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this is just for my own benefit. self-indulgent i know so sue me. i dare you! i just don't like going on movie threads and people get annoyed when i post about movies on the streaming thread. but this way i can keep track of stuff. i did the ltrbxd thing during the pandemic but it got boring and i fell asleep so i stopped. this is easier than remembering my blogger password. so now nobody can say hey take it to that dedicated jesse eisenberg thread and stop talking about it here on the What's so GREAT about wood-fired pizza? thread!
my claim to fame? Glenn Kenny unfriended me on Facebook after he read a post I wrote about Steven Spielberg and Schindler's List.

anyway, everyone from 12 to 1200 should see Sasquatch Sunset. i might even watch it again. it's on Paramount + right now. it's got everything you need in a movie! So good!

you might want to watch [Invisible Demons] a documentary about pollution in Delhi, but on the other hand, you might not. It has elements of climate porn in it. In that "wow, look how stunning that image of garbage mountain is." way. and i have mixed feelings about that. mostly its just so sad and when you watch you can't feel like there is any solution to the problems of overcrowded industrial cities like Delhi. they are just so damn big and they make so much stuff and they require so much fuel and there is just not enough room for everything and the temperature just keeps going up, up, up. it's a nightmare. it's on Mubi right now.

i don't think anyone needs to see the third installment of Shhhh...Don't Talk Even A Little. it's not scary and it just gets tedious watching people try not to make noise. the only reason to watch it at all is to just wonder at the insane beauty of Lupita, Queen of the World. she is just, like, wow. i can't even... even the cat is a dud in this movie and i like cats. it's no War of the Worlds by expert filmmaker Steven Spielberg! I've seen that movie at least five times! I love it! EVEN with Tom Cruise in it! the dumb anonymous guy who is so anonymous and forgettable that he's almost not even there in the Shhhhh! movie is maybe James Mcavoy but don't quote me on that all those guys look alike to me. the only nice thing he does is find Lupita some Fentanyl. i stopped watching with half an hour to go. its really boring.

i'll post here if i see something bad or good. and that way the cineastes on film threads won't get annoyed at me and the streaming thread people won't either. win/win!

oh yeah that 2024 John Woo The Killer is really bad. i only made it an hour in. the woman in it is very pretty. her mob "handler" or whatever might almost have been James Mcavoy but even less memorable than the guy in the Shhhh! movie. if you want to see a good recent-ish movie with Chow Yun-fat in it that wasn't directed by John Woo and that was directed by a woman who was an actress in the Modern Drama Troupe of the General Political Division of the People's Liberation Army then watch Confucius. It's great! If you want to watch great latter-day John Woo movies just watch Red Cliff and Red Cliff II over and over again. They deserve to be watched at least three times. They are the best things!

that's it for now film fans!

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there's been some speculation that considering what poor health Woo was said to be in after his last film came out his involvement in this remake may have been more of a "sign my name on it and let the ADs take care of it" thing - though that may also be cope from ppl not wanting to accept how far the mighty have fallen

I watched Marguerite's Theorem on Ovid today. It's a movie about a young French woman who rekindles her love for prime numbers through mahjong and orgasms. Also, there are daddy issues. It's very heartwarming. Directed by Anna Novion.

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I watched Rebel Ridge on Netflix because of the connection to Blue Ruin and Green Room, two stalwart movies of the streaming age. They have been on every streaming channel at least 15 times. And they are both cool. I probably would have watched it without knowing what the director had done though. It's my kinda Netflix movie. The first half is great! Your typical long-ass slow burn before the fireworks. But the second half...not so much. It slows down to a simmer and just keeps simmering too long and even though i love to rant about the DarkMarvelication of streaming bloody gun porn and how its a cheap way to get Americans to love you and the subject "revenge" is the topic of 65% of every streaming movie that is released, this movie might have been produced by the Obamas and was a little TOO non-lethal for me after all the mean looks Don Johnson gives the hero for a friggin' hour and a half. I liked the hero though. He's from Brixton which makes him a perfect American action star. And speaking of DarkMarvel, I think he's gonna be the new Blade in a new Blade movie.

