Let's All Go to the Movies

quirk6 said:
I've still never seen it.
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I would suggest Sixteen Candles, but fuck Jake Ryan. My wife would walk out the door without even blinking if he showed up in his red Porsche.
 
Tonight I watched Knives Out, which I mostly liked (though it was kind of a little too cute at times and was missing something I couldn't really put my finger on), and Stop Making Sense, which I fucking loved but which should have "a special thanks to cocaine" in the credits.
 
Of all his films I would mostly appreciate a 4K update to Mars Attacks for Tim Burton.

It’s Tim Burton at peak Tim Burton-iness and I love it.
 
Recent watches:
Easy A: A modern retelling of Scarlet Letter from 2010 ish. I had never heard of this movie until a few weeks ago when I think AV club did a write up on it, probably for 10th anniversary reasons, but I think I pressed too many buttons starting up Netflix this morning as I was getting ready for some Sunday Cardio and it started playing, and I thought to myself, "I guess I am watching this now." and I did. I remember the article saying it had modernized the teen movie, dropping many of the tropes from my own era, but based on the plot, it actually reminded me A LOT of Saved! which I would probably still rather watch, personally, but this was entertaining enough for a Sunday morning ride on the exercise bike.

Bill and Ted Face the Music: a perfectly fine but otherwise unnecessary third movie in a series that I watched in its entirety for the first time this month.

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - something came back to me about discussing the book while rewatching the movie for probably the first time in many years. The book wasn’t so much about an unreliable narrator as it was showing the poor standard of care at the time. Psychology and Psychiatry weren’t that old of professions when the book was written. The film is from 1975, the book was published in 1962. In the film they talked about McMurphy being committed to determine if he is faking, and while I took just enough Psych credits in Undergrad to be dangerous, I settled on looking up when Borderline Personality Disorder became a diagnosis in the DSM, and that was 1978. I say all of this long winded stuff because I was watching the film thinking about whether McMurphy was just an asshole or did he possibly have some kind of personality disorder that we would treat today with medication and therapy, and I am leaning toward the latter, but I think it is supposed to be up to interpretation because at the time we really did not know. Nurse Ratched’s job sucks. Honestly, it’s been a hell of a long time since I read the book, planning to watch Ratched next, I think the film adapted the book well from what I recall.
 
May The Devil Take You: Indonesia has really stepped up their film game and this was a super gory brutal ride. Packed with horror tropes we've all seen before: penance paid for sin, possession.. it's nothing original at all - make a deal with the devil and of course shit will hit the fan. Tons of fun to watch. CGI and practical effects were both great with minimal shaky cam.

La Llorona: Happened upon this on Shudder. Slow burn political thriller that blends a famous Latin American folk tale (La Llorona/the weeping woman) and the real life Guatemalan genocide. Genre film fans are probably gonna feel disappointed since it's not a flat out horror movie and leans way more into social-political drama/thriller with folk horror elements. The plot is about exploring guilt and accountability (or really lack thereof), so analyzing the horrors of humanity and the horror from superstition was executed pretty well here. Def suggest it if you were also into socially conscious thrillers like Parasite or Tigers Are Not Afraid.
 
I knew I was forgetting a movie:
Totally Under Control: A COVID documentary on HULU. This was very well done. A what happened when and why about the delays, the botched initial CDC test, etc. A little depressing, but it put a little perspective on what a big deal it was for Dr. Birx to go off script last week. It’s a bit over 2 hours and packed with information.
 
A little early in the morning to see a dead body, but here is a great pan of Hillbilly Elegy.

"I am surprised it’s as bad as it is. Written for the screen by Vanessa Taylor (The Shape of Water, Hope Springs) and directed by Ron Howard, it is distractingly Hollywoodified, a rich person’s idea of what it is like to be a poor person, a tone-deaf attempt to assuage a very particular kind of liberal guilt by reifying the very thing that caused the guilt in the first place. And, perhaps worst of all, it’s a very dull movie."
 
LurchingBeast said:
A little early in the morning to see a dead body, but here is a great pan of Hillbilly Elegy.

"I am surprised it’s as bad as it is. Written for the screen by Vanessa Taylor (The Shape of Water, Hope Springs) and directed by Ron Howard, it is distractingly Hollywoodified, a rich person’s idea of what it is like to be a poor person, a tone-deaf attempt to assuage a very particular kind of liberal guilt by reifying the very thing that caused the guilt in the first place. And, perhaps worst of all, it’s a very dull movie."
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Yo, this movie is getting dragged all over the internet this morning. A deluge of bad reviews.
 
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