It's not a crush! I just think we'd get along izall! :eek:

Seen over the last few days or so.....


1. Baby Driver (2017)- Any pleasures to be gained from Wright's finger snap editing of image and musical notes is overwhelmingly drowned out by monotone characters, cheap diversions of the crime genre and a sadistically overwrought final third.


2. The Beguiled (2017)- Sofia Coppola's remake of Don Siegel's 1971 film is more controlled and certainly amplifies its cloistered sexual emotions to dizzying heights.


3. The Hunting Party (1971)- Pretty sadistic and violent western that seems to be shelling off the popularity of "The Wild Bunch". Still, Gene Hackman as an unrepentant rancher picking off the outlaws (including Oliver Reed) who kidnapped his wife doesn't pull any punches. Just see where on the body he shoots someone during the finale for proof.


4. Before I Fall (2017)- Adapted from a YA novel... a teen girl "Groundhog Day" that actually manages to mean something heavy in the end, which surprised and moved me.


5. Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)- Seems like AtSonicPark was a fan of this back in the day. Released in '69 and a busy torrent for many years, Toshio Matsumoto's experimental, avant garde queer effort did recently get a retrospective release. It's not quite the masterpiece I was anticipating, but it's completely unafraid of breaking taboos (both visually and narratively) and playing by its own overheated logic. Definitely worth a download.


6. Chaotic Ana (2007)- As a huge fan of Spanish filmmaker Julio Medem, this was the one film I could never track down until now. White it features many of his perennial themes (cosmic fate, star-crossed encounters and metaphysical beliefs), its also a hectic and ultimately pretentious mess.


7.At the Top of the Stairs (1982) French film about a woman returning to the hometown and seeking revenge on the people who turned in her collaborator husband during WW2. That description makes it sound waaay more interesting than it really is. Dry and stifling... as if Alain Resnais had directed it but without Resnais and his magical way of intersecting memory and place.


8. Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press (2017)- Netflix doc that begins with the HUlk Hogan sextape trial and then opens into a conspiratorial web of cases where billionaires and the Trump administration are willfully constricting and attacking the free press with insidious methods. Crackling from start to finish.


9. The Little Hours (2017)- Reviewed on Dallas Film Now. One of the best comedies of the year, with Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie and Kate Mucicci as foul mouthed, sexually charged nuns.


10. Green Fish (1997) Filmmaker Lee Chang-dong's (Poetry, Secret Sunshine) mid 90's gangster film that pulses with energy and sadness as a rural guy becomes involved with a ravishing gangster's moll.


11. Three (2016)- Love Johnnie To and this one-stage set thriller about the police guarding (and awaiting) the inevitable break-out attempt of a wounded gangster in a hospital is riveting. Much praise has been given to the big shoot-out which is nice, but no match for the melee staged by To in "The Mission" (1999) or "Breaking News" (2004)


12. The Psychic (1977) Not one of Lucio Fulci's best.

thats a lotta movies!

"that's a lot of nuts!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PbE3k9LG9A

I'll have to check this out. Thank you!

Kubo and the Two Strings


beautifully animated. very cool story. The portrayal of Kubo's mom's depressive state was DEAD ON.

A GOOD OLD FASHIONED ORGY



neither good, nor funny, nor sexy-- just... old, and not in a good way

5 out of 5 disappointments

that looks fucking HORRIBLE. Another movie catering to the white affluent idiots.

What the fuck is this shit? I've never even heard of this.

The American Pie generation has grown up and wants more American Pie. They never realized that American Pie was shit, bless their stupid hearts.

literally.

daddy wants to sell the hamptons house (oh no, boo hoo, they're in their 30s)

they throw an orgy (among themselves) as the big sendoff

had the potential to be a funny summer movie, but was just fucking lame

laaaaaaaame

laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame



izzit? i didn't connect it because ive never seen those movies actually. now i wanna, for anthropological research. i might vomit. i do like willow though. she's great. the rest who cares.

oh, did you ever watch buffy OR NO?

wow. like the Hulk Hogan sex tape thing, something on my avoid list.

American Pie itself isn't too bad. The problem is all the copycats that followed.

alright. i've queued it up. for shits and giggles. thanks!

I love the first American Pie.

Having HBO means watching movies that due to not very enthusiastic word of mouth I didn't bother seeing in the theatre, and they never made it to Netflix instant but are currently available to watch on HBO Now so might as well. So this week I've watched Batman V Superman, which had elements I found annoying, mostly Jesse Eisenberg was a shit Lex Luthor, they have Wonder Woman in it and she says nothing, and Doomsday's design was terrible.

Watched Suicide Squad today. Totally serviceable movie. Could've been should've been better and was just okay. I actually didn't mind Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. I hate that she didn't wear the jester outfit more. Leto as The Joker was meh, but he really is in the shadow of two former damn good performances by way of Nicholson and Ledger. Suicide Squad was a movie you can enjoy while you're watching it, but really doesn't stick with you once its over.

Finally, I watched The Green Inferno. Before watching this movie I had yet to say I liked any Eli Roth movies. Not a fan of Cabin Fever or either of the two Hostels, and I had not heard anything to make me look forward to The Green Inferno, but since it was available to watch I gave it a shot. This was another case of, "that's it?" And I think I feel that way about Roth over all. I honestly don't feel he had anything to add to the "cannibal" film as a sub-genre. It neither challenged its audience, or shocked them. It was gory, but really the horror aspects of it were no more cringe inducing than anything he had already done in Hostel. The cannibalism aspects were not frightening or disturbing, just gory. One might say Roth had a point with the whole social media activism, but he didn't explore that enough to drive any point of view on it. That's my mediocre movie marathon.

I agree, although I did find myself enjoying it. You're right though: nothing new and not enough done with the social activism stuff, which I saw it mostly as a satire of.

In the mood for something fun and cute last night so we watched The Secret Life of Pets.


It was real fun and had NO SONGS!!!!!! No deep Moral dilemmas! No bullshit social activism! No "Hero's Journey!" Just a cool story about pets and what they get up to when owners are gone.

that sounds refreshing!

im sorta rewatching MARS ATTACKS! right now, as a waker upper



still funny after all these years, and reminds me of the old pre-gentrification DC with its ruined buildings

I watched most of the first season, but that's it. The '90sness was dragging me down a bit. I've been meaning to try again, but haven't gotten around to it. :(