If they still need a blurb for the posters, this is ace.
This makes me want to see a scene with Gene Kelly beating the shit out of Keanu Reeves with an umbrella.
I have an edition of the DVD with a commentary track that some of the cast members do in character. I watched it with the commentary once, a long time ago, and remember it being as good as the actual movie. I should give it another watch.
I believe a sequel, a real one, is coming this year. I can’t imagine they can equal the fun of the first one.
Yeah, the original very much seems to me like a “lighting in a bottle” kind of thing, the convergence of innumerable factors both tangible and intangible that all just happened to align elegantly in a way that could never be repeated. But I would expect a sequel to be worth watching. I would hope so, anyway.
I never saw the follow-up that was made of unused footage.
This one should be neat, but I see no harm in attempting it even if it fails. I’m curious what those idiots are up to 40 years later. Probably not making the Hall of Fame and still touring small clubs.
What I really want to know is, how is the puppet show doing? Is it still getting top billing?
It’s kind of disappointing that we don’t get more of that puppet show because the movie has to move on to the reconciliation between Nigel and the rest of the band and a tacked on happy ending tour of Japan. What could have been.
Would that be the 4.5-hour workprint?
That brief visual gag may have been the funniest thing in the movie, and that’s saying a lot.
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Huh. I am befuddled by this movie. I’m not sure what to think. Parts of it and concepts in it are great, but it is also over-bloated and strange. Not everything in it works, but I guess I enjoyed myself. Maybe I need to see it again.
It’s kind of a good example of Bong Joon-Ho, though. He’s not actually consistently amazing.
Okja, also about odd looking creatures, was also a bit “Uhhhhh…what?”
I liked Snowpiercer more than most. The Host is almost overrated, but pretty good. Parasite is a truly incredible movie, though.
This one was OK. Robert Pattinson is great in it, by the way. He carries the movie. This one might be a good example of “lesser than the sum of all its parts”.
Weird movie.
In a post-Spinal Tap-movie life imitates art imitating life, when I lived in LA circa 1986, Blue Oyster Cult played Magic Mountain, aka Themeland Amusement Park. Man, that just was tragically sad. Though I don’t think a puppet show was there with them.
In two weeks, I see BOC in Milwaukee. Don’t fear the reaper, especially if you are 77 and 80 years old…
When I go to jam nights here in the city, I always declare a particularly shambolic set as a Freeform Jazz Odyssey. I’m not sure how many of the young-un’s get it.
Saw Conclave which (and I hope nobody is offended by this) is the most interested I have ever been in Catholicism. Generally I consider it a terminally boring topic. This is the intriguing fictional account of a group of Cardinals selecting the next Pope, and all the political machinations that influenced the decision. I learned a lot about the Catholic church by watching it. Ralph Fiennes was really compelling and deeply sympathetic as the poor guy managing the Conclave, and the other performances were great (Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rosselini.) I really didn’t know what to expect, but it is full of intrigue and I would argue, heart. This is the kind of movie you can interpret in different ways and I choose the most heartwarming way. It was beautifully shot, beautifully acted and I thought certain creative decisions were expertly done. I don’t really want to get too specific and ruin it. All I will say is that I will never think about the Pope the same way again.
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I’ve always avoided Tarantino’s films because it sounded like they were just more blood-gushing, disemboweling torture porn flicks. But I watched most of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood last year and thought it was brilliant. I watched it just as I was starting to catch a bunch of old western TV shows that are showing up on old folks’ channels, so the parts about the TV cowboy star trying to transition to movies was really interesting to me at that time.
Then I somehow watched a whole segment from Pulp Fiction a couple of months ago (the part where John Travolta takes Uma Thurman to the restaurant), and I loved it.
Does watching partial movies count for this thread? A day or two ago I watched the second half of Kill Bill Vol. 1, and I loved that almost as much. Yes, there was lots of gushing blood, but it was over the top silly and cartoonish. I didn’t know the movie was a send-up of martial arts and samurai films because the title didn’t indicate anything to me. But I liked Lucy Liu and Uma Thurman very much in their roles, and the whole thing was more comical than violent and gritty. I have Dish set to record both Vol. 1 and 2 when they are replayed in a few days.
So I guess I’m a new Tarantino fan.
Inglorious Basterds is his best movie. Check it out!
You seem to have spelled Pulp Fiction incorrectly.
They just released a teaser 4 hours ago.
I know exactly what you mean. I’m usually squeamish about gore, but I love Kill Bill vol. 1.
The scene where Lucy Liu explains her management philosophy to her yakuza chiefs is just…awesome. 
(unfortunately, I found vol. 2 a bit of a disappointment.)
That’s the scene that hooked me.