Surprisingly good film. Nice style. Bale good as always.
Matt Damon must be given top billing because he’s the bigger name, because this film is very much about Christian Bale’s character (apparently a British driver named Ken Miles). Anyway, good stuff. Little heavy on foreshadowing, but overall no major complaints.

i have a plan to watch singles.... and maybe watch another sailor moon series

i did it

haa haaa haaaa!
that was always such an awful movie
it’s true to stereotypes rather than “true to life.” a bit of a cartoon.

for a more fun/accurate picture of the era instead let me recommend maybe... linklater’s “slackers” or even “before sunrise” (this is a small movie but does reflect fashions and attitudes of the era). “the year punk broke” of course. rose troche’s “go fish” which isn’t a great film but it’s very representative of its time, almost a documentary. “kids” too, i fucking hate that movie, but it was near documentary. oh, any of the kevin smith movies of that time, as well. gus van sant’s “my own private idaho” works too even though it’s reimagined shakespeare, and “to die for” is underrated and prescient.
“fight club” for sure. “terminator 2”? yeah. and in a way too, “the matrix.” oh, also “memento.” “empire records” maybe? “pulp fiction” of course...


ok i gtg...

Of course it’s true to stereotypes, but it’s fun.
There was even a little video in Seattle’s Experience Music Project about this, and how it really kinda just completely failed to capture what was happening in the area at the time on several levels.

But it’s fun.

“I’m walking down the avenue-hoo-hoo hoo hoo hoo”

Best part about the movie Singles is the soundtrack.

nah, it was awful. i hated it so much lol. it was like made by an old man trying to figure out “what the kids were doing” from watching commercials or something. terrible.


ah, if you could point me to it, it would be great


nooooo. it’s awful! :D


i don’t remember that part i think i blocked ot out of memory as self-defense haha.


yes probably. the fuckers were really milking the fad for all it was worth at the time.

you act like that's not why he watched it in the first place :D

WAIT WAIT WAIT. no. shit. i confused it with “reality bites,” another horror of the same era. so much so that they got conflated in my mind. winona was never in singles.

ok, i think i remember it better now, singles was sillier, and possibly fun to an extent. “we’re #1 in belgium” or something, yes? lol.

still forgettable. but sorry about introducing confusion into the thread.

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oh, another worthy 90s memorabilia, a lot of wesley snipes stuff: new jack city, white men can’t jump, passenger 57, blade

oh, and speaking of black protagonists, of course: friday, and all the sequels. oh and hahaha house party! who can forget house party? probably still hilarious. do the right thing! holy shit do the right thing was epochal. less important but close to the imagination of the time, the fifth element. also with chris tucker, rush hour, ha ha ha ha.

johny mnemonic! that was the first william gibson film adaptation i guess. that’s so fucking 90s. almost all of keanu in the 90s is very 90s. point break. speed, of course. same case with huh, whats his name... jim carrey! amd stuff by the farrely brothers... dumb and dumber, kingpin, something about mary...

Yeah man, Singles is Cameron Crowe. It’s deliberately stupid, and quite fun.
They shot in and around Seattle for a lot of scenes, too, but yeah, it failed to capture the moment accurately.
That video probably isn’t at the EMP anymore, this was from back when the giant pimple first opened.

But yeah, I love Singles and I always will.
The songs Paul Westerberg recorded for the soundtrack are very goofy too, but very good, sweet pop songs.

Reality Bites has Winona but… much less dumb fun value

i prefer touch me i'm dick :D

That specific joke probably hasn’t held up super well haha

Pretty stupid, but not without its charms.

More like pretty damn awesome. I absolutely love this movie.

My family's been watching a movie every week for both enforced togetherness and a cultural education. Mum decided that she absolutely had to make us watch this, so she bought it and instantly chose it at her turn.
I feel like it's one that I'm unlikely to watch again, but it does what I enjoy - absurd premises taken extremely literally.

If you can't trust the governments of the world...then who can you trust? *looks around nervously*

STOP MAKING SENSE (JONATHAN DEMME + TALKING HEADS, 1984)



wow. i had never seen the whole thing. wow.

Worth every second

Amores Perros
 

MY BRILLIANT CAREER (GILLIAN ARMSTRONG, 1979)



hilarious movie, superfun to watch, and judy davis was just so fucking great in it.

good job, oztralia...

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ETA:

festival de canes = festival de perros :D

great fucking movie, that one, as i recall. it’s been years since i saw it but now i want to again.

Great movie indeed. I hadn't seen it in well over a decade. Well worth rewatching.

Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince

I watched The Hidden Fortress this afternoon for the first time. Then tonight I revisited Valley Girl. That's a pretty solid double bill.

watched The Interview with Hugo Weaving. Very cool movie. Aussie?

Also watched Breakdown with Kurt Russell, and now I do not want to drive to El Paso from Houston any more.

NICO: 1988

Finally finished the last half of this after watching the first half a year ago, lol cunting germans

Anyway, it was not worth the wait; fucking shit pal

i watched Breadcrumb Trail recently and i watched Escape From Alcatraz today

Dracula Untold


might have been better off if it had remained untold

Bill and Ted Face The Music. Too early for a rating.

Pontypool

Really interesting film with a brilliant main premise (a virus transmitted by spoken language). It did nothing on 1st release but seems to be gathering a bit of a cult following as more people find out about it.



Yellowbrickroad

On the surface this seems like just another found-footage/Blair Witch affair but it's all done really well, with a genuinely original and creepy concept.

A lot of fun, even if I found some of the tonal contrasts a bit jarring.

Honestly, had too much to drink too fast and I never finished my original attempt to watch it.


So I restarted it tonight, and watched all the way through...


I didn't hate it, but I'm not sure where it'd rank among the original two movies. Most are partial to Excellent Adventure. I'm partial to Bogus Journey. A followup roughly 30 years in the making will forever be hard to handle. I...can't give an official ranking yet. I need to watching a couple more times at least. There is an "Oh my god..." moment for sure that just amuses me way more than it should, but other parts feel kind of "wtf", and then everything in between.

THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS (PETER WEIR, 1974)




pretty fucking sure this inspired mad max & its sequels!

peter weir is fucking great

Guns Akimbo.


Something about Daniel Radcliffe in movies with extremely odd premises.

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot


Humanoids From The Deep

BONJOUR TRISTESSE (OTTO PREMINGER, 1958)



first of a criterion series on “bad vacations” :D :D

jean seberg! barely 20 and *killing it*

great cast overall e.g. alec guinness long before she chose the horrible role that came to define his career for children everywhere (and shall remain unnamed in this post)



oh and of course this being preminger, excellent opening credits by saul bass

bad vacations lolololololo

Very likely watching Midsommar next as I've heard good things about it

It’s a mesmerizing fucking deathtrip.

Scarier, I think, than Hereditary. The imagery and music are beautiful — the film itself is deeply unsettling.

Have fun

It made me hope that i'd be able to identify if I end up in a cult in some way. Also very long movie that won't be easy to rewatch regularly.

Fright Night again


The Stoned Age.