EATIN' POPCORN AND WATCHIN' MOVIES.

or sexplotation. i only just reread your post and realized thats what you said because we were talking about blaxploitation in the server LMAO

Petey Wheatstraw is a very solid movie to start with, even if not one of the bigger names of the genre. You get everything youd expect from what most blaxploitation films usually do in it.

Last movie/movies that I’ve watched within the past month were Super Dark Times (2017), Fargo (1996), daddy’s little girl (2012), and until dawn (2025). I definitely have to rewatch Super Dark Times as there are some plot holes left open for interpretation regarding the cycle of violence and or the underlying consequence of demonstrating a foux of masculinity. I‘ve never watched a Coen Brothers film before and decided to start with fargo as I’ve also been meaning to watch more films with Steve Buscemi outside of a Happy Madison film. Overall, it was a pretty fun watch, amazing performances from everyone. I didn’t plan on watching Daddy’s little girl as from what I read from reviews, it was just a pretty plain splatter film with one big twist((if that’s the right term to describe it(just a torture-fest)), with some pretty good prop design. I guess you could say it questions the themes of justice and morality but eh. I don’t have any resentment towards the Until Dawn movie, but if you’re a fan of the game don’t get your hopes up as it introduces a whole other cast with an cliche-filled story using Groundhog Day rules, completely disregarding the butterfly effect.(and if you want to get into the game, play the ps4 version, do not buy the pc port holy shit what the fuck were they thinking.) I will say, it’s not a bad film, pretty gory kills, easy to follow plot, but def not worth the rewatch, speaking of rewatching. I plan on rewatching the 2018 slender film as I just finished replaying slender the arrival remake and wish to compare what went wrong (ofc I have to finish marble hornets too).

Fargo is really really god, but I didn't think it was great myself. I find that coen brothers films don't really click for me. To be fair, I haven't seen that many, and I still think they're all great films, but none of them really got to the point of like. Fuck. This is it. For me personally. Daddy's little girl rules. Perfect tubi movie. I think it rules how he learns all this torture shit from his one black friend. A bad movie can be made up for by good gore/kills and the movie is really wonderfully visceral for its 2 dollar budget.

I was gonna see Until Dawn in theaters because my little brother loves the game, but it didn't happen. Shame to hear it sort of blows, but at least I dodged wasting 30 bucks.

really!! which ones have you seen? i felt sort of similar until i caught Raising Arizona and A Serious Man. raising arizona is so wonderful it makes me sick

re: Coen Brothers

i think my problem with coen bros movies is that so many of them leave me with this awful pit in my stomach. i watched fargo for the first time since high school a couple months ago and was like, just kind of bummed out the whole time!!! on the other hand, i rewatched the big lebowski not too long ago and found it pretty funny. i think it's the dramas, they are just TOO MUCH FOR ME!!!

I'm a big theater-goer (having a job and living within 30 min of an Alamo Drafthouse makes that easy) so I tend to keep up with a lot of recent movies. Watched Weapons last night and I found it very thrilling and particularly entertaining. I like how it fed us the story in segments, from a different character's perspective. It very much so is a gorey film towards the end, and the scares rely on tension and anticipation (like most horror thrillers) so it didn't feel undue. The messaging had like. One moment were it hit the audience over the head with what it was, but was very much so a one-time thing, and still felt a bit up to interpretation.

Bad Guys 2 was phenomenal animation. Somehow its even more stylized than the first one. 2D textures on the models, and all the smoke FX was 2D animated very well. Definitely one of Spiderverse's children. Also, its definitely the child of anime too. Felt like I was watching a Lupin special or a mid 2000's Shonen OVA with how stylish and well-choreographed everything was. Like that De La Soul song, them Stakes Is High. I liked how they kept ratcheting up the ante and making it even more tense as the show went on. Love those character designs too. I didn't know I needed a muscular butch snow leopard voiced by Danielle Brooks in my life. And I definitely ain't complaining!

Saw Eddington last week and it was really good. That third act left me speechless. I initially saw it in previews for Sinners and 28 Years Late (both good movies as well) and, like a typical schmuck consumer, was drawn to go see it because Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Pedro Pascal were in it. And I recognize those names! Side note, I may or may not be gay for Pedro Pascal. would you call that Schrodinger's Homosexuality? Hmm. I believe they call that Bisexuality these days. I dunno. I just think he's dreamy, er, NEAT. Anyway, the movie kinda satirizes post-pandemic politics and for me, a terminally online weirdo with socialist leanings, hit very close to home. Go into it as Blind. As. Possible. You won't regret it. Or maybe you will. I dunno. These are my opinions. Get your own.

re: eddington

yes!!!! yes!!!!!!!!!!! eddington was so fucking good. im not super in on aster's stuff but this alone has firmly cemented him as a filmmaker i am Very Excited About going forward. as somebody who spent a lot of time in NM during the pandemic--especially Taos and Truth or Consequences, where a great deal of it was filmed--it hit SO close to home. it reminded me of The Curse in that regard, actually...

also, speaking of the southwest, god!!! alamo drafthouse!!! im so jealous. i miss it so bad... no alamos up here in canada. what's even the damn point. i had no idea how good i had it.

re: re: coen brothers

i suppose that's fair. im a big fan of a good feel-bad flick lol. i feel like theyve got stuff that's not a total downer at the end though! raising arizona especially, cheesy as the ending is.

re: coen brothers

I relate to the feeling of watching a movie, or any piece of art really, and just getting this pit in your stomach. One thing I've learned is that sometimes that feeling is entirely my fault, because a piece of art has made me uncomfortable in a way that's like, reflective of some personal flaw of mine. But sometimes a piece of art is just genuinely bad-natured and cynical. It's helpful to know the difference, but its difficult sometimes when it comes to the coens. I think they have a very real misanthropic streak, that comes to the forefront in some of their movies

also, thread tax? the last movie I watched in theatres was Nosferatu. I find it hard to reflect on movies I've seen in theatre, because I feel like so much of your feelings on a movie can be painted by the theatre experience. And like... People were infamously badly behaved for Nosferatu. Not to the degree of, say, the minecraft movie, but enough to make me wonder "have you ever gone to a theatre before? Do you not know how to act in public?"

