I’m just gonna vote for Maniac Cop II just to be silly.
Let’s see if this has enough interest to get rolling.
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We could start a Letterboxd account for UP with a shared login (password disclosed only through PM).
I watched Licorice Pizza. The vibe and costumes were OK, but there was no real coming of age payoff at the end which is the common theme of every coming of age film which leaves you feeling something (nostalgic, sad, etc).
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It’s also incredibly boring, the title is monumentally stupid, and it’s about a romance between a 15 year old and a 25 year old.
PTA: not a surprise
I feel like when we did the tournament to determine GOAT movie song, we restricted it to instrumental themes.
That’s probably the only justification that could have existed for Moon River not winning.
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Man that’s beautiful
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (2025)
A man claiming to be from the future takes the patrons of an iconic Los Angeles diner hostage in search of unlikely recruits in a quest to save the world
As I was leaving the theater, an old woman turned to me and said, “That got weirder and weirder as it went on.” She was delighted.
I’d have to describe the movie similarly. More unhinged and untethered from reality not just with every passing second, but up until the very last second.
Does all of it work? No. Lol no no, of course not. But it is a wild ride and should be seen at least once.
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Saw Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley in Concert in IMAX the other night.
Fun as hell if you’re a fan of Elvis’s work. Obviously only really recommended if you are one.
I’m going to be mean and recommend it to @clovis8.
If people don’t like Elvis that’s one thing. If they say he’s not influential that’s another. And wrong.
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Song Sung Blue
I liked the music well enough I guess. But the plot really goes out of its way to add some truly unbelievable elements seemingly just to jazz up the story, which I guess isn’t interesting enough to justify a 2 hour movie.
The dumbest of which was when Eddie Vedder called their house. First, I find it hard to believe that there wouldn’t be agents/intermediaries for that sort of thing. And even if that did happen, I find it harder to believe that neither person had heard of Pearl Jam. Even non-music normies knew fucking Pearl Jam in the mid 90s. They were one of the biggest acts on the planet in a semi-adjacent genre. It would be like a Alanis tribute act being like “Olivia Rodrigo? Who is that?” Not that that particular scene is really that important in the grand scheme of things, but it was just typical of the movie just adding plot points that clearly never happened.
Acting is fine to good. Don’t know if I’d go so far as to say the Best Actress nomination was deserved, but I don’t think it’s a miscarriage of justice.
5/10
Network
Normally if I see multiple movies in a short time frame I just put them all in a single post, but this one deserves a review by itself.
Holy hell what a film. Dynamite screenplay that has aged incredibly well. Even the part that I was iffy on (the relationship between Max and Diana) wrapped up perfectly. So many scenes were I was left thinking about how later films had done riffs of what I was watching.
Acting is top notch by everyone involved. Solid directing. Almost nothing I have that I can criticize. Makes me want to go watch another Sidney Lumet film. I’ve now seen 3, and when the worst is easily Dog Day Afternoon, that’s quite an accomplishment. I know he didn’t write the screenplays, but he sure could find winners.
Don’t know where this will land for me all-time, but I don’t think top 20 is out of the question.
I liked Rocky, but why the fuck did this lose Best Picture to it?
10/10
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Frankenstein did not do it for me, easily my least favorite del Toro film. It was way too long, and despite the length I felt like several parts of the story were not developed enough and ending up falling flat.
The narrative choice with the ship’s captain seemed like a total waste too.
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You haven’t seen Amanda Seyfried’s performance in The Testament of Ann Lee. That’s where the miscarriage of justice comes in.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
But I’m glad you loved this movie as much as you did. It’s an absolute banger. No movie deserves more credit for its prescience.
Fail Safe and Serpico await you from the Lumet catalog. Don’t see any streaming options for Fail Safe right now (but it’s thankfully not in the “perpetually unavailable” camp like some; it was a random Tubi discovery for me in the past year or two and it blew me away), but Serpico is on Paramount Plus.
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man idk about that, Criterion should have some standatds