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1·16 days agoDefine: “Enshittification”.
You can’t watch Shakespeare and complain that it lacked a big car chase scene.
Hey, now that you mention it, that’s a huge problem. Who funded these scripts?
Shop Like a Billionaire and import one made overseas. Like a mail order bride of success, because you’re a total badass theater owner. Hugely.
The theater owner can just order a different movie on Temu.
Temu first lady.
🎶… shop like a billionaire… 🎶
Did you see this new Ebert review of the Melania documentary?
" if you think you might be seeing Melania, it’s important to check with a dermatologist. "
- What if the detective has an unusually keen sense of smell?
(Warning, watching this show is basically RickRolling yourself in a 1 hour format.)
So, if you take a look at the departure that the 3rd movie 28yrs took moving away from the first two movies, the 4th movie felt like the same size step taken again from the 3rd. We are now untethered to anything that has ever happened in the real world or the lunatic world of #3. You just have to let the movie wash over you without trying to believe anything at all. Just surrender.
You cant even call it “unrealistic” or “unbelievable”, its just like dream logic nonsense.
spoiler
Everything with Dr. Kelson in first movie seemed like an Homage to Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
Now he’s back and he discovers that Samson likes getting high on opiates. They become getting high together buddies and enter a truce where Samson doesn’t rip out Kelsons spine. Getting high with a greasy naked zombie is fun.
Naked zombie starts to recover some of his pre-zombie memories when hes high on drugs.
The gang of Jimmy’s are really really mean and violent.
The Jimmy’s worship Satan. They think Kelson is Satan. Kelson does a Karaoke and pretends to be Satan.
The kid playing spike is now acting these completely outlandish situations. He is hamming it up with his facial expressiona compared to the other actors who are playing with a very minimalist tone.
At one point a lethal fast zombie rushes at Jimmy Ink, who effortlesly slashes the zombiea throat and doesn’t even look at the zombie and doesn’t break a stride and just walks on.
A bunch of stuff happens including a crucifixion.
Kelson dies and all his knowledge of how you reverse the zombification dies with him.
Then we jump to a scene where Cillian Murphy is playing tutor in this remote mountain cottage. His student has superpower hearing and hears zombies coming through the wall. They go outside and need a telescope to even see the zombies.
The zombies are chasing Spike and Jimmy Ink. For some reason these fast zombies can be outrun, and also Jimmy Ink doesn’t just kill any of them without looking.
The contrast between the completely possible scene inside the cottage with 9/impossible things makes you get a logical whiplash, but you just start thinking about how much you’re looking forward to the next sequel.
Hopefully they film the next movie on cell phone cameras. Having a video image that’s technically in focus where you can see stuff is so bourgeois.****
Have you seen some of the other film adaptations? Or read the novels?
- All the Pretty Horses
- No Country for Old Men
- The Counselor
- Child of God
The movie is an adaptation of the book by Cormac McCarthy. The book won the Pulitzer and the James Tait Memorial Prize.
“Depression Porn without substance” is a funny way to characterize the movie.
I really enjoyed the first two movies. The story, the filming style, the music and everything came together in a kind of way that seemed real. I still think they are pretty good zombie apocalypse movies.
The third movie for me was less believable in every single element. Just slightly. But the whole movie took on a faint whiff of Wes Anderson’s eccentricity or some magic realism - from the island, to the the social structure, to the story, and on and on. Everything seemed unrealistic and uncanny. I guess none of that makes the movie a bad movie, but it was definitely an unequal sequel of the series.
Netflix hasn’t had anything I’ve wanted to watch in years
If they start the first season of dozens of new shows and then cancel the run immediately, would that change your opinion?
I thought this was another interesting documentary on this channel.
The take away / nugget for me is that after exposing the schlock and cheese of all these jarhead sequels, the final chapter at 43m brings it all home and makes you really sit up and think about why he made this right now.
You can get a Bluray for $1-2 at thrift stores.
They have so little value in the resale / used market that a local store sells 250lbs of unsorted discs for $75 (a 4’ cube grocery Gaylord).
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3908142/
The Love Witch is funny, campy, kitsch, retro fun
You can get that on your phone now.
Try telling that to all the older generations. They are all paying $100/month for cable packages…
" Company says Disney+, Hulu and ESPN price rises were planned before uproar over Kimmel’s suspension prompted calls to cancel "
Imagine if you had a company that was so unpopular that you had to issue this statement? They want you to know they are doing two negative things, not just one.
One of the best “all style” movies has to be:
“The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.”