#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Seven — July Edition
From 2020 to 2024 I watched 1962 movies.
In 2025 so far I've watched another 203, for a total of 2165 movies.
* I really gotta double back down on the Best Picture nominees.
* Probably start Sam Raimi soon, though I dunno if I'll rewatch what I've already seen.
Previous thread: beepboop.one/@Alexis/114609030…
#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Six — June EditionFrom 2020 to 2024 I watched 1962 movies.
In 2025 so far I've watched another 172, for a total of 2134 movies.* I'm kinda burning through Best Picture nominees, but the podcast I listen along to is about to severely slow down, so.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The year is 1953. Brando is Mark Antony. It's --
#204, or #2166, Best Picture nominee "Julius Ceasar."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. Brutus and Caesar. What should be in that Caesar? Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Write them together, yours is as fair a name. [...] Now, in the name of all the gods at once, upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!"
no gods, no masters
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •This is, so far, a pretty straightforward cinematic adaptation of the play. Not any real meaningful choices in here.
Except I guess in how it's shot -- black-and-white to evoke newsreel depictions of fascism in Europe, not a "Quo Vadis"-level spectacle but a lot of intimate spaces, a lot of close-ups.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •"Et tu, Brute?"
suddenly English-speaker Julius Caesar operating in latin over here
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise them."
the man says the thing
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •pending handle 🎏
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to pending handle 🎏 • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I don't get the opportunity as often as I'd like, because the Brother is: Employed, but I love seeing a movie at 11:45 on a Thursday. Leaving now to go see --
#205, or #2167, 2025's "Jurassic World: Rebirth."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Many of the individual sequences are fine, or even pretty good, but between the barebones land-sea-and-air plot, the stock characters, and the way it obviously coasts on franchise iconography and music, it just doesn't really add up to anything.
(Her not opening the door in the prologue may be the only Good Decision anyone makes in in this instalment of the Hubris Leads to Bad Decisions franchise.)
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Death to America, anyway, it's the fourth day of the seventh month, so let's watch this undoubtedly profoundly dodgy themed slasher, it's --
#206, or #2168, 1996's "Uncle Sam."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •"Master Sergeant Sam Harper."
his siblings got any kids?
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"[The coffin]'s sealed."
"How come I can't see him."
because him waking back up and coming out of the coffin is more of an act two thing
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"You never talked much about your brother."
"Well, we weren't close."
kuwait isn't exactly round the corner
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
I fucking hate this kid. Profoundly untrustworthy child.
Do not fucking open the sealed coffin just to do a patriotism, you little jackass.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"I don't know if I should be in the Army, Marines, or the Air Force."
"You get that idea outta your head right now, boy! [...] A smart boy like you oughta know enough to keep out of it. Be a doctor. Save some lives. Forget about killing!"
"Somebody's got to be soldiers!"
if nobody was soldiers ain't a war in the world could be fought
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
this kid fuckin sucks.
he's actually a lot like Al from Gundam 0080, in how he glorifies war, but he's a lot more hostile and angry when confronted with opposition to his childish ideas, because he's American
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Some punks (assholes, not fans of punk music) are in a graveyard lighting an American flag on fire and swinging it over Sam Harper's dug but unfilled grave, because that's the kind of thing punks do in the 90s.
It appears to be the flames hitting his grave that wakes him up more than anything.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
the end
kid sucks
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •When I said this "aged weirdly" in the poll, what I meant was, "OJ Simpson is in this," that's right, it's --
#207, or #2169, 1988's "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!"
pending handle 🎏
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to pending handle 🎏 • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
OJ Simpson sneaking around in the dark, breaking into a place, clearly out to hurt somebody, hm, no good.
Him burning his hand on a stove, stumbling around the room, leaning against wet paint, sticking his hand in a window as it closes, then stepping into a bear trap, much better.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Frank, they're not here for you. Weird Al Yankovic is on the plane."
this feels like it's in aesthetic continuity with the Weird Al biopic
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Live mic! Live mic!
...But you have to hand it to him, impressive stream.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Nice beaver."
"Thank you, I just had it stuffed."
a classic
you see, through innuendo the picture suggests that these are sentences referring to sex things, but then she pulls out an actual taxidermied beaver
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"I'm boiling a roast. How hot and wet do you like it?"
now that's a dutch-irish slab of meat if ever I saw one
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl... Girl dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day."
