Motion Pictures (that anuse me)

[dng]

i would quite like to see that in a cinema too.

[dng]

But I know I won't because its too much effort to go

[Bruce Sato]

KHAAAAAAN happened, and was amazing, as always

Shatner is actually good actor, once you've worn him down

[vom]

I went to the cinema yesterday and all of the tickets were £3 for everything, it was great

(I saw the new George Miller film Three Thousand Years of Longing and I loved it)

[dng]

I watched the most recent spider man film. it was utterly pointless

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i quite liked the previous two new spider man films as they were quite good fun but this wasn't much fun at all really

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Thor 4 - the first half of this is a comedy where none of the jokes are funny at all. The second half of this is a comedy where one of the jokes is quite funny

[dng]

Occasionally it looks lovely though, christian bale's a decent baddie, and there’s a pretty good bit in the middle on a miniature moon

[dng]

Now to never watch any superhero films ever again

[blombluss]

I've finally watched Teenwolf

I like it

[vom]

What's it about

[dng]

Baseball

[blombluss]

It's a coming-of-age basketball rom-com made on a budget of about £4!

[dng]

Paris, 13th District - the most beautiful people in the entirety of france have sex, sadly, for an hour and a half

[dng]

it was quite good but boy were they sad

[dng]

and beautiful

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I watched Irma Vep last night, which is a french film from the 90s about how shit and provincial french film making is, starring Maggie Cheung as Maggie Cheung, who's been hired to play Irma Vep in th ea remake of this excellent sounding/looking old 7 hour long silent film that I might watch one day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Vampires

Anyway it was quite good. It reminded me of the existence of luna, who i used to like in the 90s, when this excellent song was on the soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTg0k2HFcYQ

and also i like dit because when Maggie Cheung speaks english (I don't think I've ever seen her speak english in anything before) she sounds exactly like Emma Raducanu, which I thought was odd, and then I looked it up, and it turns out Maggie Cheung grew up in Bromley just like Emma Raducanu did.

Which is also odd but at least explains things

[dng]

Also she's barely made a film in the last 20 years, which is a shame, because she's brilliant, obviously

[vom]

The other day I saw the new Peter Strickland film, Flux Gourmet, and it was the best thing ever. Tonight I watched his previous one, In Fabric, and that is also the best thing ever. This is now a Peter Strickland fan forum please update your records

[dng]

I didn't even know he had a new one out. Hooray

[dng]

I liked In Fabric a lot. I've liked all his films a lot

[vom]

I didn't like Duke of Burgundy very much but now I'm thinking maybe I should try again

[vom]

this month I wrote about LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM for the Solute because it is best

https://www.the-solute.com/year-of-the- ... hite-worm/

[dng]

Hooray

[blombluss]

Good work, Sir!

Also... I very very very much remember Amanda Donohoe in that film, oh yes.

[Pual]

Yes I remember watching that before huge grant was famous and then watching it again after he was famous and realising he was in it.

[Pual]

Also both times I watched it were before Peter capaldi was famous/old

[vom]

I bet you were all like "doctor WHO?"

doctor of architecture

knock knock

[vom]

Just watched a wonderful sci-fi film called Vesper at one of my local film festivals and it had SKELEBONES IN SPACE HELMETS

[dng]

Hooray

[blombluss]

If I were a skellington, I'd wear the appropriate headwear in any given situation.

[blombluss]

I watched Ransom on Talkin' Pichers larst night.

Lovejoy (Ian McShane) is a terrorist.
Bond (Sean Connerog) is head of security for the Nordic country of... Scandinavia (ves, really).

It was a real 6/10 of a movie.

[dng]

dune: the new dune - i couldn't understand what anyone was saying, i didn't really care what was happening, the spaceships looked really nice

[dng]

there were no pugs

[vom]

do we have wormsign?

[dng]

I think they're saving most of that for the sequel

[dng]

if they can be bothered to make it

[vom]

I watched Monkeybone last night, an insane Brendan Fraser film directed by Henry Selick of Nightmare before Christmas fame in which a cartoonist falls into a coma and then gets possessed by his own comic creation. It's jarringly insane and I had quite a good time but mostly I'm mentioning it because there WAS a pug in it

Or at least I think there was, it was wearing a wrestling mask

It belongs to Whoopi Goldberg, who is playing the role of Death

[Mrak]

if they can be bothered to make it

When it is due out? When did the first come out?

[dng]

Next year, last year

[Mrak]

Didn't they just film them all at the same time, like Lord of the Rings and The Godfather Trilogy? 2 years between the releases is madness!

[CandyDarling]

I watched Monkeybone last night, an insane Brendan Fraser film directed by Henry Selick of Nightmare before Christmas fame in which a cartoonist falls into a coma and then gets possessed by his own comic creation. It's jarringly insane and I had quite a good time but mostly I'm mentioning it because there WAS a pug in it

Or at least I think there was, it was wearing a wrestling mask

It belongs to Whoopi Goldberg, who is playing the role of Death

I think I've seen that, or at least I saw the second half of it once. If it's the one I'm thinking of then I think Brendan Fraser's character's soul goes into a dead jogger, which means his role is then played by an entirely different person for the rest of the movie, with different clothes, face, everything (but dead). But I could have got mixed up there. (Also hopefully that's not too much of a spoiler. I can't find the spoiler tag here)

Also on Letterboxd I made (I am making) this list:

Microsoft Cinemania '95 (work in progress)

[vom]

It's a dead gymnast that he possesses and it's only a fairly short stretch of the film BUT absolutely the best part because the guy playing the possessed dead gymnast gives a truly incredible performance

[Pual]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/d ... te-winslet

James Cameron being completely normal

[dng]

excellent

[dng]

next week he needs to commission a study into whether nuking a city from orbit really would be the only way to be sure

[CandyDarling]

I AM THE BESTEST AT THE FILMS, DO NOT QUESTION MY JUDGEMENT

[Mrak]

He couldn't just say "Jack remembered he owed a lot of money to loan sharks in New York, so decided it was better to just die."

[vom]

I just watched Bloody New Year, a wonderfully insane 80s horror movie filmed in South Wales in which a group of "teenagers" flee trouble at a funfair and end up on a haunted island where it's always New Year 1959. it was the very best film ever made and I loved it

[dng]

The banshees of inisherin - probably not quite as utterly bleak as Calvary, but pretty close