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it’s john boorman!

it must mean something ha ha ha ha ha ha

LOVE ON THE RUN (original title “l’amour en fuite”, françois truffaut, 1979)



this was not as hilarious as its predecessors mainly because it quotes heavily and i mean heavily from them. so if you just saw the previous movies a day or a week ago, like i just did, about maybe a quarter of the length was cut from them and spliced into this, ha ha ha, ha ha haha. “flashbacks”.

but hey, it was the last of the adventures of antoine doinel, and it adds a bit to the legend. the end was satisfying.

truffaut died too soon, just 5 years later, and funny that “l’homme qui aimait les femmes” (“the man who loved women”), which was his last i think? was, oh, @bout a dead man who also had a bit of a fetish for ladies’ calves. which could have been a continuation of this i guess. was it? i cant recall.

but anyway now i wanna go back and watch the 400 blows again...

it has been fun

but he died too soon


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waaaaaaait no no no. i got thrown off the dates by a 1983 blake edwards movie that ripped off the title lolol. truffaut’s man who loved women was from 77. but was it doinelesque or what. i say yes a bit. yes.

peter weir’s THE PLUMBER (1979)



it’s billed as a horror movie, but while it has its creepy and scary moments, i ended up feeling it more as a dark comedy, which was fine! yes, highly entertaining.

production wise it reminds me a lot of cronenberg movies from the 70s, without the special effects. no monsters or paranormals here, just people.

the story—the story is great!

without giving away too much SPOILERS SPOILERS...

i think that movie the cable guy with jim carrey i think it was, was ripped from this.

END SPOILERS

anyway, good stuff, a lot of ambiguous conversations a great plus in a genre often characterized by obvious shit.highly watchable! do not be mislead by the schlocky poster.

lno horror season is complete without cronenberg!



THE BROOD (1979) is fucking great, of course. this is not the first time ive seen it and it wont be the last either (unless i die first, lol).

just so good.... what can i say? i dont know. dreams and the body... scanners, videodrome, naked lunch, existenz... it’s always the intersection of dreams and the body. even the fly while not being exactly that is that after all.

dammit i need to rewatch “crash” soon. dont know that theres a hornier movie than crash.

All this Schrader talk and it turns out that he had a new movie come out this year starring Ethan Hawke Film called First Reformed. it actually sounds like it's a decent film. Anyone seen it?

no

just wanted to say i had a megalol the other day at your recounting of the queen movoe where the non-freddies are trying to make themselves look like saints ha ha ha ah aha ha ha ha

dat bottomed gorls wast written by freddie wassit.

man i am a terrible speller when drinking

I thought it was a bad attempt at a German accent!

haha no

had friends over, and now a hangover

^^ and yeah thats what i watched



david cronenberg’s SCANNERS (1981)

brilliant, and cheaply done, foreshadows a lot of what we’d see later on VIDEODROME, thematically and plot wise

bicarbon amalgamate —> spectacular optical

DEAD RINGERS (Cronenberg, 1988)



medical horror is definitely cronenberg’s specialty. this one rates not as horrible or terrifying as one would expect, it’s more creepy and depressing than anything. jeremy irons is amazing in this, playing identical twins, and the story and visuals are excellent. great effects. plus a couple of moments right out of “the brood”. so much fun to watch these movies together. goodbye, filmstruck!

Cronenberg is not my kind of beast anymore. I can’t handle that body horror stuff when it’s so dated looking. I respect him as a filmmaker for sure, but too bleak for me anymore.

(Also lost a ton of respect for him when he railed against a certain Christopher Nolan film from 2008, calling it a “tent pole” project —think he even coined the term—which it 100% absolutely was not, and he can eat it.)

I'm not a huge fan of Cronenberg's more recent stuff but I LOVE what he was doing in the 70s-80s. The more I think about it, his 5 movie run from Shivers through to Videodrome might be the most impressive in all horror films. Even compared with other genre heavyweights like Argento, Carpenter and Romero (even if they occasionally made better individual films). But Shivers-Rabid-Brood-Scanners-Videodrome is a ridiculously good run. Dead Zone wasn't bad but you could see he was starting to lose his footing a bit and his output from then became a bit more patchy.

(I'm conveniently ignoring Fast Company, which was pretty crap and not a horror film)

conenberg >>> nolin ;)

I liked this. The movie is violent but the violence is not done in a way to feel exploitive. Also Johnny Greenwood does the score.

Dead Man's Shoes

Still in a league of its own. A perfect 10.

I didn’t even know/remember that Cronenberg did Dead Zone.

Totally different kind of horror movie from the ones you mentioned though. Less dysmorphic insanity and more ... uh... flashbacks of rape and Chris Walken getting migraines. Not up his alley. Don’t blame him for not nailing that.

Anywho, that movie ANNIHILATION had some shit in it that makes Cronenberg’s body horror seem almost obsolete to me.

#thatbearthing #ohmahgod

woke up with wife at 4 AM, cooked two perfect ribeyes, and mushroms, feasted, and then sat to watch this....




what a fucking piece of shit. GODDAMN I hate shit like this. Stupiud, stupid, navel gazing nonsense, just showing visually allegorical scenes and images to try and be deep about how fukcing horrible writers/artists/creatives are with the people around them. what a fucking wankathon. so stupid. so obvious. Pointless, even to anyoen who had never seen trhe various films and horror tropes this stupid movie ripped off. what a fucking pathetic piece iof shit. I could spend all week ranting about every specific detail of this stupid stupid stupid movie./ Like an even more pointless David Lynch self-flagellation....

like being bludgeouned with the most inartful, naive, stupid concepts by a mouthbreathing troglodyte.

haaaa haaaaa haaaaaaaa

i’ve only seen the beginning

started and then i don’t know what happened

i wouldnt let ed harris come into my house lololol

Hahaha! Why am I not surprised you hate this. For what it's worth I enjoyed it. A lot.

even more pointless thn Black Swan.


