Talk About Movies: Part 4

I've never seen it. Gonna check it out this week. Speaking of terrifying you too young, for me it was Sand Pebbles. I was way too young to see someone strung up and tortured with a knife. Not sure if that was scary or traumatizing. Disturbing for me and I never forgot it. Never reseen it either.

What movie is this from?

To Live And Die In LA

This is the movie thread, but since we are discussing King, no television show scared me more as a kid than the og 1979 version of Salem's Lot. For it's time that was a crazy tense television miniseries.

Agreed, but trust me, aside from Danny Glick it did not age well.

Hmph, nobody took a guess at the one I posted last week, which was also controversial due to the lead actress’ age.

I was shocked how much I liked K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025 Netflix). This animation, directed towards teens, is one of the highest rated and highest grossing films of the year. Even so, I was not expecting much. It turns to have superb graphic animation that was a pleasure to my eyes. The story line actually touches on themes about good, evil, souls, atonement, and redemption, fanhood, idolatry, cults, and the effects of social media on the masses. This is in contrast to some of the blockbuster spectacle films of this year. The music and lyrics are, of course, peppy pop and are easy to listen to. This opinion will get me drummed out of the Old Farts Movie Club, I guess, but Grade A.

19 million in theaters is nowhere remotely close to highest grossing

You are right . I should have just stuck with highly rated. It cost $100 m to make.

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Well, now I've re-seen it. It wasn't as explicit as it seemed then. But barely out of kindergarten it wasn't cool.

Yup, yup, yup. What do you think the image is of? And what in the world is he hanging it on his house to burn it about?? Seems slightly reckless.

It's also playing on the Criterion Channel, which has a host of Czech New Wave films.

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I saw Tommy in the theater by myself at 9—it’s about pinball, Mom!—waaay too much too soon.

Watched Red Rooms. Think I first saw it rec’d here a while ago and finally got a chance to see it as the national library here has it streaming now. Really good movie, one of the best I’ve seen in recent years. Very unsettling without going the «cheap» route, much of the movie’s suspense/interest relying on a great performance by Juliette Gariepy. Plays like a mix of Paul Schrader and Michael Haneke. Highly recommended.

The Substance

Nice performances from the leads. Dennis Quaid is great as an oily (and 'oily' isn't strong enough) producer, his performance enhanced by wide angle lens close-ups. Excellent cinematography and set design. Nice choice of music references.

But, yeah, yeah, I get it. Hollywood throws away older actors (and I don't think that's true anymore) which leads to self-loathing, especially for women. Too didactic. I don't like getting hit in the head with a message.

And it doesn't succeed as a horror film, particularly the blood-spewing final scene.

I don't know. Maybe I'm just cranky.

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I was really into it for about the first 1/2 to 2/3, but body horror is a genre that I don't care for. The message was delivered with a chainsaw attached to a sledgehammer and I agree that it was way too much.

I love the body horror aspect in The Substance. Minor spoiler, but when she's all mutated and warped and looking like a creature from The Thing, then she puts the freaking earrings on? I ****ing lost it. I was HOWLING screaming crying pissing shitting and cumming. I get where you're coming from JC. There's nothing subtle about the movie and about 99% of the time I get insulted when a filmmaker beats me over the head with their message but I felt it worked here.

One Battle After Another

Didn't think that P.T. Anderson would make a action flick that's part drama part comedy. It's also affecting on other levels.

Forget the performances. They're all great. Sean Penn was born to play these parts and DiCaprio has incredible range.

Forget about the film's currency. Although Anderson, reportedly, has worked on the script for twenty years, it's amazingly prescient if he has worked on it for years.

The movie begins with a bang. A resistance group attacks a detention facility, freeing immigrants held there. (Yes, it is relevant.) From there, the resistance holds up a bank, killing a guard in the robbery. Film skips ahead sixteen years, and this isn't a spoiler, DiCaprio has gone into hiding with his sixteen-year-old daughter. He's quite the burnout by this time, paranoid from smoking pot continuously.

Last week I watched The Battle of Algiers, the same film the DiCaprio watches that sixteen years later.

I've skipped quite a bit here. The film ends with a great chase scene.

What I love about the film is the focus on trust and family. What does family mean? What constitutes a family? Who can we trust? How do we influence our children?

I think the film answers these questions, especially with the ending. Keep resisting.

Although it doesn't sound like a comedy from what I've written so far, there's laugh out loud moments. Think "Mexican Hairless."

Good review, watched it again yesterday myself

And Christmas Adventurer’s Club acronym is CAC which on message boards focused on black music means Cracker Ass Cracker

The Godfather is a heartbreaking movie to watch because so few of them are remaining. I wasn't ready for a lead/co-lead performance from Diane Keaton, figured a supporting role where she knocks it out of the park with a few scenes would give me the nostalgia hit I was craving, while helping me cope with her loss. Man she was such a stunner and such a great actor. I love that the film ends with her reaction shot. So much on her face in a 3 second shot.

I want to read WoodyÂ’s full tribute but donÂ’t want to jump through the subscription hoops. But regardless, she definitely put the hex on both him and Pacino.

Jack was also starry-eyed during the SGG press tour—and I’ll never tire of saying that film has one of the worst & most unrealistic endings ever; who the **** in the audience was rooting for THAT?

Female director too, God only knows what the old boy producers and studio execs used to get her to change it.

Loved Diane Keaton. So funny and classy and a little odd.

Yup, nailed it. My thoughts exactly.