I gotchu:


https://tubitv.com/movies/460618/can...ungle-of-death

haha i read the article which mentions nuyorican poets café jajaja. thanks for the link. brings back great memories. a pity that mtv eventually gave up music and turned into a cesspool of "reality" fecal matter. the article writer misunderstood beavis and butthead i think: they were meant as satire not role models.

i remember king missile's detachable penis, a very funny song. he lost it at a party i think and found it in a flea market in st marks place or something? can't remember now the exact chain of events. i will give it a listen for the lols.

cigarette butt: holy relic?

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so anyway i ended up watching empire records the other day, after all.

it was certainly not a good movie. part of it was a bit of a refry of the breakfast club, which i hate already--the we all have something in common and the little dances and shit, with the store owner as the failed villain. thst was contrived. it had too much zellweger, who was pretty, but annoyed the fuck out of me for some reason when she was younger. and she's unconvincing as a self described "slut." the people gathering in the streets to save the store was fucking ridiculous.

but on the other hand, i found it charming. the robert palmer parody character was a hilarious idea. of course kim did it better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7TuWdHNsYY lol but it was another concept altogether. the kid who is wearing a lou reed look at the beginning was somewhat funny. the thief, warren, who would later go on to play pecker's shoplifting friend, was pretty great. the little gwar sequence was stupid funny. liv tyler in her fuzzy powder blue sweater was more than nice lol, who knew that she'd be an elf some day? the blurry patti smith poster on the wall was the best of it. the shaved head girl from the craft and her problems was... familiar, lol.

so yeah i... it was a badly made movie, but it was ok having it on the teevee while maybe doing other stuff. not quite a guilty pleasure--meaning it was fun at times but not that pleasurable, but i'm not feeling guilty about liking it somewhat either.

This weekend we watched …
Arachnophobia: Holds up, surprisingly! Good old Jeff Daniels and John Goodman!

Dawn of the Dead 2004: Simply not a good film, but also not Zack Snyder’s worst film. Still — decidedly not good, in, like, a bunch of ways. Shit acting, shit effects, dumb and super-high-contrast-early-2000s lookin’, green and orange hues all over the place. Anyway, bad but not the worst (aka shit but not diarrhea)

Hellraiser 2022: Wow, really surprisingly well done but also … I think I’m getting too old for proper *horror*-horror. Parts of it were just really upsetting and hard to watch. I imagine I’d feel the same way upon a rewatch of the original Hellraiser or Hellraiser II. It’s just not really in me anymore.

I think at this point I vastly prefer horror movies that either work as human dramas irrespective of horror elements (Let The Right One In, The VVitch), or dumb but knowingly so horror-action films that contain plenty of humor — movies that are fun and not completely disheartening, when there’s someone to root for (for example, Ready or Not was a good old time)

^the original hellraiser was fucking terrible. in your classification system, "diarrhea."

let the right one in (the original swedish one anyway) was pretty great.

Horror films are either for people who have gone through trauma and want to feel some sort of catharsis, or they are for people who have not gone through any trauma yet, and therefore do not relate to the horrors within.

Let the Right One In was amazing. (original).


on the air broadcast TV channel Movies!, they broadcast Night of the Living Dead! The OG! Brain eating, al sorts of crazy shit, without any edits! It did start at 11 PM, but damn! younger me would never have imagined.

I kinda believe it. I haven’t seen it in forever, but I remember liking it despite a BUNCH of B-movie soap opera bullshit.

Let The Right One In is the original version.
The remake is called Let Me In, and it’s meh

I appreciate a well-crafted tension-based horror movie. I’ve been through veritable metric shit-tons of trauma and if anything it’s made me less responsive to real upsetting horror.

I’m a renegade tho

I cannot watch any film where the director chooses to hover over a rape.

You can show a person being assaulted without actually showing us 5 minutes of torture.

same, that kind of thing will make me turn off the movie.

except one time, when almodóvar went to the edge of art and made a funny rape in "kika". it wasn't a "real" rape, there was no portrayal of suffering, there was a rape happening but it had a hilarious dialogue and broke all conventions, so most of the audience was laughing at the absurdity of the situation.

i went with a group, and after the movie one of the women protested earnestly that "a woman getting raped is never funny," but the woman i was with at the time said that while in real life this was true, *this* movie rape was a funny one regardless. so it was ideologically "wrong" but artistically successful i guess. i can't explain it, nor recreate the humor by narration, but i know funny when i see it, and that was very funny back then. also the fact that someone would have the gumption to try and make a rape funny was hilarious in itself. [eta: think "the aristocrats"]

unfortunately it's hard to find the movie in the usa these days, perhaps because of that scene, or because of something else, i don't know. but i've been wanting to rewatch it and see if i get the same reaction 100000 years later, because some things just age poorly, but so far no luck.

Same, fuck rape movies

I delved into Ari Aster: Hereditary and Midsommer. These were fucking great! Not flawless, but very enjoyable/rewatchable.

re: kika https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...140-story.html

the comparison to john waters! hahahaha. yes.

