I think I need to see this again too
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Monday, 22 October 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
we just saw this - for me, again - and
"Amulet of the Weeping Maze" is song of the year.― jmm, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 21:19 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― jmm, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 21:19 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
...i mean...yeah.
also, this time around i decided that mandy probably did kill a starling and didn't want to admit it
― imago, Thursday, 25 October 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
There's a "mac and cheese"-accompanied Halloween screening happening here next week. Can't recall another movie attaining cult-classic status (complete with novelty screenings) this fast.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 October 2018 23:27 (five years ago) link
really, there should be jars of acid mayo as well
― imago, Thursday, 25 October 2018 23:28 (five years ago) link
normally i am extremely allergic to putting scores on my year-end lists but this one's making it. i even bought a copy! the liner notes panos wrote for jóhann are really lovely :(
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 26 October 2018 00:03 (five years ago) link
johansson is close to being mvp of this
― imago, Friday, 26 October 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link
absolutely. when i see the thread pop up on site new answers, his soundtrack immediately pops into my mind. menacing drone + the color RED
― the fleeking of america (Karl Malone), Friday, 26 October 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
Do you think this monologue was meant to echo Silence of the Lambs? (Clarice STARLING...)
― jmm, Friday, 26 October 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link
have you all heard track 2 of jeremiah sand's "album"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxu-ZpJsAQE
― Karl Malone, Friday, 26 October 2018 00:22 (five years ago) link
this movie is perfect. on second viewing noticed the boxes of cheddar goblin in the crossbow dealer's trailer.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 26 October 2018 05:43 (five years ago) link
saw this last night, it frikkin owns
― gbx, Friday, 26 October 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
seeing this again tonight, I think, as the local theater has in fact arranged a showing
― gbx, Saturday, 27 October 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
I guess I missed all screenings.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 28 October 2018 00:50 (five years ago) link
didn't read the whole thread but i saw this last night and i loved itMandy herself was the highlight and I loved the scenes of their dull domestic life before everything went haywirethe soundtrack elevated everything, like a fancy beer can make a sandwich taste better
i did read enough to see this and i agree
Mandy (the character) was easily the most fleshed-out person in the entire movie - we get to know her tastes, a bit of her work, a bit about her past, and a lot about her personality from how she handles Jeremiah. so when she dies it feels like a real loss that alters the fabric of reality, not just a cheap bit of character motivation - so much so that all that's left for Red is revenge-movie, horror, and fantasy tropes to process his grief (see also the animated sequences).
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 29 October 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
also i really want a mandy tshirt
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 29 October 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
I thought Jeremiah was styled to recall Buffalo Bill (especially after Mandy rejected him), so you may be right.
And I'm a little envious of those of you who were at screenings with appreciative audiences. The audience at my screening was so silent that when I laughed I thought I'd committed a faux pas.
― Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Monday, 29 October 2018 14:56 (five years ago) link
Among the elements which recalled Lynch's work was most definitely the discordant clash of tones, those moments which are simultaneously horrifying and hilarious and the viewer is left feeling uncertain about how they should respond to what they're experiencing in a given moment. It's understandable that the same scene might induce laughter and uncomfortable silence from different people/audiences.
― a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 October 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
I mean, the experience on the whole was oppressive as fuck and I was left feeling like I'd been dragged behind a truck for two hours but I definitely cracked up a few times.
― a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 October 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
i did not find it oppressive at all tbhmy partner and i both loled several times and mostly i found it engrossing
life has me feeling pretty low and this movie did not make it worse at all. i consider that a success! the soundtrack is really the thing that ties it together and makes it work imo.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 29 October 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
it's definitely got that Lynchian 'wake up laughing at something terrifying' vibe about it
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Monday, 29 October 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
one of the jeremiah acolytes looked sort of like buffalo bill to me (esp in profile) but i didn't consider it an allusion to SOTL, or even the starling thing. really i don't enjoy hunting for references to other works when i watch a new one. i would rather just see if i can enjoy it at face value. if the references pop out too strongly, i don't consider that a good thing. if they are hidden i think i like to let them remain so? idk
i liked it
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 29 October 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
there were a lotta lols in my theater, though mostly from the same few folks. also the same ppl that yelled "hellllll yeah" when the movie ended.
