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[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

i watched eleven in all during the month of january and that felt like a good pace. especially given that two of them account for about 10 hours of viewing. i am very deliberately avoiding overloading myself on the medium, i like a day or two to reflect and think about stuff before moving on to the next

But that's not entertaining for us. Back to the drawing board.

[jawn galliano]

closed out january with dark star and altered states

Altered States is so rad until the last like, 10-20 seconds.

aw man, i liked the ending! it was quite fitting

i watched eleven in all during the month of january and that felt like a good pace. especially given that two of them account for about 10 hours of viewing. i am very deliberately avoiding overloading myself on the medium, i like a day or two to reflect and think about stuff before moving on to the next

But that's not entertaining for us. Back to the drawing board.

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[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

I don't make the rules, the angry mob does.

[slugbait]

Getcha early gloryhole era Van Damme²

[Noyka]

Just went with dad to see escape from new york in the theater

[jawn galliano]

oh fuck yeah! i'm jealous, would love to see that or really any of the classic carpenters on the big screen

last night was hirokazu kore-eda's still walking

[Noyka]

My theater plays a lot of classics. The catch is they are at weird times like 1 pm on a tuesday but you can get in for $6.

[zim]

My theater plays a lot of classics. The catch is they are at weird times like 1 pm on a tuesday but you can get in for $6.

that's the best time to see any movie

[Noyka]

If you work at home like me and you but for working folks its a weird time haha

[deckard]

finally finished reacher season 2, was class

[Noyka]

Going to see The Thing in theaters!

[jawn galliano]

oh FUCK yes, i'm so excited for you and also jealous

[Noyka]

Feb is Carpenter month next week Big Trouble in Little China and week after that They Live. I didn’t care for They Live so won’t see that one. I think its a weird choice for flashback cinema because it is very dated in my opinion. There are parts in Escape from New York and Big Trouble that are too but overall still fun movies.

The Thing we all know still holds up perfectly.

[slugbait]

Color Ouf of Space :niccage:

[agony bagony]

nothing adam

[jawn galliano]

i think i will watch a movie tonight but i'm not sure which one yet. details to come at a later time

[agony bagony]

i am gonna watch another one of these hoebag academy award-nominated motion pictures soon, the only question is which one

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

Just watch vice squad academy instead

[jawn galliano]

i am gonna watch another one of these hoebag academy award-nominated motion pictures soon, the only question is which one

anatomy of a fall received a rave review from a fellating lover, and perfect days looks excellent as well. aside from those two, i think the boy and the heron & killers of the flower moon are the only other oscar nominated things i am interested in.

insane that monster didn't get even a token nod

[agony bagony]

killers of the flower moon is an interesting failure

anatomy of a fall i need to take some deep breaths for

[jawn galliano]

'an interesting failure' sounds like something i'd watch but be glad to not have paid $20 to see in the theater

last night i did watch a movie: i watched chungking express

[User]

fuck yeah stormy getting his east asia on

come to thailand ya cunt

[agony bagony]

'an interesting failure' sounds like something i'd watch but be glad to not have paid $20 to see in the theater

the first 2/3 of killers of the flower moon are a really good martin scorsese movie across the board

the remaining 1/3 is a near-total slog, there's very little in the way of drama or tension or intriguing character ambiguity. (aesthetic beauty is about the lone holdover)

and while there is about as much native language and culture in it as you can have without the movie being made by actual native people, it's still a movie made by not actual native people, so you run up against problems of perspective real fast and as the thing goes on for all 206 minutes those problems only grow

it's worth watching for a bunch of reasons though. lily gladstone foremost among them

[User]

i am definitely not going to watch it

if i was 16, i would have watched it

[agony bagony]

big ifs

bigger watchings

[User]

no srsly, you get old and then the "it's worth it" factor drops a lot

what are you like 13 with two kids

[Noyka]

I am not sitting in a theater for 3 hours. Movies like Killers if yhe Flower Moon are best for streaming.

[jawn galliano]

watched kore-eda's shoplifters last night

might be one of the best i've ever seen

[Noyka]

Just watched T2, Commando, and True Lies.

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

That's quite a feat to watch all 3 at the same time

[slugbait]

The Holy Mountain

[jawn galliano]

hour of the wolf

[slugbait]

Wild at Heart

[slugbait]

Valhalla Rising

[Ninny]

Good bye Lenin! I think Lummy might like this (or did) Some nice jokes but some tough moments too :santa;

[Mesarthim]

I started watching the Halo series that’s in season 2 right now. Never really got into the video game lore that much so don’t give a fuck if it’s reflective or not - but I do find myself enjoying it. So far so good.

[Ryeknow]

[jawn galliano]

since my last update i have watched the following:

5. Angel’s Egg, Mamoru Oshii, 1985
6. Monster, Hirokazu Kore-Eda, 2023* (again)
7. Happy Together, Wong Kar Wai, 1997

March

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928

[User]

very good

i just rewatched sanshiro sugata 1 & 2 in prep for honeymoon

[jawn galliano]

watched savage messiah last night

got a bunch more russell stuff to watch this month because they're going away

[User]

you have now seen more of his films than me

my big phase was 2004-2010 around then, my favourite remains lisztomania

i started when a teacher showed us Tommy in high school for drama class and then i played Tommy in a rendition of Pinball Wizard on stage in front of the whole school at age 17. good fun

[jawn galliano]

i have seen tommy but not since i was a kid and had no concept of directors generally and certainly not of ken russell in particular i hadn't seen anything else of his until i saw crimes of passion a few months back

lisztomania sadly is not in rotation, but i have the boy fellating lover, gothic and salome's last dance on deck

[Ninny]

Forbidden Planet, Leslie wasn't funny at all. The hot young sexy leopard elevator grew old and died, this is how it goes but I felt some sadness

[agony bagony]

not watching nothin currently

currently, not a thing

[slugbait]

The Night of the Hunter

[User]

what a film

[Noyka]

Demons, fin and underrated

[slugbait]

Demons, fin and underrated

Both movies are a good time

[slugbait]

Brawl in Cell Block 99

[Svartmetall]

Bingeing my way through all 5 seasons of 'The Handmaid's Tale'...it's excellent but grim, especially given that the current crime cartel masquerading as the Republican Party literally want to turn America into Gilead if they can get Diaper Dementia Donnie back in.