"Goodyear?"
"No, the worst."
pfffffft
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Just think, the next time I shoot someone, I could be arrested."
woof
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"My father went the same way!"
lmao
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •NONE ⁂
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The holster... maybe.
@Alexis
Alex Daily! reshared this.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I'm off to see the Wizard, leaving now for a screening of --
#208, or #2170, 1939's "The Wizard of Oz."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •What was in 1939 the best movie ever made totally holds up on the big screen 86 years later.
An iconic, delightful achievement of cinema.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •pending handle 🎏
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to pending handle 🎏 • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Chris Pine's directorial debut looked vaguely interesting, and then fully vanished after it came out, I've put on --
#209, or #2171, 2024's "Poolman."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •This apparently has one iconic kissing scene, but will that be enough to get me over it being an early 50s WW2 movie? It's --
#210, or #2172, 1953 Best Picture nominee "From Here to Eternity."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"No, I ain't gonna complain. They ain't gonna get that satisfaction."
witness the man. see him keeping himself down.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Mrs Kipfer picked 'Lorene' out of a perfume ad. She thought it sounded French."
all of these women were definitely sex workers in the book before the Hays Code got to this story
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"He's dead."
Sinatra /was/ pretty good in this.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •:beecat:
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •> You don't think of "before, during, and after the attack on Pearl Harbor" as a setting for a romantic drama, do you.
🤔
Alex Daily!
in reply to :beecat: • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •A... /good/ Superman movie? In /my/ lifetime? Leaving now to go see --
#211, or #2173, 2025's "Superman."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •/Unbelievable/ how much they /nailed/ this. The best Superman movie in more than 40 years.
You WILL believe a man can fly.
The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •How does it compare to Superman 3?
And by Superman 3, I mean "the one with Brandon Routh that follows logically from Donner's magnum opus Superman II" and not any other, completely fictional Superman movies that may have existed with otherwise-very-funny-comedians and definitely not one that contains such poetry as "I am a freako?"
Alex Daily!
in reply to The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Some additional thoughts:
* If you were never that into superhero movies, this won't change your mind. But if you keep going to them, waiting for one to just be really fun and big and exciting again? Have I got good news for you.
* It feels, ultimately, like being dropped into the middle of a really good, ongoing run of a Superman comic, and it gives you all you need to keep reading from here.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •* The key thing here, the thing that makes it all tick, is the picture never pretends Clark *isn't* corny. He's corny! He's kind and nice and if you met him you'd feel like you were friends.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I'm not gonna do anything today, so I've made myself a cup of tea, and have put on --
#212, or #2174, 1985 Sam Raimi picture "Crimewave."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •This is me starting Raimi -- I've watched the Evil Deads, the Spider-Mans, etcetera, but I probably won't rewatch anything. Well, maybe "Multiverse of Madness."
To the side, I'm also watching "Ash vs Evil Dead," which I like a lot more than those movies.
The Tech Lord ⊕ `Lex Pendragon
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to The Tech Lord ⊕ `Lex Pendragon • • •The Tech Lord ⊕ `Lex Pendragon
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Depends on the animator, but no, probably not.
Raimi seems to use unrestrained gore, to an absurdist, obscene level, as an art form. Doing that from something that starts off 'not real' detracts from the product.
(I say that with respect, as I am not really into gore, but he kind of elevated the medium.)
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •A speeding car full of nuns. A man on death row. And now Bruce Campbell blowing animated sexy lady silhouette smoke rings...?
The tone of this thing.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"...So where on Earth am I gonna get $36?"
"Ladies and gentlemen, the winners of tonight's Rialto Dance Riot will receive $36!"
good joke
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Am I too late?"
"No, Governor."
