Psychonauts? I should really download it on PSN.Quoting Winston* (view post)
Psychonauts? I should really download it on PSN.Quoting Winston* (view post)
"Listen man, it might be hard to understand, but
Don't mourn the dead,
Celebrate the life they gave"
- Kashmir "Seraphina"
Sigh.
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
What's happening to Pixar? Really?
They just announced another sequel:
Directed by Spinal.
Sure why not?
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
"Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
- Stay Puft
Entropy.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
Considering the (somewhat undeserved) bomb that was John Carter, I think Stanton was determined to play it safe this time around.
Recently Viewed:
Thor: The Dark World (2013) **½
The Counselor (2013) *½
Walden (1969) ***
A Hijacking (2012) ***½
Before Midnight (2013) ***
Films By Year
That's right. I'm going to send those bastards to hell where they belong.Quoting Watashi (view post)
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
Say what you will about the content of some of their recent stuff, but I'm consistently amazed with just how much Pixar's animation manages to improve every time around:
Dat lighting / shading.
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
Impressive; 2 and a half minutes of no jokes.
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
A children's film playing off of a genre that was popular over 2 decades ago, and a life experience that its main audience won't experience for another decade or more.
College movies are exclusive to the 80's now?Quoting Winston* (view post)
I actually like the new trailer. I'm officially looking forward to it now.
Sure why not?
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
"Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
- Stay Puft
That kind of nerds vs jocks one is.Quoting Watashi (view post)
Yeah, agree with Winston here. This is a product of a lot of Pixar employees nee Animal House fans whose 80's infatuation fit into Pixar's "desperately-seeking-winning-formula" template, ala Toy Story, part n. Look at all the different monsters this time around...aren't they a lot like all the different types of toys and come to think of it, they're a lot like all the different nerds and jocks from...John Landis's Animal House...
Come on Pixar, get an orginal idea. Like you used to.
"We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."
The idea of a college movie aimed at kids is pretty ridiculous, nut not unprecedented. An Extremely Goofy Movie, for one.
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
Not Pixar but Disney.
Has this theory been discussed here before. I find it fascinating.
Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971)
Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013)
Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson, 1997)
Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve, 2013)
Filth (Jon S. Baird, 2013)
Sunshine on Leith (Dexter Fletcher, 2013)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin, 1957)
Kelly + Victor (Keiran Evans, 2012)
We Are What We Are (Jim Mickle, 2013)
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
Read Write Hand
This line doesn't make any sense "[Sequels] are part of the necessity of our staying afloat". I just looked up Pixar box office online and all their original films made tons of money so it's not like only their sequels are succeeding.Quoting Gamblor (view post)
Out of their top 10 highest grossing films only three are sequels. The other 7 are original films.
TV Recently Finished:
Catastrophe: Season 1 (2015) A
Rectify: Season 3 (2015) A-
Bojack Horseman: Season 2 (2015) A
True Detective: Season 2 (2015) A-
Wayward Pines: Season 1 (2015) B
Currently Playing: Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise (replay) (XB1) / Contradiction (PC)
Recently Finished: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (PS4) A+ / Life is Strange: Ep 4 (PS4) A / Bastion (replay) (PS4) B+
Are 2 of those three the Toy Story sequels?Quoting EyesWideOpen (view post)
More than their grosses, I bet they're talking about extending brand life cycles for merchandising purposes.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is what Stanton meant. Same reason Disney makes crappy DTV sequels and half-assed TV series of almost all their properties (I still remember that abhorrent Lilo & Stitch TV show). They want their IPs to stay relevant.Quoting Sycophant (view post)
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
Wow, the ending of Finding Dory is being rewritten because of the Blackfish documentary.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...id=nytimesarts
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
Speaking of which, I can't wait to see Blackfish.
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
--Homer
Whoa, I didn't know The Good Dinosaur was coming out in the spring.
Pixar and dinosaurs = me excite.