The entirety of this "Mother" film could have been done much more effectively in a 30 minute twilight zone episode. what a PIECE OF SHIT.




Imagine a 2 hour movie where all you see is someone's wife taking a shit, then the shit turns to softer shit, then it becomes full on diarrhea , then it becomes just hot waste liquid rot spewing out of an asshole, and then at the end you are told, "This was all an allegory for what happens when you do not feed your wife like you feed yourself."




so fucking STUPID. I wold have pissed all over the movie screen had I been forced to watch this in a theater. literally whipped out my cock and pissed all on the screen.....

Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer are poiintless red herrings. I hate films that show hateful, shitty people, just to show us how hateful and shitty the writer/director is. fuck that noise.

I also hate shit like this.

I thought Black Swan was legitimately good, but this... and Tree of Life... and *some* Lynch (Inland Empire... oh my god three hours of fucking spliced up bullshit art house fuckery) but not Lynch in general.

But this.. this is not my thing. In fact, fuck this. And fuck Tree of Life. And fuck Inland Empire. Goddamn fuck it.

(But yay Mullholland Drive and yay Eraserhead and yay a bunch of Lynch and I’m sad for you if you can’t get with Lynch you sad sad old bastard man)

lolololol inland empire.

i fought so hard to stay awake when i went to see inland empire. holy shit.

same thing with eraserhead, but worse—i have seen the thing, but never in full, continuously. only in fragments, because i simply *cannot* stay awake during it. just can’t. i’ll put it on and it will knock me out in less than 20’. amazing images though. prize for cinematography. but plotwise my lord zzzzzzzz.

elephant man, the production trainwreck that was dune, blue velvet, wild at heart, twin peaks season 1, lost highway, mulholland drive—some of the best shit i’ve ever seen though

somehow never managed to catch the straight story.

I've had that weird thing with Mother! where I've come to like it far more since having the time to think about it a bit, about what it might have been trying to say, or do, than while I was actually watching it, when I couldn't really get a handle on it. Very good film, imo, but one that takes time to really have an affect. On me, anyway.

Beyond the obvious weirdness, I don't think it has much in common with Lynch at all. Felt to me more like a Polanski film directed by Lars Von Trier.

oh, now i wanna restart “mother!” again ha ha ha

except it’s not on filmstruck. gotta move forward with filmstruck before it croaks

in december then

I'd be interested to know what you finally think about it, especially if you only saw the beginning. I'm still not sure what to make of its meaning. There's an obvious interpretation but I won't spoil anything - and I'm not sure if that's the right one anyway. If there even is a 'right' interpretation. All anyone can say to someone who hasn't seen it is do see it, try and keep an open mind about Aronofsky's intentions, and see where you stand a little while after watching it.

Wait wait wait...
Gotta watch Eraserhead. There’s a story and it’s fucked up and will haunt your nightmares.

But Blue Velvet? You struggle to stay awake during one of the best movies of the ‘80s?!!?! Nah, man.

He wasn't saying that about Blue Velvet.

Although like you, I'm surprised he couldn't get into Eraserhead.

I like Lynch when he is telling a story, not when he is trying to portray allegory. If I want visual allegory on film I watch Matthew Barney Cremaster series.....

I respect Mother! for being the kind of film that isn't afraid to upset, piss off, or disgust its audience. I get tired of every movie trying to please everyone, and that every movie these days feels like its made to please every type of movie watcher. I'm sure there are plenty who think Mother! is just meant to be shocking and upsetting for the sake of it. The more chaotic it got the more interesting it became to me.

And I "enjoyed" Black Swan, for what it was. MOTHER? No joy whatsoever...., just waiting to see an extended scene of the main star getting violently and sexually assaulted by a room full of nuts pawing at her nakedness. that is always needed....... :(

there is only one interpretation, and it is not an interpretation. it is purely a 2 hour long allegory of what the loved ones of a creative "genius" have to suffer. OLD story, OLD ideas, BORING AS FUCK, and plainly obvious from the initial get go.

Cremaster, FUCK, YEAH!!

correct.

but i got into it!

just kept falling asleep

9, 10 times, no joke

And this is coming from someone who loves Marvel films. Oy vey

I like story. Mother had NO story, just a tediously long descent into pure allegory, heavy handed, repetitive, and needlessly cruel. Just a boring fucking movie.


comparing that piece of wanna-be art TRASH to the obviously trash pulp of a marvel movie does not compute.

I do not love the Marvel films either. Most of them are 6/10 TOPS.


The only truly awesome ones for me are the two Ant Man films, the first Avengers, the first Iron Man, and the first Captain America. They worked as pulp amazements.


the others? not so much......

That wasn't the interpretation I was thinking of. I'm not gonna say it here because I don't wanna spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but ... if that's what you thought it was about then yeah, it probably would come over as a bit shit, never mind utterly incoherent. No wonder you thought the Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer characters were red herrings if that's all you thought the film was about.