Watched a Jack Black movie about the Polka King.

Anyone see The Irishman yet?

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Not the best Tarantino, but still OK

Sheet. I'm a busy bee. If I'm watching that I gotta have at least two days free before committing to watching it in one go.

I wanted to see it at the pictures but they stopped showing it before I got chance to go. Being in a cinema means you're forced to not get distracted by the damn fucking phone or anything else.

One of the too many versions of Blade Runner, with "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" queued up afterwards.

Yep.

It was quite good, but the editor in me couldn’t help but think it did NOT need to be 3 1/2 hours long. Like, it was two full sittings. Could have had a lot of stuff clipped. 2019 attention spans are not built for it.

But it’s solid.

There’s some questionable de-aging that goes on with DeNiro... they do something to his face for a while to smoothify it, and with that and the bright blue contact lenses (meant to signify Irishness?), there are a couple Uncanny Valley moments in there, early on.

But overall... great ode to mob movies.

And there are people in it from basically every mob/crime film/series ever made. Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Godfather, GoodFellas, Mean Streets... aka Scorsese casting, but still: hard to find even a bit part that didn’t turn up in something else of note.

Good stuff.

Actually watched this on Saturday with the Mrs. Still holds up as not only one of John Hughes' best films but one of the best films of the 80s.

i know what you mean. it’s right up there with footloose and honey i shrank the kids :D

but seriously, even though i dislike some of it at some levels (mostly ideological, same as groundhog day, maybe i’m just a jerk) it does have some memorable & hilarious moments, and john candy is great in it.

Pesci was great, not so for Pacino or Graham. All in all, pretty good, though.

pesci was dope. Irishman was fun.

DeNiro looks just like LBJ

Too wifey to a 30th anniversary screening of When Harry Met Sally. supa fun.

Scrooged, as I continue to somewhat slowly work my way through many variations of "A Christmas Carol" as per my tradition.

I thought he looked like Alec Baldwin. At least around the eyes (all Irish people have bright blue eyes I guess?)

You need new glasses? :p

Revisited this last night, what a damn great movie this is.

very fucking nice glossy experience.

late at night, under the influence of sticky icky goodness, we tried to watch Christmas with the Kranks, got about 20 minutes in, did not laugh ONCE, and turned that shit off. what a fucking horror show.

indeed THE FUCKING WORST

unwatchable

LES BLANK - GARLIC IS AS GOOD AS TEN MOTHERS (1980)



GLORIOUS!

feels like a 70s film with its roots in 60s culture, and you wouldn’t know you were at the outset of the yuppie era. these were the seeds of... the good food we eat today (in the usa anyway). holy fuck. chez panisse is now a venerable institution. back then it looked like a hippie eatery!

this shit gives me, as they say, “hope”.

highly highly watchable. wow.

why oh why is it pushed as an xmas fave????????

because as our dear kegmama used to often say, quoting L7, the masses are the asses

they fucking loooooooove their stupidity and brainwash and the reassurance that they are ok

now, bad santa—the unrated director’s cut—that’s a true christmas classic

at least bad santa had laughs. I did not enjoy it, but it had laughs.

How bad is it that I am legit considering trying to find the Sharknado movies?

i laugh my ass off every rewatch. it’s all kinds of wrong. the unrated version anyway—i think it’s the only one i’ve seen.

do it. do it and suffer the consequences :D

A near perfect film that feels like a culmination of Scorsese's look into the mafia lifestyle. Some incredible performances, Deniro is good but I think Pacino and yes Joe Pesci really makes this movie. At a 3 and a half hour running time I never felt any lull or feeling of lag. This also doesn't feel like Scorsese is just repeating himself. A fascinating snapshot of 1960's America.

carlos saura’s PEPPERMINT FRAPPÉ (1968)



part “persona,” part “pygmalion,” part... who the fuck knows what, crazy crazy movie, so good. saura dedicated it to buñuel, and it’s fitting. [eta: critics say VERTIGO. sure, but, same difference]

i had known of this movie for a long time but it was hard to find. re-spotted the title the other day in a list of almodovar’s favorite spanish movies. now criterion has it- hurrah.

Midsommar. FANTASTIC!! (remind me not to visit rural Sweden)

Goodbye to Anna Karina. What a beauty. I pretty much watched Godard movies just to see her in them.

o maaaaaaaaaaaan!


i feel like boohooing. i think i just might :(

Loved it. Powerhouse performances by Dafoe and Pattinson, great cinematography and damn, that sound design. The atmosphere is thick in this one, almost like german expressionism or a lynchian production. In fact, it somewhat reminded me of the feeling Eraserhead was going for at times. Its narrative is ominous and disorienting, perfectly underlining the fraught and psychologically taxing relationship of its two protagonists. Highly recommended.

i missed that at the movies (i think), now i’m having the urgency to see it somewhere. thanks for the heads up!

Oh well, so I just watched this movie again. I forgot that I had already watched it entirely last month when it was broadcast. It was still on the recorder.

Out of these three, difficult to pick the best one. But about Carlito's Way: i didn't realise Sean Penn played the lawyer until I copy/pasted the poster just now.

goodfellas takes the cake, by a mile, huh?

Is this a remake? I have a LIGHTHOUSE fr0m 2016 that is the same story.

I came across the imdb page of the 2016 movie a few days ago. However, I couldn't find anything indicating that the 2019 movie is a remake. And having had a look at the 2016 movie now on youtube, I can say I highly doubt it's an actual remake. The two movies are incredibly different stylistically and plot-point wise. My best guess is that the similarities arise because the 2016 one is based on an actual historical incident of 1801 called the Smalls Lighthouse incident. The 2016 one kept the actual names of the people involved, but applied a good dose of artistic license. I'm pretty sure the 2019 movie was inspired by the same incident. The characters have different names though and the setting has been changed from early 1800s Wales to the late 1800s New England. I guess a classic case of being inspired by the same source. That's pretty much where the similarities end though. I guess it's a remake in the same way John Carpenter's The Thing was a remake of The Thing From Another World - technically, they are both different interpretations of another source.

Thanks.

Wales rules though. full of gorgeous women

Sadly underwhelming; played more like it was just ninety minutes of "look at all the video I took!" Had potential, but probably not something I'd want to watch again.