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Movie Time 2.0: TT mini reviews
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Late Night with the Devil was kind of a disappointment. Did a good job of replicating a really bad 70s talkshow, but I was hoping it would have done more with the premise of “Bad 70s Talkshow is interupted by devil shenanigans”. Last 15 minutes or so was what I was hoping form the whole movie.
Saw Furiosa earlier today. While I like Fury Road better, I still had a blast. Hemsworth was entertaining as the wasteland's #1 failson, and Immortan Joe was still Immortan Joe (who must have REALLY hated both his sons to give them those names, those two must have disappointed him from minute one). Only real bland character was Furiosa's mentor whose name I don't even remember.
If I had one nit to pick with the movie, it was when Furiosa inexplicably made her escape from Dementus by cutting her arm off AND sabotaging his vehicle's tires, all without ANYONE in his gang noticing. I have a hard time buying that some dust kicked up by circling vehicles is enough to camouflage her during all of that. But, aside from that, good flick.
If I had one nit to pick with the movie, it was when Furiosa inexplicably made her escape from Dementus by cutting her arm off AND sabotaging his vehicle's tires, all without ANYONE in his gang noticing. I have a hard time buying that some dust kicked up by circling vehicles is enough to camouflage her during all of that. But, aside from that, good flick.
jpfriction
(He, Him)
Saw it this weekend. Felt it could have been 30 minutes shorter but I had a good time.
Friends highly recommended Polite Society, which was billed as kind of a martial arts movie, but it was that only very tertiarily or as a framing technique; it was really more of a comedy of manners/comedy of errors in Pakistani-English society. It was alright, but the protagonist annoyed me in the way that characters who do ridiculous things in movies usually do.
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In Inside Out 2, Pixar does it again. A great premise beautifully executed.
Two spooky films in a row today.
The Babadook was a rewatch and it’s just as good the second time. Bunch of little winks and nods I didn’t pick up the first time watching that you notice on the second. Top shelf Recent Classic stuff.
The Menu is, tonally, the exact opposite, more of a horror comedy. It was really fun. Also a top shelf recent classic but one that didn’t d not spook at all. Unless the premise of Ralph Fiennes at all is terrifying to you, and, to be fair, I get it.
The Babadook was a rewatch and it’s just as good the second time. Bunch of little winks and nods I didn’t pick up the first time watching that you notice on the second. Top shelf Recent Classic stuff.
The Menu is, tonally, the exact opposite, more of a horror comedy. It was really fun. Also a top shelf recent classic but one that didn’t d not spook at all. Unless the premise of Ralph Fiennes at all is terrifying to you, and, to be fair, I get it.
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
I decided to give the animated Godzilla trilogy another go and I liked it even less the second time. It has so many great ideas and wants to be serious but I think confuses epic and thoughtful with ponderous and inert. It's not that it's just "not fun" (the first Godzilla movie wasn't fun-focused but was a brilliant film in the disaster scenes), it's that it's taking the field of animation to present a really really talky story where the giant monsters don't do much. Even the big battle is Godzilla standing around being held by another monster, then getting free and shooting it. That's so deadly dull.
From the writer of that one magical girl deconstructionist anime people used to like and now I feel like no one does.
From the writer of that one magical girl deconstructionist anime people used to like and now I feel like no one does.
I haven't watched a whole lot of movies yet this year, but of the ones I have seen, I Saw the TV Glow is easily the best so far. I'm still untangling a lot of thoughts and feelings about this film, and I wrote a whole thing on my Letterboxd that is too long to put here, but if you've struggled with depression, being queer or neurodivergent in a society that accepts neither, or any combination of the above, and think you might enjoy a film that explores all that along with our relationships with the media we consume, all with some Lynchian and Cronenbergian overtones, you should give it a shot.
Also Justice Smith continues to be one of the most interesting up-and-comers in the industry.
Also Justice Smith continues to be one of the most interesting up-and-comers in the industry.
This years Canada Day movie was Ginger Snaps, which asked the question on everyone’s lips of “What if Carrie was about a wharwuff instead of a witch” and also cast any sense of subtlety to the winds.
Great practical effects throughout (few too many exploded dogs for my taste, however) and after the actual Whillwharf bits started, in place of Two Edgelord Goth sisters Being Mopey, it got pretty fun.
Great for anyone who wished Teenwolf had more people getting torn apart, or if Jennifer’s Body had more dog peeps.
Great practical effects throughout (few too many exploded dogs for my taste, however) and after the actual Whillwharf bits started, in place of Two Edgelord Goth sisters Being Mopey, it got pretty fun.
