ya I was convulsing.

i had to google the joke because of the chat here

was great

I finally watched Moonrise Kingdom last night, spurred on my Baltimore's praise a couple days ago. I used to be a big Wes Anderson guy, loved Rushmore and Bottle Rocket, liked Tenenbaums and even Zisou. He had lost me on Darjeeling Limited which I hated with a passionate intensity.

I didn't hate Moonrise, but it didn't really win me over. It all seemed a little hollow for me, the whimsy, in a way it hadn't in his earliest films. Murray seems completely wasted here. Norton was good, and I did like some of the silly scout stuff. It had its moments, I don't think it's worthless.

I just checked out Budapest Hotel from la biblioteca, gonna give that a whirl tonight or tomorrow.

Grand Budapest Hotel is a masterpiece IMO.

It is definitely his best film.

I love The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Seriously?

So you know why he's always wearing a wry smile then?

mother!

So very bad. If I couldn't have a horror movie, I wanted at least a thriller and it wasn't even close to that. It's a bad muddled allegory that isn't engaging on an emotional nor intellectual level. It was just irritating. People next to me walked out. I really disliked the constant extreme close-ups on Jennifer Lawrence's face as well because they started to give me a headache.

Napping Princess

Every single person has to follow the rules: check.

Two worlds: magic and industrial.

Motorcycle with sidecar: cool.

Motorcycle with sidecar: Transformer.

Motorcycle with sidecar: Tesla on auto.

Furries, tablets and smartphones: of course.

Bento boxes on bullet trains: check.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: always showing up in anime.

Macy's Parade: saves the day.

Purely: Shoujo.

Great story; great flick. Channel your inner high school girl and...

check it out.

Listened to Life Aquatic soundtrack yesterday and love this one song, but can't search for it to link because my Chrome is becoming unstable. (It's the big action scene on the island.)

Baby Driver - Well well well, looks like ole' BJ isn't quite the grumpy old man we all thought I was just yet. First Wes Anderson and now Edgar Wright, who I also assumed I didn't like (didn't think much of Shaun of the Dead).

It took a while to get me and I was annoyed af with the style in the beginning, but once the story got rolling I was all-in, despite how familiar it all is. Strong tension and "narrative propulsion" as I think Film Crit Hulk would say.

Not gonna lie, I put a little bit of Baby into my step.

The Driver (1978, Walter Hill) - Was about to call this "typical" of its era, but it isn't. There's no good guy.

Bruce Dern is almost there but doesn't quite pull it off for me in this role, something just slightly off (some may argue that works perfectly). Something about Dern that I don't quite like in general I think. Maybe it's my history with him, having "met" him at a cocktail reception/book signing after Hitchcock's Family Plot like 10 years ago, and his crappy dialogue in Hateful Eight that I have to listen to when I listen to the soundtrack.

Worth a watch? Eh. Want pretty good '70s car chases, sometimes along the lines of the much newer Drive? Like 48 Hrs. or The Warriors and want to see what else the director has done? Then go for it.

Heh.

Ok. Unfortunately have a conflict with some rare 35mm horror film the one night it's scheduled on a good screen so far, but we'll see.

The Big Short is a good movie I definitely liked the first time I saw it, but I didn't fully appreciate how strong Christian Bale and especially Steve Carrell were in their roles

And Arronofsky fanbois better GTFO with "but it's an allegory" or "but it was SUPPOSED to be irritating!" If a movie isn't engaging on its own merits then it is a failure, not matter what it is "supposed to mean" or "supposed to be".

https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...schwarzenegger

The Beguiled (2017) - Saw the Clint Eastwood version of this last month and don't recall if I wrote anything on it (probably not). Neither is very good imo. It's a weird idea and I'm especially curious about what Sofia Coppola liked so much about it that she wanted to make a remake.

The differences between this and the '70s version were marginally interesting, to see where she trimmed the fat etc.

Coppola's weakest that I've seen; will see Marie Antoinette again long before I'll revisit this.

Just checked wiki on her and have missed more than I thought, plus didn't know she wrote and directed A Very Murray Christmas. Will check that out after Thanksgiving.

A Ghost Story (2017) - From the perspective of the ghost. Not a horror movie.

I was becoming annoyed at first because it was looking to be one of those standard stupid grief movies. I also feel like many modern films (2014-2017) that have the "indie" vibe tend to share a certain aesthetic that I can't quite put my finger on and that is getting so ****ing irritating. A big aspect of this are the scores, which are so ****ing bland "nowadays". In this, I felt certain that I'd heard parts of the score before in other recent films. If you're going to make the score feel like public domain crap that was made in 2013 that every other film has used, don't have a ****ing score (seriously don't).

Anyway. It goes places I didn't expect with the story and was sort of ok, but still winds up pretty generic "indie" "exploration of grief" by the end of it.

Recommend? If a film with indie vibes in which there's a ghost portrayed seriously as wearing a sheet with holes in it like in Charlie Brown is appealing to you, then yea.

If you've ever eaten a whole pie angrily out of grief or this resonates with you, then yea.

Am I glad Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor is back? Yes.

Will Terminator 6 still suck? Maybe or Probably. Don't know which.

I wouldn't write it off so quickly. James Cameron is involved for the first time since T2. While I don't think it will be as good as T1 or T2, I'd be surprised if it wasn't the third best Terminator movie. I'm a bit of a fanboy, but aside from salvation, I think they're all solid action films.

....with brown hair, and if they are being really edgy, mixed-race.

Don't get even remotely excited. Cameron gave Genysis his blessing of being awesome. Plus he is going to be spending the next like 5 years+ of his life making the avatar sequels so won't be involved in the actual making of this film.

You'd think with a franchise called Terminator they'd know when to end it!

Cry-Baby (1990) - John Waters directs, Johnny Depp stars. Kind of a send-up of Grease and Elvis musicals. Doesn't go full-Waters, but there's a little bit. The French kissing scene had made an impression on me as a kid on a cable network, and I didn't know it was this movie until the scene came up.

I've given you enough information to know if you should bother.

so you've only seen that movie and Ernest Saves Christmas?

His name wasn't attached though. I'm not sure how significant that is but it seems noteworthy.

Also, I really enjoyed Genysis. It certainly had its warts, but it delivered on nostalgic Terminator fun.

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"It keeps going and going, it never stops!"

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I often think the same about the Final Destination franchise. You'd think they would get there sometime?