"Oh, thank god. I didn't want to miss this."
pffffft
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Everyone was really hot on the first one, I didn't care for it, and for the sequel people seem to have really cooled on it, so while not really doing anything else, I watched —
#213, or #2175, 2025's "The Old Guard 2."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The picture that dares to ask, what if you took a holiday to Rome, it's --
#214, or #2176, 1953 Best Picture nominee "Roman Holiday."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •"This film was photographed and recorded in its entirety in Rome, Italy."
and then we smash cut to NEWS FLASH, and London
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
wait, hold on
"Notting Hill" is just a "Roman Holiday" innit
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
great comedy barber
the sweating from just how much has to come off, only to end up with a, like, historically cute haircut
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •the ending of "Roman Holiday" is really what makes it Something Else
easy to imagine a version of it made twenty years earlier, that casts the wrong Joe, doesn't have Audrey Hepburn to work with, that feels the need to give you more in the ending, to give them some extra moment to the side where they Say It instead of Saying It All With Their Eyes
but that version is no good, because having them Say It All With Their Eyes, and her then going away as the Princess, that turns it /mythological/
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •and it does it for /both of them/, their encounter isn't just a lovely day they had together, though it absolutely is that,
it's something they should by all reasonable definition never have been able to touch, it's Aladdin without a genie to make the impossible happen
:beecat:
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •All movie musicals are best on the big screen, including the one that tries to sell you PT Barnum as a champion of diversity, leaving now for the second of the summer musical rerelease season --
#215, or #2177, 2017's "The Greatest Showman."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Captain | 🏳️🌈 🇨🇦
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Kevin Bowersox likes this.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The 90s superhero picture that dares to ask, does Liam Neeson work as an action hero? It's --
#216, or #2178, 1990 Sam Raimi movie "Darkman."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"We should get married."
"...Married."
now taking bets on whether this Frances McDormand girlfriend character gets fridged, all signs point to "yikes"
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Time, Yakitito? Time?"
"Ninety-eight minutes."
clearly says so on your microscope's display, don't be a dick to Yakitito
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Burn in hell!"
the man is clearly burning in helicopter in tunnel
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"I'm everyone... and no one."
hey it's bruce
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •🇹 Ti
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I always get this mixed up with Shadow Man, an N64 game I've never played. (In so far as I incorrectly assume it's an adaption of the film.)
Shadow Man and Dark Man, also both names of Mega Man characters.
Alex Daily!
in reply to 🇹 Ti • • •🇹 Ti
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •oh, huh!
And actually, regarding Mega Man: Shadow Man is a ninja, and Dark Man is a series of 4 different robots that are just... generically villains? They're not robot masters (like most of the robots that end in "Man"), but one of them does disguise itself as Mega Man's brother Protoman to try to pin the events of the game on him. But then Protoman actually shows up and shoots him.
Alex Daily!
in reply to 🇹 Ti • • •🇹 Ti
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •the NES only had 64 total colors it was possible for it to show, so things were limited.
Looking at the art again though, I did realize that Dark Man was clearly based on Hakaider, the villain robot from the tokusatsu Kikaider. Has the same brain-in-a-jar head look.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •On paper I like the idea of a Technicolour Roman epic, but in practice I tend to find them somewhat stale so far, and I suspect this one, which I've seen in several places described as "Bible fanfiction," will probably land on the wrong side of that spectrum, it's --
#217, or #2179, 1953 Best Picture nominee "The Robe."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"No, he's not a king, he's... I don't know."
all of this just feels like it's taking a fucking dog's age setting the stage for a reveal that's just the picture preaching at you
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Who are you?"
"My name is... Judas."
[thunderclap]pfffft
this lives somewhere between the movie Andy Toystory liked enough to want the toy of and "ah, Mrs Parker, nice son you have there, not spider-like at all, what's he called," "P-- Oh, hold on, I'm being distracted by being in 2024's Madame Web."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"This is your first crucifixion, isn't it?"
unbelievable how subtle this isn't
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
gaius marcellus is less a character and more a narrative function of the original story pretending to be a character -- he's a coat rack, a thing to hang additional stories about Christ on, a device through which to tell you some more parables
but that's a lotta tellin', with the showin' mostly being his changing faith, which, happening inside his heart, and being communicated through Pertweeian gurning, is not particularly cinematic
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Looks great. A spectacle not just of Technicolour but of CinemaScope, I can see why the people of 1953 really turned out for this one.
But speaking on behalf of the people of 2025? Eh.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Usually there's enough overlap between what I say in the thread and what I then post to Letterboxd that there's not much point drawing attention to the Letterboxd post, but I feel like I got my thoughts in order here in a way I didn't really in the thread.
