movies

28 years later. I'm so fucking glad we got a political commentary and folktale movie instead of yet another zombie flick. The batshit editing was fun too.

Moulin Rouge I guess? I understand there's some sort of backlash to it being unabashedly noisy, tacky and twee, but the way it does those things makes me love it. 🤷‍♀️

Tango and Cash. Not the best but Stallone and Russell teaming up? We're on fire! We're really cooking now.

Empire Records. 35% on Rotten Tomatoes.

This came out in ‘95, the year I turned 21, and it entered my developing adult brain and has never left. Fuck guilty pleasure, just a pleasure.

"Like" would be overstating it, but I'm OK with the Star Wars prequels. The first one had to be mostly world building with a plot tacked on. And the other two had to serve as connecting tissue between prequels and the classics.

Yes, they're bad. But the sucktitude is understandable.

I know it's got good ratings and is generally liked, but when it came out I loved Inception and nobody around me liked it. I was the only one that got it the first time. I was explaining it to everybody and they were just like, it was a neat concept. They didn't get it.

Mac & Devin Go to High School. Basically a low-budget Van Wilder movie, where Snoop Dogg plays a student that's been in high school way too long and is the school-wide pot dealer. Wiz Khalifa plays a preppy A+ tester with a stuck-up 'Mean Girls' girlfriend. The two get paired for a science project and get a taste of each others' worlds.

It's objectively an awful B-movie, but it's so stupid in everything it does, that I think of it as a 'so bad it's good' movie.

I told some friends about it, like a week later they were asking why, because of how awful it is. But all I saw was Snoop and Wiz having fun with it. It was really just an excuse for them to produce something together outside of music, and I like it for that.

As a kid Bulletproof Monk was such a cool movie. It’s cheesy now, but has its quirks.

Wizards 1977

I love the cheap rotoscoped WW2 footage. I love the animation (and the backgrounds!). I like the plot, and I disagree with people who think it's dumb that Blackwolf's secret weapon for organizing the armies of evil is literal fascist propaganda. I love the scene where all the fairy armies get wrecked in trench warfare.

I also love the ending:

Honestly so confused by the reaction to Thor The Dark World. It felt like everyone loved Ragnarok, so they did the exact same thing again, and suddenly it was too jokey?

Eye of the Beholder, universally panned by critics and audiences. Some additional context. In my circle of friends I'm kind of a film guy. I have a reputation for good recommendations. Not a single person I've shown the movie to enjoyed it. I stopped recommending it many years ago.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0120662/

Merry fucking Christmas daddy.

Downsizing

The one with tiny Matt Damon. Love is a strong word for it though...

Ghostbusters 2016 - It's my favorite Ghostbusters movie by far, feels like it was made specifically for me