this whole chain gang business seems absolutely wretched and inhumane, so good thing the US stopped doing it in the fifties-- reintroduced in some states in 1995? a thing today? what the fuck?

Nearly halfway through, and only now is the wrongfully convicted-for-robbery WW1 vet with PTSD actually making his escape from the chain gang.

hahaha

tv isn't a thing yet so the "emergency broadcast, watch out for this escaped convict" thing is delivered by a cop who happens to sit down in the same barber shop as him

I feel like in 1922 an escaped prisoner could probably just change their haircut and move to a new town and nobody would ever find them.

"They promised me a pardon if I came back for 90 days."

sigh
sigh
siiiiiiigh

"Jim, they refused to pardon you."

siiiiiiiiiiiiigh

this is honestly a good movie, which is still a rarity, 28 films into this

i understand that "maybe 5 of the 28 films i've seen of this list of over 500 films are actually good" makes keeping going the act of somewhat of a fool, and yet

> "maybe 5 of these are good"

uhh,
* All Quiet on the Western Front
* Skippy
* The Champ
* I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang

are the only ones I would sincerely recommend

And "All Quiet" and "Fugitive" really only if you're into the kind of thing they are, which is, like, social commentary reacting to WW1

‪Anyway, prisons! Are fucked up!‬

god, ww1 soldiers, stop being horny

can the hays code kick in already

oh, this is 1932, Hays Code gets strictly enforced starting mid-'34

not long now

Hays Code sucks, obviously, but it's interesting history, and I'm curious if I'll be able to tell

it's all just

this movie has a scene where the main guy just touches and talks to a sex worker's bare feet for a while

her face is never seen, and a couple minutes later he confuses another pair of feet for hers -- the owner of those feet is the woman he's now having a big romance with

"how I met your mother? well, kids--"

not entirely sure how you make bombing a town look this boring, but by gum, they did it

film as a medium comes a long way from 1927 to 1932 -- genuinely, incredible progess, any film made in 1932 would have wowed a 1927 audience -- but Frank Borzage still can't make me give a shit

ironically, people who die young always take fucking ages to die in these movies

"Hard to believe I've been shot on my wedding day! Unlikely to make it to the wedding night! Quick, someone take notes!"

Movie #10: I think Tarantino probably sucks, but people won't shut up about him, so I'm heading out to go see the first half of Kill Bill in the cinema.

Well, that's all a bit much, innit.

Movie #11: I've got 2019's "The Assistant" on -- trying to clear out some stuff from early in the pandemic.

God, what a relentless, crushing slog. Which I imagine is the point! As such, success? (Cripes, oh cripes.)

This isn't going to end with her burning down the building, but I sure wish it would!!

Movie #12: This spring's "Underwater," because I'll watch Kristen Stewart fight a Cthulhu, sure.

I'm *pretty* sure that's what it's about, anyway.

I wish this had more jokes, but if the TJ Miller character is any indication, perhaps this has Too Many Jokes already?

Kristen Stewart is terrific, obviously. The rest of the movie also exists.

Tonight's movie, #13, "An American Pickle."

Seth Rogen is watchable enough, and I love a pickle, I assume that averages out to something I'll enjoy.

That was pretty much what I expected. Watchable, funny enough. Good dual role editing.

Movie #14: 1973's "Live and Let Die." Third Bond in a row with a different face than the last one, let's see how this one does.

Weird energy to this one, lads.

"voodoo, drugs, and pimpmobiles" is a very different tone than yer Doctors No, yer Goldfingers

This Bond in this setting is like if one of the Little Women walked into a Star War.

Must confess I've been nodding off a touch, but this is a terrific boat chase. (Into the pool! Through the wedding! Cutting off the cops!)

I've put on movie #15: 1974's "The Man with the Golden Gun," a film that sure appears to open with a Sir Christopher Lee third nipple reveal.

Terrific sentence, odd creative choice.

This one has a bunch of martial arts stuff in it for presumably the same reason the last one was blaxploitation-flavoured.

@Alexis@beepboop.one welcome to the united states where we have absolutely totally abolished slave labor yep that's a thing we did look it's right there in the history books

@InspectorCaracal "Yes, I got rid of my gun," says man planning to make trip to gun store to buy gun this very afternoon.

@InspectorCaracal siiiiiigh

@Alexis@beepboop.one more like "yes i've gotten rid of all my guns, where guns means rifles and i've still got a room full of revolvers"

@Alexis Then and now!

@Alexis@beepboop.one have not seen kill bill but sounds about right

@Alexis is it bad that I just wanted to respond "funniest shit i've ever seen"

(I apologize if you don't know the meme)

@The_T and then he turns into a tired sigh

@Alexis idgi

@Alexis I don't think these are real movies. I think you're pulling an elaborate prank.

@kurt One where the girl from Twilight fights Cthulhu? Ridiculous.

@Alexis I buy that one more than Seth Rogen getting preserved in a vat of pickles.

@kurt This one does sound a lot like a fake trailer on SNL the week a superhero movie comes out.

@Alexis To be fair, fake snl trailer is a genre of movies that exists unfortunately.

@Alexis Stay away from Moonraker, then.

@adz hahaha, yeah, I bet the tension between tones there is, uhhh, outta this world.

@Alexis Yes, "tones." Let's go with that...

@Alexis General coolness?