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I watched Happy Together (1997) AKA Wong Kar-Wai's gay film last night and it was pretty damn good. I'd put it above In The Mood For Love and below Chungking Express personally. It's about this abusive on-and-off again relationship between two Chinese homos who thought going on a vacation to Argentina was gonna fix their relationship. Violent and hard to watch at times but it's quite good at pulling at the heartstrings like the best of Wong's films.
A lot of people point to the dance scene as their favorite tearjerker but mine was when Tony Leung was at a loss for words on what to say so he just broke down crying into a Walkman's recorder when he was prompted by a friend to record his sorrows so he can take them to the End of the World (a lighthouse at the southernmost tip of Argentina) and get rid of them forever.
This popped up in my Youtube recomendations and it may be the single most impressive piece of special effects work I have ever seen done my a single guy.
Just a reminder that show Early Edition exists and it's still fantastic. Sadly, I don't think it's widely available to stream; I bought the DVDs because I enjoyed it so much.
It's about a man who gets tomorrow's newspaper today so he devotes his life to try and stop tragedies before they occur and occasionally using info about what the winning lottery numbers were when he needs money. The show is best when Fischer Stevens is in it, but it's still alright when he leaves. One of the best episodes is when he's apparently destined to help deliver a baby and he gets so freaked out over pregnant women he runs away from them all, only to get trapped in an elevator with one. LOL.
Kind of an ironic thing is that this show displays how to be "woke" without obviously trying to get brownie points or cram it down anyone's throats. There's a blind black woman and, while her disability does come into play sometimes, she's usually just a regular character and not a device for virtue signaling.
Oh, and there's a cute kitty cat who comes along with the newspaper every morning <3
Just a reminder that show Early Edition exists and it's still fantastic. Sadly, I don't think it's widely available to stream; I bought the DVDs because I enjoyed it so much.
It's about a man who gets tomorrow's newspaper today so he devotes his life to try and stop tragedies before they occur and occasionally using info about what the winning lottery numbers were when he needs money. The show is best when Fischer Stevens is in it, but it's still alright when he leaves. One of the best episodes is when he's apparently destined to help deliver a baby and he gets so freaked out over pregnant women he runs away from them all, only to get trapped in an elevator with one. LOL.
Kind of an ironic thing is that this show displays how to be "woke" without obviously trying to get brownie points or cram it down anyone's throats. There's a blind black woman and, while her disability does come into play sometimes, she's usually just a regular character and not a device for virtue signaling.
Oh, and there's a cute kitty cat who comes along with the newspaper every morning <3
Sonarr found 2 masters series, 3 he-man series, 2 she-ra series, plus the two movies. People here need to be more specific when they are sharing something they enjoyed because a LOT of stuff has remakes or spinoffs
Saw Enemy of the State again. Must have been almost 14 years since I last saw it.
For a movie that came out in 1998, it still holds up really well with it themes about goverment surveillance.
Great acting from everyone in it and it make me miss Tony Scott so much.
I saw the first X Men movie again and boy is it a breath of fresh air, its soo soo good compared to todays goyslop. Just so much good stuff, natural lighting, extremely good pacing, little but well used special effects, practical fight scenes, practical effects, story consistency, no fucking quips or out of the blue comedy, incredibly well cast, its all there. And this film has a lower imdb rating than Black Panther, the incoherent nigger terrorism movie. It is flawed, by no means a 10/10 movie, some of the details and story beats relies on knowing the comics, some of the dialogue is sloppy, it has way too many cuts, small issues but its like an easy 9/10 compared to the best movies today. Also not heavily one sided with the messaging or even very prog, despite the XMens reputation, extremely nuanced for a 2000s movie. The guy who supports the Mutant registration act is a Democrat who supports gun regulation, supports the act cause he sees mutants as irresponsible and highly dangerous, basically giving an entire other community disproportionately higher power and leverage by letting them remain anonymous. Not exactly one to one with niggers and gays. Magneto is genuinely a mutant supremacist and says a lot of derogatory shit about humans, attitude reflecting that, especially with his plan basically being to "eugenics" everybody against their will so they can become superior like him. Very Very good writing and it does all of that and more within 1:44:00, I was shocked frankly cause I didnt know superhero goyslop could be less than 2 hours. I didnt even know 2 hours wasnt the standard back then, cause a lot of movies tended to cross that. 1 hour 44 is less than Yojimbo and is closer to The Lion King and The Prince of Egypt for reference (Both are around 1 hour 35), it was so well paced and written to match that. I wish shit was like that, its sad that I have to gush about it cause frankly, I dont think it wouldve been great by 2000s standards even though it feels like it.
Also ZOG!!
Started rewatching Conan the Barbarian for the first time since the late 90s but did not finish it, will do so today. I forgot how extremely good this film is, pretty much the peak of the Swords & Sorcery genre. The costumes are fantastic (apart from the hair pieces), so is young Arnold. That first scene where he's on screen and glowers at the camera is just maaaaaaan. Top movie, gonna watch the rest of it and the second movie tonight, maybe even go for Red Sonja as well if i am not too tired. I tried to get into the books last year but they didn't catch me as much as the movies did, maybe i should start on the comics instead.
