[QuickTidal]

I've not seen KNIVES OUT yet, but this looks solid!

[Slow Ben]

Wife and I are watching through both Father of the Brides since they're on Disney+.

Still excellent, but you really relate more with ole Dad when you have daughters that are old enough to have boyfriends. ooooh boy.

[Macros]

QuickTidal, on 08 September 2022 - 02:06 PM, said:

I've not seen KNIVES OUT yet, but this looks solid!

Knives out was a fun take on the genre

[Malankazooie]

The movie Old. There's an 1 hr & 1/2 I can't get back (huh, kind of goes with the theme of the movie ;-) ). It is duuuuuuuumb! Oh gee, lets work in the idea of ethics and for the greater good at the end.

[QuickTidal]

The INDY 5 trailer leaked...but it's been yanked from most places due to copyright. I expect this means that the full HD version will come out soon too, so keep an eye out.

I saw it before it was yanked and I can confirm one character casting spoiler for the impatient...

Spoiler

John Rhys-Davies reprises Sallah in it!

[Tsundoku]

QuickTidal, on 28 September 2022 - 07:07 PM, said:

I saw it before it was yanked and I can confirm one character casting spoiler for the impatient...

Spoiler

John Rhys-Davies reprises Sallah in it!

I love Sallah too but isn't JRD ermm .... not Egyptian?

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 28 September 2022 - 08:24 PM

[QuickTidal]

Tsundoku, on 28 September 2022 - 08:21 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 28 September 2022 - 07:07 PM, said:

I saw it before it was yanked and I can confirm one character casting spoiler for the impatient...

Spoiler

John Rhys-Davies reprises Sallah in it!

I love Sallah too but isn't JRD ermm .... not Egyptian?

‘‘Twas a different era of casting my friend.

[Tsundoku]

QuickTidal, on 29 September 2022 - 01:43 AM, said:

Tsundoku, on 28 September 2022 - 08:21 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 28 September 2022 - 07:07 PM, said:

I saw it before it was yanked and I can confirm one character casting spoiler for the impatient...

Spoiler

John Rhys-Davies reprises Sallah in it!

I love Sallah too but isn't JRD ermm .... not Egyptian?

‘‘Twas a different era of casting my friend.

Yeah but I'm kinda expecting some ... pressure to recast.

[Lady Bliss]

I don’t think so. I mean obviously the character isn’t pc by today’s standards, he’s still a beloved part of the franchise.

[Tiste Simeon]

Lady Bliss, on 29 September 2022 - 12:03 PM, said:

I don’t think so. I mean obviously the character isn’t pc by today’s standards, he’s still a beloved part of the franchise.

Or he is until someone popular on TikTok whose never seen the original 3 kicks up a storm about it!

[Macros]

Easy, they do an emotional side scene where he and indy regale each other with stories of their youth, and its revealed his parents immigrated to Egypt for work and were killed in a pyramid/camel accident, at a young age with nowhere to go a kindly local family took him in

[QuickTidal]

Watched Soleil Moon Frye's documentary (cut together from the video footage she shot during her entire youth compulsively) KID 90...which is basically a look at the lives of all the famous young actors of the 90's who she hung out with.

It's about 1.5 hours long (perhaps a little less) and for the first maybe 30-40 minutes, it's what I expected...a sort of unabashed look at people I grew up idolizing acting like I did as an idiot teen, partying, making out, smoking, drinking and doing varied drugs (albeit more depressing)...in the same decade that I did those things. The problem really arises about halfway through when it changes into Soleil basically coming to the realization (as she watches back the tapes) that she was literally SURROUNDED by young people so depressed that they were crying out for help...which she accepts she ignored/didn't see at the time...and as such, the film ends with a literal graveyard of people who either died by drug overdose or moreover from suicide around her....Jonathan Brandis chief amongst them (she dated him intensely and spoke about marrying him in the future).

It's also interesting to see her leave LA at like age 17 when things were spiralling a little out of control in her life with all the partying and drugs ect, to start a new chapter in NYC for University...only to IMMEDIATELY fall in with Justin Pierce, Harold Hunter (both of whom died as well from suicide and drugs respectively) and the rest of the basehead/nigh-homeless/Zoo York/KIDS movie party crowd which I would argue was even worse than the crowd she was hanging out with in LA. It's like watching someone leave a car wreck, and get on a train headed towards a brick wall. Her first consensual sex experience was with Charlie Sheen when he was 29 and she was 17...ick....a relationship she speaks FONDLY of on the Doc in the modern day segments, and the guy from House of Pain she dated who was 25 and dated her when she was 15...like her life was a mess, and even in the introspective moments in the modern day talking head segments I'm sitting there like "Lady...some of this stuff you're romanticizing was not romantic at all and much of it is very problematic."

I honestly thought that aside from a story or two of people losing their way mentally (Brandis, who was in the trailer), I was going to wistfully enjoy this look back at the decade that really defined me...but this documentary is depressing from the first 15 or so minutes and just gets more depressing as it goes.

She should have left these tapes locked up in a box. It serves no one to revisit the 90's through such a miserable lens.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 30 September 2022 - 11:40 AM

[Slow Ben]

Watched DC Super Pets with the kids at the theater. Actually pretty damn entertaining. Probably the DC movie I’ve enjoyed the most.

