I’m debating making next month Korean movie month.
I should start doing theme months every month.
Watch The Chaser
Watch The Chaser!!!!
Is this about Quidditch?
It's a neo-noir detective story that also has the single-best sense of geography I've seen in any movie, ever, and as a result has a few incredibly satisfying footchase sequences.
Footchases are hard to do on film! Brick has a great one, the Bourne movies have a couple of solid ones, but that's... Kind of all I can think of? And I think The Chaser beats 'em all.
It's also a great story, but they named the movie "The Chaser" and fuckin' lived up to it, which is wild
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
gonna have to check that out
also there's a good footchase in Casino Royale
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
Point Break is the number one movie I think of as having a good foot chase
Also if I recall correctly M has a pretty good one
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I’m making a list
So far I have
Pooro’s Quidditch movie The Chaser
Forgotten
#Alive
Time to Hunt
Minari
The Good, The Bad, The Weird
Open to suggestions but only movies I haven’t seen so don’t say Oldboy or anything by Bong Joon-Ho
I’m debating making next month Korean movie month.
I should start doing theme months every month.
Watch The Chaser
Watch The Chaser!!!!
Is this about Quidditch?
It's a neo-noir detective story that also has the single-best sense of geography I've seen in any movie, ever, and as a result has a few incredibly satisfying footchase sequences.
Footchases are hard to do on film! Brick has a great one, the Bourne movies have a couple of solid ones, but that's... Kind of all I can think of? And I think The Chaser beats 'em all.
It's also a great story, but they named the movie "The Chaser" and fuckin' lived up to it, which is wild
Point Break has a good one. It doesn't make any sense geographically but it definitely works.
I’m debating making next month Korean movie month.
I should start doing theme months every month.
Watch The Chaser
Watch The Chaser!!!!
Is this about Quidditch?
It's a neo-noir detective story that also has the single-best sense of geography I've seen in any movie, ever, and as a result has a few incredibly satisfying footchase sequences.
Footchases are hard to do on film! Brick has a great one, the Bourne movies have a couple of solid ones, but that's... Kind of all I can think of? And I think The Chaser beats 'em all.
It's also a great story, but they named the movie "The Chaser" and fuckin' lived up to it, which is wild
I’m debating making next month Korean movie month.
I should start doing theme months every month.
Watch The Chaser
Watch The Chaser!!!!
Is this about Quidditch?
It's a neo-noir detective story that also has the single-best sense of geography I've seen in any movie, ever, and as a result has a few incredibly satisfying footchase sequences.
Footchases are hard to do on film! Brick has a great one, the Bourne movies have a couple of solid ones, but that's... Kind of all I can think of? And I think The Chaser beats 'em all.
It's also a great story, but they named the movie "The Chaser" and fuckin' lived up to it, which is wild
Baby Driver has a neat, brief one.
I did not care for much of Baby Driver at all, so I will (respectfully) disagree on that one
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
Pooro’s Quidditch movie The Chaser
Forgotten
#Alive
Time to Hunt
Minari
The Good, The Bad, The Weird
Open to suggestions but only movies I haven’t seen so don’t say Oldboy or anything by Bong Joon-Ho
If you haven't seen The Handmaiden, that one RULES. Very fun, very surprising, has the clockwork-plotting of a heist movie but manages to keep genuine emotion alive along the way, shit completely owns
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
Shit I still need to watch The Handmaiden
I've read the book it's based on but I suspect there may be some differences
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The Secret of My Success has a brief foot chase between two floors that works well.
"End of the second lap, you still got a comfortable lead" is a line that I admit to still using.
Last pint: Turmoil CDA / Barley Brown's - Untappd: TheJudge_PDX
Predictably aside it wasn’t a bad one and done action movie after all. I like those.
I especially appreciated
Woody Harrellson’s character being lowkey pissed at the Yakuza bro for doin Kate so dirty, to the point where he just gives him a gun and lol peaces out.
Also Kate being REALLY FUCKING INSTANTLY DEAD WITH ABSOLUTELY NO HOPE WHATSOEVER via radiation poisoning. I mean sure they did some handwavy nonsense with her stims working like a videogame heal....which wouldn’t do anything to your insides melting, but it was always super clear that Kate was going to be super dead by the end of the movie, no matter what.
The more I think about The Green Knight the more disappointed I am that all that really pretty art direction and design went towards not really doing anything at all.
Like, I'm sure it was some kinda big brain metaphor that only the smartest of Intellectuals™️ would understand and maybe I'm just a big ole dumb, but it felt so disjointed and had so many intentionally weird directions it took it felt very much like it was trying way too hard to be C I N E M A.
