Has got to be one of my all time favorites. So many little details that are either overtly or subtly funny like his hand turning aside at 0:50.
Aronofksy’s “The Fountain” is a mess. It’s not a movie you should follow as much as let wash over you. I didn’t understand it at all after the first viewing, but it didn’t leave me feeling like I should go back and re-watch it, either:
It’s also on my all-time-favorites list.
So I haven’t seen Netflix’s new movie “Bright” yet, but judging by this review, it may be a prime candidate for this thread -
Here’s a quote: “The core conceit of this film—a violent, R-rated cop movie that just so happens to have fantasy creatures in it—is so batshit bonkers that it’s kind of impressive that they made it, let alone spent $90 million on it.”
SPOILERS
John Dies At the End (2012)
Mixed reviews. I found it hilarious.
John Dies At The End is definitely a b-movie though. Exhibit a) it stars noone you know. Exhibit b) it’s directed by Don Coscarelli.
It also has one of the best openings of all time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6J_O_BVOmU
Oof. To each his own, but I found it to be a bad web serial, turned into a worse novel, finally morphing into a crappy film.
OMG, I guess we’re not Netflix Buddies anymore.
Romeo+Juliet is completely ridiculous.
In fact, Bas Luhrman deserves his own wing in The Ridiculous Movie Hall of Fame.
Man, you better hope someone with an English lit degree doesn’t see that post.
Have you seen that movie? He’s not wrong. (About Romeo+Juliet, anyway. He is super duper wrong about John Dies at the End.)
I have seen it, and I don’t disagree it’s bonkers, but it’s bonkers by execution. That’s just Baz being Baz, at least from his other films I’ve seen. I don’t think you can call the story of Romeo and Juliet ridiculous though.
Plus, it has legitimately awesome kung fu in it.
If Kung Fu Hustle is ridiculous, every Stephen Chow film is. And it’s considerably less ridiculous than its rip-offs, like Mahjong Hustle (which the internet insists is Kung Fu Mahjong, but was definitely called Mahjong Hustle when I saw it on a plane).
I do love Stephen Chow movies. First one I saw was called I think God of Cooking? Just hilarious. I think I love that and Shaolin Soccer better than Kung Fu Hustle personally.
This is true.
Luhrman’s Romeo+Juliet is batshit, but it’s also a strikingly good reading of the play. For all its superficial flash, it’s suffused with the doom of these two hapless young people. And Pete Postlethwait is phenomenal.
So, let’s see, you want a reasonably budgeted flick with people you’ve heard of that is just batshit insane? A $155 million production, say, starring Val Kilmer, Angelina Jolie, Colin Ferrell, Rosario Dawson, and Jared Leto (and Christopher Plummer! And Brian Blessed!) with music by Vangelis? Well, friend, I have a treat for you, and by treat I mean a fetid air biscuit: Oliver Stone’s Alexander.
Nothing about this movie works in any way. The actors are completely lost. The story doesn’t actually have an arc, it’s just Alexander going from battle to battle. The battle scenes are either epic (Gaugamela) or slapdash (literally everything else). And really, when you think Philip of Macedon, why wouldn’t you think of Val Kilmer?
There’s a moment in this movie, while Anthony Hopkins (as Ptolemy, no, the other Ptolemy) is walking around the room talking to himself about Alexander (for the biography he’s writing), and he walks past a huge black man in a loincloth that’s apparently guarding his door (keeping him in? Others out? Who knows?). And I swear you can see in that man’s face, “Hey, it’s not porn.”
I know what you’re thinking. “Ptolemy wrote a biography of Alexander? Why haven’t I heard of such a thing?” Well because he burns the manuscript at the end of the movie for no reason. Obviously.
Mother, Jugs, and Speed
Bill Cosby, Harvey Keitel, and Racquel Welch as freelance ambulance drivers in 1970’s LA.
mic drop
Bringing in Asian cinema as almost as unfair as bringing in Bollywood, TBH.
Case in point:
Ahhh, Singham
I was going to see that when it was out but passed it up. Looks like I missed one of the best.
Note that Adam West was in this but he doesn’t get credit on the poster. Mona the monkey does though.