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  On 12/10/2024 at 9:58 AM, Squee said:

 

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lol immediately noticed this.

cautiously optimistic.

Yeah, this looks fun. Nice soundtrack.

idk about these two further planned sequels with other directors though, smells like someone's trying to turn this into another endless trash! franchise. we'll see.

this looks absolutely balls out great - and also, finally a trailer that doesn't give away 95% of the movie.

Fucking ridiculous, I wanted the blonde guy to die immediately.

  On 12/11/2024 at 6:38 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Fucking ridiculous, I wanted the blonde guy to die immediately.

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That actor is like a blend of ryan Reynolds and the ryan from barbie

They are making them in a factory

  On 12/11/2024 at 6:38 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Fucking ridiculous, I wanted the blonde guy to die immediately.

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A reboot of a mediocre movie produced by people who rebooted and desecrated a classic film (not franchise). Man, you either really fucking love tornadoes or you’re just angry at yourself. End the self-harm Rubin.

  On 12/11/2024 at 8:14 PM, Crazing said:

That actor is like a blend of ryan Reynolds and the ryan from barbie

They are making them in a factory

I think he was channeling John Schneider 

Watched Fire Walk With Me from dvd for the first time in donkeys, mad and good, love that tune when they go to Canada ie Jaques back bar, haven't really watched any twin peaks in a long time, pretty much since that last series which was a bit shit but with the one amazing episode

Laura Palmer didn't look high school age in it, clearly the actress playing her wasn't but Lynch had her dress in aul wan clothes for half the film, he's a proper madcunt , he must have been a fiend for all sorts 

He likes autechre apparently 

the mad fox by tomu uchida (1962)

based upon a 17th century bunraku (puppet theatre) play, set in the heian period five or six centuries earlier, and produced in a style partly like a theatrical stage adaptation caught on film. this is the story of 'the golden fox', a secret scroll interpreted only by an astrologer to the areas ruler, providing guidance in difficult times.

forecasting a need for an heir to the crown to unite the people following a likely eruption of fuji, the astrologer's wife sees opportunity and necessity to seize power or prevent her adopted daughter from being belatedly chosen as his successor. 'the golden fox' is stolen, her daughter sakaki framed, her heir-apparent lover abe no yasuna driven to madness.

as he flees to the country in search of sakaki, he meets her twin sister, and soon inadvertently saves a kitsune - white foxes who can take human form - with one falling in love with him and tricking him into fathering a child without his knowledge that she is not human by adopting sakaki's and her twin kazunoha's form and exploiting it whilst he is still lost in grief and unable to know the truth. 

a folklore tale style that tangles very engagingly, beautifully shot in lavish colour, with great swathes of theatrical style and insightful narratives in song and music, 'the mad fox' is quite magical if you're inclined to find fascination in lessons about the human condition with a magical setting to tell an unusual love story.

Ravenous Wow, wow, wow. Wasn't knowing what to expect, but what a pot of pure gold this was! The soundtrack, which is just as spectacularly quirky, was written by Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn (the latter I'm not usually a big fan of) think I'm gonna give this a easy 9/10. I just loved it. Funny, gory, totally weird and utterly wonderful. The music really is the cherry on top of this perfectly baked cake

  On 12/10/2024 at 12:55 PM, usagi said:

idk about these two further planned sequels with other directors though, smells like someone's trying to turn this into another endless trash! franchise. we'll see.

Can't wait for 28 decades later with some cool robot zombies

Pretty meh, and I wanted to like this one, it had no kinetic energy like the first film, the afterlife sets looked generic, but what really bothered me was how much they shoved Jeffrey Jones in your face. Tim Burton still seems to Stan for Paul Reubens and Jones, which makes me suspect Burton might be some kind of sex weirdo as well. Michael Keaton just couldn't carry this movie alone, and Winona Ryder seemed like she played her character from Stranger Things, even Danny Elfman biffed the music mostly, it was forgettable. C+

^agreed

yokohama bj blues by eiichi kudo (1981)

something of an oddity, a noir that slow burns and pays off, and a rare outing in the west for an eighties film from japan, making it harder to get to grips with.

yusaku matsuda, who died within the same decade at age forty, wanted to try something radically different, and use his musical talent in a story he wrote and had eiichi kudo in mind to direct. the film is both somewhat familiar as a crime story, quite modern for its homosexual themes, and has its own atmosphere in its time capsule of the time and place, which is heavily featured.

matsuda plays bj, a blues singer who earns a living as a private detective. investigating his friends death, a small group of gangsters and a major drug deal entangle him until the very end.

director eiichi kudo was half way through his forty year career; he remains well-known here for being the director of the version of 'thirteen assassins' (1963) which most closely resembles takashi mike's (2010).

righ, right... hmmmm, right, hmmmm, right, right...

  On 12/15/2024 at 9:04 PM, beerwolf said:

Ravenous Wow, wow, wow. Wasn't knowing what to expect, but what a pot of pure gold this was! The soundtrack, which is just as spectacularly quirky, was written by Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn (the latter I'm not usually a big fan of) think I'm gonna give this a easy 9/10. I just loved it. Funny, gory, totally weird and utterly wonderful. The music really is the cherry on top of this perfectly baked cake

I almost watched a 2017 french Canadian zombie movie due to this review.

Romulus is not good.

  On 12/18/2024 at 12:27 PM, lyst said:

I almost watched a 2017 french Canadian zombie movie due to this review.

Ahh yes, not that one, the one with Robert Carlyle and Guy Pearce 

  On 12/15/2024 at 9:04 PM, beerwolf said:

Ravenous Wow, wow, wow. Wasn't knowing what to expect, but what a pot of pure gold this was! The soundtrack, which is just as spectacularly quirky, was written by Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn (the latter I'm not usually a big fan of) think I'm gonna give this a easy 9/10. I just loved it. Funny, gory, totally weird and utterly wonderful. The music really is the cherry on top of this perfectly baked cake

That movie is awesome.

That new Superman movie looks surprising. Also, I don't give two shits.
 

dunno why i went to this, probs because o Rachel Sennott but not expecting anything great... turns out it's funny af, lots of lols found... how can a teen comedy be more funny than any comedy movie that came out in the last 10 years or such?

heretic was quite cool, i though i was gonna quit midway when he started babbling about radiohead and all that mumbo jumbo that sounded like i was rewatching zeitgeist documentary but it paid off afterall...

i saw the tv glow was very lynch in a way and quite uncomfortable towards the end...

sanctuary with Margaret Qualley was meh, shame on me cause i only watch it because of her... she acted like a brat i dunno if it was on purpose or if the director wanted her to play her role like that...

yannick by Quentin Dupieux just proves how much of a genius this guy is... funny af...

you'll never find me had some great performances but the end was quite disappointing just like haute tension, it didn't make any sense...

rotting in the sun was one of his most uncomfortable movies, for obvious reason, it's very graphic, but it's a very entertaining movie nonetheless... great performances as well...

  On 12/20/2024 at 7:03 PM, cruising for burgers said:

i saw the tv glow was very lynch in a way and quite uncomfortable towards the end...

I just got done watching this and I liked it a lot.

struggling to articulate this rn but ISTTG has an obvious central theme (the trans experience) and yet it also has other related things going on that lend it further strength as a film. memory, aging, shifting/opposing perspectives, etc. it also gave me Donnie Darko vibes at times, for a new generation. also also the Lynch connection is not accidental, some very intentional Twin Peaks inspiration in there.