🔗
letterboxd.com/alexdaily/film/…
A ★★ review of The Robe (1953)
letterboxd.comAlex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •A zombie movie with the Flash in it? No, just the cowboy movie Sharon Stone that had enough clout in the 90s to get Sam Raimi to make, but I'd watch that, anyway, it's --
#218, or #2180, 1995's "The Quick and the Dead."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
It's 2025, I've seen the concept of the cowboy subverted enough that "girl cowboy" does not land as a reveal, and I dunno what type of cowboy I /would/ find particularly novel.
Hm, perhaps there /are/ no more worlds to conquer.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
young Leo DiCaprio here, pre-Titanic, playing an oversized small boy
he's very charming, remember when Leo could be charming
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Sign me up!"
"No women in quick-draw, it's against the rules!"
"There's no rules against ladies, it's just women can't shoot for shit."
ain't no rules says sharon stone can't shoot competitively fast
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
I was expecting the fact that I'd never heard of this to mean nothing good, but I think it might mean the people of 1995 did not know how good they had it?
Like, I get it, 1995 is peak Tarantino, campy sincerity is not exactly on the rise, but this rules? This is great, genuinely top stuff here.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Give me another bullet!"
oh, oh fuck
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
wahoo there goes the clock tower
and hackman's house!!
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"The law has come back to town."
this rules
terrific picture
pending handle 🎏
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to pending handle 🎏 • • •Sensitive content
pending handle 🎏
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to pending handle 🎏 • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Can't wait to see this plan unfold flawlessly and smoothly, on account of how it's such --
#219, or #2181, 1998 Sam Raimi picture "A Simple Plan."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •"I was a happy man."
simple plan, happy man
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
if nobody comes lookin' for it, nobody needs to know they found the money
plan status: pretty simple so far
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Did you tell him about the plane?"
*looks at the simple plan*
*looks at the camera as the simple plan explodes in my hands*
goddamnit
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Thornton says something to the sheriff about the plane.
Lou prooobably tells his wife.
Paxton immediately does tell his wife.
the plan is getting unsimpled as we speak
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"You have to return some of the money [to the plane]."
oh, clever
"You can't tell Jacob, though."
reasonable, but also, this plan is actively disastering
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
now paxton has killed the farmer instead
we're only 35 minutes in here
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"I'm gonna put it back, and everything's gonna be just like it used to be!"
and Lou and Mrs Lou and Dwight the farmer will just be alive again will they?
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"They wrote down as many of the serial numbers as they could."
hahaha fucking hell
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •great stuff, often very tense. all the stupid decisions they make incredibly believable.
like if Fargo wanted to make you far sadder, just another excellent mid-career Raimi flick, even if he is a little anonymous here — you could really tell Quick and the Dead was a Raimi in a way you can't here — but that restraint and control is what this story needed, and he delivers it well
pending handle 🎏
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to pending handle 🎏 • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I think doing a legacy sequel for this one might, in fact, be a little bit silly -- what, the old cast shows up to give advice to the new gang about... how to better get away with covering up that they killed somebody? Anyway, leaving now to go see --
#220, or #2182, 2025's "I Know What You Did Last Summer."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Look, was I skeptical of them doing an "I Know What You Did Last Summer" legacy sequel at all, and do I kinda wish the inciting incident was a little further away from the source material? Yes.
Is this one particularly fresh? Nah.
But did I have a good time with it? Yeah, sure!
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The trick to enjoying this one, I think, is to understand that this is One of These, and that that means certain things, which includes that the vapid teenagers' goofy Gen Z dialogue may in fact be silly on purpose, and so you should, like me, be the only one in the screening happily laughing along with it.
Join me. Join me, I say, in the Only Laugher In The Screening club.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Anyway, yeah, enjoyed this. A fun One of These. Kept me on my toes.
(Wild to me how many people were once again fully out of the building before the mid-credits scene.)
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •My understanding is that this is "if Roman Holiday was a Technicolour CinemaScope European location filming spectacle, can we get away with a bad script?"
