It should also be known going in that this film is very gory and has a lot of sexual assault.
Huh. Well now I’m less intrigued…
I have to add, there’s quite a lot of political content in this as well, plus shout outs to the Ramayana if that interests you (it does me). It’s squarely aimed at (Hindutva - Wikipedia, which is a likely reason that it’s been held up past its initial release date in India.
I should add, there is a lot of shaky cam in the early action sequences, and I didn’t enjoy that. But I liked the rest of the movie, and that seemed to get itself ironed out in the back half.
Hundreds of Beavers (2022). Pretty much defies description, but I’ll try. Imagine a cross between an old silent slapstick comedy and a Wiley Coyote cartoon, and imagine that it was made on almost no budget. A drunken applejack salesman pursues rabbits, beavers, and squirrels, all of whom are actors in comical costumes. You can tell when one of them is dead because their eyes turn into Xs. There are also sled dogs (also actors in costumes). It’s certainly creative and innovative and amusing for a while, but probably should have been shorter than its nearly two-hour run time.
Just watched ANNA (with the second N backwards) on NFLX. Spy vs Spy flick with lots of gunplay and a blond heroine who is a deadly agent. No hilarity ensues. Not bad for the genre.
I don’t suppose they’ve made an actual Spy vs. Spy movie, with Antonio Prohias’s black and white spies from Mad magazine, have they? That, I would want to see (assuming it was any good).
I remember hearing a few years ago that someone wanted to make a live-action Spy vs Spy movie.
Men (2022). There have already been quite a few comments about this film, which I quote below though I probably missed some. But I was sufficiently impressed that I wanted to add my own observations.
What perplexes me about this movie is why some folks seem to be perplexed by it! To me it’s a well-crafted supernatural horror/thriller. Why search for symbolism and “messages”? Maybe because of the title, and the fact that the protagonist is a woman and all the antagonists are men? I don’t think there’s any deep significance to that. Some of the comments here led me to believe it had the same kind of social messaging about rape culture and misogyny as A Promising Young Woman, but it’s nothing even remotely like that. Some critics seem to feel it has deep symbolism but I don’t agree and in any case teasing out what that symbolism may be is not necessary to enjoying the film.
I will say that I think it’s seriously underrated on IMDb at only 6.1. Its critics rating on RT is higher than that but the audience rating in inexplicably terrible, with which I vehemently disagree. I never thought I’d say this about a horror movie, but among its virtues is beautiful cinematography and a great soundtrack. Highly recommended.
And if someone insists it must have an “explanation” of some sort, here’s mine, spoilered because it contains significant spoilers – feel free to totally disagree and substitute your own:
One could posit that there’s nothing odd or supernatural there at all. Maybe the tragic end to Harper’s troubled relationship with her husband traumatized her, and her impression that all the men she meets in the little country village are aggressively horrible or condescending was all in her mind. And maybe this worsened the trauma, so that all the weird stuff we see at the end was just the delusion of a troubled mind sent over the edge.
The closest I’ve seen is Despicable Me 3. It’s a fun movie, and well worth a watch.
Mines, from memory of watching it six months ago: a woman haunted by the ghost of misogyny.
And that all the men were the same man as well…except her husband?
I saw the 2017 movie, Killing Gunther , last night. I’d classify it as “a crazy spoof” of action movies, and I enjoyed its inaneness because I realized it wasn’t supposed to taken seriously.
It isn’t a supernatural world like Leprechaun, it’s a fantastical world where you can make humans. This dude made a woman, who discovers that she adores sexual gratification. This upsets or unsettles all men in the film, and there is so much ‘furious jumping’ Emna Stone’s sexuality is supposed to unsettled the audience.
And why? Because a person is doing what they want with their own body?
It was odd, I’ll give it that, but it wasn’t thrilling or scary so in turn I have no idea why some folks think Poor Things is winning awards. It doesn’t have any other underlying themes, after all.
This is a very confusing post. You quoted my commentary about the movie Men, but you’re talking about Poor Things, which I also commented about earlier.
Anyway, I liked both those movies and highly recommend them both, but your post might leave a lot of readers scratching their heads trying to figure out what your’e talking about.
Because it has won awards, including Best Actress at the Oscars last month.
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One could posit that there’s nothing odd or supernatural there at all. Maybe the tragic end to Harper’s troubled relationship with her husband traumatized her, and her impression that all the men she meets in the little country village are aggressively horrible or condescending was all in her mind. And maybe this worsened the trauma, so that all the weird stuff we see at the end was just the delusion of a troubled mind sent over the edge.
Well said and very much what I got from it. I think the confusion for many (including myself, initially) is that it’s hard to distinguish the obvious horror elements from the deeper horror that is the woman’s personal experience/ real life pain. It’s a creative and visceral way to convey her inner trauma and, while I enjoyed and responded to it, the fact that so many viewer’s response is (understandably) “WTF!?” kind of indicates that it failed on that level.
I was scratching my head for sure.
No, it’s just a spy flick set in the Soviet era. Helen Mirren is almost unrecognizable as the evil spymaster.
Watched Rust Creek on NFLX. A young woman is chased through the woods by bad guys who think she saw something she shouldn’t have. Not bad, but it’s been done before.
Just watched Late Night with the Devil. A fine little flick. Much more over-the-top than Ghostwatch, a BBC TV movie that some might prefer precisely for being more understated, but if you like this genre of horror Devil is quite enjoyable.