I watched it last week and Im incredibly sad to say I really didnt like it. I came at it from the point of a Conan reader and I expected it to be a lot like the books, it does adapt one of the stories to some extent. It has a lot going for it but ultimately its not a Conan movie. Its a very good fantasy movie, albeit a bit generic, but its not Conan the Barbarian. The soundtrack is the best part of it, I really love the soundtrack, the set design and shots come close second and everything else after. Arnold is genuinely miscast, Conan in the books is a very intelligent guy who speaks really good english and talks philosophy while Arnold says stuff with a thick accent and has very mediocre dialogue (Cant blame him, this was his 3rd English production and in a main role as well). Even though people talk about "Crush your enemies, hear the lamentations of their women", there was one particular line about "Grass smelling sweet" which really irked me, its not something book Conan would say. Thulsa Doom is good but the concept of a snake cult is very generic (Thulsa Doom is also not a Conan character but whatever) in a distinctly non pulpy way. The Valeria and the Chinese archer combo is also not great, Conan generally does not fight alongside anybody and he gets manipulated by women, rarely fights alongside them. Not a great movie, Ill only remember it for the soundtrack and the scenes which berserk stole from it (The monster sex and the scene where spirits try to grab him). I would recommend reading the comics, if not the books, as the 70s and 80s comics are direct story adaptations. Or you read the French comics from 2019, which are also direct adaptations. The marvel stuff butchers the character, dont read that.
I also watched Heat, Labyrinth and couple other movies. Dont want to sperg about them too much though, this is probably enough.
Yeah David hayter did the script for zack snyders Watchmen too, with it's insanely clever twist of "Manhattan attacking the world" instead of a monster squid. I think X2 too, the better movie of the two.
Just to give people an idea as to what I mean by good pacing, the movie has a magneto holocaust sequence, Jean grey and prof x at the mutant registration dispute, prof x and magneto talking setting up the rivalry, introduction of rogue and introduction of wolverine in the first 12 minutes. If it was modern marvel there would be a long backstory for 7 minutes, then there would be 2-4 characters introduced by the next 7 minutes, then there would be plot exposition for 5 and then there would be some conflict. That's already almost 20 minutes and we don't even have anything substantial yet. I remember vividly, black panther did this, the first ant man did this, civil war did this I think. And there is also efficiency in that, the conflicts are small scale in this movie and they build up to the larger stuff. Some banter, ideological conflict, tension and then fight scene instead of just long banter and then fight scene out of nowhere. Idk it feels like reading ancient texts and accessing arts that are somehow forgotten.
Heat is great, I really really like the sound design which has been praised to hell and back but one thing which people dont really acknowledge is how sleek and accurate it is. It is the only heist movie which Ive seen which considers every angle when it comes to a heist and actually pulls off the tech aspects properly, its a Michael Mann staple at this point. Its so accurate and planned out that I dont understand a lot of the things which happen, the things they do when they plan the heist and what they actually steal from the Bank at the start. Pacino and De Niro are very well done, Val Kilmer is also very good, the others are okay, good but not prominent enough. Oddly, its much much more narratively complicated than Collateral, just from all the heist planning and evasion plans. It makes me want to learn more about banks, guns and cybersecurity.
Labyrinth is mediocre but I understand why people like it. It is whimsical and nice but David Bowies acting/singing is horrible, and I say this as someone whose favourite pop artist is David Bowie. Jim Hensons set design is very good, the dialogue is quite bad and shoddy, the characters are too generic, plot is alright. It reminds me too much of Monty Python, Terry Jones did write it but Python does not fit with Jim Henson's whimsical fantasy, sorta classic contrast with American romanticism with eurocentric fantasy in contrast with British cynicism towards the same. Jennifer Connelly is nice, I think this was her third film role after Philomena, quite good. They shouldnt have made it a pseudo musical, they shouldve made the bowie play straight, without the singing and used his songs as background noise. Idk not a fan, it oddly reminds me of All Dogs go to Heaven which I also didnt like for similar reasons but thought was somewhat good.
Also I want to sorta shit on Brazil a bit as well. Really really bad movie, it was just a wannabe 1984 with fantasy elements. Idk why people praise it, the actings good, set designs sorta good but everything else is horrible. The plot is shit, the dialogue is shit, the dream sequences really ruin the pacing. Its really bad, one of the few movies which I quit watching cause the dream sequences just played over and over again. Im worried if all of Gilliams films are like this, terribly paced idiosyncratic nonsense, cause Munchausen and Time Bandits looks good.
They aren't all exactly like Brazil, but Gilliam does have plenty of trademarks: wide angle shots, extreme closeups of people's faces, Dutch angles, weird costumes, dwarves etc. If you see a random scene from one of his movies and you don't know he's the director, you can usually tell it's him anyway after a few seconds.
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