Given that it was nominated for Best Picture, I'm gonna say the answer, at least at the time, was "yeah dawg it sure can." It's --
#221, or #2183, 1954's "Three Coins in the Fountain."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •"If you throw a coin into the pool, you're supposed to get your wish. Only the wish must always be the same thing. That you'll return again to Rome."
good racket if you run the fountain
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •one coin in, two coins in, thr--
"No, I don't want to come back to Rome."
gasp
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
this one guy has a reputation for asking women to fly to Venice with him and then inventing excuses to stay there for a few days, leading to the society circles around him to brand the women as "Venice Girls," effectively ruining their reputation
took me a second to remember what nonsense people used to care about
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"That was Frances. She wants to meet us at the Fountain of Trevi."
finally, third coin time
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I should've watched this for #212, I guess, anyway, it's --
#222, or #2184, 1991's "The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •pending handle 🎏
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Captain Hindsight
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The third of the summer musical rerelease season, the movie that dares to ask, what if there was a Los Angeles, leaving now to go see --
#223, or #2185, 2016's "La La Land."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •A Technicolour CinemaScope spectacle!
Loved this when I saw it at home a few years ago, but exactly like I thought it would, plays just tremendously on the big screen.
Notice how it does the "Wizard of Oz" trick -- it opens on grey cars on grey concrete, then quickly drags you into its much louder colour scheme and aesthetic.
The ending, an emotional fist fight? Sir, how dare you.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Just making 100% sure I've seen every theatrically released Batman movie, this being the only one I'm unsure about, it's --
#224, or #2186, 1993's "Batman: Mask of the Phantasm."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •"Such rot, sir. Why, you're the very model of sanity. Oh, by the way, I've pressed your tights and put away your exploding gas balls."
alfred
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
A dead parent, and now they're engaged?
She's definitely the Phantasm.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"I hate that song."
hey it's the clown prince of *squints at clown notes* crime
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Oh, Artie, I've got a killer day tomorrow."
*jims at the camera*
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"So, you figured it out."
Samus is a GIRL??
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
pretty good extended BTAS episode. great cartoon action, you know I love me a model city fight. some really solid work on the Bruce Wayne half of the character especially.
but yeah, god forbid women do anything
The Tech Lord ⊕ `Lex Pendragon
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to The Tech Lord ⊕ `Lex Pendragon • • •Captain | 🏳️🌈 🇨🇦
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Captain | 🏳️🌈 🇨🇦 • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The choice to see this was made for me, because it's the members-only preview night at the cinema, which means free popcorn and drink, and who am I to turn down free popcorn and drink… But it's a theatrically released comedy, so I would-a gone to see it, anyway, leaving now to go see —
#225, or #2187, 2025's "Bride Hard."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •:beecat:
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •only fifteen people braved the elements for free popcorn?
Disappointing
Alex Daily!
in reply to :beecat: • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Santa Sponge Has Moved🏳️🌈⛄⛄
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Santa Sponge Has Moved🏳️🌈⛄⛄ • • •Santa Sponge Has Moved🏳️🌈⛄⛄
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Santa Sponge Has Moved🏳️🌈⛄⛄ • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Leaving now for the first Sneak Preview in— I don't know, but it's been a while.
Could be "Naked Gun"?
#226, or #2188.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The rest of the movie? Also pretty solid!
Maybe not as subversive or fresh as it sometimes seems to think it might be, and maybe a little too winky at the camera, an astute viewer'll clock it pretty early, but the modern theme is strong, everyone really gets the assignment, it's gay, and it's always nice to see Will Sasso, so, like, as modern slashers that aren't that interested in being anything else go?
Had a good time.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •It's the summer of superheroes who wear blue and haven't had a good movie in a long, long time, leaving now to go see --
#227, or #2189, 2025's "The Fantastic Four: First Steps."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Knew they could do it! Knew they could do it!
A good "Fantastic Four" movie!!
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Just a good one of these!! A fun ride!!
I could file some grievances here, but I won't -- they did it, they got it right, the Fantastic Four are alive and, like Superman, whose 2025 blockbuster this has some odd similarities to, they're my friends.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I've really been digging mid-career Sam Raimi, but will that streak survive his 1999 baseball movie? It's --
#228, or #2190, "For Love of the Game."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •With one last unimportant game in the season, Costner has the chance to, instead of going to the Giants and having to start over, go out on top by giving this game his all.
Do I care about any of this? Not yet.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Clear the mechanism."
Raimi'll shoot the hell out of this game, though, I know that much.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
I get the feeling Raimi is a real romantic about baseball, which works for the third of the film that depicts the sport of baseball.
