Didn’t you have time to watch any this week, life has been busy, but I’m sure you all have, so let’s discuss!
Rewatched Jurassic Park (it’s roughly its 30th anniversary) … that shit holds up well, better than I expected and I’m a fan. I don’t think I’d watched it all the way through for quite a long time, but I saw it in the cinema as a kid, it thrilled me then and was awesome again now.
Sometimes you forget how “woke” some older mainstream media is/was. Like there’s vegetarianism, anti-capitalism, feminism “humanity is the real monster” and environmentalism in that film. And cool dinosaurs too.
Only movie I watched was Dobermann a french 90s trashy action gangster movie. Very fun to watch, would recommend
Only watched one and it was the Flash, so, um… yeah…
Oof. Super Girl was cool though!
There were parts of it that were well done. Having the two Barry’s, one older, one younger, was absolutely believable. Later adding Dark Flash also worked. Michael Keaton Batman was fantastic. As you say, Supergirl was excellent.
But the only way to enjoy it is to look past the really awful VFX shots. I give them total props for putting in George Reeves, Adam West, Christopher Reeve, Helen Slater, and freakin’ Nicholas Cage fighting a giant spider… but man… the shots were plastic. Some kid could have done a better job with action figures.
Even if you want to argue that the Time Bubble/Cross Universe stuff is supposed to look distorted, that still doesn’t excuse the Babies in Danger^TM sequence.
Lifeforce is pretty good. Oldie but goldie.
Such a crazy concept movie. And with quite the budget on top.
Finally saw Dazed and Confused. Other than a couple pretty extreme bullying/abuse scenes it’s a really cozy slice of life.
I just dived into some Linklater too! I watched Before Sunrise and Me and Orson Welles. I love Linklater’s portrayals of youthful optimism. They make me excited for the future.
Watched “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)”. An artist’s tough life growing up in rural American in the 50s, and her raise to fame living in New York. Her life story is told as back drop to her fight to have the Sacklers’ (family behind the marketing of Oxycodone as a “safe” drug and resulting opioid epidemic) name removed from Art galleries around the world.
I watched The Dark Knight (2008) for the first time just now. It was a film that I wanted to watch for a while.
Aside from the Two-Face scenes, which get old very quickly, I think that the Dark Knight is an absolute banger of a film.
Landscape With Invisible Hand (2023)
It’s a satire about a young artist coming to terms with major societal changes after a semi-benevolent alien invasion. And do yourself a favor: don’t watch the trailers. Drop into this one cold.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter - was an interesting take on the old Dracula legend. The movie had great atmosphere and some solid performances.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It certainly stayed true to its roots, maybe too much so (it took a long time to get where it was going, just like most late 60s movies). I would’ve said the movie was meandering and meh but the last 10 minutes were my favorite 10 minutes in any movie this year.
I just finished Destination Wedding and I should’ve hated it. I thought it was going to be a sunny, goofy romcom but instead it was like the poor man’s Woody Allen. Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder were playing way far against type, seemingly miscast. But I enjoyed seeing them in such different roles playing relentlessly miserable weirdos. Their sex scene was the best at being the worst.
Requiem for a Dream for sure. That shit fucks you up
Always wanted to see Airplane!, finally got around to it. Gotta say, it was one of the funniest comedies I’ve watched.
Now you should watch “Top Secret!”
You’ll probably enjoy the Naked Gun series if you haven’t seen it already.
Bigbug - robot uprising comedy. Killer.
Barbie. Maybe it’s not for me. Partner like it.
I finally watched Freeway 2: Confessions of Trickbaby. I loved it even though its pretty offensive for also being super progressive for its time. Totally not what I ever expected either.
It’s a big deal to finally watch it because it was one of those VHS covers I would see at the rental store growing up and I was dying to see it but there was no way my mom was going to let me watch a movie that was rated R. So it was always a mystery what the movie was for a long time and I really only knew that it had Natasha Lyonne in it who at the time, I had a crush on.