28 Years Later - 9.5/10 Rewatch. It's not quite perfect -- I would cut the Swedish soldier stuff in half -- but it's a truly great film, perhaps the only horror film to ever make me cry. So deeply rooted in humanity and universal experience - what it means to grow up, the examples set for us, and the paths we choose. "There are many kinds of death. Some are better than others. The best kind is peaceful, when we get to leave others in love." Bold, beautiful stuff.
Holy Spider - 8/10 Wolfwalkers - 8.5/10 Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off - 7/10 Shaft’s Big Score! - 7/10 Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold - 7/10
Sleepaway Camp - 8/10 So glad this one got reclaimed so my problematic ass doesn't have to love it in secret
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple - 9.5/10 I read this isn’t doing well in the box office, so I hope we get the last of the trilogy. The ending left me wanting more!
I have a Sandler themed podcast and I hope we do Mr Deeds one day. I've been rewatching a lot of them and was surprised how bad anger management is. Haha
I actually kinda loved Song Sung Blue. Quietly more profound than a lot of the movies that are gonna grab Oscar noms on Thursday.
I might enjoy it more upon a rewatch after I have listened to more music from Neil Diamond, as I only knew of three songs from him before watching it.
Thats awesome, whats the podcast called - Ill check it out. Anger Management was definitely more of a dud. Another one that doesn't get talked about too much that I thought was pretty funny was Chuck & Larry.
Saving Sandler. Haha. Chuck and Larry is a weird one because I feel like it's progressive for it's time, I guess, but it's got the same problem I have with Shallow Hal. Shallow Hal is a movie full of fat jokes to get to a body positivity message. That's Chuck and Larry to me with the homophobia.
You might. Though to me the appeal isn't so much in Neil's music as in believing in community and art, whatever form it takes.
Another great run of films and it was a really fun day yesterday seeing the last two back to back at the cinema. Roadgames - 9/10 China Gate - 7.5/10 Ad Astra - 8.5/10 Rental Family - 8.5/10 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple - 9.5/10
I think it's the perfect encapsulation of the horrific atrocities committed by the Nazi concentration camps. It's some of the most harrowing footage I've ever seen, without ever feeling gratuitous or disrespectful. Every moment of the film seems carefully considered, sharing some new painful, but important, fragment of the whole. It highlights the almost unimaginable scale of the operation and begs the question of how such a thing could come to be, where the culpability lies, while also pointing out how quickly things move on, how easy it would be to assume it was a singular irregularity that's been vanquished, ignoring the suffering that still exists all around us. A sentiment that feels more pertinent now than ever. I think it's one of the best, and most affecting, documentaries ever made. What do you think of it?
It's entirely affecting in really getting across the atrocities. I used to show it for students when I would teach the Holocaust. I always warn them about the content and they start to think I was overreacting because the first ten minutes or so are pretty mild but the basket of heads is something I'll never unsee.