i, too, would absolutely cast matt damon and sam neill in a play about how terribly sad it is that i've definitely for sure died

hopkins delivering the concept of, you have a sister who's the goddess of death and she's coming, like he's asking them to pick up some eggs if they're going out

kept waiting for a moment to pause and make a coffee, kept going "but this is a good bit"

This One Is All Good Bits

well that's the best one, innit

the energy here is, like, Power Rangers-y monster man operating under horror movie rules while the kids he's forced to deal with very much don't

this is gross and dumb and i'm enjoying it, but also, I have nothing to say about it?

maybe just the mood i'm in today

#31, 2015's "The Intern," in which I assume Robert de Niro teaches his dumb millennial boss (Anne Hathaway?) to slow down a little? Something like that, I'm sure.

somebody rings a bell to celebrate "a record 2500 likes on Instagram"

was that that much in 2015

this is paint-by-numbers done by numbers, but de niro and hathaway elevate this to, like, pleasant and sweet

this husband can go in the husband bin tho

the husbin

#32, I'm about halfway through 2016 found footage documentary "Dawson City: Frozen Time."

A solid, yet ethereal look at a cache of film reels found buried below an ice rink in Dawson and the wide range of other histories it touches on, that was pretty good.

Music got on my nerves after a while, tho.

It's movie! 1934's "Cleopatra," #33.

I'm pretty sure I've heard this one is notable mostly for pushing the limits before the Hays Code starts getting enforced? We'll see.

weird to have a full-colour CGI Universal logo before a black-and-white movie

like if Walter Disney introduced Avengers: Endgame

"It's certain death to go!"

well that'll be a short motion picture then

as attempts to stop coups from happening go, this one is notably hornier than I usually picture them

bringing good epic drama energy here and it's only 1h41m long

"Caesar! Beware the ides of March!"
"One date's as good as another for a funeral!"

lol

caesar did not beware the knives of march

i'm too asexual for this one, i think

this is kinda too focused on spectacle, on the glam of it? like the script just kinda steams through the beats of this story, only ever stopping to either be Big or be Horny

gets a bit tedious by the end

i liked the bits where it was a comedy, i guess

Oh, that's right, it's Groundhog Day.

And so is movie #34!

this starts with way jauntier music than I remembered

"Rita, I can't stay here."

actually,

I don't buy most of the popular Internet Theories, they always seem like a stretch,

but there's absolutely no way Phil remembers Ned, and "Ned is in his own loop" works.

"The world's most famous weatherman -- a groundhog."

upstaged by a rat with opinions about his own shadow

rumour has it that first step is a dooooozy

rumour has it i got you babe

you don't think as a kid about how this is all A Bit Manipulative, Innit

Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell are too charming for this to be creepy.

"There is no way this winter is /ever/ going to end."

six more infinities of winter

for the record, if I do ever try to prove to you that I'm in a time loop, it's because i'm in a time loop

i would not joke about being in a time loop

"When Chekhov saw the long winter..."

Chekhov never could have seen the Bean Dad thing coming

A+, top movie, would watch again.

#35, I'm about halfway through 2020 dead mall documentary "Jasper Mall."

A slightly sad, slightly unfocused portrait of one of capitalism's pimples.

Questions I'm left with:
* Why are zoo guys always, you know, like that?
* What the heck does a person need throwing knives for?

Oh, that's right, it's Groundhog Day.

And so is movie #36.

This time I'm watching it in black-white-and-blue.

I was gonna just set it to black-and-white but VLC has a colour threshold setting.

@Alexis Dawson Creek's got a movie sequel?

@kurt Apparently they built a whole city around that guy's creek when there turned out to be gold in them thar hills.

@kurt And/or film reels under them thar ice rinks.

@Alexis You should've seen the first 40'000 takes of it though.

@Alexis
* Zoonotic personality disorders
* Throwing

@kurt * Like how there's stuff in cat shit that makes you like cats, but for whole zoos?
* But at WHAT.

@Alexis
* Yeah, if cats give you loopy cat lovers disease obviously tigers are gonna do the same thing but turned up to 11.
* Throwing knife targets.

@kurt * Cat shit makes you like (appreciate) cats, tiger shit makes you like (resemble) tigers, got it, that scans.
* Fuck these throwing knife targets in particular?

@Alexis * I think this is a valid theory that warrants investigation.
* But then what would we throw our knives at?

@kurt * You can't make me watch more Tiger King.
* See, that's what I'm suspicious about.