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someone just sent this to me privately i'm being ASSAULTED by BIG CEREAL
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Rita Hayworth dart board inside
~~what the fuck~~
oh wait it's not real is it? duped by plausibility!!
This reminds me of an ancient twitter thing Iâve been trying to find, maybe someone here knows what Iâm talking about. I canât remember if it was a widespread meme format or just one person on twitter doing multiple threads, but it was a series of reviews of more modern pop culture things written in the voice of Orson Welles. Now that I write that out it doesnât seem that original, but dang it I remember these threads being hilarious and I'd love to read them again.
@âRubySunriseâ#p80472 In trying to find an example, of which I know exactly what youâre talking about, Iâve discovered that Twitter might be deciding it is now gauche https://twitter.com/LegoKingo/status/1553878227436945417
I have a movie on the docket that I heard about while listening to Tim and Guy from The Worst Idea of All Time podcast.
It's called [NĂ»de TuÄsdĂ€y.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nude_Tuesday) The conceit of the movie is that its rough script was written and rehearsed in English. However, upon shooting, all of the dialogue was replaced with a fake pseudo-conlang gibberish language (think [Simlish,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simlish) manufactured to have a roughly Nordic language-esque set of recognizably consistent phonemes, but with no actual meaning). Then, the cut of the movie with all of the dialogue "removed" was given to comedian Julia Davis, who then wrote subtitles for the movie back into English, having no knowledge whatsoever of the "original" English dialogue. There is also a second version of the film with subtitles written by Malaysian comedian Ronny Chieng and Australian comedian Celia Pacquola, who also of course have no knowledge of the original script. Also a version without subtitles, but like, why.
I want to see what could become of such a premise.
@âconnrrrâ#p79094 i just want to say that this is absolutely wild because not only am i also currently reading 20th Century Boys (as you know), but i also watched Stand By Me a couple of months ago for the first time since i was a young child, when i was also scarred by the leech scene.
similarly, i had a good old time watching it. just solidly entertaining, if a bit wistful. i'm also a huge Stephen King fan, so that helps.
here's the fun bit: i can confirm that the movie is big in Japan because over here, every Friday night, there is a long-running television institution called [Friday Road Show](https://kinro.ntv.co.jp/). it's very old fashioned, because it's literally just a movie being played in prime time on network television. often it's a Ghibli or Disney movie, or a big franchise movie like the latest Jurassic Park, but sometimes it's also the first place a big Japanese movie will air after its theatrical run is finished. however, at some point during the calendar year, there are a couple of old American movies that you can bet will be shown. one of them is Stand By Me. and that's how i watched it (i recorded it on my TiVo type device (which is also what i've used to build up my Ghibli movie collection lol)).
@âGaagaagiinsâ#p80484 I'm so glad I got off Twitter.
had a very long travel day and watched go (1999) on the third and final plane. fun movie, bad place to watch it! the vegas sequence has aged very poorly but i like how the movieâs vibes are incidental to the characters - theyâre in a cool~ scene and milieu or whatever, but theyâre really just dorks who are in over their heads. itâs got a kind of saturday morning cartoon quality in that way.
i've read a lot of stuff that compares it to _pulp fiction_, which might actually get me to watch _pulp fiction_? i tried that movie a few years ago but the close-up of uma thurman passed out on the floor was viscerally upsetting to me and i haven't returned to it since. conversely, the fun thing about _go_ is that it feels pretty affectionate towards its characters, instead of vaguely contemptuous.
EDIT also forgot to mention that it features james duval and nathan bexton, who are so delightful together in gregg araki's _nowhere_, and they do not share a single scene!!! absolute sacrilege 0/10 movie
you should watch Jackie Brown instead imo
@âleahâ#p80529 for some reason I get this mixed up with Human Traffic, which I have seen (and enjoyed a lotâitâs more than just Transpotting for MDMA, and itâs got John Simm from Life on Mars in it). I might check it out!!