Great for anyone who wished Teenwolf had more people getting torn apart, or if Jennifer’s Body had more dog peeps.
Watched The Big Year, in which Jack Black, Steve Martin, and Owen Wilson go birding. Takes a moment to get going, but quite good and surprisingly heartfelt. Also, one-each bonus characters from Community and Parks & Rec. Apparently it kinda flopped as a movie, and I guess I can see why - it's a rather quiet, personal sort of film without many of the big laughs people might expect from the cast list, but if you go in with the right expectations it's a good time. It also doesn't hurt that my wife and I have a Life List together, though.
Enjoyed Maxxxine quite a bit more than I expected to. (it had terrible reviews from people with good taste) Mia Goth is of course excellent; the supporting cast is great, too, and everyone seems to be having a nice time doing silly little accents.
Also liked Kinds of Kindness, and each section of the anthology more than the last.
Also liked Kinds of Kindness, and each section of the anthology more than the last.
I saw it today too. I was actually a bit disappointed by it. It just didn't feel as "interesting" as either Pearl or X. But like, the production design and the effects and editing and all those things were all excellent. I think I maybe just didn't like the plot?
I think for me the middle part started strongest but ran out of interesting ideas and kind of flailed about for a bit before going for unexpected twists that didn't say much or respond much to what had happened already.
But I enjoyed each bit, and the central premise behind both the first bit and the last bit were especially interesting.
Robin and Marian was certainly well performed with a great cast, but it does seem somewhat odd to make a film so committed to resignation and despair with Robin Hood as your vehicle. Maybe it would've worked better on stage or something, but as a film it feels like it's in search of a climax that never comes and every scene exists to underline its cynicism and hopelessness.
Titane is the story of a woman who gets a titanium plate in her skull due to an accident as a child. She grows up with a fetish for cars, until one impregnates her. She's also a serial murderer who goes on the run and disguises herself as the return of a boy who went missing ten years ago, and forms an unlikely bond with the boy's father. It kind of feels like these two stories are just mushed together and don't really have much to do with each other until the very end where they sort of come together. If you sign up for the surreality of the original premise, don't expect it to have much to do with the latter half of the movie; instead get ready for some really weird father-son dynamics.
Finally pulled Smoke Signals (1998) out of my backlog, and I think I'd call that an excellent movie. Superb acting with well-realized characters, very thoughtful drama, a really unique sense of humor. And what editing! The cuts between flashbacks and present day are simply brilliant every time.
One of my local independent cinemas has been doing a Wong Kar-wai season the past month or so, and I felt like I probably should go catch one I've not seen before, despite not hugely being into the couple of his I had already seen.
So went and saw Fallen Angels today at a cheaper during-work-hours screening, and had a great time with it. It was way funnier and more narrative than the other Wong Kar-wai films I’ve seen, with a kind of mad chaos in parts that recalled stuff like Tampopo and After Hours. It also had a striking sense of style, enhanced a ton by its soundtrack that frequently brought to mind Cowboy Bebop. Takeshi Kaneshiro did especially well here as the immature and somewhat unhinged young man forcing others to patronise businesses he broke into to reopen in the middle of the night.
Definitely my favourite of those I've seen from him! Should probably mean I'll be less reluctant to check out more WKW stuff in future.
So went and saw Fallen Angels today at a cheaper during-work-hours screening, and had a great time with it. It was way funnier and more narrative than the other Wong Kar-wai films I’ve seen, with a kind of mad chaos in parts that recalled stuff like Tampopo and After Hours. It also had a striking sense of style, enhanced a ton by its soundtrack that frequently brought to mind Cowboy Bebop. Takeshi Kaneshiro did especially well here as the immature and somewhat unhinged young man forcing others to patronise businesses he broke into to reopen in the middle of the night.
Definitely my favourite of those I've seen from him! Should probably mean I'll be less reluctant to check out more WKW stuff in future.
Love Lies Bleeding came to HBO Max so I finally got to check that out. It was good! Pretty tense crime thriller with some psychodrama and unexpected surrealism thrown in there.
This year is the 10th anniversary of Birdman, and I gotta say it was a fantastic re-visit. It really hits now that we're 10 more years deeper into the MCU and Michael Keaton has a new Beetlejuice sequel coming out. Man...
I've been meaning to rewatch that! Ten years already, damn.
That one's always been on my radar but I've never gotten around to it. This seems like as good an excuse as any...