Im rethinking it now after watching the trailer of the american remake.
The whole idea of the movie is how far do you let politeness carry you. Bjorn fighting back kinda ruins the entire point of the film to that point.
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Watching Thief. James Caan is trying to pickup a girl by talking about prison gangbangs and killing people, wat
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idk whatâs going on with the movie industry right now but for me personally, why see Furiosa where I can have a Tubi double-feature of the works of microbuget crap director Frank Henenlotter?
Basket Case (1982) is a hoot, big recommend if you like camp horror. Kind of like Gremlins/Ghoulies/Critters, etc., weâve got some gross little monster thatâs murdering people in a seedy NY hotel. Shot for $35k, itâs a movie that doesnât take itself too seriously but also pulls of some legitimately creepy shots.
Frankenhooker (1990) I had fun but not as much as I did with Basket Case. Itâs really dumb T&A comedy horror: problematic in all kinds of ways, the kind of thing you might expect to see on late night Cinemax. Not sure if Iâd recommend it; if youâre too high to safely make it to a movie theater maybe give it a try. You guys know which free streaming platform you can find it on.
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Magnolia
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Also, holy smokes if you like good movies, Point Blank (1967) on Criterion right now.
Two-fisted neo-noir
Starring Lee Marvin
Adapted from a Richard Stark pulp novel
Directed by the guy who did Zardoz
Bad Lands (2023)
5/10
A small time grifter lives at the edges of Japanese society making her way by scamming people.
The first half of the movie was great kind of low key gritty, but as they introduced characters felt like they mashed up a live action anime into the movie until everything turns into camp and took me out of the movie.
Shout out to Sakura AndĂ´ though. Although sheâs has no make up and wears a baseball cap throughout the entire movie she was magnetic and an engaging actress even when everyone else around her is campy and silly.
This is Oscar bait.
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The Tom Cruise stuff was incredible. No other storyline did anything for me.
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I hear you but I like all of the performances and think the movie is basically perfect. I even like the John C Reilly parts. And I find it easy to love Julianne Moore and Hoffman.
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This is me when watching Michael Clayton for the first time (earlier this month).
Felt it was either too realistic or not enough, didnât really work for me (probably expectations were too high).
Thatâs a bummer, Iâm definitely a Michael Clayton fan. FWIW my first viewing of it only elicited a âthis is fineâ reaction on my end; it was on rewatch that it landed for me as truly excellent.
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Furiosa
So obviously this post was discouraging, but not discouraging enough to not watch. I had to cling to some shred of hope of, âwell, maybe heâs wrongâŚ?â
Then this post happened.
And then I was full-on channeling Spacey in The Usual Suspects, pounding the table and going, âaww, FUCK!â Because I couldnât read this post as anything but âthis is pretty damn bad, but Iâm going to say pretty nice things.â Not suggesting it was anything but honest framing on clovisâs part, but thatâs just how I received it. It honestly discouraged me more than wipersâs post, and at this point I considered just scrapping my plans to see Furiosa before ultimately deciding to shrug and forge ahead.
WellâŚhonestly, the discouragement was probably good in the end? Because it feels like the expectations game has seriously warped my perception here. I went into Fury Road going, âI hope this is as awesome as people say it is,â then came out going, âWelp.â I sat down for this movie going, âPlease let this be something that I donât absolutely hate.â It cleared that bar without too much of a problem. Honestly, thereâs probably not a ton of daylight between the two movies in terms of quality, so my mindset going into each one is playing a large part, but in any case this felt like the more positive experience.
I wonât engage in the widespread farce of pretending that these movies are high art, but there was enough here to have a pretty good time, even if it felt like a bit of a slog before I started getting sequences I enjoyed. Honestly, despite receiving clovisâs review negatively, I pretty much positively co-sign it now aside from probably using a less effusive term than âpretty great.â
3.5/5
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3.5/5 seems about right to me. It was good at what it was trying to do but isnât making my top 10 of the year I suspect.
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For me that politeness all worked up till the point when
They got out finally for the last time and are driving away but have to stop and the Husband left Mom and Kid in car without mentioning ANYTHING at all to the wife so she calls the family for help. Come the fuck on, there is no need to keep it up at that point you are alone. Instead of being shocked at the tongue cutting I laughed and was angry at how stupid it was.
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What was the oh noes referring to?
I enjoyed this episode.
Just excitement. Fast Times is one of my favorite movies. Hit at just the right time in my early teens.
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One of my favorites too, tho I found it years after it was released. I was born the year after it came out.
This is a good point.
I think the idea is that he is just not trying to scare his daughter but not telling his wife that HE SAW THE BOY DEAD is unforgiveable. The fact the wife embraces him at the end had me nearly throw my remote through the screen.
Im sure the movie is purposefully infuriating but god damn there was a lot of shit that pissed me off.
Not the least of which being the girl getting them all killed because she didnt realize her fucking rabbit was right under her goddamn feet.