I don’t understand a lot of what that movie was doing but I enjoyed whatever it was.
I mean, visually it was cool enough that it's worth a watch just for that. But I feel like the moment you start trying to dissect it it kinda falls apart.
My read was very much the young man in love with life having to come to terms with his mortality. The invincibility belt being his sort of "out" that he finally has to let go under the realization that nothing can stop death.
There was also some cool stuff going on with the old, residual pagan magic and the adaptation of Christianity that I thought was cool.
According to the director it was a movie about having mommy issues and a failure to launch and I absolutely did not pick up on any of that at all.
I will preface this with the fact that I barely remember the original and only read a synopsis after watching the new film and also I don't really know shit about Arthurian myth. It's less about the inevitability of death and more about his honor as a knight. He's grappling with honoring the deal or bugging out, which isn't what a knight should do. He's honest with the Lord about what he received the first two times they meet up after their deal but he lies about the girdle the third time. The girdle becomes his mark of shame right then and is reinforced once he bails from the Green Knight's lair. Then he wears it for the rest of his life, knowing that he failed his code, building a kingdom on that lie which eventually crumbles. But that's just what's running through his head. Instead he removes the girdle, symbolically owning up to his dishonesty, and is spared as a result. The sex stuff can kinda be worked under that umbrella I think. As for the thieves, ghost girl, hallucinogens, and giants (probably hallucinated?), I have no clue.
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I’m debating making next month Korean movie month.
I should start doing theme months every month.
I think I'm going to repeat what I did last year since I'm craving more variety after doing so many horror movies lately, and going with a Movember theme.
Every movie will have at least one person in it with a killer mustache. They can be any genre, from any era, nothing else matters except having at least one really great mustache somewhere in the movie.
Also Titane is available on VOD as of today and I am happy to say I loved it at least as much as (maybe more than?) Raw, and Julia Ducournau gets a lifetime pass from me not just for both films, not just for making something so nuts as this film is work, but for making it also be so beautiful and tender in the second half
Handmaiden had me going at various points, "Oh, this movie is fun!" "Oh, this movie is clever!" "Oh, this movie is horny!" "Oh, this movie is sad," "Oh, this movie is wish-fulfillment," and just like juggling all these seemingly-contradictory emotions and modes all the time expertly
Handmaiden had me going at various points, "Oh, this movie is fun!" "Oh, this movie is clever!" "Oh, this movie is horny!" "Oh, this movie is sad," "Oh, this movie is wish-fulfillment," and just like juggling all these seemingly-contradictory emotions and modes all the time expertly
One of my fav reviews is “oh I’m not used to lesbian movies being actually good”
I wish I could be surprised that "What if Lucille Ball got the type of Aaron Sorkin monologues normally reserved for dudes" was the first taste of this movie
Anyway I'm sure it'll be fine and not at all drive me out of my goddamn mind
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
yeah, I found the teaser from someone impressed by Nicole Kidman's voice/accent work. Which, I agree, is very impressive! But then it hit the "written and directed by" screen and I was like, oh that's why that monologue sounded weird; it wasn't the voice at all, it was because it was a Eisenberg-as-Zuckerberg self-inflating trumpet-fart that no actual human would say or wait around to listen to.
yeah, I found the teaser from someone impressed by Nicole Kidman's voice/accent work. Which, I agree, is very impressive! But then it hit the "written and directed by" screen and I was like, oh that's why that monologue sounded weird; it wasn't the voice at all, it was because it was a Eisenberg-as-Zuckerberg self-inflating trumpet-fart that no actual human would say or wait around to listen to.
She does do a fantastic job with the voice, not knocking that at all, Nicole Kidman is a fucking pro
I wish I could be surprised that "What if Lucille Ball got the type of Aaron Sorkin monologues normally reserved for dudes" was the first taste of this movie
Anyway I'm sure it'll be fine and not at all drive me out of my goddamn mind
I hope it's good.
I Love Lucy was literally the only thing not on Univision that I could turn on and see a Cuban on American television.
It was a big part of my childhood, and it was dope not only to see a woman with her own show, but a woman married to an immigrant from my family's part of the world.
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I wish I could be surprised that "What if Lucille Ball got the type of Aaron Sorkin monologues normally reserved for dudes" was the first taste of this movie
Anyway I'm sure it'll be fine and not at all drive me out of my goddamn mind
I hope it's good.
I Love Lucy was literally the only thing not on Univision that I could turn on and see a Cuban on American television.
