I was gonna go see 2022's "Downton Abbey: A New Era" with my mom tomorrow, so the plan for today was to watch 2019's "Downton Abbey" -- having got through three seasons of the show -- but then my parents' car had a nervous breakdown, so that's been postponed.
Instead, one of those Letterboxd never shuts the fuck up about, #148, or #798, 1994 Chinese picture "Chunking Express."
#150, or #800, but I don't know what it is yet, leaving now for Sneak Preview.
I did my Sneak Preview guessing last night.
#184, or #834, sometimes I put on a movie that looks bad without a good reason, but this time it's because I've been listening to movie podcast The Flop House and they've finally done one that I haven't seen, 2022's "The King's Daughter."
🇺🇸 "Gone with the Wind" (1939)
I'm not actually remotely familiar with "Gone with the Wind," on account of I'm not American or awful, though I think I've read a Donald Duck adaptation of it. (Of course I have.)
What I'm /expecting/ is a story set during plantation times that actively romanticises and celebrates all the bad shit.
🇺🇸 "Gone with the Wind" (1939), slavery
If you think it's not just normal to have an unpaid and involuntarily employed housekeeper kept prisoner by way of perpetual threat of extreme violence or death but that that's her best possible lot in life, I, well, I, hm, I, uh, I don't think I can physically bring myself to care about your love life.
@Alexis 1939 was off the hook bad in every direction, blanket shit
👄 "In the Mouth of Madness" (1994)
@Alexis The key clue is unfortunately covered by a 'soon to be a major motion picture' sticker.
👄 "In the Mouth of Madness" (1994)
@kurt "This is where he went," Trent says, pointing at the cut-out shape of New Hampshire.
Confused execs circle the table. "Sutter Cane went to the movies?"
@Alexis If Kathy Bathes hobbled you would you simply not hobble?
@kurt If Kathy Bates tried to hobble me I would simply dodge.
🚀👧 "Tank Girl" (1995)
@Alexis I've always been a fan (never actually read the comic till years later.)
🚀👧 "Tank Girl" (1995)
@LexPendragon Yeah, the comic is one of those I'm always perpetually about to get around to but never do. But this does push me closer to getting around to it.
🚀👧 "Tank Girl" (1995)
@Alexis The one or two I've read only had a passing resemblance to the movie.
And I say "2022's," this is the Pierce Brosnan one that got delayed three weeks before release and then sat on the shelf for five years because nobody could be fucked to release it.