It's an 18+ movie, about a vampire, and people were either giggling or straight up leaving any time something even remotely sexual happened on-screen. I'm not sure what people were expecting. I haven't watched a modern horror movie since the first It, so i'm out of the loop when it comes to the general public's expectations for a horror movie. Maybe there wasn't enough blood and gore.

That said, I think I liked the movie? I think Robert Eggers is a very competent director. The only movie of his I've really loved is the Lighthouse, if only because it foregoes his usual fixation on neo-paganism, which is just a pet peeve of mine. It's present in nosferatu, though thankfully brief, with the whole romani sequence in the lodge. count orlok himself is probably the best vampire in cinema in a very long time, i love everything about him. even if it took me a while to get used to the mustache and hair.

re: coen bros.

this is true, i do like chasing arizona. cage and hunter are such a sweet couple in it. but even like A Serious Man and Burn After Reading both left me bummed. i dunno, i should watch some more of their more beloved films like O Brother or No Country but i have a feeling that latter would fall very firmly into the bummer category. but its not even that i don't like feel-bad movies, like The Piano Teacher is among my favorites. its coen bros. movies that invoke this unique ennui!

re: theater ettiquette

ugh i hate a bad crowd. i saw a bunch of lynch movies this year, the FWWM crowd was TERRIBLE! i imagine a lot of people were coming to see it as their first lynch movie, as its gained a lot of popularity recently, but... that movie is kind of inscrutable without a working knowledge of twin peaks lol. a lot of people laughing at laura's anguish :-(

even the wild at heart crowd, oh my god... mostly good, but the ending. ok the credits scene of Wild at Heart is, for my money, one of the sweetest moments in lynch's filmography. i love it, it gets me emotional every time. but it's still part of the movie, right, laura dern and nic cage are still up in the center of the screen, while the credits scroll by on either side. the MOMENT the word "cast" appears on screen, HALF THE THEATER GETS UP! THE MOVIE IS STILL PLAYING, YOU GUYS!!!! HE'S SINGING LOVE ME TENDER ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nosferatu was pretty fun though, i agree

That's very surprising to me. I assume this was some kind of Indie/University theatre if it was showing old Lynch movies. I wouldn't expect THAT audience of all people to be so bad.

Also... yeah lol. Why would you ever watch FWWM as you INTRODUCTION to Lynch? I can fully imagine people unfamiliar with Lynch laughing at TP's more absurd aspects, but its still so weird to me that like, a cinephile crowd would be so immature.

I've made a realization today having watched the two movies in rapid succession and I do suggest you do the same.
There are remarkable similarities between Mel Stuart's Willy Wonk and Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, go ahead laugh I know you wish to, but then consider it.
There are shots that are one to one, techniques similar the plot itself is heavily similar, and both have a similar relationship to the novel they are based on.

charlie bucket is the stalker from stalker for willy wonka, the great glass wonkavator is basically the room, this shit writes itself

I am intrigued by this theory. I'm busy right now, but as soon as I can I will do a double feature of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Stalker and get back to you. I haven't seen Stalker, and the last time I watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was when I was a child, so I should be going into this experience with unbiased eyes.

Yes yes you will be the perfect guinea pig sloth, i will show you the truth, the real chocolate was god and psychic children all along

re: wild at heart

THAT HAPPENED WHEN I WATCHED IT AT MY LOCAL THEATRE TOO it made me so mad!!! i was incensed!!! it feels like theatre etiquette absolutely everywhere is just getting worse and worse and it makes me absolutely maniac. the crowd for nosferatu was actually super well-behaved when i saw it at an alamo drafthouse (alamo crowds usually arent too bad...) but there was a pretty heart chuckle through the crowd when we got full frontal orlok

in other news, i have been watching so many movies lately for no reason in particular. my local theatre was playing Hard Boiled (subbed!!! not that one awful dub) and even though ive never been the biggest fan of john woo's particular flavour of gun-fu, i loved it. everything from the iconic nursery scene and onwards is just incredible. and tony leung looks so young in it!!!! Also I rewatched Nope, RRR, and screened that new War of the Worlds for a bunch of friends and thought it was just absolutely fucking abysmal. i did not have a good time with that movie. Redline, on the other hand, was a total blast even though i did honestly get just a little bored of the sheer animation spectacle at a certain point. as far as maximalist fantasy racing movies go i think i preferred Speed Racer!

Re: meatman

Oh, god, I haven't thought about RRR in a while but I really want to watch it again, I think my family watched it in one hour installments and that didn't seem like the proper way to take in such a masterpiece of a movie. I also really need to see Speed Racer again, I haven't seen it since I was a kid, but I think I saw another person just talking about Redline the other day.