Halloween Ends...it ended...perhaps thankfully. hmm...

alien



yes, the original riddley scott/dan o'bannon heir to the john carpenter/o'bannon student film "dark star"

first time i saw it, it was on a rental vhs in a cathode ray tv no bigger than a microwave oven. every time i've seen it since it looks better and i love it more.

brilliant fucking film--dark, foreboding, mysterious, often scary quiet, a visual wonder. the editing, fuck, it's so good... great cast, great story, great everything. dare i say a masterpiece? yes, i do. masterpiece.

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now i'm *trying* to watch the james cameron sequel, "alienS", and it comes across as a loud, stupid, ordinary piece of shit. 23m into it and i'm wondering if i can finish it...

Alien to Aliens goes from scifi/horror to action/horror

so far it seems more like "gold to shit" lol

like this fucking "marine" crew acts as professional as the clows from "stripes". for laughs i guess, but annoying.

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40m in, nothing interesting whatsoever has happened yet

the best thing so far have been shots of machines operating

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at 45m something flew by and i finally felt something. more of a reflex than an emotion. and now there's a feral kid. big yawn lol. i guess it was put there to help middle america connect with the story or something.

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fell asleep, started again, at 59' i quit lol

The Neverending Story
The Mummy

10 Things I Hate About You
Cruel Intentions

ever read the original novel? les liaisons dangereuses? fucking brilliant. it's all told through letters. fucking evil people. man!

the guy who wrote it was a fortress designer. yes, fortresses. the novel is similar in more than one way--it's supersophisticatedly complex and designed to kill XD

No on the book, but I have also seen Valmont https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098575/ that I somehow didn't connect at first, but once I realized both were based on the same story, it all clicked.


I'll add this book to my To Be Read.

oh hell man, yeah there are various movie versions of this, including one with john malkovich, but they by necessity simplify. the novel is full-on madness! can't be put down.

Alien >>>>>>>>>> Aliens, for sure.

Watched the following with girlfriend this weekend:
• Halloween Ends: What a hot mess of shit
• Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil: Actually pretty good.
• The Northman: Quite a good film; maybe not quite as good as The VVitch, but better than The Lighthouse.

aliens seems like an unmitigated piece of shit to me, and i normally would have no problem with that, but the truly infuriating aspect of it is that "people" rate it so high, higher even than the original. witlf. how.

i mean, read some of the reviews on imbd. some turtlehead has the gumption of calling the transition between moviews "seamless." wtf. does he have eyes?

I totally agree, it’s a sloppy mess and Alien is the superior film and the consensus on this should be universal

Xanadu


and the whole time I was asking myself, why am I wachting this, why am I continuing to watch this?
why was this ever made? there's no sense in it at all!
it's written like a porn movie, but without the porn

people still stroked to it

hahahahaaaa

i've never seen it. did i miss something maybe?

no.

hahahahah! yeah, most definitely not for me

this is a great movie.
I had seen it many years ago, and only recalled the Robert de Niro parts, and no longer recalled the rest of the movie which is so much better. And bizarre.




Also:





It has a very fine cast, but it's just another Tarantino wannabe Reservoir Dogs type of movie that can't beat the originals.

this one was, growing up, a massive influence on me. i'm not sure if it was a good one, as it sort of promotes nihilism? but yeah... i was like "finally someone who understands" lolol.

and yeah i still hate christmas, and empty status-seeking, and bureaucratic regulations and paperwork XD


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intent on wrapping up my netflix subscription this month i'm catching up with my list...




all quiet on the western front: i have never read the book but it was easy to figure out what the plot was going to be because obviously we know how things ended and yadda yadda.

this one didn't have the "being there" almost videogame feeling of 1917, because that was a different kind of thing, but it really looked amazing and felt realistic. between this one, kleo, and barbarians, the germans seem to be doing great on netflix. applause.

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.


Decent, I'd have no trouble watching it again, by any means, but I won't claim 10/10. Probably 7-8 range

this was a good movie, very depressing though. Hard to believe that this has actually happened, or maybe not so hard.







this one was quite horrible, I hate disaster movies and this is an Armageddon of all known disasters And Nicolas Cage
I should have known :rolleyes:

Is this the one where he meets angles at the end or whatever? Or is that Numbers or some shit? Anyway lots of bad stuff from Mr. Cage — lots of great stuff too, tho

I've seen that^ I think. Maybe not, memory is a bit fuzzy because narcotics. Talking of Narcotics (and Nicholas Cage) I saw Mandy last night. It's one of the most aesthetic and musically pleasing movies I've seen in awhile.


Skinamarink. There is an original approach to cinematography and liminal space obsession here. Unfortunately, the Lynch-esque atmosphere-nightmare fuel-build-up of tension is deflated by poorly timed cheap jumpscares and a vague plot.


I'm currently making my way through every kiyoshi Kurosawa movie, so you don't have to.

Some old school movies.


"Scrooge" from 1935
"A Christmas Carol" from 1938.



#classics

I had the idea that it'd be fun to download 20+ versions of 'A Christmas Carol' and stitch them together line by line.