I watched Thirst by Park Chan-wook in a small theater last night and had a good time.
I think I love that movie, I had not seen it before
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saw Sinners. i though the first half was phenomenal. the cast, the costumes, tone, the BLUES. i was so so ready for it to be a cool blues devil film. it sort of moves away from that into a from dusk till dawn scenario. there are cheesey, schmaltzy elements that made me felt beaten about the head with ideas i would have absolutely eaten up if they were just a little subtler. and i hate when a film has too many epilogues. i think thereās a really good smart-and-fun Film in here that had a ruinous amount of dumb-and-fun Movie spilled on it.
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Just introduced my partner to Gummo. I hadnāt seen it probably since 2011 or something. I grew up in a similarly rural areaā and similarly found beauty.
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Thunderbolts was fun as hell, and it was the most I enjoyed a Marvel movie in a looooooooong long time!
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I tried to find that martial arts movie thread that I created a while ago, but I couldnāt find it!I found the post where I mentioned I wanted to make it, but and I remember having done so, but it does seem to be gone, since I know I would have mentioned certain movies in there and searching for posts by me with those film titles returns nothing. Oh well. It doesnāt matter.
Mrs. Gaagaagiins and I just watched Iron Monkey. Sometimes when I am about to post about something here on the forums, I do a search first, to see if anyone else has talked about it, so I can compare and contrast my feelings about things to what has already been said. Donāt want to be too redundant.
Unless there was mention of it in that martial arts movie thread that is now gone, only one person has talked about Iron Monkey (1993) so far, and it was Elder Dirtbag, @MoxBagel:
Have to totally agree on the enthusiasm! I was even surprised that this is the only mention of it on the whole forum.
Features a young Donnie Yen kicking absolute ass, some solid comedy, super charming wu xia style wire work and larger than life tricks and stunts, an abundance of filial piety, and, wow, the finale really just starts kicking everything into high gear and it doesnāt stop going until itās over.
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saw fire walk with me last night, with a q&a/vamp session with ray wise (leland). havenāt seen this movie in 20 years!
- wild that this movie was booed at cannes. like actually inconceivable to me. what did those people want.
- i remembered the movie being grim and upsetting. the host at the event said it was two hours and fifteen minutes of punishment. but really? the first 45 minutes or so are pretty funny. lynch screaming āor-ay-goneā into the phone, kiefer sutherland being a twitchy weirdo, harry dean stantonās āGOD you people are confusingā, the deputy getting his nose annihilated, ācable bends steelāā¦thereās a lot of laughs. irene at the diner!
- the content is pretty upsetting stuff, but i canāt think of anything else with this kind of stuff in it that delivers it so well? this kind of stuff is generally really hard for me to engage with in entertainment but i never felt uncomfortable for myself, just sad for laura. i donāt want to say ātastefulā, but.
- ray is a very funny guy, very hard to keep on topic. really just loved being in front of a live audience.
- told a very touching story about getting into character, how sheryl lee gave him a picture of herself in fourth grade to keep in his wallet while they filmed, how he nearly had to quit because he had just had a daughter and couldnāt stomach it (āā¦and then I realized theyād sue the shit out of meā).
- another good story about angelo badalamenti going to buckingham palace with paul mccartney, being recevied by the queen and being told that she wouldnāt be sticking around for their performance at the palace because it was 8:50 and twin peaks was going to be on tv in ten minutes.
- finding out he was the killer: walking into an office, completely empty except for a lava lamp in the corner. lynch, sheryl lee and (i think russ tamblyn/jacoby) all sitting cross legged in a corner. lynch motions for him to sit down. ray sits down cross legged. lynch reaches over, touches his shoulder and says (his david lynch voice is pitch perfect) āRAY. ITāS YOU. IT WAS ALWAYS YOU.ā
very fun time, never did anything like this before. theyāre doing robocop with him tonight, going to that as well.
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theyāre french. every movie at cannes either gets booed or appluaded for 15+ minutes. sometimes both. itās not worth thinking about too deeply
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thank you, this has alleviated some pressure in my mind
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I just finished The Skin I Live In with Antonio Banderas and it was pretty good. This is a pretty dark movie and it only gets darker as it unravels itself.