my fave was the weird gurning faces cage threw in the closing scenes in the car
― gbx, Monday, 29 October 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
TIL what is gurn
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 29 October 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=gurning&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwib09PHgKzeAhUDeMAKHa6GAPMQ_AUIDigB&biw=1309&bih=628
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Monday, 29 October 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
Would GIS again
― jmm, Monday, 29 October 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
gurning is the new bershon?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 29 October 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
i want to watch this again tbhit's supposed to be on shudder any day now!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
you can rent it on amazon/itunes, too! (idk what shudder is)
― gbx, Monday, 29 October 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
shudder is a horror streaming service, $4/mo, great selection, roku app sucks but whatever
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
oh! might have to look into that, feel like half of what i watch on netflix is horror anyway
― gbx, Monday, 29 October 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
shudder is amazing and highly recommended
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
way way way way better selection than netflix, less crap imoit's no filmstruck (RIP) but it is way better than netflix unless you need children's programming
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
there's a little square that says "COMING SOON" on top of the image of mandy on shudder and i guess it will be live within the next few days. that would be nice.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
This was one of the most primal films i’ve ever seen. Jung comparisons otm.
I can’t even try to unpack the rest of it now but the scene where he forges a Dark Souls war blade has literally no lead up whatsoever but also ‘acid fried cenobite biker gang’ is the perfect lead up...
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 00:03 (five years ago) link
I kinda feel other films might have had at least one line of dialogue earlier to set up that he has access to a forge, an interest in crafting weapons or something...
The fact that he wordlessly feels he has to craft his own weapon pulls this deep into some Joseph Cambell/Odysseus/Descent into the underworld headspace.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 00:10 (five years ago) link
also w/o real lead-up: apparently he has a past murky enough to require leaving his crossbow in the safe-keeping of an old guy in an trailer
― gbx, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 00:25 (five years ago) link
also that is the celtic frost "f"
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 00:34 (five years ago) link
whoa
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 02:22 (five years ago) link
i did not like this movie.
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 04:40 (five years ago) link
I also took from the bathroom scene, that Red (& Mandy?) was a recovering Alcoholic and thats why the unlabeled hooch was hidden in a drawer in the bathroom. Red also declines a drink in the opening shot when they are leaving the forest.
So him hitting the moonshine was a return to the death wish, self destruction spiral that Mandy had saved him from...
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 11:11 (five years ago) link
this movie would have been better if it held back on the silliness a bit. you know what scene im referring to
― . (Michael B), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 11:33 (five years ago) link
It may have seemed silly to you, but I can't say for sure that I won't attempt the MacGruber defense when Nic Cage inevitably comes to revenge kill me in my subterranean lair.
― a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 13:02 (five years ago) link
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-responds-to-man-on-train-who-pulled-out-two-13346973.php
best real-life Mandy callback ever!
― akm, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 13:18 (five years ago) link
this movie would have been better if it held back on the silliness a bit. you know what scene im referring to― . (Michael B), Tuesday, October 30, 2018 11:33 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― . (Michael B), Tuesday, October 30, 2018 11:33 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The whole thing you mean?
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
just watched this under the worst possible circumstances - on an iphone, on a train, frequently interrupted by my daughter waking from sleep - and was still fucking mesmerised
― la bébé du nom-nom (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
hats off to brad for ‘melted psychedelic drone’ btw, perfect descrip
― la bébé du nom-nom (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
under the worst possible circumstances
best possible circumstances would be sitting in the woods at night, watching the entire film painted on a series of vans, being driven past you in a clearing
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
otm
― la bébé du nom-nom (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, October 28, 2018 1:50 AM (six days ago)
Bought the bluray which I did not expect to see so soon. Says it's a HMV/Fopp exclusive, no way that can be true.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 3 November 2018 09:56 (five years ago) link