Last Movie You Saw, Name & Review Movie • Page 221

The Lynch movie that shocked me the most was Straight Story. I thought it was the wrong movie for the first 15 minutes.

 

still need to get around to that one

 

same

 

also same

 

"I make more money than Calvin Coolidge! Put together!" remains one of my favorite jokes in film

 

how old are you

 

lmao

 

(but old instead of white)

 

I just watched Rebel Ridge and it's fucking awesome, Aaron Pierre puts on an commanding lead performance and don't be surprised if he gets more leading man roles because of this film plus Don Johnson and AnnaSophia Robb were really good as well

 

Dude, Where’s My Car? - Got a little stoned and threw this on. Definitely some parts are very dated (transgender characters being the butt of more than a few jokes, but as at least the main characters use their right pronouns? There’s several cringe but progressive for the time moments in this), but honestly still pretty damn funny. It is far more slapstick than I remember, but I also don’t think I’ve seen it since I was 12. Zoltan and the glasses cop got the biggest laughs out of me. It is very weird that is a movie that is clearly about two stoners and yet it never shows them smoking or actually talking directly about getting high. I’m assuming that some stuff was cut so they could get a PG-13 rating. But they literally show a dog smoking weed but not people.

 

I stan Inland Empire. It blew my mind when I first saw it.

 

My ranking:
Twin Peaks franchise
Inland Empire
Mulholland Drive
Lost Highway
Blue Velvet
Eraserhead
Elephant Man
Dune

I still need to watch his other two films.

 

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge - 6.5/10
My favorite thing about this movie is how subtle it is. (In all seriousness, even if some of the performances are off and the side characters/finale are underwritten, this sequel contains some really jaw-dropping body horror that I would not have anticipated from a direct Nightmare on Elm Street sequel. Also, points for being reclaimed queer art - we love that.)

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - 7/10
Never in a million years could I have anticipated a Sigur Ros needle drop in a Beetlejuice movie lmao. The first half of this is truly whatever until a reveal about halfway in that adds a lot of weight to the stakes, and from there, the movie takes off, paying homage to the original scenes audiences love (sandworms and possessed dancing) while also somewhat forging its own path. It's obviously great seeing those Burton sets and colors and some practical effects; just seeing his vision come back to life on the big screen is charming enough. Ortega is great in pretty much everything I see her in, O'Hara shows up to work, Theroux is an excellent addition, and goddamnit, if Willem Dafoe is having fun, so am I. So yeah, I pretty much loved everything after that reveal around the halfway point of the film. I wouldn't call it a great movie, and I don't think it really approaches the first in quality or consistency, but it is absolutely fun and well-constructed enough to justify its own existence. It's certainly no Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (complimentary).

Spirit Halloween: The Movie - 6.5/10
I will make no excuses for enjoying this for exactly what it is, which is the greatest 80-minute ad for a beloved seasonal retailer disguised as a Disney Channel Original Movie that just so happens to feature Christopher Lloyd voicing walking, talking, murderous animatronics. The greatest episode of Goosebumps never written.

House of 1000 Corpses - 8.5/10
I wish I liked any Rob Zombie movie as much as I love this one. Unfortunately, I fear it may fall into the category of a bad director accidentally making a good movie. So much of what I love here is unhinged and stylish and slapdash in a way only a filmmaker's debut could be. Zombie tests the limits of taste here without going overboard as he would later on in his career; it feels less mean-spirited and more camp than you would ever expect, a love letter to the hodgepodge of horror films and tropes and old TV shows Zombie seemingly grew up on (or at least loves). It's a simple story with psychedelic fringes and no time wasted on the four teens no one cares about. Character development doesn't exist in this DIY haunted-house-esque nightmare world, but we'll still spend as much time as possible with Sid Haig and Bill Moseley because goddamn if their performances aren't simply engaging. I don't think a film like this will happen again for Zombie, and honestly, I'm at peace with that. Goggins' death shot is GOATed.

 

I would love to see the originally intended super queer version of the second Nightmare movie. Cause that would have been unique as hell, and the finished product is kinda caught in between different things it wants to be.

 

Watching Election for the first time in years. Feel like this nails the interpersonal high school drama including how faculty can get involved, specifically with McAllister.

I also think loving a joke from one of the staple movies of the 1900s isn’t far fetched

 

Aloha - 1/10

Could easily be the worst movie I've ever seen. Cameron Crowe......I mean wow wtf was this mess. Why did you make this??? It's incoherent and feels like an ai made it

 

He hasn't made a film since. Crowe's Babylon.

 

all i know about the movie is he cast emma stone as a half-asian character

 

I saw it in theaters and remember nothing about it.

 

Vanilla Sky was enough for me

 

I did really love Say Anything, Jerry Maguire, and Almost Famous, though

 

The plot was just.....confusing/nonsense. As if Crowe had a contract with the studio for a certain amount of movies and this was rhe last one of the contract.

Bradley Cooper plays a guy. Thats it. Thats his character. Some guy. I guess he's "lost" and has "burned bridges" and we are following his journey of finding himself? Some half baked bullshit like that. Not defined in any way. He's in the military of some sort of capacity. Anyways, he's in Hawaii.

Emma stone is a straight edged military girl? Or she's asked to take him around the island. Shes instantly in love with Bradley Cooper because thats the script. They're supposed to convince a local tribe to let them do military things.

Coopers ex wife is there playing the "oh look what the cat dragged in" character as she smiles and nods her head. The kids talk like movie kids. "Why would anyone dump my mom she's awesome" and whimsical other lines that no 9 year old has ever said. They love Bradley Cooper for some reason too.

Theres some sort of side plot involving weapons being used in space and thats against some treaty....which native Hawaiian Emma Stone is really against. So they break up....but since Cooper loves Emma stone so much because of "reasons", he sabotaged the "mission".

What is this movie????? Let's watch white people have forced romcom issues in Hawaii movie? White people taking advantage of Hawaiians? A space/military movie? A guy trying to "find himself" movie?

 

I love Crowe and think some of his less heralded movies are excellent....but Aloha sucks

 

Rebel Ridge - 6/10 this had all the makings of being one of my favorites on the year then it absolutely face plants in the final act and felt extremely toothless to me.

Aaron Pierre is fucking incredible though.