Back.
Terrific film.
Quentin Tarantino is a bad person.

That is all.

Movie #22: Toy Story 2.

Better'n the first one, etcetera.

Movie #23, rewatched Breakfast Club because some days just be like that.

Movie #24: Apparently the shortest film ever nominated for Best Picture, "She Done Him Wrong" is only about an hour long.

Ya gotta hope that's not all it's got goin' for it.

There are like six musical numbers in this hour-long film -- it's based on a play, so, you know, sure -- but the audio quality is such that I sure wish there were fewer.

You can see why this launches the careers of Mae West and Cary Grant, but eh, in 2020, hard to give a shit.

Movie #25, I've put on something called "Time Trap," because, frankly, you can't put something called "Time Trap" where I can see it and not expect me to bite.

The dog is called Boss, which I think is fun.

Takes them ages to figure out what kind of story they're in, but fun enough low-key, low-budget cave sci-fi.

(Check it out, maybe, I think it's on Netflix pretty much everywhere.)

Tonight's movie, #26, is "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure." Not that the third one is actually coming out here, I don't think, so no rush and all.

I've definitely seen this one in full before, and the second one in bits on TV.

also, god, they're babies

the end of the movie is here to tell the start of the movie to get the fuck on with it

Truly, a most excellent delight.

Heading out to see New Mutants, even though it's almost certainly trash. Movie #27.

oh, right, uhhhhhhh

mid-tier horror movie, mid-tier X-movie, some Unpleasant Creative Decisions, second half was okay

Forgot to thread. Movie #28 is 2018's "Bumblebee."

https://beepboop.one/@Alexis/104806147903798378

Movie #29, I'm heading out to see "Misbehaviour," which looked alright from the one trailer I saw in front of "Personal History of David Copperfield" the other week.

Enjoyed that. Perhaps boils the real history down in some places to basic feelgood stuff, but a feelgood film about 70s women's lib can be a pleasant and enjoyable way to spend two hours. And it was!

Movie #30. I'm about halfway through "I'm Thinking of Ending Things."

It's... a bit... like having a ham thrown at you.

A ham that is, at this time, not entirely sure it's going to hit you.

Absolutely terrific unhinged nonsense, but I get it. (The ham was the power of ambiguity all along.)

Flying hams with anxiety disorders aside,

Do I feel like I totally understood this film emotionally? Yes, completely.

Could I explain it to anyone else? Would know where to end but not where to begin.

same

Have put on movie #31, "The Spy Who Loved Me."

...That could be the title of half the Bonds I've seen so far.

ski chase ski chase

"Our nuclear submarine Potemkin has disappeared."

The Submarine Who Ghosted Me.

* The stuff at the pyramids looks teriffic.
* Absolutely baffling to keep Tracy in continuity. Could have very easily never brought her up again after Lazenby.

"Mr Stromberg prefers not to shake hands."

A sensible man. Evil, but sensible.

Jaws is a solid concept for a Bond henchman, but I wish the biting was a little more visceral, and a lot less "sweaty uncle trying to kiss you."

submarine car submarine car submarine car

the absolute *scale* of some of these sets, man

the TABLE is a GUN

Wasn't gonna watch another Bond just yet but I guess in this one he GOES TO SPACE??

Movie #32 is 1979's "Moonraker."

@Alexis yes

@Alexis You just summed up how I feel about Reservoir Dogs.

@The_T The extent of my Tarantino opinions, in approximate real-world chronological order:
* I find the poster for Pulp Fiction off-putting.
* Quentin Tarantino is a bad person.
* Kill Bill is terrific.
* I hated Django Unchained.
* I'll watch Once Upon a Time in Hollywood at some point for the Best Picture thing, I guess.

@Alexis
Here's mine in chronological order:
1. I saw Kill Bill and thought it was good, so I wanted to watch his other films.
2. I liked Reservoir Dogs more than Kill Bill.
3. I liked Pulp Fiction more than Kill Bill.
4. I liked Jackie Brown more than Kill Bill.
5. Death Proof was kind of ok.
6. Inglourious Basterds was fine, but god that's a dumb spelling. Tarantino might be an idiot?
7. Harvey Wenstein is a scumbag.
8. Tarantino should really have done more to distance himself from Weinstein, but whatever.
9. I feel like it's been 10 years since Tarantino put out a movie. *looks him up on Wikipedia* oh, apparently he has been all this time. Oh well.

@The_T Other than seeing Django Unchained at a friend's insistence, I really hadn't spent a full minute of my life in a row thinking about Tarantino before I saw that footage of Uma Thurman's car crash -- which only happened because he insisted she do the stunt instead of her stunt driver.

The paint of my opinions about his films is not thick enough to hide that canvas, and the Weinstein thing is paint thinner shot at it from a Super Soaker.

@Alexis I totally see where you're coming from, and for me it's more, like...

I followed Tarantino when I was like, 14-23. That was when I cared about him and liked his movies.

After that I kind of moved on; and then only much later did all the bad stuff come out and I'm just like, "ugh, ok." 10 years after I've ever cared about his movies.

@Alexis Jessie is such a good character.

And the street-crossing scene is, IMNSHO, one of the funniest bits in the series.

@naga The whole Woody's Round-Up thing feels like a very natural addition to Woody as a character, and Jessie especially so -- she's completely her own deal.

@Alexis Ah, I remember that serial, "Doctor Who and the Time Trap", a classic, it--

wait what do you mean

@The_T Actually...

@Alexis Legit I knew it sounded familiar and I probably should have checked first haha

@The_T They even both have dogs in'm.

@Alexis not that it would be hard to find... *cough*

@The_T It could have a very local release here in my living room as early as ten minutes from now, when it finishes downloading.

@Alexis how forward thinking of the film companies.......

@The_T That would be odd scheduling, though, on account of me being only 40 minutes into the first one.

@Alexis they are legitimately good movies. in places. I'm going to watch the 3rd one... soon.

@Alexis is it better than Dark Phoenix at least?

@jeffjk I mean, New Mutants
* is relatively competently made
* doesn't have to negotiate any extremely messy continuity
* operates on a pretty small scale

so it's almost unfair to compare it to Dark Phoenix

(but: yes, for sure.)

@Alexis So that's why they call him Joe Biting.

@Alexis I think there's a couple of bond movies that take their title from entirely different bond stories.

@kurt Yeah, this one is an original story with the title of a Fleming novel -- though apparently that's because Fleming was unhappy with the book, so included only the title in the Bond film rights.