CODA - Loved it. One of the best movies I've seen in some time.

Von Zipper was everybody's idol.

i had forgotten how awesome the scary synthesizer music of the mid 80s was

hahaha I loved Dreamscape back in the day...fun movie

love how bonkers Carax is...I'm looking forward to watching this.

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Me and the GF watch The Green Knightt last night...it was interesting, beautifully shot, and it will most definitely win the Oscar for Best Costumes.

But I feel like there was something missing from it that keeps it from greatness...not sure what, though.

Keep chewing on it. Green Knight is so ****ing good.

the green knight was great and I just can't for the life of me understand how they haven't made either some films or a mini series of the dunk and egg stories.

Initially, GRRM was insistent that he wanted to be the one to tell the Dunk and Egg stuff first and foremost. However, it does sound like he's starting to relent on the idea. Only time will tell.

I can understand his hesitancy to adapt another unfinished work.

Wolf Guy (1975), starring Sonny Chiba

The tiger is coming: To kill me!

Who is: Shinichi Chiba?!

Stunts by: Japan Action Club!

All 3 members of the Mobs were: Slashed to death!

Motorcycle Fu! Knife Fu! Tiger Fu! Wolf Fu! Lick-the-blood-off-the-fingers Fu! Yakuza Fu! Syphilis Fu! Politician Fu! (Hard to distinguish from Syphilis Fu!) 15th-day-of-the-lunar-cycle Fu! More Tiger Fu! Shibaraku Fu! JCIA Fu! Hypnotism Fu! Tomato-juice-blood-transfusion Fu! Werewolf Fu!!!

Suck that gut in!

Keystone Kop Fu! Katie’s-dying-words Fu! Wolf Howl Fu!

Shotgun Fu! Mini-skirted-hillbilly-girl Fu!

My name is Taka: I was named after your mother!

My name is Taka: And off go my clothes!

My name is Taka: Let my body give you some relief!

Nursing Memories: Wolf Guy and 1Q84!

Miki Fu! Jeep Fu!

I think the best Sonny Chiba stuff is when he gets to be funny. This isn’t one of his funnier ones, but it’s still pretty good--on par with, say, Wandering Ginza She-Cat Gambler--Part II, etc. Check it out!

Stillwater was meh

I lasted about 5 minutes into that Annette weirdness before quitting it for good. Maybe that's some kind of record. I did notice that those Sparks guys got really old, that the French lady's hair isn't really short, and that Werner Herzog was reading that first little unfunny intro.

This made the old pecker stand at attention!

I really didn't care for The Green Knight at all. And actually, after looking at the director's credits, I realised that I've seen all of his movies and didn't like any of them...just not for me I guess.

if... (Lindsay Anderson, 1968). Curious film. Besides some mild bullying by public (i.e. private) school prefects, nothing happens for the first hour, other than the conveyance of the contrived effortlessness of it all. Then a townie waitress becomes involved, and all hell breaks loose.

(Wiki)

Who loves ya?

The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock, 1938). Not for the last time, what Hitchcock wanted and what the Money wanted were, apparently, two different things. It has the little touches: the window condensation writing, the abandoned Test Match; but is spoiled by the studio formula.

Jean Vigo's Zero for Conduct directly influenced If, and Vigo's film, much shorter, is well worth seeing.

Paterson I appreciate the movie, but it just wasn't my cup of tea. Didn't hate it but would only recommend to a small group of folks that like this sort of thing. Loved the bulldog, though.

The Chase Brando! Fonda! Redford! Toss in Angie Dickinson and Robert Duvall for good measure. What could go wrong? Well, everything really.

A town goes wacky when one of their own (Redford) escapes from prison. Fortunately he remembers to escape with a comb. Brando is the sheriff that nobody wants. Fonda is Redford's wife who is having an affair with the son of the richest man in town.

The first 2/3 of the movie is just an expensive soap opera. Then it goes completely over the top, edging towards it's so bad it's good territory. Couldn't quite get there, though.

p.s. nowhere in this movie is an actual chase

The Courier is a really good old-fashioned spy thriller. It's a little ironic that there was a trailer for the new Bond film at the screening because this is like the anti-Bond. No guns, girls, villains or car chases. Instead it's a more subtle film about human relationships, and a very ordinary person doing an extraordinary thing while trying not to get noticed.

Also, the Bond trailer made no sense. Doesn't convey a thing about the film other than what you'd already expect from a Bond film, ie guns, girls, villains, car chases.

what else would you expect from a Bond film?

If my youtube feed from the plague year means anything, there might be some good motorcycle chases in addition to the car chases. I certainly hope so.

The Kid Detective (2020)
After watching a slew of serious crime and horror and heavy pscyho dramas I was looking for something light. I thought this would fit the bill. And it was a pleasant low budget made for TV style movie that was a dry comedy-whodunit for much of the film. A 32 yo detective in small town Canada became famous as a 12 yo in solving small crimes. He pretty depressed now at this age because all gets still is to solve is small stuff like finding someone's lost cat. He can't grow out of it. Then suddenly he gets a brutal murder case dropped in his lap and things get a more intense. Finally in the last 20 minutes the movie takes a startling dark twist that surprised me. The very last scene is very emotional. Not everybody will like it, but I thought it was well worth watching.

I'm sure I've posted this before, but I can't find it. Sadly, ODB wasn't alive to help edit Paterson.

showed my GF Crimson Tide last night...she was like, "great, another sausage fest." But she loved it. It's a damn good popcorn movie. She also mentioned how it's obviously a metaphor for race relations, and I was like, ???