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Just watched I Saw The Devil (2010) with Mrs. Gaagaagiins.
My one sentence review is: Wow, someone made Sympathy for Lady Vengeance to appeal to the ajusshi mindā¦
What a weird movie. Like, kind of in the same vein as Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance in that it is a bizarre and brutal revenge thriller. Itās secret, though, which youād never be able to tell from the promotional material or a summary of its premise, is that it is also a black comedy for people with a twisted sense of humour (welcome to my dark twisted mindā¦) with really off-kilter jokes and uncomfortably goofy exaggerated violence and strange caricatures of human beings. It has nothing really profound to say, almost more of a satire of its own genre or even of itself than a serious movie about the heart of darkness or the depravity of vengeance.
Certainly not for the faint of heart, featuring some quite graphic scenes of murder, torture, and sexual violence that is not funny at all, naturally. But it certainly was a movie that was strange and unique.
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i like all his movies iāve seen, but watching the beach has me thinking that danny boyle is more of a āgood bad directorā rather than a ābad good directorā
This is really the only film this year I am actually looking forward to, and this leaked footage has me even more excited for it.
Hidden because the thumbnail is just awfulā¦
Kung Fury: The Movie
Also that soundtrack is sounding like itāll be on another level of synthwave greatness!!!
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At a time in which far too many are viewing the word in purely black & white terms, this month Iām presenting black & white films to demonstrate that, as with everything, there are many shades of gray in-between.
And what better way to encourage nuanced discussion than withā¦
Next, no survey of black & white cinema is complete without a movie that someone on Letterbox accurately states āimagine making one movie and itās the best movieāā¦
Speaking as someone who rolls his eyes at modern (i.e. color) movies that put out a black & white version for cool points, trust & believe when I say the following is legitā¦
And last but not least is a movie that has a real chance of permabanning the alt channel, but at least itāll go out with a bang (and also, thatās what the back-up accounts are for)ā¦
The stream will again be via the alt account, starting around 8PM-ish ESTā¦
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Iron Monkey is such a blast; I completely echo the sentiment that thereās so much going on in it that elevates it above lots of other movies of its ilk. I watched it a years ago and thinking about it now I can only recall having a great time with it. What a movie!
A buddy of mine, who is by no means a physical movie collector in the slightest, has the Eureka release from a few years ago and itās one of his favourite movies.
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Saw it this weekend, and while I agree about a smart-and-fun and dumb-and-fun blending, I donāt know if Iād call it ruinous.
I really liked that this never tried to act like itās more than a movie. A popcorn chomping, soda sippinā, escape from the summer heat movie.
I think thereās a lot of themes that deserve greater thought and dissection in Sinners, but I also think it has the ability to be what I assume most people see the Marvel films as: an escape.
I agree that there were too many epilogues. Half the theater left before the last one cause the film sort of drags for the last 20 minutes or so.
All in all, really liked it and Iād say itās an easy recommendable watch
after reflection i like it more as a whole than when i posted that lol.
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My wife and I watched āthe dead wood movieā returning to those characters and that dialogue, wow! forgot how much we enjoyed it.
We had watched the show when it aired. Then we saved the movie to watch but a bunch of other life stuff happened and we never got around to it. Glad we remembered to check it out. I donāt know how well it works as a movie isolated from the show itself, not really, it more of just an extra episode and send off for the cast.
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I liked the deadwood movie quite a bit for what it was. Itās hard to complain when itās amazing it exists at all.
Not sure if you knew, but it was also a bit of a send off for the creator, David Milch, as well. He was diagnosed with Alzheimerās when he was still writing the screenplay iirc: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/books/david-milch-still-has-stories-to-tell.html
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Oh man thanks for explaining that. I will share it. We looked him up after watching and where like oh wow heās 80 now etc.
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Are there any Mr. Arkadin heads in here?
I just watched it for the first time and completely adored it. Welles has become one of my favourite people. The film has a physicality to it that you donāt find in a lot of films released from the time. Also Welles is incredibly fun to watch.