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**Posted by Jinnistan** **Online!** 10/27/2022 4:51 pm

Rampop II wrote:
Perfect Blue

Wait. This is a completely different movie than the Satoshi Kon? I'm a pass on that.

**Posted by Jinnistan** **Online!** 10/27/2022 5:07 pm

Reminds me a lot of Let The Right One In. Similar Scandanavian setting - Norway instead of Sweden - in a similarly anonymous-looking apartment complex. Extremely chilly tone, even without the snow. And concerned with adolescents who are largely outsiders and the peculiar capacity in children for cruelty and alienation, and an almost clairvoyant ability to bond despite that. I think I want Rakel Lenora Fløttum to star in the remake of Demon Witch Child, because she's got that ruthless little inner-Cagney bitch down cold. I can see her smacking some priests.

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8.5/10

**Posted by Rampop II** 10/28/2022 5:22 am

Jinnistan wrote:
Rampop II wrote:
Perfect Blue
Wait. This is a completely different movie than the Satoshi Kon? I'm a pass on that.

Oops, I grabbed the image for the novel by mistake. I figured it was just an alternate poster. I was just trying to find a medium–sized image.

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**Posted by Rampop II** 10/28/2022 11:56 pm

crumbsroom wrote:
I've never looked up the explanation to Berberian, and so I have been able to remain completely befuddled by it. If that's being a stupid viewer, sign me up for Dunceville. I like films which give me just enough to make me think I should know what is going on, but push me into the dark when it comes to daring to give me a full look at what is happening. I want to think I missed something. I want to always think I'm on the cusp of pulling it all together, but constantly being frustrated by my fingers as they seem incapable of making a knot to keep it from falling all back to pieces.

As it is, there are a number of scenes in BSS that I have no notion of how they fit into the overall fabric. But I feel that they belong there. I would miss them if they were gone. Maybe Strickland had a very specific point to every image that he shows us, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if he does. But do I need to know what these reasons are? Not ever remotely. Confuse me. Anger me. Mislead me. Treat me like the human dog I am, dear precious Movie.

Basically, I want my films to contain the essence of what I understand to be life. And I don't understand it. I don't understand my dreams. Or other people. Or myself. Or even my own writing. Not even this. So what kind of horrible cheat would it be if movies ever dared to have answers and resolutions for me? I'm actually always kind of confused when the vast majority of the world seems to become angry and confused the less they have things resolved for them, where I am the reverse. I rarely recognize human life on a screen if it has a definite shape. "What the fuck is that?" I mutter under my breath as they hit plot point after plot point, the rest of the world nodding and grinning with some kind of perverse understanding.

Fuck that.

That's why I was drawn to this film that I watched last night. Much more somber and distant than BSS. Maybe even more impenetrable. But it has that same elusive quality where I feel like I've watched a very specific story, without anything ever becoming specific. Maybe brilliant? Maybe a con? Who cares?

Seriously, what the fuck is this?

No, please don't tell me.

Tell me.

No nonono

Mystery!

Ah, what a relief! Amen and well–said!
Earwig and Mandy officially added to my playlist...

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**Posted by Jinnistan** **Online!** 10/30/2022 8:15 pm

What a piece of shit. Like X, another true disappointment this year, a film that I was anticipating and open to enjoying knowing little about it outside of its hype and high critical reception, but turns out to be completely unscary, hinging on a (barely) promising set-up (here, an airbnb potential for horror) only to quickly devolve into implausibly dumb behavior and lame gross-out gags involving what's becoming a standard cliche of putrid old-person make-up. Why do hipster indie audiences keep getting fooled by these cheap thrills? In a few years, this will seem as unremarkable as Jeepers Creepers. Directed by one of the 'Whitest Guys You Know', the unfunny comedy troup that I imagine four or five people remember.

