Reservoir Dogs

I saw this when it came out and loved it for obvious reasons but have never gone back, unlike all the other Tarantino films which I’ve rewatched multiple times.

With the power of the internets, the whole backstory behind it all is revealed! Amazing film in its own right - really more like a stage play (surely someone has done it on the stage?) - but knowing all the other details fleshes it all out a lot more. The fact that Tim Roths job was to just lie in pools of fake blood for hours on end to the point it would dry and they’d have to peel him off the floor makes the “grit” factor even higher…

I need to rewatch

"The Wild One" with Marlon Brando, I get the times have changed and I obviously can't see it in the same way people in 1953 did, but it still only worked as intentional comedy, Benny Hill music would would have been be a perfect fit.

I saw Companion last night, completely average experience, if I'm being generous.

Saw Evil Dead Trap the other day, have to say the misoginy bothered me too much, especially since it's such a mindless plot and the surreal factor would have to be enough on its own to make the film stand out to me. The only guy who's murdered dies offscreen, the girls we get to see raped and tortured.

Rewatched Pontypool. It's a Valentine's Day movie.

Local independent cinema was showing Charade for cheap movie night, so we went. Weird little movie. I did get a kick watching Audrey Hepburn run her finger along Cary Grant's chin cleft and asking, "how he shaved in there?" and I wonder if it was improvised.

One Hour Photo

Mork was buggin'!

emmanuelle cunt wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 4:37 am "The Wild One" with Marlon Brando, I get the times have changed and I obviously can't see it in the same way people in 1953 did, but it still only worked as intentional comedy, Benny Hill music would would have been be a perfect fit.

I don't think anybody ever took this movie seriously, it's more about Brando establishing what a cool guy looks like for all eternity. I guess Brando and Hopper got into it about James Dean appropriating his Levis and white T-shirt on the set of Apocalypse Now.

The Gorge. Apple TV+ sci-fi-romance-actioner with Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller. Fun. Excellent creature design. Appealing leads. Didn't drag in between the set pieces. I was surprised when I saw the credits that Atticus Ross and Trent rezner had done the music. Had not heard about that at all.

The American Society of Magical Negroes. Dreadful. And during Black History Month.

Furiosa: ehh, I didn’t find her story that interesting. I liked Thor’s crazy psycho character.

I think George Miller wasted an opportunity to do another proper Mad Max movie.