I recommend watching Edward Scissorhands.

It’s the weird, dreamy, goth fairy tale Burton honed to perfection, basically. And perhaps the only time that approach worked in real, emotionally resonant ways.

But Ed Wood is his best film.

panic: the untold story of the 2008 financial crisis



not superthrilling (spoilers: we all know the end, lol) but eye-opening for sure

Continuing on my path of becoming 'cultured':

Is this a "detour" scribbled on your map? :D

IDK, I feel like I should work on being more rounded. And while I may be all pretentious about my music taste (I'm the only person at my school who knew about '34 Ghosts IV' before 'Old Town Road'), I still love grossout humour.

I thanked my dad for never being that guy. Also laughed at the 1999 broadcast porn.

Just checking. I remember having to "sneak watch" the first American Pie back when it came out and the hype around it. I was like 16 or so and like any good parents, they didn't really approve of it at the time.

Haha, what does that say about my parents then?

That they're a lot more liberal, 20 years later?

Probably accurate TBH

today’s criterion double feature

albert brooks’ “mother” (1996)


slightly weird comedy that feels like it belongs in a more mainstream channel with very 80s music and production values except it’s about a middle aged man who after his second divorce tries to solve his women problems by moving back with his mom. which is hilarious and creepy at times. but mostly funny. yeah.

for the main course the forever glorious TAMPOPO (Juzo Itami, 1985).




i fucking love this movie and always go back to it every few years whenever possible. it’s all about eating, and at the core of it there’s a kung-fu western about ramen. but around it there are all sorts of vignettes about life, death, sex, love, fetishes, crime, power, and so forth, all centered around food.

as food movies go this one beats babette’s feast or big night, in my book. i love all three of them, and it’s hard to pick favorites, but this one manages to be at once ridiculous and sublime, hilarious and a tearjerker, and in that it covers the greater ground.

it’s just incredible, for my taste. no pun. but you must love food to empathize with the whole premise, otherwise it might not work for you.

if you don’t love food, start with babette’s feast, then big night, then tampopo for the apotheosis.

Celebrating Halloween in May.

here's a food movie I watched earlier this week





or at least tried to watch it, thinking/hoping it would be a child-friendly animation movie like Shrek. Well, it isn't really like that :D

so I aborted mission about halfway, the stupid jokes were getting too annoying. In essence, the story line is cool though

hahahahaaaaa

looks like american men and women hating each other

At least, the first two-thirds of it. Why is Mr Greenwood getting us to watch this? It's meant to be part of Australian stories, but what the hell? Couldn't we have watched The Castle or something?

been watching bits of this trash for lunchbreaks



hilariously bad but... nostalgia or something lol

wow, bunk moreland was an fbi agent before investigating murders in bawlmor

all the people here are old now haaahaaahaaa

hey, it’s tony soprano’s therapist!

Layer Cake, pretty good. Movies like this and early Guy Ritchie movies are a lot of fun, it sucks they don't really make these type of movies anymore.

They don't because Tarantino did it already ten years before Ritchie.....and far better.

Are there similarities? Sure, but I would hardly dismiss Matthew Vaughen and Guy Ritchie as simply Tarantino knock offs. Those two have a English sense of humor that Tarantino just doesn't have, being not English.

Good movie. I feel like its super artsy sequences sometimes detract from the coherence of the film as a whole, but there’s a goddamn awesome movie in there, and Hardy can act his ass off.

Very Kubrick-esque at some times.
Hilarious and terrifying and weird as all hell, too.

Probably my second favorite of Refn’s films (behind Drive, obviously)

ah shit, i missed neon demon last halloween season.

went looking for bronson but it’s not free on netflix or amazon. i might rent.

valhalla rising and drive were fucking great.

i will for sure. was looking for it yesterday in fact. timeline uncertain, but in my must-watch list now. i would have caught it years ago had it not been for the poster, haaa haaa haaa. flew past the radar. so i appreciate the alert.

Correct about Valhalla and Drive

Watch Bronson


Also Only God Forgives ... holy fuck that’s a weird one, and just flat out dares you not to like it. Kinda love it.

lol thats like mty favorite movies not named The LAst Temptation of Chris

watch Freddy Got Fingered next

its art and grossout humor combined

Then watch Salo 120 Days of a Star Trek Story

Gosling?

But Drive is most definitely the best of the Refn movies, and Gosling went from suckass lottle Disney shit to capable — almost singular — actor.

You gotta Gosling block inside your head... you get over it :p

you’re not alone there

proof:

1. https://www.etonline.com/news/166884...one_nsfw_tweet

2. https://www.buzzfeed.com/eleanorbate...r-ryan-gosling

lol

i can’t know till i see it

Haha. That'll explain why I always wondered how Gosling could be so enjoyable in Deadpool but leave me cold in everything else.

LOLOLO

Have mixed feelings about this one.
Might take me a minute to get my thoughts together.

Worth watching for sure, but... somewhat problematic in other ways.

he left me cold yesterday but everyone has their bad days

So... OK.

Mid90s was good. Ok? There was skill going on with the filmmaking. It was a compelling story.

BUT...

1.) It’s basically an ode to KIDS, only from a rich white guy who plays hood-culture anthropologist (Jonah Hill)
2.) Some of the scenes are uncomfortable and upsetting to an almost gratuitous degree. I think Hill has skill as a filmmaker, but he’s throwing out some cringe- and depression-porn to fill in the holes where the story fails. Again, derivative of KIDS, only that was authentic. This is 100% acted and scripted and *formed.*
3.) It felt a little bit like culture trolling at times, and there’s a black character who might even be borderline stereotypical in nature (though genuinely lovable on screen). Something about the presence of a wise, black man looking out for our dipshit protagonist feels a little... ah... Bagger Vancy to me. I don’t know. Might be offensive to some.

Left me unsettled, but brought several smiles and a tear or two.

Worth watching, again. But not one I’ll watch again.

Out Cold. I can't argue with an early 2000s general comedy.

First time watch. Feels all too relevant today. Can also see how much this movie influenced The X-Files.

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

This wasn't at all what I expected but actually more interesting for it. I got it hoping for the usual Kenneth Anger-style gutter-glamour gossip, but it turns out, before all the meth-amphetamines and plastic surgery, Hedy was actually a bit of a science whizz, who invented tech still used to this day.

Bombshell is a great documentary.

I've gotta say, this is a pretty damn spot-on assessment of this film. Watched it last night, read this, and pretty much agreed with it all.

Watching it really did fill me with an odd nostalgia though. And I often found myself thinking "Yep, that was the stupid shit I did in high-school. That totally is my crew." SPOILER: Like, especially the scene where they get in the car with the drunk driver. You think, "Who would do that?!?!" And then I realized, "Oh yeah...I did...multiple times at that age..."

I completely agree with it not fully feeling as "genuine" as Kids and all, but I do feel that the idea of needing such acceptance at that age really does still come off pretty well.

oh hell ive never managed to actually watch this, looooooong overdue

and just finished the last lunchtime installment of this classic



yes yes—at times, so fucking ponderous! i guess it must have been a huge thing to greet star trek again in 1979 after more than a decade off the air. and the whole slow moving spectacle of the musical space tour must reflect that—which is lost to our perspective of everything on the web all at once.

but still, while not a great movie, a good star trek film—true to the roots and philosophy of the original series. the real deal. will watch again.

Yeah, I'm not a Trekky by any means but I have a real soft-spot for that film. It felt like a let down at the time, coming so soon after Star Wars, but it has a charm all its own.