staying with the "atmospherics"

Lessons of Darkness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPwmsbbcG6Q

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from 1990.

Probably should have known better, but I was curious what the remake was about. Did not like it, found especially the music really annoying. Cheap metal with violins. Typical Hollywood blockbuster rather than the magical world that Guillermo Del Torro made of it. Also prefer Ron Perlman as Hellboy.




Selected this one pretty much randomly on Netflix by title, hoping for something like Buffy that slayers giants. That's not really what it is, but I did like it even though it's probably more like a teen's movie. Now I see the poster and see that it has the same producers as Harry Potter. Makes sense but I prefer this one.

zoe <3 <3 <3

the italian job (1969)



i’ve never seen the remake but i doubt it could improve on the original, which is smart and a little absurd and FUCKING HILARIOUS. plus michael caine + noel coward?

to those who have seen it i gotta ask—was the movie really about football? hahahaha. know what i mean...?

ok maybe i wanna watch the remake after all cuz charlize theron was in it hnnnnnnnnnnnnng

I don't see how it's about football. What makes you think it might be?

diamantino (2018)



portuguese film (how often do you see one?) that begins like a parody of cristiano ronaldo then becomes a massive wtf that’s funny/ridiculous/demented/terrible/fantastic mishmash of wat.

i liked it. i don’t think it’s a great film, but it’s an imaginative pastiche of contemporary news to keep you entertained and mostly laughing for a couple of hours (yes there is some drama but the villains are ridiculous and also funny.)

ABSOLUTE SPOILERS FOLLOW

well there’s the whole cover provided by an actual football game but then the whole caper ends up being a kind of match that between english crime vs the italian mafia (and italian police and etc), but the while nation is represe ted. coward plays a kind of king, his subjects cheer while he feasts alone, his theme music is a medley of military marches and other representative music, and then the team has... does it have 11 criminals? i forget now, i should go back and count, but at the end, see, at the end SPOILER SPOILERS the whole prison is celebrating the victory but then they end with an “england can’t win” comic cliffhanger . although that probably was not the case just 3 years out of winning the world cup, but somehow, i don’t know, maybe i’m reading too much into it, but it seems as if football were the metanarrative here, sort of like, “let’s think of a crime as an international football match.” VERY FUNNY.

The new Shaft movie is cool, not great but cool. Shaft Jr. is a bit of a douche, so I wonder if there will ever be a sequel. But Samuel Jackson was in top form as he is in most of his movies. The story is so-so, but the dialogues are funny, e.g. Samuel comparing himself with Laurence Fishburne in The Matrix and imitating Schwarzenegger

david lynch: the art life


david lynch chainsmokes, makes art with his 2 year old kid, and tells the story of his early days all the way up to the making of eraserhead.

FUCKING. BEAUTIFUL. such incredible images. this was really great.

having said that: i didn’t watch it in one sitting but rather saw it in 4 parts. plan to do is again sometime as long as criterion keeps it.

Hmm, I dunno. if that really was the idea, why the huge emphasis on cars?

well, it’s totally a mini cooper commercial, just like it was in 2003. here they even drive it to the car dealer, lol.

and the english car beats all the italian police cars somehow. but it’s not... i don’t mean it so literally with the footbal thing.

it’s definitely an international competition though. maybe that’s why i see parallels.

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i guess “it’s heavily informed by the discourse of international sports contests” is as specific as i can get right now

Found this one on Netflix. It's a Spanish parody on Superman. When he flies towards Earth as a baby his spaceship hits a satellite and lands in Spain instead of the USA. Don't watch it with big expectations but it's a fun one. I watched it dubbed in English which adds more bizarreness to it (and also because I don't speak a word of Spanish except for Cerveza Por Favor)

Southern Comfort

A total gem that's slipped off the radar, for some reason.

Scarier than most 'horror' films I've seen.

It apparently had a big influence on Aliens.

The latest edition of our (vaguely maligned) family movie nights. No complaints about this, though - how could you have any?


We then ended up watching this on DVD. Fairly bland, but well acted, and the characters are all fairly well-designed. (I'm also mildly embarrassed to note that Ash the hedgehog has basically the exact style I'm after.)

Ah, Toy Story's such a classic at this point, it's almost more a staple than a movie. It actually was the first movie I'd ever seen in a theater. Watched the latest one a few months ago. I'm kind of surprised they managed to keep the series fresh for such a long time. It's an incredibly rare thing.

Hm, never bothered with any of the Illumination movies. Haven't even seen any of the Despicable Me flicks yet. Yeah, I've heard they are mostly very bland. As in they cater to whatever is popular right now without much of a personality of their own and somehow managing to fail upwards in a way that rakes in some cash so they can pump out more of them. So I guess there's at least an inkling of entertainment in them.

haha!—are you a furry? :D

I haven't seen 4, but from all accounts it's excellent.

Even on this, probably about the twentieth time I watched it, there's stuff you pick up on rewatches - they mention that one kid got Andy Battleship early on, and then Hamm and Mr. Potato Head are playing that later. And it's just all of the extra stuff that they fit in to animate it...god, it's brilliant.

Despicable Me is a pretty good movie, actually - that is, the first one. The problem is that it got bogged down by the Minions, who've derailed it into a second...and a third...and a spinoff...and now a sequel to the spinoff, which at least offers Young Gru.

The Secret Life of Pets is apparently pure fluff - awesome if you're under eight years old, and tolerable if you're not. Admittedly, the less we talk about The Lorax the better.

Not in the slightest. I mean, anthropomorphism is cute, but it doesn't go further than that.

(The most annoying thing about furries is whenever I'm trying to plug in keywords to Twitter to try and find something lewd, I invariably end up with a bunch of furry art mixed in with the humans. I evidently need better sources. :mad:)

^^ hahahaaaa! maybe google knows what you’re *really* thinking about xD xD xD

eh, i jest, dont mind me, i had a couple of drinks and just got home