7 coughed up hair ball grenades out of 10.

[Tsundoku]

Just watched Bullet Train, with Brad Pitt. I don't get the low RT critic score (54%), trust the audience score (76%) it was a blast. Good fun, good action, twisty plot (don't waste time trying to follow it at the time, it will explain it later), a nice balance between tongue-in-cheek and action/adventure.

Loads of little easter eggs too, cameos galore and many Deadpool 2 crossovers. Not surprising considering David Leitch directed. I guess it was being made at the same time at The Lost City (also good fun, if a bit more switch your brain off). I did not spot Aaron Taylor-Johnson at the time, he's a real chameleon these days.

A solid eight venomous South African snakes out of ten. Definite popcorn movie.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 03 October 2022 - 12:18 PM

[QuickTidal]

Tsundoku, on 03 October 2022 - 12:16 PM, said:

Just watched Bullet Train, with Brad Pitt. I don't get the low RT critic score (54%), trust the audience score (76%) it was a blast. Good fun, good action, twisty plot (don't waste time trying to follow it at the time, it will explain it later), a nice balance between tongue-in-cheek and action/adventure.

Loads of little easter eggs too, cameos galore and many Deadpool 2 crossovers. Not surprising considering David Leitch directed. I guess it was being made at the same time at The Lost City (also good fun, if a bit more switch your brain off). I did not spot Aaron Taylor-Johnson at the time, he's a real chameleon these days.

A solid eight venomous South African snakes out of ten. Definite popcorn movie.

I want to watch it, and this was pretty much the consensus of my friend who saw it in theatre...that it's a blast.

Also, for what it's worth I put WAYYYYYYYY more stock in the Audience Score over the critic score these days...I find critics intensely out of touch with what is fun and good.

[Tsundoku]

Latest one: Confess, Fletch. Updated version with John Hamm in the role made famous by Chevy Chase in two movies that were both great fun.

This version is a little lighter on the slapstick but still quirky and fun. It seemed a little "Netflix-y" but not in a bad way, more like the "Murder Mystery" that Jen Aniston and Adam Sandler did that was fun at the time but not overly memorable.

A nice light way to spend an hour and a half or so. John Hamm isn't bad in the role and has some comedy chops.

6.5 attractive Chileans playing Italians out of 10.

[Malankazooie]

For Halloween spooky season, watched Studio 666 (the Foo Fighters horror movie)....eh, it was a stinker. The expectation that it's supposed to be schlocky, b-movie horror entertainment going in is necessary, but it didn't deliver on that or lean into it very much. It was not fun much at all tbh, except for the keyboard player and Pat Smear very rarely (and some of the goofy, gory sfx were fun). But yeah, I expected terrible acting but its not done in a fun b-movie way. So don't waste your time with Studio 666. On a separate note, I'm kind of over Dave Grohl as rock star hero he as so fully embraced now. It's gotten annoying. Also, about the movie, I wonder if it's cursed and had something to do with the drummer's death. If I was the other guys in the band I'd be worried. (heh, just a goof, but I'm sure fans of the band have given it some thought).

[worry]

Speaking of spooky season --

A couple things from Criterion's current 80s Horror collection:
Near Dark -- Modern (as in current day, as of the 80s) Western combined with vampires. Pretty good. Not scary, but it's got a lot of style and has fun -- Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton are great (it's directed by Kathryn Bigelow back when she was with James Cameron, and has some cast crossover with Aliens).

Basket Case (rewatch) -- Hadn't seen this since I was a kid. I think I was scared of Belial back then, and he is pretty gruesome, but it's really just good campy fun from top to bottom. Glad I rewatched it!

And a couple newer things:
X -- 70s-style throwback slasher from Ti West. Pretty good. Decent tension (but no frights) and not reinventing the wheel, but it gets by on a lot of charm and good performances, plus some pretty gnarly kills.

Speak No Evil -- Kind of on the Funny Games tip -- not nearly as self-righteous and lecture-y as FG (note -- I did not like FG), but it also ramps up the stupid quite a bit in exchange, at least in the second half. It's a satire of the Danish middle class, I gather, so it makes sense that they're stupid, but it's still more frustrating than satisfying, even if that's the point. IMO at least.

[Malankazooie]

Looks effectively creepy for Halloween season. Doesn't open until January though, so probably something I look out for, for next spooky season.

[Malankazooie]

So, still on the Halloween season movie vibe, I watched Rosemary's Baby for the first time. I've read articles about the movie in the past but never have watched it. I liked it. The actress playing Rosemary is the gem of the movie, but the supporting cast is top notch as well, especially the older couple (well really the woman) who has way too much nosey interest in Rosemary's pregnancy (I wonder why? ) . The movie really lives and breaths on being understated in a lot of respects and ramping up the psychological tension. Rosemary's physical decline in health during the pregnancy is done really well. I suppose with today's sensibilities, Rosemary's Baby probably would get a lot of criticism (dare I suggest 'woke' criticism? ). But yeah, for a different kind of horror flick experience, one that I think is not really done anymore, it delivers.