I could’ve sworn they were still making Scorpion King movies.
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I could’ve sworn they were still making Scorpion King movies.
Curse of the Mummy's Tomb is a fun Hammer Films Mummy flick.
Snowpiercer is great for two acts, but I didn't buy the third. Much as I love Ed Harris, they gave him some awfully pedestrian shit to do. The "reveal" at the end was pretty yawn, and I actually kind of giggled at Evans's confession about the dark shit he did. It just...didn't work, really. The earlier stuff, and the privilege progression design of the train cars, is super enjoyable, if hardly incisive anymore. Swinton is typically fun to watch. The terminator henchman was pretty ridiculous.
I love Snowpiercer. Great flick.
Ended up watching Cuaron's Great Expectations over the weekend, a 1998 film that somehow escaped my Ethan Hawke phase in the early 2000s. It's largely notable now for what it offers anyone interested in adaptation studies, playing out a transformed context from Victorian England to Florida and New York, readerly leisure to painterly leisure, and other small moments. Cuaron and Lebezki craft some pretty images--there's some striking black/white shadowy foreground with color backgrounds, but the film kind of starts to disintegrate in the second hour. The Pip/Finn character is never as interesting as he thinks he is, and Paltrow's object of desire is a bit too shallow to resonate. Ultimately, it's one of those films that works its style because the substance isn't quite there.
Also did Jang Hoon's A Taxi Driver, a Korean film about the Gwangju Uprising of 1980. It embraces many of the melodramatic touches of Korean mainstream cinema, though the subject is such that a lot of the film remains legitimately tense. This one's an odd one because Han Kang's novel Human Acts is so much more layered and dynamic in structure, yet the performances and central narrative remain strong enough to make it valuable anyway. Not a great Korean film, but pretty comparable to the Oscar-bait kind of films, and it made me want to revisit Peppermint Candy to remember how Gwangju events are braided into that film...
You know, I remember having almost the exact same thoughts as Wryan regarding the waste of Ed Harris and some pretty goofy moments in Snowpiercer, but so many friends have told me the stuff they love about it that I've sort of gained an appreciation for it. I should watch it again.
Obligatory Snowpiercer post:
https://youtu.be/jEX52h1TvuA
Some kook at Sony is talking about remaking "The Princess Bride"
https://twitter.com/i/events/1174114360312000512
The Saint can be added to my list of 90s action thrillers that gets way too much hate from critics. It's harmless fun and Shue and Kilmer have good chemistry.
My list of said 90s action movies that are hated for silly reasons:
Hard Rain
The Phantom
The Rocketeer
The Saint
Also Duke I will get to The Peacemaker at some point. I didn't forget.
Guy Maddin:
Tales from the Gimli Hospital - 4
Archangel - 4
Careful - 8.5
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs - 7
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary - 4
Cowards Bend the Knee - 2.5
The Saddest Music in the World - 8.5
Brand upon the Brain! - 7
My Winnipeg - 5.5
Keyhole - 5.5
The Forbidden Room - 2.5
Odilon Redon - 4
The Heart of the World - 8.5
My Dad is a 100 Years Old - 8.5
Very unique, there's no denying that, but also very inconsistent. When his style clicks, it's hilarious absurdity; when it doesn't, it's annoying and gimmicky.
Well this blows:
https://www.portlandmercury.com/blog...s-and-less-fun
Quote:
Via The Hollywood Reporter comes the less-than-welcome news that two of America's biggest corporate theater chains, Regal Cinemas and Cinemark Theaters—which operates the Century Theatres chain in Portland—are switching up how they're showing paid advertisements before movies. Ads at those chains, which previously ran before a film's showtime, will now start at the film's showtime, then be followed by trailers. And even after the trailers have begun, additional advertising will be sandwiched in between trailers.
I always ask how long the previews are when I buy my ticket so I can slip in just before the actual film starts.
Ummm...I’ve never seen a movie in a theatre that didn’t play that way.
Okay, so no Regal or Cinemark in my future, lol.