It is October, and I am haunted by the ghost of summer. I write this baking in the sun. The trumpets are blowing, and calling us home. Until we follow - to the cinema:
Aliens
My beautiful fiancée said the actors in this were "too sweaty". In her own inimitable fashion she skewered the negative trends of more modern movie-making with a single statement.
The ever-lovely Sigourney Weaver voices one of the avatar kids in the new Avatar movie - The Way of Water - which I was not terribly fond of. Neither the film itself nor the voice of a 70-something woman coming from an alien child.
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Sort of a Kung Pow-esque overdub but for noir films... not as funny, but still funny.
K-Pop Demon Hunters
For several seasons of my youth I attended an "art class" which was nothing of the sort - in truth a glorified daycare. However, the teacher, a man named Dave who resembled a Seinfeld extra, was my first exposure to podcasting, more than a decade before the popularization of the format. His monologues, sometimes up to an hour long of continuous topicality, were entertaining, soothing, memorable. One was about his browsing pre-Amazon internet shopping centres for Hello Kitty toys, before being struck by a moment of self-awareness: "Have a kid Dave, have a kid". He had a girlfriend, but they were unmarried.
Watching the popular new movie "K-Pop Demon Hunters" inspired in me a similar feeling. Perhaps within the next couple of years, God willing.
Castle of Cagliostro & Castle in the Sky
They're the same movie. Saw these as a double feature. Under Sharia Mark II going to the movies will be free, and every theater will have reclining seats and unlimited refills of Sapporo super-dry beer. The voice actress for the male protagonist in the original Japanese of Castle in the Sky became the voice of Monkey D. Luffy.
Nosferatu
Like wrapping medicine in ham so that dogs will eat it, sometimes you need to wrap Christus Victor in an entertaining Gothic tale to get it into the brains of movie-goers.
The vampire in this movie is as he should be: a monster with his balls grown back, an abstraction, the shadow of death. This is the new one by the way. Robert Eggers, a true talent. With the five-year plans with American characteristics of the Marvel movie franchise falling to pieces there will hopefully be cracks left for him to grow.
Much better than the Werner Herzog version - stick to nature documentaries ya German fart!
Phantasm
They only had the French dub of Poltergeist. Darren Shan took some stuff from this. Phantasm took the pain box from Dune (the gom jabbar is the needle). You know what was good? Mask of the Phantasm.
If a work ends in "it was all a dream/simulation/abstracted trauma of dementia patient/etc.", those involved in its creation should be harmed. Their harm should be proportional to how mad I am about it. No Man's Sky, Jacob's Ladder, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes - unforgivable. This is one precept of a system I am calling Sharia Mark II.
Rebuild of Evangelion
All four of them. Great movies.
Sinners
In the merry month of June from me home I startedLeft the girls of Tuam nearly broken hearted
Saluted Father dear, kissed me darling mother
Drank a pint of beer, me grief and tears to smother
Then off to reap the corn, leave where I was born
Cut a stout blackthorn to banish ghosts and goblins
A brand new pair of brogues, rattlin' o'er the bogs
Frightenin' all the dogs on the rocky road to Dublin
I haven't watched this one yet but it's on the list.
Southland Tales
Hell yeah dude, this shit rules. Probably the best opening to any movie. Red Stripe product placement.
An artifact from the future. Prophets are always hated in their time. Pimps don't commit suicide.
Beau Is Afraid
Hereditary sucked. I'm glad Ari Aster is good now. A laugh riot.
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