So long as you weren't laughing at it in Japanese so the characters wouldn't understand you. You're fucked if they subtitled you though.

i had subtitles on so i guess that’s the last thing they heard

Saw Gimme Danger, the documentary on The Stooges. Really enjoyed that.

Rope felt more like an experiment. Almost avant-garde. DMFM felt more like he was just trying to keep the integrity of the original play without really drawing attention to the fact that it was a play.

Anyway, just rewatched Grand Hotel



I love this era of Hollywood, when, as art, it could easily go toe-to-toe with anything Europe was producing at the time while as pure entertainment it could teach a thing or two to the big blockbuster directors we have now.

A genuine 10/10 film for me.

How the hell did they make films like the above look so damn good? A well-shot scene that is nothing more than conversation can be more eye-popping than The Avengers' million-dollar(s) effects.

That was a rhetorical question.

There's probably some technical explanation (film stock?) but I don't want to know. Preserve the mystery.

They were making visual art instead of kinetic brain pap

UAU

never seen it in my life but now i want to

Was interested in watching The Disaster Artist, but had not seen the source material yet. So, I watched The Room, followed by The Disaster Artist.

I was actually surprised with what an enjoyable watching experience The Room was. I really did find myself going "WTF?" in an enjoyable way quite often.

OK, got a question:

Must one see The Room in order to “get” The Disaster Artist?

I’ve seen several video essays about The Room and I get a lot of the references. I know the plot. But I can’t omagine slogging through it from start to finish.

I want to watch Disaster Artist, but friends tell me I won’t get the full experience.

Thoughts?

I've seen The Disaster Artist and I haven't seen The Room. You do not need to see The Room to enjoy TDA. I really enjoyed The Disaster Artist. Its a really funny movie, regardless of whether you know the people or the movie its about. Does one need to have seen Plan Nine From Outer Space to see and enjoy Tim Burton's "Ed Wood"? I don't believe so. Same thing for The Disaster Artist.

I think you DO need to watch Plan 9, and Glen or Glenda, before truly enjoying Ed Wood.

Coincidentally I rewatched.it with a couple of friends last Friday.

It's actually not a slog as there's so many ridiculous bits to keep you going. Maybe the first 20 minutes you're thinking ""this is gonna be tough going" mainly cos the ridiculous sex scenes he shoves in the beginning. I'd actually say plan 9 is more of a slog than the room.

Just get it watched. It's worth it.in my eyes.

No, seeing The Room beforehand is not mandatory by any means, but I do think I enjoyed watching Disaster Artist more having seen it. I literally watched them back to back in an afternoon, and enjoyed it that way.

There are a few low-key references and easter eggs in the Disaster Artist that might not be fully appreciated w/o viewing The Room, like a light-hearted "let's play football" when they first start hanging out.

And like he said above me, The Room was really not a slog at all. There is enough absurdity in it all to really make it entertaining. And you seem to like to analyze the creative aspects of how certain things come to be. The Room is analytical viewing at it's finest, ha.

Absolutely! Probably helps to read Rudolph Grey's biography of him too.

Not necessarily, as I loved Ed Wood before I’d seen and EDWJR films, but it certainly added to the experience on later viewings.

To this day, Ed Wood is easily the best thing Tim Burton ever made or will ever make. His closest to being an actual, like... filmmaker. Rather than weird but fun curio (‘80s), camp action movie dude (early ‘90s) a brand unto himself, making he same goddamn thing a million times (late ‘90s to now).

That’s a damn fine film.

The Florida Project

This grew on me. I'm still not sure I got what it was really trying to say, if it was really trying to say anything, but I ended up liking it ... I think.

I watched The 40 Year Old Virgin again. It was OK. I think it's starting to lose its replay value. And what's with the girlfriend flipping out over the porn he has? Yikes.

watched this with wife yesterday. I liked it a lot. Very entertaining and visually awesome.


Watched this weird movie too
weird film. was it a play before? artsy, but Ed Hardy really does it well.

Tom Hardy, oh wait you’re kidding huh?

“Isle of Dogs”

Fucking delightful and glorious.
I kinda get the issues some Japanese Americans had with its portrayal of a cartoonified Japanese culture — some unintentionally stereotypical stuff was in there to be sure — but I can’t say I found it offensive. I think had it been about Americans, it would have been just as over the top (it is a cartoon after all), but with a less interesting culture to work with.

