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Rock · 1/31/2023 11:17 pm

Jinnistan wrote:
crumbsroom wrote:
It just occurred to me that Morgan Freeman is pretty much exclusively in movies I don't give a fuck about.
Street Smarts. mayn.

Just realized this is on Tubi. Will have to give it a look soon.

Jinnistan · 1/31/2023 11:18 pm

Oh, damn, Unforgiven. Nurse Betty was alright. Some good early films before he was known.

But, yeah, there's a whole lot of shit, especially on this side of the century.

Rock · 2/02/2023 1:01 am

Rock wrote:
Jinnistan wrote:
crumbsroom wrote:
It just occurred to me that Morgan Freeman is pretty much exclusively in movies I don't give a fuck about.
Street Smarts. mayn.
Just realized this is on Tubi. Will have to give it a look soon.

Yeah, this owns.

Jinnistan · 2/02/2023 4:27 pm

crumbsroom · 2/08/2023 2:01 am

Here is Roger Ebert speaking on behalf of Can She Bake a Cherry Pie. I'm falling asleep and can't do it. But this was a lovely movie that needs to be fallen in love with by everybody.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/can-she-bake-a-cherry-pie-1984

Jinnistan · 2/08/2023 2:12 am

Jaglom is still one of those guys who's hard to pin down. I love A Safe Place and Tracks, and I've seen some of his more comfortable films from the 80s-90s (they're like cocktail parties with his friends). And he does have the distinction of getting Orson Welles' last onscreen (as opposed to Transformers The Movie) role in Someone To Love. I need some curation for what to look for after that.

Jinnistan · 2/08/2023 2:16 am

Jesus on a donkey, there's a movie with both Orson Welles and Larry David. Worlds are colliding.

crumbsroom · 2/08/2023 10:26 am

Jinnistan wrote:
Jesus on a donkey, there's a movie with both Orson Welles and Larry David. Worlds are colliding.

That would be the one I just watched.

crumbsroom · 2/14/2023 1:01 am

I'm currently in love with She Dies Tomorrow. But also in love with reading comments about it. It's rare when I hate everything anybody anywhere has to say about a movie. When fans and haters alike sound like equally stupid fucks.

I have also already forgotten everything that happened in it. So maybe it wasn't that good after all.

crumbsroom · 3/01/2023 11:51 pm

There is a scene in "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" where Richard Dreyfus looks at his cock in the bathtub and proudly shouts out "It floats"!

I've now learned, so does Clint Howard.

Both images will haunt my nightmares forever.

Jinnistan · 3/03/2023 12:50 pm

crumbsroom wrote:
I'm currently in love with She Dies Tomorrow. But also in love with reading comments about it. It's rare when I hate everything anybody anywhere has to say about a movie. When fans and haters alike sound like equally stupid fucks.

I have also already forgotten everything that happened in it. So maybe it wasn't that good after all.

I'll give Amy Seimetz the benefit of the doubt, but I don't have Hulu.

Seimetz recently either got fired or walked off of this HBO project called The Idol. It looks like a vanity project for pop-star The Weeknd (The Weakend, would have been a better pun), who plays some kind of pop-star cult leader who enjoys fucking and manipulating his groupies. What I read was that Seimetz was let go because, Weeknd felt, the project was beginning to have too strong a female perspective. Anyway, it's currently one of the more salacious shitshows in the entertainment rumor mill.

crumbsroom · 3/03/2023 3:01 pm

Jinnistan wrote:
crumbsroom wrote:
I'm currently in love with She Dies Tomorrow. But also in love with reading comments about it. It's rare when I hate everything anybody anywhere has to say about a movie. When fans and haters alike sound like equally stupid fucks.

I have also already forgotten everything that happened in it. So maybe it wasn't that good after all.

I'll give Amy Seimetz the benefit of the doubt, but I don't have Hulu.

Seimetz recently either got fired or walked off of this HBO project called The Idol. It looks like a vanity project for pop-star The Weeknd (The Weakend, would have been a better pun), who plays some kind of pop-star cult leader who enjoys fucking and manipulating his groupies. What I read was that Seimetz was let go because, Weeknd felt, the project was beginning to have too strong a female perspective. Anyway, it's currently one of the more salacious shitshows in the entertainment rumor mill.

Seimetz is also good in another movie I recently watched that is about a bunch of New York hipster artist/sociopaths. Gabi on the Roof in July. Probably the type of thing that would be your kryptonite, but I liked it, particularly her.

As for The Weekend, he's always given me the creeps. I didn't mind some of his earliest EPS, they were okay, but nothing he's done since he became a superstar leaves even the slightest impression. In fact, I think most of it sort of sucks. What his appeal is, I have no idea. Even his brief appearance in Uncut Gems gave me the oofs.

Jinnistan · 3/04/2023 3:59 pm

crumbsroom wrote:
Seimetz is also good in another movie I recently watched that is about a bunch of New York hipster artist/sociopaths. Gabi on the Roof in July. Probably the type of thing that would be your kryptonite, but I liked it, particularly her.

I don't hate all of those hipster mumblecore movies. It doesn't even have a Duplass in it!

crumbsroom wrote:
As for The Weekend, he's always given me the creeps.

Absolutely. And I hate his weak-ass autotune attempt at soul music.

Rock · 3/04/2023 4:10 pm

I liked the Weeknd in Uncut Gems, but the movie is clearly dunking on him to an extent.

He’s got a weird head shape, while we’re at it.

Jinnistan · 3/04/2023 4:18 pm

Rock wrote:
I liked the Weeknd in Uncut Gems, but the movie is clearly dunking on him to an extent.

I bet that he personally had them insert the line about how fast he can get hard.

crumbsroom · 3/04/2023 5:13 pm

Rock wrote:
I liked the Weeknd in Uncut Gems, but the movie is clearly dunking on him to an extent.

He’s got a weird head shape, while we’re at it.

I literally erased a part of my post about his fucking stupid head, because I my head was garbled and wasn't sure how awful I was being.

I'm glad it has been addressed though.

Also, Uncut Gems was surprisingly good. Surprising because it's one of those movies whose fanbase is composed of people who have terrible taste in both films and life.

crumbsroom · 3/13/2023 12:44 am

I had never heard of director Nina Menkes until this week. She appears to make the kind of movies that you don't know what to do with while you are watching them, but can't shake after they are over.

I've recently seen two of her films and they both did the same thing. And I still don't know what that was.

I think the last time I had this reaction to the first two films of a director was with Fassbinder. I watched both Love Is Colder Than Death and Beware of a Holy Whore with a growing sense of irritation, boredom and slight disorientation.Than watched them over and over again, like they were some kind of amphetemine.

Magdelena Viraga and Queen of Diamonds have that similar irritating, boring and disorienting vibe. And I think I liked both of them.

Maybe at some point I will watch them again. Not immediately though. I'm too old for those kind of obsessions now.

crumbsroom · 3/16/2023 11:46 am

The Velvet Vampire is at best a mildly entertaining trifle. It operates well as a contrast to similar type vampire/erotica films like Daughters of Darkness, anything by Jean Rollins, Vampyros Lesbos or Blood for Dracula. It allows one to see what is good in them and so drab and flat in this one.

Rock · 3/16/2023 12:05 pm

I think the actors playing the husband and wife really sink it. They’re just awful.

But yes, I like it enough but I do think it lacks the subtle atmospheric qualities of Rollin and Franco.

crumbsroom · 3/17/2023 11:25 pm

It's possible you have to be inbred to truly love The Paperboy.

But it's also possible I'm inbred.