Now you’ve gotta watch Dragon Inn.
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i thought about doing the double feature but ended up bailing on it
I saw Alien Romulus, and I’m a little confused by the critical acclaim. The thrills were 6/10, the chills were 5/10, and the kills were 4/10. Wasn’t a bad movie but not much to really grasp on to.
I am not a big fan of the “Planet of the Apes”-ification of tentpole blockbusters that are competent but ultimately shallow, not that memorable or ambitious but critically acclaimed for giving a decent theater experience that isn’t Marvel.
Also my gf asked me, unprompted, if Citizen Kane was the Citizen Kane of movies. Secret insert credit listener???
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Harvey Keitel is wearing the HELL out of this Big Mac shirt in Blue Collar [1978]
Also love the tagline for this one: The American Dream – if you’re rich, you can buy it. If you’re anything else, you gotta fight for it.
Not entirely sold on its lean into crime drama (it’s settling with me, thematically; I do think it’s ultimately justified as means of conveying that blue collar folks, despite giving everything they have to money men who steal from them every day, have no other option to come out not even close to even) but I love watching working-class ruminations (my people) from actors who just seem incapable of making dishonest performance choices (Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Richard Pryor)
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That sadly made me remember the McDonald’s rap from the 80’s.
I watched God Told Me To coincidentally also from 1976 and what an unhinged movie. I don’t even know what to say about it other than watch it if you like detective thrillers that pull in a lot of conspiracy theories that also goes completely off the rails. It also has Andy Kaufman in a non speaking, serious role for about a minute.
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i appreciate that romulus really commits to some practical fx even when they look a little bit old-fashioned and obviously-puppety. i thought the big sequence where it all Kicks Aff at the end of act 1 was REALLY good. but it’s all good ideas pinched from better films, which is also what i thought about The First Omen. and then the crass fanserivce stuff really kicked the whole experience in the nuts. i enjoyed watching it but i would also say that Alien Romulus is a Not Good film with a couple of Pretty Good bits in it.
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Me fascinated to hear that Romulus is coming up a lot in movie talk:
Me subsequently learning it’s a different sci-fi franchise entirely:
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i gotta say, i had a good time with alien romulus! it’s extremely shallow and dumb but i hooted and hollered the whole time. the zero gravity acid sequence… wahoo!!
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I saw this when @fortninety screened it last year, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I felt like it achieved far more than its obviously shoestring budget would suggest possible.
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It’s such a delightful little hidden movie. I’m shocked that it took me this long to hear about it. I saw the Stuff in the 90’s but somehow missed this.
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I liked Alien Romulus. I’d cut off the last 20 minutes or so and end it with the elevator shaft shoot out as the final action scene and I also absolutely hated everything with Rook being another CGI dead actor but otherwise I had a good time with it. I know the bar is lower now with this sort of thing, but that’s more than I can say for Longlegs, Twisters, and Deadpool & Wolverine which were all blockbuster movies with good reviews that I would individually rate somewhere between bad and terrible
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God Told Me To is such an interesting watch – I really like socially driven exploitation flicks from around that era that take big weird swings, and this one swings bigly and weirdly. Larry Cohen’s stuff is all really idiosyncratic. Have you seen Q: The Winged Serpent from a few years later? It’s sweaty early '80s New York City cop-killer tension that’s also a kaiju movie with a monster based on Quetzalcoatl.
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Depends on which is the prism is looking. But normally? Nope.
From the POV film buffs were using, I think nowadays the Citizen Kane of movies is Vertigo.
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Yes! I had no idea it was the same director even though I should have. It has really similar vibes.
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So tonight is not another installment of the FORT90 FILM CLUB, but instead another broadcast of FORT90 TV, tho there is always something FILM CLUB-adjacent, which in this case will be detailed my hunt for perhaps THE most underground indie flick to be produced in NYC…
Start time is the same as usual, 8PM EST, over at Wonderville’s Twitch account…
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add me to the list of people who found Alien: Romulus to be an alright movie, even if it just repeated almost the same formula of the last 45 years. at least it didn’t bore me like Covenant did
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I watched Cuckoo tonight hoping for a fun horror movie and instead got a nice looking bore. Not scary unfortunately, and story was the wrong kind of dumb.
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That one was for the birds
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Wow that movie looks like it came from another dimension. So I was reading that a large part of it is out there to be watched but the owner will not allow the full film to viewed? Not sure of the whole story there but reminds me of other not lost but also not available anywhere movies like Matthew Barney’s Redoubt and Vincent Gallo’s Promises Written in Water.
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