5/10

**Posted by Rock** 10/30/2022 11:26 pm

Opera
Dark Glasses
Suspiria

**Posted by Rock** 10/30/2022 11:34 pm

Jinnistan wrote:

What a piece of shit. Like X, another true disappointment this year, a film that I was anticipating and open to enjoying knowing little about it outside of its hype and high critical reception, but turns out to be completely unscary, hinging on a (barely) promising set-up (here, an airbnb potential for horror) only to quickly devolve into implausibly dumb behavior and lame gross-out gags involving what's becoming a standard cliche of putrid old-person make-up. Why do hipster indie audiences keep getting fooled by these cheap thrills? In a few years, this will seem as unremarkable as Jeepers Creepers. Directed by one of the 'Whitest Guys You Know', the unfunny comedy troup that I imagine four or five people remember.

5/10

No way, man. Barbarian was Bar-scary-fun!

**Posted by Jinnistan** **Online!** 11/01/2022 9:54 pm

Urgh, it was so stupid. Maybe if you saw it with a big dumb audience, it might be worth some thrills of watching newbs lose their shit.

**Posted by Jinnistan** **Online!** 11/01/2022 10:08 pm

I'm going to steal this bit of Rock evidence.

Roadgames is a gnarly piece of Ozploitation. Wolfen is overlooked compared to its peers like American Werewolf and Howling, but it's an interesting take on the werewolf lore, but will disappoint those who want to see a werewolf.

Lol at the dude who complained about Incredibly Strange Creatures for thier mixed-up zombies that are a "far cry from the Romero variety". Not wrong! Not exactly relevant either.

Also, lol at Takoma for actually finding the Velvet Vampire to be sexy. Is it because the bed's in a desert? Or the poor crop that shows the "naked" guy clearly wearing shorts? Just when you guys got her into Rollin, we find out her erotic aesthetic is this? And I see where she's calling me "everyone" now. Whatever. I'm just glad she finally watched Daughters of Darkness after all of my forgotten recomendations.

**Posted by Rock** 11/01/2022 10:58 pm

Be nice, JJ.

**Posted by Rock** 11/02/2022 12:30 pm

Jinnistan wrote:
Lol at the dude who complained about Incredibly Strange Creatures for thier mixed-up zombies that are a "far cry from the Romero variety". Not wrong! Not exactly relevant either.

Okay, I just saw the post. I think if you’re going into a widely derided Steckler movie in 2022, none of these things should be a surprise, and focusing on them means missing out on its very real charms. Also, I think this guy liked The Astro-Zombies, which is way more guilty of everything he’s holding against this movie.

But I suppose I should ease up on losing my mind over the taste of otherwise affable people on there.

**Posted by Rock** 11/04/2022 9:19 pm

Deep Cover
Righting Wrongs

**Posted by Jinnistan** **Online!** 11/04/2022 11:19 pm

I'm going to blame Rampop. That early birthday gift that he sent me has kept me from watching any movies this week. He's a bad seed, I tell you. The worst seed. Tooth-cracking red grape seed. Thank god I don't have a daughter.

**Posted by Rampop II** 11/06/2022 12:40 am

Jinnistan wrote:
I'm going to blame Rampop. That early birthday gift that he sent me has kept me from watching any movies this week. He's a bad seed, I tell you. The worst seed. Tooth-cracking red grape seed. Thank god I don't have a daughter.

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**Posted by Rock** 11/08/2022 11:04 pm

Tiger Cage
Tiger Cage II
Tiger Cage III

**Posted by Rock** 11/13/2022 10:48 pm

Tiger Claws
Undefeatable
The Sex Perils of Paulette
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Escape from Alcatraz

**Posted by Jinnistan** **Online!** 11/14/2022 4:47 pm

Rock wrote:
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Escape from Alcatraz

Excellent prison double feature.

**Posted by Rock** 11/14/2022 4:50 pm

I watched them a few days apart but they ended up complementing each other nicely.

**Posted by Jinnistan** **Online!** 11/14/2022 5:18 pm

Rock wrote:
I watched them a few days apart but they ended up complementing each other nicely.

Probably best to watch Alcatraz first. Riki-O is just too much sugar on the attention span.

**Posted by Rock** 11/14/2022 5:21 pm

That would be the wise thing to do… which is why I did the opposite lol

Although I watched Riki-Oh after a bunch of lightning paced HK actioners, so it felt comparatively slow.