Motion Pictures (that anuse me)

[blombluss]

Have you thought about setting fire to your keyboard? That might help you keep warm when writing?

[blombluss]

re: french film from the 1930s (directed by jean vigo,

I read that as John Virgo, and did a 'where's the cue ball going'-type chuckle to myself.

[vom]

I did the March world-movie challenge thing again and watched films from 31 different countries last month. Now it's April I naturally find myself only wanting to watch absolute trash and never see a subtitle ever again

Even though it was good

[vom]

So tonight I watched Shadow in the Cloud, a film about Chloe Moretz having a fist-fight with a gremlin during world war 2

It was incredible

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hooray

[vom]

And then I watched Leprechaun, starring Warwick Davis and Jennifer Aniston, together at last

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double hooray

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i watched match of the day and roy hodgson suddenly looks really really old

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whereas before he just looked fairly old

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poor old roy

[richschnauzer]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/m ... a-real-dog

I don't think he liked it lads.

[CandyDarling]

Oh my god, I'd forgotten about the "YOU A DOG AND NO PEOPLE?" meme thing

Also this is just a really shit CG cartoon of which there's been millions, only this time set in Spindle-Limb World

[vom]

I wrote another film article! This time it's about 3 Bad Men, a film that is not quite 100 years old (but very close):

https://www.the-solute.com/year-of-the- ... 3-bad-men/

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hooray

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also that reminds me that i should probably watch some 100 year old films again some day soon

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but ever since i ran out of buster keatons i have been too sad to do so

[vom]

you will get more buster keatons soon

[vom]

ish

[vom]

I don't think I've seen either of his 1923 films actually

[vom]

I'm hoping I can write about one of his other films this month too, unless it turns out that I'm quite lazy

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you better not be quite lazy

[blombluss]

I wrote another film article! This time it's about 3 Bad Men, a film that is not quite 100 years old (but very close):

https://www.the-solute.com/year-of-the- ... 3-bad-men/

Lovely writings, Vom!

Also - 'the wheel came off', makes me chuckle far more than it probably should!

[vom]

Cheers! Honestly it's even funnier in context, and with the full-on eye roll and "oh is it?" that she responds with

[vom]

and here's another film article from me. this time about lovely Buster Keaton and his cow

https://www.the-solute.com/decade-of-th ... n-go-west/

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Hooray. Lovely buster (and lovely Vom)

[vom]

I hope you're looking forward to seeing this in three years time when it turns 100

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ves. very much

[richschnauzer]

genuinely thought this was a spoof.
https://youtu.be/CuseNsBc9oY

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charade - cary grant and audrey hepburn aren't sure if they're in a screwball comedy or a hitchcock thriller, so do both at the same time. it's pretty fun (although the frequency with which audrey hepburn keeps falling back in love with cary grant despite there being no good reason at all to fall back in love with cary grant makes it seem like she's suffered some sort of serious head trauma at times)

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also the theme tune played on a fairground wurlitzer sounded very like the music from the city of lost children i think (although i haven't seen that in 15 years so maybe i'm thinking of something else)

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maybe all wurlitzer music sounds like that

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The Samurai Trilogy - 50s samurai films in which Toshiro Mifune must kill every man he sees for six hours or so, mostly because for some reason every man who sees him wants to kill him. starts relatively slowly but gets better and better mostly, and the last ten minutes or so of the last one are basically incredible, wonderful, perfect

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all in colour too, surprisingly, for japanese films from the 50s

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last year some time i watched the loki tv series on disney plus, which seemed to be an experiment in what would happen if you made doctor who with a 100 million dollar budget and his companion was another doctor who (answer: doctor who, but even more inconsequential somehow). today i watched doctor strange and the doctor stranges of madness on disney plus, which seemed to be an experiment into what would happen if you let sam raimi make doctor who on a billion dollar budget, with a doctor who even more repellent than colin baker, where almost every scene takes place in some location or other stolen straight from a bayonetta game, and with lots of strangely out of place violence for a kids film (answer: doctor who, but sort of revolting in some way)

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i think i hated this on a moral level

[vom]

sounds good

[vom]

(nothing has sounded good in years)

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yes

[endar]

yes

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Orgy of the dead - lurid 60s sex nonsense, written by Ed Wood. For a film that's 90% nude women dancing in a graveyard (with occasional skeleton) this was quite boring

[vom]

Somewhat impossibly I've just watched a film with an even lower IMDB rating than that

[vom]

It must be Bad Movie Sunday

[vom]

(mine was The Crawlers aka Creepers aka Contamination .7)

(it was pretty terribly paced and badly acted but quite charming)

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hooray

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also that sounds quite good, in a squirm/slugs sort of way

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the best sort of way

[vom]

yeah definitely in that kind of territory! not as good as Slugs though. Slugs fucking rules

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I'vr still not actually ever seen slugs or squirm.

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I am of course a book purist and refuse to watch the movies in case they don't live up to the majesty of my imagination

[vom]

Geostorm

this is best movie ever
I, just, wow