I‘m astounded at how much obi wan blows, it is so painfully dull and boring, there is no hook to anything going on. He is depressed and has to look after an annoying kid, like who the heck cares!! This week was ||Vader|| reveal and I almost fell asleep, how did they manage to make that character’s appearance so uninteresting is beyond comprehension.
Heading to see Crimes of the a Future in a little bit. Quite excited and maybe a little nervous. Has anyone had a chance to see this one yet?
haven’t seen it but the film comment critics remarked that the body horror stuff was greatly overstated in terms of gnarliness if that’s what you’re concerned about
Saw Les Blank doc Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers. Beautiful, beautiful film. It was just as I had expected based on the title, but even better.
"It's hard to talk about [the health benefits of garlic] without sounding like a hippie dipshit."
also discovered a poster I wouldn't mind having (NSFW)
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@“Jtwo”#p72242 Saw it with a friend last night. The film feels like a litmus test for exactly how you feel about Cronenberg, because the film is Cronenberg at his most unreservedly alienating: stilted dialogue, barely-human characters, claustrophobic low-budget filming, quasi-coherent plotting, Pythonesque absurdity played deadly serious. (And that’s assuming you’re down for the kink and gore.) Do you like it when David does this?
For me the answer is… kinda? The relentless alienation really does make this feel like a movie beamed in from an alternate dimension or distant future, and that’s not an experience one gets at the movies a lot. The ideas of the film, academically, are enthralling and classic Cronenberg biopunk: a desensitized post-human populace, detached from ownership of their own bodies, who find the pinnacle of art and eroticism in self-mutilation; a state that fears the revolutionary possibility of modifications to human biology. But as an actual _film_ to _watch_, it’s absolutely joyless and inhuman to a degree that’s hard for me to appreciate.
@""I thought lethal weapon was safe..............................................................................................................yeah.""#p72247 I think what people said is not so much that the imagery isn’t graphic - it is - but that it’s presented in such a detached, nonchalant manner (humans in the film’s setting literally don’t feel pain and actively seek out self-mutilation for pleasure) that it doesn’t hit with the psychological violence of something like, say, _Hostel_.
I probably sound like a snob with this question but: is prime cronenberg more substantial than jg ballard but instead of a book its a movie with practical gore ?
you know what, I’m not a snob I’m just right. Another victory for team book
I watched the 1972 Shaw Brothers adaptation of chapters 64 through 68 of The Water Margin this week, as part of the homework I've given myself before attempting to get into Suikoden. It was rad!
The story opens with a fatal ambush on the Liangshan Marsh gang's leader by a man named Shi Wengong. The remaining heads of the gang decide that their best ally in confronting this foe should be "Jade Unicorn" Lu Junyi ([Tetsurō Tamba](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848533/)), as the two were both disciples of the same master. They also discuss Junyi's sidekick and star of the show Yan Qing The Prodigy (played by [David Chiang](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0156955/)) who spends all of his screentime kicking ass and mugging for the camera, knitting his brows as though it aches to be so beautiful.
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In his introduction he enters a wrestling match out in the street, takes off his coat and the camera snap zooms to the tattoo on his chest while his musical cue plays (**bassline** _chicka chicka chaa!_). His skill is immediately apparent to onlookers.
So, Wu Yong "The Wizard" and Li Kui "The Black Whirlwind" approach Junyi disguised as fortunetellers angling to direct him their way, but are outed as marsh bandits by Qing and taken prisoner. Yong and Kui are set free but not before Junyi's adulterous wife and her lover take advantage of the situation to paint Junyi as being in cahoots with the outlaws and he is taken into custody with a death sentence put on his head.
The rest of the film is a series of attempts by Yan Qing and the Liangshan gang to spring Lu Junyi before his execution.
The music is great and I don't know where I can find it to listen to outside of the movie which is frustrating. They kept introducing new characters over an hour in (they got 108 members after all). Anyway, it's lots of fun! Best homework I ever had.
Everyone, please be careful. I've just heard that there are now non-cam/webrip torrent uploads of Everything Everywhere All At Once available on the internet.
While some would say it is a virtually victimless crime if you don't got the money or the means to see the movie in theatres anyway, and it's virtually impossible to be charged with it if you don't get entrapped by your ISP, media piracy is of course a crime, and no one should commit any crimes.
@“Gaagaagiins”#p72771 on the other hand,
Property is Theft!
also
Fuck tha police!
watched Shriek of the Mutilated has its moments: unhinged monologue by “bad” actor leading into color negative yeti attack scene that looked like Dog Star Man. Not really worth the time. I laughed at some dumb stuff, like the fact that everyone is on an expedition to find a yeti, then one member is viciously killed by an unseen creature, and then another, but there’s still a drawn out discussion of what could have killed them. I’m kind of bored of laughing at “bad” movies though
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@“Funbil”#p70542 What recommendations do you guys have for Westerns?
[Stagecoach](https://youtu.be/OE-VWDsdkwM) (1939)
[The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly](https://youtu.be/IFNUGzCOQoI) (1966)
[The Ballad of the Daltons](https://youtu.be/WagxZqRDJSc) (1978)
[The Quick and The Dead](https://youtu.be/eyRjrH9HF2Y) (1995)
[The Sisters Brothers](https://youtu.be/hlyCVwLvdP0) (2018)
Tonight is another FORT90 TV broadcast from Wonderville that contains bonus FORT90 FILM CLUB content; was originally going to do a “best of”, but since it's June and all…
https://twitter.com/fort90filmclub/status/1533886615873064960
#thequickandthedeadcrew
re watched Irma Vep ahead of the premier of the hbo series Irma Vep - great movie I love it, very funny and charming
@““I thought lethal weapon was safe…yeah.””#p72334 That’s one flavor of prime Cronenberg but I happen to be on the less popular “Cronenberg’s best films are the direct literary adaptations team”, i.e. Dead Ringers (ironically haven’t watched Crash)
Anyway people should see _Benediction_ if they can. Always a fine time with my man Terence Davies, master of ocean-deep English melancholy _and_ highbrow snark.
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@“2501”#p73583 Terence Davies
didn't know he had a new one on my to watch list now for sure. The emily dickenson film was great
Yeah this one is very much of a piece with the Dickinson film - a poet “biopic” that rejects biopic standards for more poetic storytelling and expressionist reveries - though I know nothing about Siegfried Sassoon compared to Emily Dickinson (whose grave I lived next door to for a year lol) and some parts of the film made me wish I’d at least looked up his Wikipedia page beforehand. Also, there’s a very heavy focus on England’s early 20th century high society gay scene which I don’t exactly know a lot about either.
But Davies is fantastic, I’ve been a big fan ever since I caught _Distant Voices, Still Lives_ at a screening series a few years ago. Can’t think of many other living English-language directors who can utilize weighted silences and classical music cues like he can, and he also happens to command beautiful compositions and rich dialogue to boot. He speaks my language of gloom, lol
watched The Color Wheel thought it was funny as heck
I saw the new Jurassic World Dominion movie…
...I loved it.
It was really fun and dumb. Some of it didn't make much sense, but I had a great time. It's a movie sprinkled with James Bond, Indiana Jones, and dinosaurs. Jeff Goldblum was Jeff Goldblum.