Finally saw Harold and Maude over the weekend. Pretty much the definition of cult movie - dark, weird and hilarious. Really liked the Cat Stevens soundtrack, too.
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Rented Creed III to watch on the weekend, we watched about an hour and 20 minutes on Saturday and weren't super in to it. Just felt very predictable and by the numbers and like no one was having very much fun making it. We had intended to finish it last night and didn't even bother, watched something else instead. Read the rest of the plot this morning and yeah, it ends exactly as you'd expect. It was fine, not bad or poorly made or anything, but just a bit boring and missing some spark. Wouldn't recommend.
Rented Creed III to watch on the weekend, we watched about an hour and 20 minutes on Saturday and weren't super in to it. Just felt very predictable and by the numbers and like no one was having very much fun making it. We had intended to finish it last night and didn't even bother, watched something else instead. Read the rest of the plot this morning and yeah, it ends exactly as you'd expect. It was fine, not bad or poorly made or anything, but just a bit boring and missing some spark. Wouldn't recommend.
I've only watched some clips of it but I'm guessing not having a very central character not being in the movie would be the missing spark. Rocky/Stallone elevated an already solid set of storylines in the first two Creeds.
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The scene where she interviews for a "job" where she's an intern and basically works for free was a great scene. I've had rants at previous work places about bringing in interns and paying them pennies. This part was so spot on.
Ha, I happened to see a clip of this scene on YouTube. Absolutely bonkers that new grads are hired under the auspices of "unpaid internships".
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I thought Plaza was quite good but the movie was a bit better than ok. I appreciated the underlying message of how difficult it is for young people to get ahead professionally.
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The scene where she interviews for a "job" where she's an intern and basically works for free was a great scene. I've had rants at previous work places about bringing in interns and paying them pennies. This part was so spot on.
I think Plaza was good at delivering what she was clearly asked to deliver, I just feel like the movie would have been improved with some different tones. As a movie I think the main strength is the atypical view it takes on crime, that I found really interesting, and worth seeing.
The older I grow, the more I appreciate movies not being like other movies. It just always feels more worthwhile seeing something that's doing it's own interesting thing, even if the movie otherwise wouldn't stand out.
On that note, I re-watched Sorry to Bother You, and that movie is just kind of incredible. It's so unique in the best way, not a try-hard way but in a "we can't say the stuff we want to say without the movie becoming super weird, so we'll just make the movie super weird" kind of way.
And it is weird, and I love it. For me it was an instant classic the first time I saw it, and I haven't changed my mind on that. The rap scene alone is just fantastic, it just boils down so much stuff in that one scene.
Went to see Bones of Crows last night, Canadian film directed by a female Canadian indigenous director about a family's history surviving, succumbing to the residential school system and how it affected their lives as adults.
One thing I can appreciate is how the film addresses how these children were malnourished, hungry and never fed properly. Many died of disease or when trying to escape to get back home to their parents. I feel that sometimes gets forgotten when it's hard not to focus on priests raping and impregnating children.
The residential school scenes were filmed in Kamloops, right around the time the unmarked graves were discovered. This is a powerful movie, there is an onscreen warning that this might be difficult to survivors of the residential school system and they give a number to call if you need to talk to someone.
As a film it's shot incredibly well and looks great, you can't fault the acting but it's not on par with some of the best work that's been captured by directors like Scorsese, Nolan, PT Anderson, etc. Basically, I felt as though the story was there, all the elements were there and this could have been incredible with better directing and tightening up the dialogue. In a way that's not really a criticism because it's a Canadian film and I immediately judged how it measured up to some of the best films ever made.
The screen went dark, the credits began to roll and I quickly walked out so no one would see me crying. I'm sure there were a few people wondering why there was a grown man with tears in his eyes walking past while they were walking into Fast X.
Watched Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein last night. And it's pure 90s gothic theatre kid camp. Is it good? I don't know, probably not. Did I have a blast. yes.
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Watched Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein last night. And it's pure 90s gothic theatre kid camp. Is it good? I don't know, probably not. Did I have a blast. yes.
I actually liked it back in the day. The book is still a good read. Much easier/better than Dracula.
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Watched TOTALLY ####ED UP last night as Gregg Araki has three films on Criteron this month and really dug it. I saw the new restoration of DOOM GENERATION and liked but didn't love it. The former is a lot smaller in scope and I think I connected with it more. The latter is pure unfiltered New Queer Cinema Movement's BADLANDS or BONNIE & CLYDE though.
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Thats why Flames fans make ideal Star Trek fans. We've really been taught to embrace the self-loathing and extreme criticism.
Watched TOTALLY ####ED UP last night as Gregg Araki has three films on Criteron this month and really dug it. I saw the new restoration of DOOM GENERATION and liked but didn't love it. The former is a lot smaller in scope and I think I connected with it more. The latter is pure unfiltered New Queer Cinema Movement's BADLANDS or BONNIE & CLYDE though.
Thanks. If I search for these movies should I use all caps?
I've never seen 28 days later. Apparently it's excellent but nowhere to be found due to music licensing. Will have to search around!
Re-watched the wrestling documentary Wrestling with Shadows about Brett Hart and the events leading up to the Montreal screwjob and it's great. Especially as we get further from those events it's become a time capsule of the start of the Attitude era and the end of 90s wrestling.
What's really cool, is that on the recent Vinegar Syndrome release they added the documentary The Life and Death of Owen Hart. I've never seen this before, heartbreaking stuff very well done but such a hard watch.
Re-watched the wrestling documentary Wrestling with Shadows about Brett Hart and the events leading up to the Montreal screwjob and it's great. Especially as we get further from those events it's become a time capsule of the start of the Attitude era and the end of 90s wrestling.
What's really cool, is that on the recent Vinegar Syndrome release they added the documentary The Life and Death of Owen Hart. I've never seen this before, heartbreaking stuff very well done but such a hard watch.
If you haven't yet, seek out and watch Beyond the Mat.
It follows the behind the scenes stuff around 1997-1999. Although it focuses on Mick Foley, Terry Funk, and Jake Roberts, the real star of the show was Dennis Stamp.
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If you haven't yet, seek out and watch Beyond the Mat.
It follows the behind the scenes stuff around 1997-1999. Although it focuses on Mick Foley, Terry Funk, and Jake Roberts, the real star of the show was Dennis Stamp.
If you guys love wrestling, especially older stuff, go to the streaming channel Tubi. They have some great content from the 1950's to now.
