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

hats off to brad for ‘melted psychedelic drone’ btw, perfect descrip

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

otm

I guess I missed all screenings.

― 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.

Blu Ray is... The VHS special edition sold out on day1.

Some going for £50 online.

I saw the VHS style edition but there were regular bluray editions too, which was what I got and it had a sticker about the exclusivity.

Liked this, maybe it needed a little something more but the usage of Mandy's face was quite striking, the guy laughing with the chainsaw was hilarious and the scene in the club/venue was quite touching. The animated scenes could have been better. Hellraiser comparisons make sense but I'm also reminded of the bikers and colored lighting in Hobo With A Shotgun (which were some of the few things I liked about that film) but done much better. Julie Bell did Mandy's drawings and paintings, I havent heard about her in years, probably the biggest blast from the past in this film and one that hasnt kept the same fan following and doesnt have the same cred as King Crimson or even the metal influences. Maybe Panos is testing us with the percieved uncoolness of Motley Crue and Julie Bell?

i had a dream i bought and wore a mandy wig

don't be negative

Loved it up till the Mandy title card. It then became a grief/revenge fantasy where time and space did not have to jibe, though not without its visual moments. Recommended for readers of reddit/iamverybadass.

this'll appear on shudder in two days btw

god i need to see this fuckin movie again asap

I think I'll do the free trial of Shudder so I can finally catch this.

imo the idea that Cage's character is some badass that people will aspire to be like is short-circuited by the narrative choices. we get his bizarre weapon crafting in lieu of a "training for revenge" montage. he pops out fully-formed as something that seems like a second force of darkness that opposes the one that ruined his life and the surreal nature of the entire thing sticks it in a different category from a lot of "badass guy is unleashed" movies

100% otm, it’s way more surreal than yr traditional revenge movie

reminds me of the stereotype of youth where a typical young man may think "yeah, if I really worked at it and did the right things, I could totally be a professional mountain climber/marksman/athlete/whatever" only to reach an age one day where it must be acknowledged that, no, this will not come to pass

I don't think at any point in my life I thought I could, or would even want to, become whatever the hell happened to the guy in this movie

personally i still aspire to become a revenge-driven tripping maniac on a murdering spree in an alternate universe, i'm not willing to give that up just yet

there’s a jar of mind-shatteringly powerful psychedelic mayo with your name on it somewhere out there, buddy - I believe it

psychedelic midlife crisis is the best midlife crisis

it's not a crisis if it's a psychedelic journey

i can't wait to go home and watch this for the fourth time

annoyed with myself for not picking up the blu-ray when I spotted it at a second-hand shop

I recently put a clause in my will with instructions for my undertaker: 'plz make my face look like Nic Cage's face at the end of the 2018 film Mandy.'

Lol how are used copies surfacing already

Forgot to post in here but I’m so glad I held off on streaming this, it looked like it was never gonna play here and then it got one showing on the biggest screen in the city. I fucking loved it but a lot of the audience didn’t; I have a feeling they were expecting hobo with a chainsaw

didn’t like this at all really

Of the deleted scenes, I think they should have kept the conversation with the sheriff.

this movie would have been better if it held back on the silliness a bit.

You're a vicious snowflake.

I finally watched this on Shudder and liked it a lot, even though it is not my normal fare. The surreal and disturbing visual and aural vibe throughout was uncompromising. Did not like the gore because I am getting squeamish in my old age.

Loved the scene where Nic Cage dips the tip of his finger into the jar with the psychedelic mayo and instantly trips his balls off when earlier the biker dudes were chugging jars of the stuff.

Also: Cheddar Goblin.

Couldn't handle this boring and annoying avalanche of iconographic signifiers. Bathroom scene, forging the sword, borrowing the gun from his pal...all these scenes are stupid sorry. Other audience members who probably have pizza tattoos were having a great time laughing and whooping at everything Nic Cage did or even "yeeeeeaaah Sabbath!" when Mandy was wearing that shirt. Once it became clear it was a revenge flick I bailed since another agonizingly slow hour of these bozos cheering on everyone being slaughtered one by one was too much to contemplate.

Other audience members who probably have pizza tattoos

solid projection

xpost You sound fun.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hd-pNX9M9Cw/hqdefault.jpg

starting to regret getting the little caesar’s logo tattooed under my left eye now

It's sad that you should ever have cause to doubt such a heroic act.

it’s gonna happen if i’m gonna get savagely called out like that :(

Alternative title:
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Ready Slayer One

at least we've gotten past the bacon tattoos

(leans in) Please tell us more trenchant things about the half a movie you saw, everything. Please, do.

I sorta half-watched an hour or so of a Harry Potter the other night while I was making dinner. Everything I saw was so stupid that I wound up burning the chicken. Pssh. Gaw.

well, that is otm, tbf

i watched part of titanic last week. leo is pretty good but can't help but think that some of ACTION or event would have helped to bring all the stories together. a tale of betrayal, romance, and a beautiful indestructible ship as the backdrop- it's all a good start, but can't help but feel that all that potential is squandered

where was the cheddar goblin of titanic?!

https://i.imgur.com/28IQpor.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/Titanic_The_Legend_Goes_On.jpg/220px-Titanic_The_Legend_Goes_On.jpg

I saw this with a midnight audience over the weekend and apart from one excitable doofus jumping the gun on the CRAZY EVIL line like it's fucking Rocky Horror, people were good- none of that performative geek laughter that makes my blood boil at so many screenings like this, folks let the quiet parts land in dead silence, and there was no cheering for the Cheddar Goblin, likely because a lot of people were seeing it for the first time- it played in Philly for exactly one screening prior to this- and were still digesting what had just happened.

The two details that stuck out most to me on a second watch were Cage and demon biker #2's shared Muttley laugh-wheeze when the former has stabbed the latter through the neck, like they're sharing some private joke; and in the final car scene intercut with Cage and Mandy's first meeting, where she cries a very prominent single tear in the flashback (in the acid sense as well, I guess) footage of the party; I didn't notice that at all seeing this on a TV.

good god sorry for all those em-dashes; I'm trying to write and keep a kitten from stealing my breakfast and it is taxing

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.