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I watched onibaba which was kind of awesome and about a hole

wadtched Go (1999) the other night. might be the most 1999 (specifically, 1999, los angeles) film ever invented. 3.75 stars with me constantly switching every other line whether to round up to 4 or down to 3.5

Watched a few movies with friends during last few weeks:

~ The Wicker Man (1973) - liked it quite a bit, I actually didn't know Nic Cage movie was a remake and from what I remember it seems the remake removes anything interesting about the original now that i watched it.

~ The Five Star Stories (1989) - I wanted to watch the ova for a long time as I was always interested in Nagano work and it's a very beautiful 1 hour ova, but it really is a companion to Nagano's manga which I'm sadly not that familiar with beyond basics, so really need to actually get into it (i don't actually know how much of it is translated)

~ League of extraordinary gentlemen - now that movie kinda blows and for the whole duration of the movie I was wondering if Sean Connery is doing a cool voice or not. There are some fun designs and visuals like Nautilus itself and the use of practical costume for Mr Hyde but overall the movie is extra grey and boring and our main cast sorta has no chemistry. Also during the whole duration of the movie i was thinking that invisible man looks like the nostalgia critic

~ The Ring (2002) - I never seen the original and this is the second time i'm watching it in 2 years and I gotta say it's kinda fun and looks pretty good, except when they want to show off cool technology so things that should probably look scary end up being quite funny and goofy. Also they have the smartest child and his performance is quite hilarious (idk if it's good or not for a horror movie but i loved that)

~ Night of the Living Dead (1968) - I've never seen this movie before, but i liked it. I like when everything goes wrong and it does. Also I'm not a movie buff and I have a lot of things to watch, now that movie is 1968 but it seemed it was filmed in a way that sorta references american movies from the 40-s? My assumption might be completely wrong and I should look it up, but it gave me that impression and it's interesting to see something from the 60-s that does sorta a similar thing to what a lot of media is doing nowadays (guess it was always a thing to come back a few decades in some aspects)

no_stunts wrote: Sun Oct 12, 2025 3:47 pm guys i saw magellan. who else saw magellan. i didnt think lav diaz was going to want to fuck magellan so bad

I really want to watch magellan, I'm looking forward to it very badly.

I haven't watched a lot of new movies recently... sometimes I get in a funk where I rewatch comfort favorites. Last night I re-watched Love and Basketball for the bazillionth time. that's a movie I like a whole lot

I just saw Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc in 3D and it's easily the best 3D movie I've ever seen. ...Though admittedly I haven't seen all that many. I kinda forgot it was a thing after the big 3D TV boom some years back came and went.

The company that did the conversion on it did such a good job that it felt like the movie was always meant to be that way. In fact it actually helped resolve a lot of the layered modern-sakuga-particle-splash and refocus the action. Really cool stuff. Great movie. Nice to see Mappa honing in closer to the CSM manga style too.

oh man i bet those extended combat sequences would have read so much better in 3D lol.... i never considered you could even see it in 3D!! i super agree though, i love how much closer they've gotten to capturing some of fujimoto's linework idiosyncracies in that era of the manga

i've been watching way too much lately (for me, girl who has probably gotten close to watching more movies in the past 3 months than i've ever watched in my life) but i think the two that shine brightest in the front of my mind right now are Interview With The Vampire (1994) and Romeo + Juliet (1996).

I feel like such a fake vampire fiction fan AND a fake fujoshi for not seeing or reading anything in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles series up until now, other than the KoRn and Aaliyah classic Queen of the Damned. that movie is highly entertaining, but god DAMN Interview is that Real shit. it's insane to me to be told that this is one of the LEAST gay manifestations that story takes across media. it convinced me to pick up the book, but i am not that excited to read Anne Rice writing on the boys tantrically bleeding out black slave women for however many pages they end up doing that for.

Romeo + Juliet though.......... i can so easily forgive how bad Leo & Danes' Shakespearean is for how much that movie fucks. i don't think i'd go to bat for any other Baz Luhrmann in this way (maaaybe Chicago. maybe. depending on the day) but his maximalism plus the commitment to that script is so crazy-fascinating. having my 10th grade english teacher put me in front of that Mercutio was like throwing a firecracker in my skull at that age.

Man, watching an anime movie in 3D sounds awesome. I feel like my brain would just be going "no what this is wrong" the whole time.

I recently watched The Big Short the other day because people keep posting that gif of Christian Bale looking at his computer every time there's a news article about somebody securing a $20000000000trillion usd deal to build a data center in Louisiana and man... the further away I am from that movie the less I like it. The casting is insane (getting Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt and Christian Bale on your weird 1/5 docu 4/5 skit show about banking and then writing it in a way where only two of them interact is really funny). The bits where they try to be "real" about it by stating facts about the house market crash are so tonedeaf, and the bits where they're like "lol here's Margot Robbie in a bath explaining what mortgage-backed securities are to You The Viewer because you're too stupid to get it otherwise!" are soooo condescending. Deeply scattershot movie.

I watched The Exorcist III recently, and it's one of the best horror movies I've seen. I think it helps that it's written and directed by someone who really believes in that stuff.

lynnedrum wrote: Fri Nov 14, 2025 10:24 pm I feel like such a fake vampire fiction fan AND a fake fujoshi for not seeing or reading anything in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles series up until now, other than the KoRn and Aaliyah classic Queen of the Damned. that movie is highly entertaining, but god DAMN Interview is that Real shit. it's insane to me to be told that this is one of the LEAST gay manifestations that story takes across media. it convinced me to pick up the book, but i am not that excited to read Anne Rice writing on the boys tantrically bleeding out black slave women for however many pages they end up doing that for.

The TV series got me rereading the Vampire Chronicles. I'm on the fifth book (which is as far as I got as a teen) and they get a lot gayer after the first one. The first book's great, but The Vampire Lestat is a masterpiece imo.

Exorcist III is so fucking good, it's unreal. I think I like it more than the first, which feels monumentally wrong to say.

The dream sequence where he sees all the angels is so ethereal and enrapturing, and Patrick Ewing is there. It rules

The Exorcist III is possibly my favorite horror movie still. I saw it when I was 17 and maybe still a catholic, so it does hit differently and particularly. It's a type of fear that I've never been able to shake off; like even if today I'd watch it or the first Exorcist, I'm pretty sure I'd have a nightmare or I'd be unable to sleep well, it has happened.

Last movie I saw was The Coffee Table and I didn't liked it that much. It was okay, with a few interesting things but overall wasn't too engaged in it.