Guardians of the Galaxy 2 - excellent

^this

Rabbits (David Lynch, originally a 2002 web series, 40-50 minutes, 4-8 episodes depending on version. Saw the 4 episode version in theater.) - One of my top 10 "films" OAT.



Unparalleled set design, lighting, color. Look at it. It is perfectly visually constructed. It doesn't have the same effect on everybody, but for many of us that room taps straight into some deep, dark, primal fear response in our brains. I've shown just a screenshot to people who have instantly said "omg that's terrifying". In 2005 or so I thought to myself "oh hey I wonder what that David Lynch guy has been up to" and searched and found the screenshots and was immediately scared. It took months for me to finally work up to actually watching it.

And I've repeated this ad nauseum, but when I finally did watch it I was literally sick to my stomach, "regretted" it, and slept with the light on intermittently for weeks. I was unable to consider the work more "objectively" because I was too bothered by it - same happened to me with Mulholland Dr. at first.

I've since gotten over those feelings and have watched it a bunch of times, appreciating what it does.

I didn't even mention the music and sound yet. Both are unreal good, and I don't think there's any better example in existence of malevolent-sounding music and sound effects. The foghorns and rain in the background evoke a horrifying city outside that we never get to see.

It's disappointing to me that, after "getting used to" Mulholland and Rabbits, little else really comes close to moving my fear response like that. Unedited Footage of a Bear, an Adult Swim one-off, did come close. I have some Lynch hidden treasures still to unearth, and new Twin Peaks may well do it too.

So yes, I do think that Rabbits is one of the greatest accomplishments ever put on film (or digital video).

Industrial Symphony No. 1 - a Lynch stage musical on film. I don't know the history of this, but there are roles by Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage, and other Lynch regulars. First time seeing, didn't care much for it.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - bad 1984 sci-fi comedy. While watching I felt it aped some elements from Back to the Future, but I realized the years and so it must be the other way around if anything. BTTF may have taken elements of the car design and effects from here.

Interstellar - Bad. Some parts are okay but it's ultimately bad. Pretty tired of movies painfully trying to be meaningful with space exploration, and throwing pseudoscientific nonsense in about love or death or grief or whatever.

Nothing in that rabbits is the tiniest bit frightening to me.

Buckeroo Banzai is a classic camp movie!

ya same.
just seemed pointless pretentious and self-indulgent.

I don't get the point at all.

Rabbits is awesome

What's the point of a painting?

What is the theme of rabbit?

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I have to disagree. I thoroughly enjoyed the first one and was amped up to see Vol. 2; so much so, that I rushed out to see a 9:00am showing last Friday. Alas, as with most sequels, it failed to live up to the original. While I thought it was fun in parts, and really enjoyed all of the Easter eggs throughout, it dragged on too long. Moreover, I thought all of the subplots throughout, especially the two involving the Ravagers and the Sovereign, were much more interesting and entertaining then the main plot (which was a bit ridiculous to tell you the truth, even for a superhero comic book plot.)

TL;DR: It's not a bad movie by any means - - - I'd probably give it a solid 7 - - - but it pales in comparison to the original and I definitely wouldn't call it excellent.

Rabbits is maybe a bit interesting and on par with the 25 millIon bizarre things available on YouTube, many of which my weird kid watches.

First thing that comes to mind:

https://youtu.be/9C_HReR_McQ

Also, 3 or 4 minutes is a good upper limit on such things. Eraserhead could have been cool for 3 minutes, but it's like the worst movie ever made.

Eraserhead is like the best movie ever made.

Disagree with this. I thought the main plot was much more interesting than Guardians 1 (which I loved). It was utterly ridiculous of course but it's a comic book movie and completely in keeping with the genre. I thought Ego was a far more interesting villain and the storyline around him was fascinating compared to the one dimensional Ronan stuff from the first. I do agree the Ravager side plot was also interesting but for me the Sovereign were the weakest part of the film and actually far more ridiculous than Ego. It was just as funny as the first as well.

This bad boy just dropped:

Awesome

Buckeroo Banzai is just plain classic.

Chills!

If I were to pick a director other than Scott to make this, it would be Villeneuve. Is there a release date??

10/6

Well, in that case...

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 - 6/10

Given how Scott has handled other sequels, I would actually prefer Villeneuve for this. I will be shocked if this is not very good and would not be surprised if it's amazing.

Ghost in the Shell remake was unfathomably bad. How do you make such a compelling property so boring?

It was shown at the very end of the trailer. Oct. 6th.

That was an excellent review and pretty much mirrors my feelings about the movie.

Guardians vol. 2 was good fun, but not great. I kind of agree that Ego was the weakest part, even though Kurt Russell is awesome. I liked The Sovereign a lot and would like to see more of them...the Ravagers weren't that interesting, tbh, and they wasted Stallone.

It does seem, however, that there are lots of things unexplained that readers of the comics would get/love.

Finally Dead Pool...meh. I guess I don't get it.