@âconnrrrâ#p80533 i haven't heard of human traffic but it looks good! onto the watchlist it goes
I have (good? bad?) memories of falling asleep on a friendâs couch with the Go dvd on the menu screen on loop. I couldnât tell you if I like or hate the film. I just know Iâve seen it. Maybe you should see it too, and make up your own mind.
apropos of the Orson Welles talk - he was definitely goofy in his bariatric drunk phase but worth remembering he was at times extremely cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11sW1sXNbs
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@âGaagaagiinsâ#p80486 I have a movie on the docket that I heard about while listening to Tim and Guy from The Worst Idea of All Time podcast. Itâs called NĂ»de TuÄsdĂ€y.
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@âGaagaagiinsâ#p80486 I want to see what could become of such a premise.
We watched this one yesterday afternoon!
On a lark I decided to intentionally not explain the premise of the film to my partner to see if that would produce some interesting results. We both enjoyed it and thought it was funny, I think I laughed more often at individual lines knowing the premise, though.
Not _too_ sure about some of the comic sensibilities on display by the subtitler, Julia Davis. Some of it does come off as a bit _Mad Libs-_esque lowest common denominator humor, but, like, to be fair, the format is kind of what makes some of that land and I wouldn't put it past myself if these same lines I'm dismissing as _Mad Libs-_y were the ones I laughed at and my partner didn't. In other words, thinking of someone having to watch this goofy thing and interpret a story to it makes the cornier humor land where it might not otherwise. In that way it might warrant a watch of the other subtitle track by the other two guys.
Overall I'd say the premise was interesting and probably elevated it and sold a good deal of the humour as opposed to it being the film as it was rehearsed in English, but there was good comedy bones there too. Of course, I suppose there's no way to tell.
Also worth mentioning that Jemaine Clement was a delight in it as usual. Shouts out to the distant Maori cousins. Also, damn, he's hot... still weird to me that he was portrayed as "the not hot one" on _Flight of the Conchords..._
I got my advanced ticket to see Inu-Ohâthe latest film by Masaaki Yuasaâon the thirteenth in what is as of booking an empty theatre. I'm excited about that!!!
Also: I feel really bad that the Bob's Burgers movie is playing and I never got around to watching the show. I liked Dr. Katz, loved Home Movies a whole lot, so I don't know why I waited to get into it. I'd be staring down the barrel of twelve seasons if I did now, though. Someone please tell me the show jumped the shark early so I don't need to care so much.
Watched the 70s British war film Overlord last night - not an incredible movie, but it did lead me to discover this incredible piece of proto-Youtube history:
https://youtu.be/IMs0qlMyNeg
I will full endorse Hologram man as a very fun movie to watch 
Tonightâs FORT90 FILM CLUB kicks off my month-long tour of Japan, and the first stop is the city of Tokyo, with four films that best illustrate how wid Tokyo can be. First is a film by Seijun Suzuki, and if youâre unfamiliar with his body of work, then the possible introduction might have to beâŠ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyfTWWjaEkE
Next is what I like to call âthe Gone With The Wind of guerilla filmmakingâ, as noted below, since there is no trailer in existence (that I know of at least), here's a tweet with some footageâŠ
https://twitter.com/fort90filmclub/status/1556717141688139776
If you scroll all the way up, to January of 2021, youâll find a film from Hitoshi Matsumoto, a long time fave of the CLUB. And here at last is something else by him, and yet another fave of mineâŠ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzerYSzOZmE
And finally, I always consume mass quantities of Asian cinema every summer, largely due to the habit being formed by the New York Asian Film Festival, and if thereâs one single film that best sums up the spirit of the event from the past 20 years, it might actually have to beâŠ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VqtYgQ0ZXo
Stream starts at the usual time, 8PM EST, and at the usual destinationâŠ
https://www.twitch.tv/wondervillenyc
rewatching SĂĄtĂĄntangĂł and finding the doctor extremely funny this time around
Looks like itâs leaving criterion at the end of the month so make plans to watch it if you havenât heck of good time