Saw Godzilla x Kong. Was entertained while watching. It’s been 3 days and is rapidly fading from memory. Thank goodness for $6.50 Tuesday afternoons. Noticeable lack of japanese characters.
Godzilla Minus One has ruined me.
Dude is a national treasure. 9 to 5, War Games and Cloak and Dagger are the roles that come to mind.]
Oh yeah, Buffalo Bill was a great TV show. Haven’t thought about that in many many years.
It reminded me of what movies can be.
Upgrade is now on Netflix. It’s an excellent low budget sci-fi thriller that you may not have seen. Written and directed by Leigh Wannell, the writer of Saw and director of Invisible Man.
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If anyone wants to see a great Dabney Coleman performance check out The Man With One Red Shoe. It’s a gem imo
This is an excelent soft sci-fi/action movie with excellent choreography and some killer fight scenes.
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Makes me so curious what he will do with Wolf Man. Anyone else and I’d predict it’ll be awful, but I trust Leigh to bring it home.
Im glad this doesnt show the end of this fight. Its the best scene in the movie
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Aw man, RIP. I just recently rewatched 9 to 5, what a banger, whole cast is magnificent.
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I saw this because you liked it so much and while I wouldn’t put it as my favorite movie, it’s probably the most mature movie, making it stand out above the rest.
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Definitely the whole cast does a great job, but man it felt like that movie took some great momentum from the first act and ground it to a halt with the weird choice to go into extended dream sequences.
Glad you liked it at least. Mature is a good description. We need more mature movies.
This is a pretty interesting essay about how Challengers is using some of the Hays code era tricks used by directors like Hitchcock to portray sex.
I am so on board with this Lanthimos Stone thing.
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Saw this in the theater with my parents.
Have rewatched two of these since I made this post.
Unforgiven is great. Not really sure why it didn’t land for me the first time.
Strangelove I can maybe get to a moderately positive opinion on now, but it still doesn’t do a lot for me and I’m still inclined to put it in the weaker half of the Kubrick filmography.
Still need to get to the above-mentioned PTA rewatches.
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Whew! It sure is.
I’m sure I posted about this here, but last year I tried Barry Lyndon and it seemed like an elaborate joke. 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, 8.1/10 on IMDB. Crazytown.
Barry Lyndon is my most significant Kubrick gap. People do fucking love that one. It pulls a 4.4/5 average on Letterboxd.
I also haven’t seen Full Metal Jacket, but it feels like that’s a longer shot for me to like. I’m a tough sell for war films (even though I do genuinely love some of them), but there are some must-sees I need to get to and that’s on the list.