Plato Shrimp » Watching Movies Alone with crumbsroom

crumbsroom · 11/07/2023 5:15 pm

Jinnistan wrote:
Mubi, Tubi, Frutti

These goddamn sites.

If Mubi's free, I'm there.

It's one of the more expensive ones. I'm just lucky in that my ex keeps gifting me with year long subscriptions to it

Rock · 11/07/2023 5:43 pm

I think Mubi offers free previews but it’s a paid service as far as I’m aware. Tubi is free though. All hail Tubi!

crumbsroom · 11/07/2023 6:38 pm

Rock wrote:
I think Mubi offers free previews but it’s a paid service as far as I’m aware. Tubi is free though. All hail Tubi!

They used to allow you to gift a couple of movies a month but I can't find the feature anymore

They've scaled back tremendously recently, making it a considerably worse service.

Still better than most though

Jinnistan · 11/07/2023 6:53 pm

This is what all of these new steaming sites sound to my old ears:

Rock · 11/07/2023 8:50 pm

Yabba dabba doo!

Rock · 11/07/2023 8:51 pm

Guess I could have gone with Scooby Dooby Doo as well.

Jinnistan · 11/08/2023 7:43 pm

crumbsroom · 11/17/2023 10:39 pm

I think I've now found the 'gift a movie' feature on Mubi, if you want me to send a link to the Monk film. I think it should work.

Jinnistan · 11/17/2023 11:52 pm

crumbsroom wrote:
I think I've now found the 'gift a movie' feature on Mubi, if you want me to send a link to the Monk film. I think it should work.

I'm not sure how to access Mubi, but if we can figure it out, I'd be game.

crumbsroom · 11/18/2023 8:44 am

Jinnistan wrote:
crumbsroom wrote:
I think I've now found the 'gift a movie' feature on Mubi, if you want me to send a link to the Monk film. I think it should work.
I'm not sure how to access Mubi, but if we can figure it out, I'd be game.

I just send a link to your email. I don't think it is anymore than that.

I think it ends up being available for about week.

Jinnistan · 11/18/2023 9:06 am

crumbsroom wrote:
I just send a link to your email. I don't think it is anymore than that.

I think it ends up being available for about week.

Well, I will give it a shot then, thanks!

Jinnistan · 11/21/2023 1:59 am

Sorry, crumbs. The invite was for a 7 day free trial, which required giving them a credit card number (just in case!), which I wasn't willing to do. I know this kind of thing is pretty standard nowadays, but I'm still pretty old school about my digits.

I appreciate it nonetheless.

crumbsroom · 11/22/2023 7:13 pm

Jinnistan wrote:
Sorry, crumbs. The invite was for a 7 day free trial, which required giving them a credit card number (just in case!), which I wasn't willing to do. I know this kind of thing is pretty standard nowadays, but I'm still pretty old school about my digits.

I appreciate it nonetheless.

No worries. I get not supplying that kind of information. None of my other friends had mentioned they did this, so I had no idea. It's unsurprisingly shady. It's also possible they didn't use to do this. Maybe that's why the feature disappeared for a couple of days while they were tinkering.

crumbsroom · 11/22/2023 7:15 pm

I'm feeling like a Stirchley here, but I don't think I entirely got what Anderson was going for in Asteroid City.

It's pleasant enough. I would think of it as mid tier Anderson and it feels like it is doing something I haven't quite seen him do before.....but....I don't know exactly what that is.

Rock · 11/23/2023 9:19 am

I had to dig up my review, as my memories of what the film was about faded compared to how it looked, sounded, felt. But I got the sense that it was about the creative process and how it can be used to channel or deal with or derive meaning from the emotionally messy and irrational. Or at least it sounded smart to say at the time. I probably owe it a rewatch at some point, but I suspect Anderson heads will get more out of it.

Jinnistan · 11/23/2023 9:48 pm

I agree with Rock about the emotional irrational inarticulation, and this is stark with the Schwartzman/Johanssen sequence. I think that Wes' motifs of media artifice are important as a contrast, intentionally inadequate which enhances the awkwardness. I think Wes is using this media filter as a self-conscious examination of popular anxiety - the genre nexus of westerns, cold war and sci-fi - in a way which was incapable for nascent mid-20th century audiences to realize as they were playing it out. Very meta mesa stuff.

crumbsroom · 11/24/2023 10:12 am

What's meta? Never heard of it.

Jinnistan · 11/24/2023 10:29 am

crumbsroom wrote:
What's meta? Never heard of it.

It's where Stirchley has a minor cardiac arrest while having a bowel movement.

I could probably clean my response up a bit, but I think there's a sense of reckoning with our civilizational angst in ways that only make sense to us by filtering them through 60 year old lenses.

crumbsroom · 11/29/2023 11:03 am

So I got the whole way through this movie wondering where Keira Kneightly was. Asking myself "this is a Tony Scott film"? No credits at the beginning allowing the shock of the movies shocking final image "directed by Brian De Palma"

How I could not have simply sussed out that this was a De Palma flick just by watching sort of makes me embarrassed. Cause only Brian DePalma can make the kind of bad that moves and stinks like this. But, usually, when he fails, the movies will have way more weird panache. And this is frequently flat and feels atypically stupid.

But at least its badness is sort of perplexingly fixating. I had a good time with it. A few moments to marvel at, and a few moments to cover my face in shame for the filmmaker. If Snake Eyes is this kind of shit, I should probably finally get out my shovel and watch that one.

Or Bonfire of the Vanities.

Rock · 11/29/2023 11:26 am

Snake Eyes is a lot closer stylistically to classic De Palma. It’s just that the screenplay is very, very bad.

I remember finding Domino really bland outside of maybe one sequence.