thread of mandy (2018), melted psychedelic drone directed by panos cosmatos

one excitable doofus jumping the gun on the CRAZY EVIL line

folks let the quiet parts land in dead silence

there was no cheering for the Cheddar Goblin

things that aren't mandy

Netflix marketing team: So for the poster, we were thinking-

Me: CAN YOU MAKE ME LOOK LIKE A ZOMBIE HUNTER pic.twitter.com/JxBCEdMCd4

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) December 18, 2018

Oh no, those second two were positives, at least to me! Like, there are clearly parts of the early going where the ambience is supposed to take over, and I appreciated the fact that the hooting stopped. Same for the Cheddar Goblin; I had to mute the phrase on Twitter because the distributors seemed so goddamned hellbent on making it a meme template even before lots of people had gotten the chance to even see Mandy. And the fact that the audience were actually reacting properly to The Thing That Happens Before Cheddar Goblin made me appreciate how carefully placed it is as a *tiny* break in the tension, and not just some WWWACKY SHIT they let the Too Many Cooks guy plop in the middle of the movie.

in context it was just another piece of contextual info that made me realize that the world of the film was not quite the same as our world

cheddar goblin is a popular corporate mascot, so of course chainsaw fights seem reasonable

seeing this again on sunday :D

http://www.brattlefilm.org/2019/01/18/mandy-5/

I love that theatre. I remember seeing Duck Soup and Pierrot le Fou there.

lol i saw this twice, is this your third brad

yep third

that was fuckin great

very glad the audience was mostly not the giggly type

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NwBh2UTivs

really like Mandy

that song is awful

My friend came to town the other day wearing a Cheddar Goblin shirt. This is why we are friends.

uh i went into this knowing nothing except nic cage is in it and it's a revenge plot.

what did i just watch

a masterpiece iirc

it's v much not the kind of movie i would normally watch but i was mesmerized

that's exactly the word i used to describe it upthread! it's got such a uniquely hypnotic vibe

this got my number 1 vote in the film poll, it's completely insane but also the most heartbreaking thing ever

this got my number 2, but it was close, and my number 1 is also a mind-altering masterpiece

Just learned that Cage was initially meant to play Jeremiah Sand.

I'm glad he didn't

it would have been a much more... i dunno what you’d call it, conventionally strange movie that way?

imagine what we'd have gotten if he played the role of Mandy

really love the whole story about cage insisting that he play red

Well, when I first met with Panos, he told me he wanted me to play Jeremiah Sand, and I said, “Why?” And he said, “Well, I see him as the California Klaus Kinski.” And I said, “Well, I am the California Klaus Kinski, but I want to play Red.” ... I did not want to play Jeremiah Sand. I felt that I had gone through enough life experience. Not that I can’t work from the imagination, I normally do, but I had enough life experience contending the failure of my third marriage and still trying to recover from the loss of my father after many, many years. Still not just quite over it. As I look at these footnotes here from the talking points that coincide with Panos himself, that I … having had experiences with loss, certainly family loss, I was in step with that.

I felt I could play Red authentically and organically and put those feelings of loss in a productive place as opposed to a destructive place, and a constructive place. And so, that’s why I gravitated towards Red. I just felt that I could go after the cult and the demon bikers in a way that was in his world, but had some sort of sound of truth.

that has added an awesome new dimension to this

btw i am seeing this in a theater again on saturday

hyperbole ahead: god last october i was aboslutely in hell and i think this movie saved my life

it's a movie about music, art, fiction and movies and how they save us, so its power to save was already coded in

hope ur in a better place now obv

Of all the indelible moments in the film, the bathroom scene is the one that has lodged itself most firmly in my brain. If for no other reason, I'm glad Cage portrayed Red so he could gift us with that moment.

I think I can convince my wife to watch this as long as ilxors can confirm that no one's children are murdered in this movie (yes I know everybody is "somebody's* child but you know what I mean)

can confirm

the (i think) youngest character is spared death, even!

thx

it was between watching this tonight on my own or waiting til she's back in town in a couple days

I thought my gf was gonna hate this (she generally won't watch anything horror-ish with me) but she thought it was fantastic. Everyone I watched it with was just in kind of a speechless daze afterwards.

my wife is down for the gore and the horror and trippy weirdness (she *loved* "A Field in England") but parent-losing-a-kid trauma is a bridge too far for her

nah she’s in for a treat

Mandy is the best :)

It's really great!

I didn't vote in the film poll because I didn't see enough 2018 films to make it worth anyone's while but if I had Mandy would've been my #1, no question.

came #5 in the film poll yesterday btw folks: I Just Wanted To Take Another Look At You - the 2018 ILX Film Poll Results Thread

this was prob the best time i've ever seen it, they cranked the volume at momi and it was almost uncomfortably loud and i was so high, waves of vibrations, total sensory overload

in the q&a aaron stewart-ahn referred to magic mike xxl as a masterpiece, my kind of person

I follow him on twitter! I can’t remember when I did so, but it was way before Mandy. I think he interacted with or knows s1ocki?

magic mike xxl is a fucking marvel

excited to fry my friends' brains w/ this today

also apparently the shared cinematic reference between stewart-ahn and panos for this film was cyborg

well this certainly delivered

in a funny way it felt like every scene was better than the one before it

not untrue imo, it just keeps building in about fifteen different ways as it goes on

Friend introduces me to "panos"

Me after shaking his hand to friend: "panos cosmatos?"

In hindsight he could totally hear.

How not to be.