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Today's film, #2, "Promare." No idea what this one's about but the animation looks cool.
I forgot to thread, but movie #9 in #MovieThread is "Toy Story." https://beepboop.one/@Alexis/104722204163664976
Once again I return to the downloads folder for some early-lockdown movies with "Capone." (#17!)
There was a lot of talk when this released about how this redeems Trank as a director post-"Fant4stic," and that's fair β it's well-made, and there's some great sequences in here, but at no point does he actually manage to make me *care* about this person or his family, which makes it all a bit flat.
Hardy, of course, plays a terrific disease-riddled Capone losing what little is left of his mind.
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.
Forgot to thread. Movie #28 is 2018's "Bumblebee."
@Alexis Ah, I remember that serial, "Doctor Who and the Time Trap", a classic, it--
wait what do you mean
@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.)
π« "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977), uspol pun
@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.
@Alexis Yeah, to rake it, which seems a futile effort.
@kurt I guess Apollo 11 must have left behind a right mess.
@Alexis They did drop a bag of poo on the surface as soon as they landed.
@kurt Sigh. Americans.
@kurt@social.thiskurt.me @Alexis@beepboop.one suddenly reminded of the mythbusters bit on big blocks of frozen piss crashing through people's roofs after being ejected from commercial airlines
@kurt@social.thiskurt.me @Alexis@beepboop.one pretty sure that one was confirmed lmao
@kurt@social.thiskurt.me @Alexis@beepboop.one i would've thought he was being a rake on the moon, that seems more in character
@InspectorCaracal @kurt I think a Moonraker is a fictional type of Space Shuttle, but really, it's a title with a thousand layers.
@Alexis@beepboop.one @kurt@social.thiskurt.me like an ogre!
@InspectorCaracal @kurt That's James Bond, alright!
re: π "Moonraker"
@Alexis@beepboop.one sucks for the other person
re: π "Moonraker"
@InspectorCaracal yeah, he dead
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.