Talk About Movies: Part 4
Somehow threads merged, so here's part 4 of our ongoing movie discussion.
Watched Marty Supreme last night. Ehhhhh? I am pretty sure there is an interesting movie in there somewhere but it certainly wasn't the bloated 2.5 hour finished product that was all over the map. Loved the mood and atmosphere but there was way too much random crap happening. Can't really recommend.
Rewatch:
The Untold Story (1993)
Fugitive psychopath Anthony Wong acquires ownership of a restaurant by murdering the former owner and then pretty much murders anyone else who pisses him off in this batshit nuts Hong Kong CAT III flick, loosely based on a real life Macau serial killer/mass murderer, that uneasily straddles weirdly (and kinda tonally deaf) between actual slapstick comedy and played dead straight nastiness, being quite vicious in parts with some scenes that are legit disturbing even today. And nobody does a psycho scumbag quite like Anthony Wong, who's genuinely kinda terrifying in this. Even its opening scene grabs you by the lapels and shakes you smartly.
The Japanese movie Exit 8 is definitely worth a watch ; a nice suspense horror about a man's own vicious cycles 
The Japanese movie Exit 8 is definitely worth a watch ; a nice suspense horror about a man's own vicious cycles
And based on a video game apparently :
If you have Paramount+, Memories of Murder is now streaming. It's a great movie, much like Fincher's Zodiac. Both are great films and can't choose which is "better."
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She's a female cop in it and the other cops are always teasing her for looking like a tomboy and having small bewbs, lol. When she changes her look, due to her having the hots for her superior, he asks her why she's dressed like a hooker. It really is one nutty flick
If you have Paramount+, Memories of Murder is now streaming. It's a great movie, much like Fincher's Zodiac. Both are great films and can't choose which is "better."
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Yeah it's really good and I should revisit actually. They only caught the actual killer a few years ago, he was already in prison serving life for another murder, which was fortunate, as the statutes of limitations had expired, so they couldn't charge him with the 14 other murder he committed.
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I want to hear what Corpus Vile thinks of Hokum as a fellow Irishman but I'm subscribing to anything that Damien McCarthy does - I will need to see Oddity and Caveat
I still haven't seen Hokum, and wasn't mad about Caveat but I quite liked Oddity and would definitely recommend.
I had no idea you were also Irish, lol
I thought The Killing of a Sacred Deer was awful so I'm wary of checking Bugonia out, especially as it's a remake and I'm a big fan of the original, a Korean film called Save the Green Planet! (2003)
Kinds Of Kindness was the only one of his that pissed me off so much I never wanted to watch another film of his, but I like all the others I’ve seen of his quite a bit. I think it’s the latest 5 that I’ve seen.
I still haven't seen Hokum, and wasn't mad about Caveat but I quite liked Oddity and would definitely recommend.
I had no idea you were also Irish, lol
Half Irish but born and lived in Australia all my life - was a chance when I was like 7 or 8 when my mum nearly took the whole family back to Ireland but never happened.
Half Irish but born and lived in Australia all my life - was a chance when I was like 7 or 8 when my mum nearly took the whole family back to Ireland but never happened.
Trust me you dodged a bullet😃 😉 And that's a weird coincidence, as my parents seriously considered moving to Australia in the early 70s and had they had done so, I would have been the only one from my siblings that would have been Australian born. But for some weird ass reason they decided to stay in 1970s Dublin instead. I could've been a surfer.😆
Anyway, revisits/rewatches.
Thesis (1996)
A university student doing a Thesis on violence in cinema uncovers a snuff film showing the murder of a missing student in this solid debut offering from Alejandro Amenábar, who also directed The Others (2001) and Open Your Eyes (1997), which was later remade as Vanilla Sky (2001)
The Day of the Beast (1995)
A slightly addled priest, a fraudulent tv psychic and an acid dropping metalhead join forces to thwart the birth of the Antichrist in this blackly hilarious gem also from Spain.
Phenomena (1985)
A young Jennifer Connolly who can um, telepathically communicate with insects 😆, teams up with a Scottish accented Donald Pleasence (and his pet chimpanzee) to solve a string of brutal murders at her posh Swiss finishing school for young ladies in this nutty and way entertaining flick from Dario Argento, with a legit decent atmosphere to go with all the madness and left field blasts of metal.
Watched Personal Shopper again last night. Olivier Assayas is one of the best writer/directors working today, and he never seems to make the same movie twice. It's his second film with Kristen Stewart, and she's great in both this and The Clouds of Sils Maria.
In Personal Shopper, Stewart plays exactly that, a personal shopper for a star who is barely present in the film. She has a congenital heart problem, the same condition as her twin brother who died at the age of 27.
Like her brother, she is also a medium who believes her brother will contact her from the "other side."
Much of the film is mysterious. She receives text messages from an unknown number, and she thinks it might be her brother attempting to communicate.
There's a lot going on in this film, but I want to look at the ending where she seems to have made contact with her brother who answers her questions with thumps, one for yes, two for no.
She asks at the end of the film, "Is it just me?" The question is answered with one thump.
I've looked at some responses to the ending that provide what I see as incorrect interpretations, mostly dealing with is the ghost real or a product of her imagination.
Instead, I read it two ways. One, much like other interpretations, seems to say it's just her, her imagination, and she is imagining the encounter with the brother and other ghosts.
But I see it as different. I accept that she really does communicate with ghosts. The positive answer implies she is now completely separated from her twin brother and alone now in the world. The ghost of her brother will no longer visit her, and now it's just her, alone in the world. She can now get on with her life, which she has been afraid to do throughout the film.
Anyway, another great film from Assayas that questions the way we handle grief.
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Hokum was decent, but not on the level of the filmmaker's previous movies, Caveat and Oddity.
'Nobody plots to kill an English Professor – we just don’t inspire that kind of passion."
Dennis Quaid in D.O.A.
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What’s everyone’s thoughts on Smoke Signals? It’s a vital film in the home of every Native American and Canadian. I swear it gets better with age. Also I didn’t realize the DJ in the beginning of the movie is played by poet/activist John Trudell. It’s hysterical and gets to the root of how many Natives deal with pain, through comedy. I know it’s not unique to us, but it’s so deep and real here.
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia - Documentary following a family of redneck criminals in Appalachia. Equally funny and sad.
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia - Documentary following a family of redneck criminals in Appalachia. Equally funny and sad.
I watched this a few years ago. Us hillbillies aren't all like that, but a few sure are.
What’s everyone’s thoughts on Smoke Signals? It’s a vital film in the home of every Native American and Canadian. I swear it gets better with age. Also I didn’t realize the DJ in the beginning of the movie is played by poet/activist John Trudell. It’s hysterical and gets to the root of how many Natives deal with pain, through comedy. I know it’s not unique to us, but it’s so de
I had never heard of it - am not Native, but have many Native friends/have spent a significant amount % of my life in Dawson City -, but will have to seek it out
The two movies that instantly come to mind when I think Native cinema is Atanarjuat the Fast Runner, and Wind River probably doesn't count, but still comes to mind...