I found it reverent, honestly. The fact that Japanese actors (like Yoko Ono!) participated and had no issue with it made it easier on the old conscience.

Beautiful film, though. Honestly.

“Isle of Dogs”

Fucking delightful and glorious.
I kinda get the issues some Japanese Americans had with its portrayal of a cartoonified Japanese culture — some unintentionally stereotypical stuff was in there to be sure — but I can’t say I found it offensive. I think had it been about Americans, it would have been just as over the top (it is a cartoon after all), but with a less interesting culture to work with.

I found it reverent, honestly. The fact that Japanese actors (like Yoko Ono!) participated and had no issue with it made it easier on the old conscience.

Beautiful film, though. Honestly.

I am terrible with actors names. Tom Hardy....

Last night I watched A Most Violent Year, with Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain. The Sopranos-vibe is all over this movie. So much so I had to see if this was written by anyone who wrote for The Sopranos. It wasn't, written and directed by J.C. Chandor. The Sopranos comparsion isn't a bad thing. After that I watched Free Fire. I thought it was just okay. I like Ben Wheatley, and was really looking forward to this movie after seeing the trailer, and maybe I just wasn't in the mood or I don't know what it was, but didn't have as much fun with it as I was hoping. Its a 90 minute movie and even that felt too long. The movie should have felt like it flew by. I don't know, anyone have any thoughts on Free Fire?

^ I think that Ben Wheatley is really going downhill. Free Fire was better than High Rise, which isn't saying much. Now Down Terrace is one of my favorite movies ever, and Sightseers and Field in England are pretty good, too...Happy New Year, Colin Burstead is coming out soon, lets hope it's a return to better things.

i tried watching van damme’s “cyborg” from 199...2? something? and it was cheesy and i wasn’t in the mood lol

Did you Bloodsport, Kickboxer and Lionheart first? That’s the trinity, baby.

the whole van dam damn fam trilogy?

first i did no retreat no surrender (lol) where he plays “the russian”

then i did the one with his meathead brother, they go to thailand, etc? which one is that one. kickboxer i think? or bloodsport? lol. “van damme does thailand”.

twas hilarious

Did anyone see his "art film" JCVD?

i havent but im working my way up to it hahaha

but lissen: his amazon show, jean claude van johnson, i thought was great

unfortunately canceled, which suxx

but i started w. the moobys so i could get more jokes/references in that show

truth

maybe look at it—it’s generic in a way but the self deprecation is hillaire

Saw Isle of Dogs and was horribly bored, should have walked out, kept him thinking it might improve, but no....

Friday the 13th (orig)

Hard to imagine how this could've spawned such a huge franchise, given Jason barely features and offers no real hint at what he'd become. It has a certain period charm and the eventual Jason reveal is still a stone classic, but it hasn't really stood the test of time overall. If anything, it feels older now than it actually is. still a million times better than the remake though.

Yeah, the popularity of that whole franchise is a bit weird. Jason is an incredibly boring villain, no? A lumbering, unkillable killer with no personality at all.

I've seen them all, though, for whatever stupid reason. There are one or two that are acceptable, but most are just very, very slow. They aren't even very good as cheesy campy fun.

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, the one with Corey Feldman, is okay.

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives has hints of self-aware humor.

I kinda like the space one.

(I can't believe I just wrote all that.)

The hockey mask was what sold it, I'm convinced. I can't remember if it was 2 or 3 when he 1st wore it but I remember seeing the posters for it and thinking what a cool image, and I started becoming interested in him. But where there's a big personality behind say Freddy's glove, Jason really is just the hockey mask.

You convinced me. Hockey mask is genius in it's own, minimalist way. Whoever thought of that detail deserves a prize.

Well, he started out as just a “Ghost” or not even that... like, a memory or something. I forget. Then he became this unstoppable killing machine which rendered better in the remake than it did in the originals, all of which suck, some more than others.

But yeah, in the hierarchy of ‘80s horror movie villains, he was dead last in terms of imagination.

He’s basically Michael Meyers with a shittier backstory and a more confusing paranormal “status.”

The same could be said about Jaws. I love Friday the 13th series.

was visiting the inlaws and evil dead 2 was on tv and we laughed our asses off for a bit

Why?

(Kind of a serious question)

I'm sure you already know you can go on youtube and watch clips of all the kills. No need to suffer through the tedious dialogue and "build up."

Dude, clear out some PMs.

Sorry everybody!