It was a big part of my childhood, and it was dope not only to see a woman with her own show, but a woman married to an immigrant from my family's part of the world.
same reason the original law and order is important for me, benjamin bratt is half-peruvian and so is his character
I wish I could be surprised that "What if Lucille Ball got the type of Aaron Sorkin monologues normally reserved for dudes" was the first taste of this movie
Anyway I'm sure it'll be fine and not at all drive me out of my goddamn mind
I hope it's good.
I Love Lucy was literally the only thing not on Univision that I could turn on and see a Cuban on American television.
It was a big part of my childhood, and it was dope not only to see a woman with her own show, but a woman married to an immigrant from my family's part of the world.
It is very specifically my affection for I Love Lucy that makes me so... Apprehensive about Aaron Sorkin being at the helm
Rewatched Halloween Kills last night and I came away liking it more.
One scene in particular gave me fucking chills upon rewatching it that I think is an all timer for horror.
When Karen is saving Allyson in the house towards the end. "You want to kill someone? Kill me. I'm an innocent woman - just like your sister was. It was halloween night. Your house. Right here. Can you feel it?" *Michael steps forward and the updated Halloween theme starts playing*. It is such a fucking good scene!
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It's a neo-noir detective story that also has the single-best sense of geography I've seen in any movie, ever, and as a result has a few incredibly satisfying footchase sequences.
Footchases are hard to do on film! Brick has a great one, the Bourne movies have a couple of solid ones, but that's... Kind of all I can think of? And I think The Chaser beats 'em all.
It's also a great story, but they named the movie "The Chaser" and fuckin' lived up to it, which is wild
also there's a good footchase in Casino Royale
Also if I recall correctly M has a pretty good one
So far I have
Pooro’s Quidditch movie The Chaser
Forgotten
#Alive
Time to Hunt
Minari
The Good, The Bad, The Weird
Open to suggestions but only movies I haven’t seen so don’t say Oldboy or anything by Bong Joon-Ho
Point Break has a good one. It doesn't make any sense geographically but it definitely works.
Peppermint Candy
Burning
Poetry
Thirst
The Wailing
Baby Driver has a neat, brief one.
I did not care for much of Baby Driver at all, so I will (respectfully) disagree on that one
I have not seen Tale of Two Sisters so it’s been added to the list
Watch it without reading anything about it.
I enjoyed it a lot and talked for hours about it with the friends I watched it with
If you haven't seen The Handmaiden, that one RULES. Very fun, very surprising, has the clockwork-plotting of a heist movie but manages to keep genuine emotion alive along the way, shit completely owns
I've read the book it's based on but I suspect there may be some differences
"End of the second lap, you still got a comfortable lead" is a line that I admit to still using.
Oh dude I suspect you will ADORE it
Predictably aside it wasn’t a bad one and done action movie after all. I like those.
I especially appreciated
Also Kate being REALLY FUCKING INSTANTLY DEAD WITH ABSOLUTELY NO HOPE WHATSOEVER via radiation poisoning. I mean sure they did some handwavy nonsense with her stims working like a videogame heal....which wouldn’t do anything to your insides melting, but it was always super clear that Kate was going to be super dead by the end of the movie, no matter what.
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I think I'm going to repeat what I did last year since I'm craving more variety after doing so many horror movies lately, and going with a Movember theme.
Every movie will have at least one person in it with a killer mustache. They can be any genre, from any era, nothing else matters except having at least one really great mustache somewhere in the movie.
Steam
If "Dragula" is any indication, he might be decent at horror themed comedy.
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One of my fav reviews is “oh I’m not used to lesbian movies being actually good”
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It's one of the most twisted movies I've ever seen. I hope you don't watch that last act in a crowded room.
I wish I could be surprised that "What if Lucille Ball got the type of Aaron Sorkin monologues normally reserved for dudes" was the first taste of this movie
Anyway I'm sure it'll be fine and not at all drive me out of my goddamn mind
She does do a fantastic job with the voice, not knocking that at all, Nicole Kidman is a fucking pro
I hope it's good.
I Love Lucy was literally the only thing not on Univision that I could turn on and see a Cuban on American television.
It was a big part of my childhood, and it was dope not only to see a woman with her own show, but a woman married to an immigrant from my family's part of the world.
same reason the original law and order is important for me, benjamin bratt is half-peruvian and so is his character
shit blew me away when I was 12
It is very specifically my affection for I Love Lucy that makes me so... Apprehensive about Aaron Sorkin being at the helm
Memoir of A Murder
Edit; on wait that's Bong Joon-Ho
Did you see Mank.
It's classic hollywood self-congratulating bullshit, but it is very good at doing it.
One scene in particular gave me fucking chills upon rewatching it that I think is an all timer for horror.