can i just say thank you to the secret communists running hollywood in the postwar era? such an important public service they did, writing propaganda films like this to scare america out of ever imagining starting a nuclear war. because america definitely would have. it was a nutty time and these hollywood writers knew it’d be so much cooler if the people with their fingers on the button would want to be be cool and empathic like anthony perkins and gregory peck. and fred astaire is there for some bizarre reason, but he doesn’t want to start a nuclear war either. he’s not dancing, nobody’s dancing this is an extreme bummer of a movie. mao was oddly blase about nuclear war, he was like, ‘meh if it happens it happens, best we can do is prepare for all eventualities’ but every russian leader knew that throwing society back to a stone age 20-year lifespan society would be a catastrophe for all mankind.
1 bag of popcorn i wouldn’t watch a movie about it but tubi tricked me with gregory peck and anthony perkins
In a post-apocalyptic realm called Anmaere, an annual drive ships wild horses from a rundown city called Whithren to another, far-off city, Levithen. Many denizens of Whithren hope to board the boat with the horses and travel to Levithen, which they believe holds a more promising future for them.
I wasn’t sure about that plot, but look at these reviews. Indiewire called the film 'The Most Intriguing World-Building since ‘The Matrix’.
How about this review from Letterboxd?
So armed with this highpraise.gif, I dove in.
And I really wanted to like this. I started off wanting to describe it as though Shane Carruth had directed a film from a sci-fi script by Terrence Malick. And it is. Except it’s more like if Carruth were a teenager with no budget but a lot of ambition and persistence and a bunch of friends willing to star in his student project. And oh yeah, he has not yet discovered Adderall.
I mean here’s a quote from Variety.
For better or worse (with the former being the overall takeaway), this is as close as we’ll get to late-period Terrence Malick directing a dystopian tone poem.
While one can imagine the director of “Upstream Color” and “Primer” having an outsized influence on the impenetrable tendencies of “The Wanting Mare,” the film’s one unmistakable thrill is knowing its expansive world is the brainchild of one person, a first-time director who dropped out of college, never went to film school and worked for more than five years to fulfill a vision that was initially financed on Indiegogo.
It’s definitely interesting, but it was in no way to my taste. Still, if you enjoyed Upstream Color, you may want to push play on The Wanting Mare and see if it grabs you.
I’m confused from your post as to what Shane Carruth has to do with that movie. Forgive me for not reading all those reviews as maybe the answer to my question lies within but they all mention someone else as director.
I also read an interview where Carruth says even that is an exaggeration. He once offered a few notes to the director. Otherwise he was just a big fan of the movie.
Is the punk outfit Billy Barf and the Vomitones coming to the big screen? Well…maybe:
Release date is Sept. 26.
For those of you who don’t hang out in the What Are You Reading thread I am officially UP’s dedicated, unrepentant, til-death-do-us-part Pynchon wackadoodle. My morale has been sinking a bit as I’ve watched my country sink into fascism, but this movie suggests that perhaps the universe really does love me more than it loves you assholes.
Jesus Christ…you shouldn’t ask me questions like this because I could go on and on. The Crying of Lot 49 started my addiction. If nothing else it’s redeemed by being short enough to read in an evening.
sleepers (1996) was pretty good. my favorite part about watching it on tubi was having a really dark intense moment interrupted by a guy in an nfl jersey grilling in a tailgate scenario incredulously shouting, “are you kidding me?!” and going into his commercial spiel. like 5-6 times in the movie, a sudden jolt of “are you kidding me?!”, just as the filmmakers intended
I agree that it’s pretty good. Even though the De Niro testimony is stupid, even though Brad Pitt hadn’t yet really learned how to act, even though it lags behind a great many courtroom movies, I agree that it’s pretty good. Passable at the very least.
Ain’t nothing irrational. Dude is fucking annoying.
He recently teased Deadpool being involved with the next Avengers movie. I found this out in a dentist chair while awaiting a root canal. It was being covered on The Today Show. Al Roker excitedly proclaimed, “Now that would be EVERYBODY’S dream.”
I couldn’t tell if that had actually gone out over the air to the whole country or if I was just personally being punked by a deepfake.
I love that Quentin Tarantino is correctly fucking angry about what they did in Halloween 2 and goes as far as to say that it taints every sequel that followed. I wouldn’t know, because I ain’t watching all of those as if part 2 didn’t end the franchise (it absolutely did). Safe to say I believe him about those non-canonical movies that don’t exist though.
Meh. Maybe if they pull the rest of the titles since 2 entirely out of circulation and create a task force whose sole mission is to locate every single person who paid a dime to watch any of them and issue them full refunds. If they do all that, I’ll consider looking up the 2018 movie.
Thankfully nothing about the original is tainted. Going to try to catch a theater screening of it in October.