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I watched Sometimes I Think About Dying starring Jedi warrior Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley as a sad office drone in the Pacific Northwest who like cottage cheese. It's a "quirky" "indie" based on a play and it feels like a short story. I loved the outdoor shots. So beautiful. Good direction in general. Nice to look at. Rachel Lambert is the director. I don't think I've seen her other movies. It's a small film. No big deal. Pretty quiet. I was in the mood for that tempo. It doesn't overstay its welcome. The office banter was true to life. Funny. Saw it on Mubi.

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I watched about an hour of Boy Kills World before I got antsy like Donald Trump watching kickboxing movies in his airplane and started fast-forwarding. It just got tedious. It wasn't funny and it just felt...hollow. I dunno. I'm pretty easy to please. It was way too long. Oh well. Can't win them all. It felt kinda 90s.

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Monkey Man was better. As far as OTT revenge movies go. And even that movie was too long and not "great". Good though.

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I watched In A Violent Nature on Shudder. It was soothing. A very peaceful walk through the woods with a stop for occasional gore. Ambient horror. I even watched with headphones on.Tom Savini would have enjoyed the gore in this film. But its the woods that I liked. and the bird and bug noises. there is no music which makes it even more bucolic. Canadian horror is underrated. Whenever I go on Shudder I see the picture for When Evil Lurks and I am tempted to watch that again. What an amazing film. I need it on DVD. If you haven't seen that one, watch it! If you like that sort of thing. It's a modern classic.

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I watched Revenge! From 2017. Don't watch this movie if you don't like violence (especially one scene of sexual violence mostly offscreen but very disturbing.) and gore and people putting fingers in wounds and people cauterizing wounds in caves. but watch it if you like fantastic shots and colors and coolness and french people and revenge and peyote as painkiller. that director knows how to make a movie! she is the director who did the new movie The Substance with Demi Moore. i haven't seen that one yet.

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excited for this one:

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also:

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i'm tempted to watch Taste again. what a movie. sometimes movies are more magic then anything else. they are something otherworldly. i like that!

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I just watched one of the greatest children's movies that I've ever seen! Riddle of Fire. from 2023. So amazing. I almost cried at the end. Amazing cottagecore soundtrack. Filmed on 16mm Kodak film. I'm ready to watch it again!!! I love it because its critic-proof. Fuck a critic. Fuck adults. I know I like a kid movie when I think about how much I would have loved it when I was a kid. This is that kind of movie. I don't care about its weaknesses. It's on Mubi.

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Just watched KNOX GOES AWAY on Max. It stars Michael Keaton (who also directed it) as a professional killer who's diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a very fast-acting form of dementia. He's only got a few weeks until his brain goes all Donald Trump, so he has to get his affairs in order while also helping out his estranged son with a pretty serious problem. As a professional writer, losing my mind is kind of my greatest fear, so this movie rolled over me like a truck. Bonus points: Marcia Gay Harden's in it, and Al Pacino gives the best performance I've seen from him this century. He plays a believable human being instead of a collection of tics and stage business, and it's great. And Keaton is absolutely fantastic, fading in and out at the worst possible times, etc. Highly recommended.

watched Bangkok Breaking: Heaven and Hell tonight on Netflix. action-packed for realz. like, its 2 & half hours long and 2 hours or more of that is crazy action and civil unrest and organ-harvesting and drug gangs and rich guy armies and running and fire and pigs on fire and bloodshed as our heroes try to escape a doomed and endless maze of a housing project. from Thailand. like an epic widescreen version of Buy Bust without the claustrophobia. based on the Bangkok Breaking t.v. show and made by the same director but i have yet to watch the show. you definitely don't need to watch the show to watch the movie.

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