Just started watching it. It is so damn funny. I am excited to dig into it more.
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I recently binged all of The Blacklist. I love me that scenery-chewing and watching Ultron chew up bad guys is really fun. But 9 goddamned seasons of campy procedural always breaks my brain a little bit.
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I watched a horror double feature the last couple of nights.
The first movie, X, is set in the 1970s, with 70s music, 70s style filming and everything. Including a typical 70s slasher plot.
A half dozen 20-somethings rent a cabin out on a farm in the middle of nowhere to make their porno movie. The elderly people that live on the farm and rented them the cabin arenât too happy about it. Or are they? Then the murders start.
Overall itâs a decent movie (well, itâs about porn and murder, but decent in the movie sense) that captures that classic late 70s feel.
The last scene has a couple of notable meta-twists. One of which I wonât even spoiler. As for the other, the elderly lady says âYouâll turn out the same way I did, youâre just like me!â and the girl says âIâll never be like you! Iâm nothing like you!â and then the credits roll and you see that the same actress played both parts.
Then comes the next one - the prequel. This is about the life of the little old lady from X, back when she was young in 1918. Played by the same actress, and on the same set. Itâs a very different style, with orchestral music and oversaturated colors to give a sort of dreamy/memory/Wizard of Oz feel.
Itâs more intense with the drama and character development, and I think does a really good job with that. The crazy seems really crazy, not arbitrary and not without foreshadowing. So when the murders start, they flow naturally from the character and circumstances.
Itâs a better movie overall, but the way the two link together yet have such different styles makes it especially good if you can watch both as a double-feature.
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Agreed. Both of them are remarkable movies. Even if they arenât doing anything particularly new, theyâre doing with a craft and attention to detail that is worth seeing. Also, theyâre making a third movie:
Itâs set in the 80s, so it should get a different style which should be a lot of fun.
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Iâve more than a passing interest in films of the mid-to-late 1960s that try so hard to reconcile Golden-agers with Swinging-hipsters.
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How many people, in show-biz or not, have turned/do turn to alcohol and narcotics because they couldnât/canât fully express to the world who they really are? How many folks have/will kill themselves because they canât be accepted for who they were/are? All because they donât fit the regimented requirement to be heterosexual and to act heterosexual. I think Mr. Bowers was an angel on earth.
https://tubitv.com/movies/681616/scotty-and-the-secret-history-of-hollywood?start=true
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I have such a crush on Amber. She is straight up adorable.
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The first episode in the series. I just started watching it, and it appears to already to be meatier than the LC doco produced by Epix.
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Tonight, I watched âThe Man Who Killed Hitler And Then Bigfootâ.
Despite what you might think from the title, itâs a really deep artistic film. Out of all of that, the first two words are the key. Fair warning, youâre not going to see somebody going Rambo and mowing down nazis and monsters in typical Hollywood action movie fashion. Youâre going to see the man. And youâre going to feel for him.
Yes you will see the scenes with Hitler and with Bigfoot, but those, while focal points of the manâs life, are not really huge portions of the movie. Itâs about the man.
Youâre going to see him confiding in his bartender and his barber. Like ordinary people do. And sharing his breakfast with his dog. And trying to decide what is the right thing to do. And reminiscing about things that he failed to do in the past and what heâs lost in life because of what heâs done. This legendary man who did legendary things. But nobody knows of course. To anyone else, heâs just a normal guy. Could be your neighbor or any customer that comes into your shop. And he has normal guy problems.
Youâre also going to see him do legendary things that he thinks will have a huge effect, but in reality, they donât change anything. And youâll find out why in a really powerful, and all-too-real scene. And youâre also going to see him do things he doesnât want to do, but have to be done. Things that make him cry.
And in the end, there are questions left unanswered. As one reviewer said it âthis movie holds up a mirror to the audience, and what you see is personalâ. Talking about it with my wife afterwards, we had wildly different ideas about one of the unanswered questions (when you watch it, youâll know) and that makes for good discussion.
Sam Elliott is in top-notch form in this movie. The other actors are good as well. Itâs a bit slow at times, but I think the pacing is deliberate for a reason. Itâs a movie to make you think about a lot of things - people, legends, relationships, history, etc. You need a little time for that. A few bits seemed a little rushed, but you can only fit so much into a movieâs timespan.
I highly recommend it. Just be aware that itâs not a happy-go-lucky movie or an action extravaganza or something that ties everything up neatly. It doesnât have a happy or sad ending. Itâs meant to leave you thinking and wondering about the significance of parts of it. And what did or didnât happen in the times that werenât covered. Itâs a gem.
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