I rewatched this semi-recently and couldn't tell you much about it other than Danny McBride making me laugh when they all show up to the school where Owen Wilson works. Looks like I did not log it on Letterboxd.
Dark of the Sun - 8/10 Queen of Outer Space - 6/10 Black Narcissus - 8/10 San Francisco (1936) - 7/10 Hit Man (1972) - 7/10
My buddy got me to watch Pulp Fiction yesterday. I'd never seen it. Tbh I was unimpressed and mostly bored. It was way too long and really meanders in places. There were a few cool parts, but ultimately, I didn't like it. I watched Red State a few days ago. I can't believe it's a Kevin Smith movie. I liked it a lot more than critics did. Weird movie, but Goodman is incredible. I lost my job last week so in between applying for jobs and gov assistance, I'll be watching more movies and checking in here.
Sorry to hear about your job fam (and the unfortunate Oil Fiction take). I also think Red State is solid with a strong premise. But I also go to bat for Tusk lol.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) - 8/10 Incredibly fun and underrated and stacked film, book and miniseries purists be damned. Or maybe I just spent a lot of time watching this on DVD as a kid. Two things can be true at once. Ape - 8/10 Potrykus feature journey complete. I came for the microbudget dark comedy about a failed slacker comedian and stayed for the surreal body horror. Good shit. In Whose Name? - 9/10 Perhaps not technically perfect, but I'm shocked to see people call this incohesive when it seems to avoid glazing over anything it has footage of. And of course there isn't footage for everything that happened in this eight-year time-span, but holy shit...temper tantrums in Uganda, DMX giving sermons on the mount, White Lives Matter as completely misguided political trolling. The Trump shit is literally just the tip of the iceberg. Nothing could have prepared me for all of the footage of him flying around to yell at architects or that time he waxed poetic in disturbingly uncanny dog makeup. If Jeen-Yuhs was an homage to the artist we all grew to love, this is the tragic end and eulogy. Absolutely essential and surreal stuff. The World's End - 8/10 Pretty easily the weakest link in Wright's Cornetto Trilogy, but when the films you're up against are Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, that's not really saying much. Just so fun and stylish and clever and well-crafted. I appreciate the cast and crew moving on to different projects and genres, but miss this group greatly. Idle Hands - 7.5/10 Who amongst us could have guessed that a teen stoner horror-comedy from 1999 might have some jokes that aged poorly? Cartoonish, mostly charming, and ridiculously fun, warts and all. The Napa Boys - 8.5/10 I cannot believe this was actually funded in any capacity. I love Armen and Nick (Deep Murder is a hoot), and leave it to them to craft a parody of a pseudo-sequel to Sideways that evokes The Fellowship of the Ring as often as it does the American Pie Presents films. I could do without seeing Ivy Wolk cast in anything ever again, but casting her as a school shooter and having her charged by a moose was a nice touch. Jay and Silent Bob cameo was somehow the least surprising thing about the film and still shocked me. It's the Megalopolis of comedies. They did one from the heart. Bzz bzz. Lee Cronin's The Mummy - 7/10 Absolutely no way this wasn't originally a sequel to Cronin's Evil Dead Rise that was then repurposed to be a Mummy movie, lol. It often feels like someone mashed up that film with a (more interesting) police procedural set in Cairo about esoteric, occult-based kidnappings. A two-plus hour film with this much tonal whiplash reeks of restructuring, but the good news is, there's simply so much to latch onto and chew on in terms of goo and gore and spectacle that it doesn't really matter. If you're going to "steal" (for lack of a better word), you might as well steal from the best, and this is basically a Sam Raimi Mummy film, for better or worse (mostly the former). Fun flick.
Simon has talked about how he, Frost and Wright are planning another movie together. It just won't be part of Cornetto.
Fall - 4/10 Incredibly stupid movie that barely made sense BUT had a handful of breathtaking shots and in spite of its narrative and script deficiencies succeeded in the edge of your seat tension thing more than it didn’t. A bad movie for sure, and not worth its runtime, but if you believe the $3 million budget figure not without a little bit of merit.
And when he climbed that tower? Live??? I tuned in for like two seconds and immediately nope'd the hell outta there
per my avatar, this was the best part of that climb (i didn't actually watch it, i just liked seeing Psyduck get some public notoriety)
San Francisco is really just a structure to hang an earthquake set piece on but...that set piece sure delivers.
Akira - 8/10 Lee Cronin’s The Mummy - 6/10 The Killer (1989) - 9/10 Danger: Diabolik - 7/10 Earth II - 6/10
Highway to Hell - 7/10 Confessions of a Police Captain - 8/10 The Amsterdam Kill - 6/10 Melinda - 7.5/10 The Sea Chase - 7/10