movies

Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie: I had to remind myself that Buñuel is a surrealist and don't expect the movie to make sense, just enjoy the ride. Pretty funny, with interesting characters and solid social critique of the hypocrisy of rich people.

Mikey 17: Really enjoyed it. Didn't expected too much because the critics weren't good, idk, people was expecting a second Parasite or something, but this movies felt more like Bong Joon Ho movie that Parasite felt.

Razzennest (2022) Interesting and original idea but I didn't like it much after all. Premise is the recording of an audio commentary track with pompous arthouse director going supernaturally wrong. Has funny dialogue and would make a good radio play / podcast if you speak English and German but I found it a chore to watch nothing much happening just to read the subtitles

Kinds of Kindness (2024) Anthology of three short films on the subject of abuse and control. 2hrs 45 in total and suffers a bit from the first one being the best. Pretty good overall but a test of endurance at times, if I watch it again it will be in three seperate parts

Terrified (2017) Argentinian haunted house spook-em-up. Pretty decent and quite brutal in places, the director's more recent film When Evil Lurks (2023) is much better though

Wild Zero (1999) Wacky Japanese rock n roll alien zombie romp. You can probably tell from the poster if you'll like this. I did.

The Day the Earth Blew Up (theater)

Mission: Impossible

Ash (theater)

Mission: Impossible II

Raising Arizona

Mission: Impossible III

Magazine Dreams (theater)

Ne Zha 2 (2025)
The highest grossing movie you've never heard of. This was put on my radar from the other site and despite my reservations of seeing a foreign film in theatres (I know, it's likely my Hollywood-centric roots), this is what a cinematic experience is as the last animated film I had this much fun was Into the Spider-Verse. It is beautifully animated and I felt every emotion without feeling forced (the woman next to me cried twice). A few scenes had odd pacing and some jokes were clearly lost in translation, but I am now waiting for the IMAX (re)release in the NA market.

Patton (1970)
The most feared general of Nazi Germany from the US, or so the movie claims. We now know this to be false but historical inaccuracies aside, this film holds up to the test of time and explores the man behind the impetuous but talented general in a rose-tinted biopic.

Flow (2024)
A cute story of society and survival featuring not just the internet's favourite, a cat, but also includes a social media craze, the capybara. With Ne Zha 2 fresh on my mind, it might be unfair to compare its quality of animation as it only had 5% of its budget, but the animation was jarringly subpar at times as if it was an animated film from the 2000s. I do applaud the director's choice in making it free of dialogue and keeping anthropomorphisizing to a minimum, the latter I would love to see more of.

Sri Asih (2022)
The second movie in Indonesia's home-grown attempt at the MCU - DCEU as it's essentially Wonder Woman? - is exactly as predictable and formulaic as you come to expect. Better than Wonder Woman 1984 at least.

Flesh - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13403046/ it was pretty disturbing but overall a nice film with a bit of comedy about how it feels to be a woman dating. Now thinking back on it, there seems to be a very strong mcu influence with trying to sprinkle in comedy.

Suncoast - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13650742/ A very good emotional film about coming to an age and dealing with loss. Acting was solid and it was interesting to see the constant fighting between adulthood of a kid in a shitty situation and the last days of her remaining childhood.

Maxxine - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22048412/ An a24 slasher/horror about the horrors of aging, fun semi-mindless slasher that is visually authentic.

I watched Greedy People on Hulu. I wish Joseph Gordon-Levitt did more work.

I showed my sister a documentary called Idiocracy.

Miracle Mile (1988) - Streaming on Prime. About a guy who randomly meets a girl, and they have instant, love-at-first-sight chemistry. They agree to meet after she gets off work at midnight. Then he picks up a ringing pay phone, and listens to the wrong number panicking because a nuclear strike is about to hit LA in an hour. It becomes a race against time to find his true love, and escape before the bombs hit, as LA descends into PRE-apocalyptic chaos.

John Wick parts 1-3 while I was away for work. Great films.

The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3286052/

The Northman (2022) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11138512/

Myth of Man https://youtu.be/_MnOG-sHz4U

Que? What was it about? For once, I can say Everything and Nothing.

I watched 'Internal Affairs' (1990). Quite a strange film that seems to be following some pretty typical story beats for the first half but gets weirder and less coherent as it goes on. Richard Gere always struck me as a somewhat unlikeable actor because he played these really smarmy leading man roles but after watching this I realised that his inability to deliver convincing emotions actually works perfectly when he is playing a villain. I really liked Andy García in this too, he comes across as a lot more genuine and emotionally sincere which further enhances Gere's performance.

Fear City (1984), martial arts serial killer stalks strippers, from the man who brought you Bad Lieutenant and Driller Killer.

B-Movie Bonanza: https://lemmy.ca/post/41252146

The Mule with Clint Eastwood https://m.imdb.com/de/title/tt7959026/

Ugh. I have the unfortunate situation that my favorite superheroes are doctor strange for marvel and green lantern for dc. I had sorta forgotten I had picked up multiverse of madness to watch. I was sorta meh on the first movie and was hoping the second would redeem it. To make matters worse I was sick of meh media in general and had finally decided to rewatch the firefly series. Firefly and lord of the rings are basically my two favorite things. I was putting off rewatching as long as I could. I had watched the broadcast and then rewatched when I bought the dvd (seeing the unaired episodes for the first time). I then did not watch till I broke down recently. Anway it was just after I noticed I had gotten multiverse of madness and was like. Oh boy I should watch that. It was so not better than the meh first. I had not watched a marvel movie since avengers endgame outside of deadpool and guardians of the galaxy. Sooooooo disappointing. (sorry the firefly thing was me trying to explain how watching something I liked a lot did not help with a movie I did not like at all. May have made it worse. I keep wondering that if maybe I watched something garbagey enough before hand that it would have seemed alright by comparison)

Nothing.

Is it normal to watch movies every week? I see one maybe 2 or 3 times a year.