at least we've gotten past the bacon tattoos
― mh, Monday, 10 December 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
(leans in) Please tell us more trenchant things about the half a movie you saw, everything. Please, do.
― Still can't believe my dog ate my jumprope. (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
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.
― Still can't believe my dog ate my jumprope. (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 December 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
well, that is otm, tbf
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 December 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Monday, 10 December 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
where was the cheddar goblin of titanic?!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 10 December 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/28IQpor.jpg
― Karl Malone, Monday, 10 December 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/Titanic_The_Legend_Goes_On.jpg/220px-Titanic_The_Legend_Goes_On.jpg
― Still can't believe my dog ate my jumprope. (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 December 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
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.
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
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
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
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
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 09:30 (five years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
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.
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
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 worldcheddar goblin is a popular corporate mascot, so of course chainsaw fights seem reasonable
― mh, Thursday, 20 December 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
seeing this again on sunday :D
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
http://www.brattlefilm.org/2019/01/18/mandy-5/
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
I love that theatre. I remember seeing Duck Soup and Pierrot le Fou there.
― jmm, Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
lol i saw this twice, is this your third brad
― imago, Thursday, 17 January 2019 20:56 (five years ago) link
yep third
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 21 January 2019 01:31 (five years ago) link
that was fuckin great
― maura, Monday, 21 January 2019 05:33 (five years ago) link
very glad the audience was mostly not the giggly type
― maura, Monday, 21 January 2019 05:36 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NwBh2UTivs
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Sunday, 14 April 2019 01:09 (five years ago) link
really like Mandy
that song is awful
― Dan S, Sunday, 14 April 2019 01:26 (five years ago) link
My friend came to town the other day wearing a Cheddar Goblin shirt. This is why we are friends.
― Hangover Ape (Old Lunch), Sunday, 14 April 2019 01:33 (five years ago) link
uh i went into this knowing nothing except nic cage is in it and it's a revenge plot.
what did i just watch
― just1n3, Thursday, 27 June 2019 09:20 (four years ago) link
a masterpiece iirc
― big beautiful wario (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 June 2019 09:20 (four years ago) link
it's v much not the kind of movie i would normally watch but i was mesmerized
― just1n3, Thursday, 27 June 2019 09:22 (four years ago) link
that's exactly the word i used to describe it upthread! it's got such a uniquely hypnotic vibe
― big beautiful wario (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 June 2019 09:25 (four years ago) link
this got my number 1 vote in the film poll, it's completely insane but also the most heartbreaking thing ever
― or something, Thursday, 27 June 2019 09:34 (four years ago) link
this got my number 2, but it was close, and my number 1 is also a mind-altering masterpiece
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link
Just learned that Cage was initially meant to play Jeremiah Sand.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Thursday, 27 June 2019 12:18 (four years ago) link
I'm glad he didn't
― or something, Thursday, 27 June 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
it would have been a much more... i dunno what you’d call it, conventionally strange movie that way?
― big beautiful wario (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 June 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
imagine what we'd have gotten if he played the role of Mandy
― mh, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
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.
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.
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
that has added an awesome new dimension to this
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
btw i am seeing this in a theater again on saturday
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
hyperbole ahead: god last october i was aboslutely in hell and i think this movie saved my life
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
it's a movie about music, art, fiction and movies and how they save us, so its power to save was already coded in
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
hope ur in a better place now obv
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
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 Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Thursday, 27 June 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
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)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 June 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
can confirm
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
the (i think) youngest character is spared death, even!
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
thx
it was between watching this tonight on my own or waiting til she's back in town in a couple days
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 June 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
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.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Thursday, 27 June 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 June 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
nah she’s in for a treat
― big beautiful wario (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 June 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
Mandy is the best :)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 28 June 2019 01:56 (four years ago) link
It's really great!
― gbx, Friday, 28 June 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link