I do not get the feeling he's a real romantic for romance, which is unfortunate, because one of those takes up the vast majority of this stale, soggy drama.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •verity
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to verity • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Representing the end of mid-career Raimi, and being the penultimate Raimi film I haven't seen yet, it's --
#229, or #2191, 2000's "The Gift."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •"You don't know Donnie Barksdale."
doesn't sound like I want to
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
I would simply not have a psychic vision about a missing person case.
But, like, earnestly, if I had what another person would call "a psychic vision," it would to me be either some shit I made up in my brain (common, happens all the time), or a hallucination (never happens to me, must go to hospital immediately.)
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Oh, weird, it's post-1999's "The Matrix" Keanu Reeves, but he has the John Wick beard and hair.
And he's an angry racist jackass?
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"But how come we don't even talk about daddy?"
information has to be withheld so it can be delivered at the moment of maximum narrative impact, son, you know this
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
there's a theme below the surface here of fortune-tellers like the Blanchett character playing the role of therapists in shitty impoverished places like this -- the clients of hers we see mostly just need help dealing with their lousy lives, come to her to get a handle on the abusive situations they're in
but it's not really doing anything with that, the picture's relationship to that idea is more to accept it as part of the setting?
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sometimes watching along to Blank Check means they make me watch a bad movie by a bad director, which is why I've put on --
#230, or #2192, 2009's "Old Dogs."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Best friends Travolta and Robin Williams are happily dudebro-ing along as over-paid PR execs on the verge of a huge deal with a big company when a lady Robin Williams married on a drunken whim a decade ago shows up with the twins he wasn't aware he'd spawned.
It's from 2009, and by the director of "Wild Hogs," "Clifford the Big Red Dog," and the 4th live-action "Alvin and the Chipmunks" movie.
You can picture as clear as the sky on the nicest summer day all the many ways this isn't funny.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
yeah this is
catastrophically unfunny
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sam Raimi has two clearly defined eras. Early Raimi is the cult films, and middle Raimi is him trying to make good movies for normal adults. But then after that, with one exception, everything he's done this millennium is franchise work.
This is that one exception. It's --
#231, or #2193, 2009's "Drag Me to Hell."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"[...] after the doctor explained it to me, he said that victims of violence, they re-experience their trauma."
girl you didn't just have a wee flashback, you got flung around the house by a shadow demon??
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Here's the thing. She could've easily just let Mrs Ganush have the extension. David Paymer gives her permission to make the call herself, and it's really just her who thinks of it as a make-or-break moment on her promotion.
She's just a bad person! (We know this because she works at a bank.)
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
a goat has joined them for the seance
odds on the goat making it out alive are below zero
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
The psychic has finally explained that she could just give the cursed button to somebody else and they'd suffer the curse instead.
He puts it into an envelope and gives it to her, just like how she gave a coin to Justin Long for his collection and he put it into an envelope earlier.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Choke on it, bitch!"
this could so easily be very stupid, but fortunately Sam Raimi is very good at making stupid seem cool
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
she's got rid of the curse, her shitty coworker has been ousted and so she's got the promotion, it's a happy ending
but not for Justin Long in 3... 2...
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Look what I found!"
1.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •pending handle 🎏
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to pending handle 🎏 • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The movie that dares to ask, what if there /wasn't/ a Wizard of Oz... yet, it's --
#232, or #2194, 2013 Sam Raimi picture "Oz the Great and Powerful."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
I guess wanting all of this to be practical instead of a having layer of hokey CGI caked on top is wishing for this to be something 2013 Disney never would've made, so I should move on.
But it /feels/ bad, it doesn't /feel/ magical like 1939 and the "Wicked" films do. Aesthetically it feels like somebody put the Burton "Alice" in a blender with a bit of "Avatar" and called it a day.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
A change from the book to the 1939 film they retain here is, of course, the Emerald City actually being green, instead of merely appearing so because they force everyone to wear locked green goggles.
I get that it's the cinematic choice, I'd do the same thing, but the enforcing of the Wizard's desired reality through the goggles is such a strong underscoring of his fake power.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"/This/ is the Wizard?"
"There a problem?"
"...Yeah."
yeah I'd take one look at that guy and go nahhh too
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"It's very, very hard to kill a Wicked Witch!"
just get a super soaker
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"You needn't worry, Wizard. It's a magic wall, and all good-hearted souls can pass on through."
