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JoJoestar

That new Alex Garland movie is pretty wild lol

treefroggy

have you seen the photo of the Barbie film that’s being shot and going viral lately?…. yeah thats literally in my back yard and today I rode my bicycle through the set while carrying a 5gallon jug full to the brim with my piss in the basket

xhekros

yeso Haven’t seen it yet, but if you’re refering to Benediction it feels like a downgrade compared to his latest two movies (those two were my faves, though).
Seen your opinion of the new Cronenberg and I’m not particularly fond of that. I don’t know if I should keep it into my shelf and start watching films like Crash first.

yeso

xhekros you should watch cronenberg, don’t be deterred by my crabby attitude. But more importantly you should read JG Ballard

xhekros

yeso Where is the best novel to start? I’ve finished the movie and I liked the whole structure of the movie, so I don’t know how that fits with Ballard, but if you have any recommendation I’m up for it.

Syzygy

Why is Amazon’s new English dub of Evangelion Rebuild, so bad? Producing something this stilted, today, for big money, almost seems like they must be trying to purposefully invoke nostalgia (. . ?) for bad 90’s dubs.

Edit: after some research I have read speculation about it being done remotely and in a hurry due to the pandemic, and Khara being dissatisfied and looking to revamp it. All the same, it’s strikingly bad; watch the first 10 minutes of 1.11 on Prime if you can, to boggle over it.

Karnovski

On my Facebook memories the other day I had mentioned seeing Jackie Chan’s Thunderbolt for the first time. Anyone ever see this one? He plays a race car driver for Mitsubishi. Some street racers kidnap his sister and he has to race to get her back.
It’s really dang good!

JoJoestar

xhekros yeso is probably going to recommend the same but read Vermilion Sands and The Disaster Area.

yeso

xhekros I’d say read the short fiction in chronological order and jump into the novels that seem interesting to you. There’s a very clear thematic and stylistic flow to his fiction over his career, with the main current being the short fiction and the novels developing off of certain lines of his thinking.

There’s a lot of short fiction though, so these are the high points you shouldn’t miss imo:

“Deep End”
“The Voices of Time”
“The Terminal Beach”
Vermillion Sands collection per JoJoe
“The Air Disaster”
“The Dead Time”
“The Smile”
“The Ultimate City”
“Low Flying Aircraft”
“The Dead Astronaut”
“My Dream of Flying to Wake Island”
“Memories of the Space Age”
“Myths of the Near Future”

and the best novels are

The Crystal World
The Atrocity Exhibition
Crash
The Unlimited Dream Company

@JoJoestar have you read “Having A Wonderful Time”? it’s about Gran Canaria being used as a gulag for english tourists

JoJoestar

yeso Yeah lol, english tourists are the most annoying so doesn’t exactly qualify as “fiction”.

fortninety

So yeah, Monday, time for another FORT90 FILM CLUB, but it’s also the 4th of July, so time for some movies that “celebrate” this country by highlighting what a dumpster fire it has truly become.

First if, what happens when an expat fashion photographer decides to produce a scathing satire of his birthplace via a superhero movie, one that lacks any subtext whatsoever, and is also absurdly well costumed? Well, you get…

Next is a pseudo-documentary from 1971 that feels way too real in 2022…

Third is why July 4 is no longer the anniversary of America being founded, but instead the anniversary of me discovering racer trash, and to mark the occassion I am playing the very first thing I ever saw from them…

Last but not least is something that is legit one of the greatest anti-Vietnam movies ever produced, tho be warmed: it is a hard af watch cuz it is GRIM…

Stream starts at the usual time, 8PM EST, and at the usual destination…

rearnakedwindow

fortninety Mr. Freedom is such a great pick for this occasion, thank you for reminding me of it.

rejj

rearnakedwindow @fortninety I ended up on a four hour long work call and had to miss the end of Punishment Park 😭 (and the rest of the broadcast afterwards. I really wanted to HWG the start of id4)

I also had to have Mr Freedom on mute for most of it due to being in (online) meetings, so I have my own interpretation of what was going on and I cannot imagine what the genuine authorial intent was

yeso

watched White Men Can’t Jump and got upset with how badly woody botches things with Rosie Pérez. What are you doing man unbelievable

yeso

downloading tubi to watch Thief tonight

Speaking of which I pre-ordered the Heat 2 novel but don’t have real high hopes for that after seeing it has a co-author and also it’s still titled “Heat 2”….

rejj

yeso co-author is quite concerning. Makes me wonder if Crichton just gave an outline and handed it off for someone else to do the work

Gaagaagiins

I wonder what the first numbered sequel was

Gaagaagiins

Gaagaagiins I wonder what the first numbered sequel was

The first use of a number in a sequel title was probably Quatermass 2 in 1957, the follow-up to The Quatermass Xperiment.

TracyDMcGrath

Gaagaagiins wait wow that’s super late.

Gaagaagiins

TracyDMcGrath wait wow that’s super late.

It does seem late, but I suppose that’s the reality of inconsistent media preservation practices, and so perhaps the numbered sequels of yesteryear are lost forever…

Some say that we may never be able to find decisive evidence of Henry I through VII.

yeso

watched about a half hour of world war z because the algorithm wouldn’t leave us alone about it. Jerusalem is able to hold out against the undead horde because they have big walls and the IDF protecting it, but then a group of Palestinians start singing a happy song together and the zombies hear it then breach the wall and kill everyone.

RubySunrise

yeso wow

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