
I have tried so many times now to get through spiderman homecoming and I still do not understand the hype. dr strange series has been my favorite and I’m worried now.
I mean, the hype is that all the actors playing Spiderman got on screen together.
Dr strange was weird. Tried some stuff, few people would say most of it worked. Definitely tried to get away from the usual formula but not for the better imo.
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I think when it strayed from the formula it worked to some extent but all these movies are Kevin Feige productions with a director-for-hire slapping a coat of paint on it. The bones of every movie are the same.
I liked the original Dr Strange much more than the other Marvel movies because how different the ending was. The big bad was defeated by annoying him until he gave up instead of the standard blue portal in the sky punching CGI monsters big fight scene
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe is worth it just for the scene where Beavis talks to Siri. The rest of it was exactly what you’d expect, but that one part went far above and beyond.
Friend of mine got to go to the Thor 4 premiere last night. Said it’s great. Taika Waititi once again made a winner.
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I’m all in on everything he does. Shadows? One of the best comedies on TV. Our flag means death? Excellent.
Good to hear. Taika has been great, and Hemsworth’s Thor has been arguably the MCU’s best character since Ragnorak.
I don’t have anything to add to the political discourse (and there’s no good reason for me to follow US politics anyway). So in this depressing time I’ll just mention that the cathartic ending of Antonioni’s american movie “Zabriskie point” from 50 years ago, still hits strongly today.
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Finally watched No Time to Die last night. Pretty big meh. Seemed like a complete waste of Malek
Watched RRR today
Me recognizing allusions to the Ramayana and Mahabharata:
I read both of these last year (the Mahabharata that I read was actually an abridged retelling), and I was surprised how much this movie drew from these epics. Ram (the policeman) is a stand-in for Rama from the Ramayana, an archer who is an incarnation of Vishnu and is married to Sita. Bheema is based on a mixup of Bhima, a warrior with super strength who is the son of the wind god from the Mahabharata, and Hanuman, a magical flying monkey and ally of Rama (and also a son of the wind god) from the Ramayana.
It’s pretty crazy how many of the action sequences and plot points from the movie come from this source material. Like, Ram riding around on Bheema’s back is based on Hanuman carrying Rama around, and Ram using arrows as WMDs is based on Rama being able to summon devastras (magical divine weapons) with his bow.
Anyway, it was fun to see a movie going balls to the wall that draws from Hindu mythology as well as the history of the colonial period.
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I really enjoyed RRR. All the ridiculousness, over the top action scenes and suspect CGI, I ate it up.
EDIT: Also the music and the lyric translations
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RRR is what Marvel superhero movies are supposed to be like.
I don’t remember ever yelling “Yes!” at any moment in a Marvel movie
But I sure did the moment they unleashed that fucking truckload of jungle predators on the British army, Bheem flying out alongside the beasts, torches in hand. It is absolute crazytown ass-kicking time at that point.
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