"...I'm gonna die!!"
hahaha
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"You're the wicked one! Not Glinda!"
what gave it away, is it her entire vibe
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Do you grant wishes?"
"Grant what?"
the entire audience jims at the camera
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Anke
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Anke • • •@anke The actor? He's probably best known for playing Harry Osborn in the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movies, and for being part of that Seth Rogen set of actors.
(More recently he was credibly accused of, if I recall correctly, using the acting school he'd started as a way to give himself access to vulnerable young women to sexually predate upon.)
Anke
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Anyway, point being, agreed that I do not consider the name a draw :p
Alex Daily!
in reply to Anke • • •@anke He /was/ considered an A-lister for a while, though it always felt like Hollywood was trying to make him happen more than he was happening.
But I also just don't buy him as a man from 1905!
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I know nothing about this one, except that there's a much later film that I also don't know anything about that adds "Court-Martial" to the title, which is surely based on the same source material, but alright, it's —
#233, or #2195, 1954 Best Picture nominee "The Caine Mutiny."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"The USS Caine is a minesweeper. These are paravanes used for minesweeping. They carry sweep wires off both sides of the ship. The wire contacts the mooring cable of a mine and saws it in two."
learning a lot about video game "Minesweeper" today
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"We've been in combat a year and a half and during that time we have never been asked to sweep one single mine. So the first thing you've got to learn about this ship is that she was designed by geniuses to be run by idiots."
learning a lot about the efficiency of the united states' wettest army today
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Bogart has observed that the Caine's crew approach to how to dress is that every day is casual Friday, and has assigned Willie Keith the job of Morale Officer, aka scolding everyone who isn't dressed according to procedure.
Willie Keith is a little too into this.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"The captain wants a meeting of all officers right away."
"Now, at 01:00 in the morning? Do you know what it's about?"
"Yes, sir. Strawberries."
Strawberries?
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
god, the conflict between "Bogart is mentally ill, needs help, and we acted to prevent that leading to unnecessary deaths" and "but calling him crazy is a stain on this decorated officer position" is, uh, very relatable
not about mental health, specifically, but when you're trying to do the right thing and somebody takes that as an offence to them personally, woof
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officer--"
In Bogart's head, all this, over Strawberrygate.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Santa Sponge Has Moved🏳️🌈⛄⛄
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Santa Sponge Has Moved🏳️🌈⛄⛄ • • •@retrosponge In a wet sack!
(A small pebble *can* be interesting.)
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •#234, or #2196, leaving now for this month's Mystery Classic.
The two hints:
* "Everybody comes when you call ... !" ("Iedereen komt als je ... roept!" in Dutch, presumably a famous line, with the ellipsis a redaction?)
* "Comes from Hong Kong."
We've been assuming it'll be one of those American action flicks starring one of the big Hong Kong action guys, like a Jackie Chan, but we don't know the line.
🇹 Ti
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to 🇹 Ti • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Couldn't have been more wrong, the Mystery Classic was 2006's "The Depawhrted." A little longer than I would maybe schedule for a Mystery Classic, but also, very good?
Aesthetically kind of peak early cellphones, Leo and Damon at the height of their powers, and what a cast. This might be what the purpose of Mark Wahlberg is?
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Even after two hours of some pretty intense violence, the deaths in the third act are still incredibly shocking -- the whole room jumped in their seats!
Have bickered in the past about whether a movie from 2001+ can be a "Classic," but, like, yeah, this one's a fuckin' Classic.
(I'm really up and down on what I've seen of Marty's work, and with one exception, I feel like it might just be that he works for me in the cinema and less so at home. But on the big screen, Marty kinda pretty good?)
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Should finish watching these before we go see the new one next week, it's --
#235, or #2197, 1994's "Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Blue
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Blue • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The Brother looked up how long this is and went, "woof, not a West Side Short Story, is it," leaving now to go see —
#236, or #2198, 1961's "West Side Story."
(Seen the Spielberg one, never seen this one.)
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •This thing bangs, honks, and slaps, daddyo.
Hard to fairly judge such an iconic classic when seeing it for the first time on the big screen, and you might reasonably have some notes -- a case could be made for a zippier edit, and obviously even by 1961 standards the exaggerated skin tone makeup crosses uncomfortably into some pretty bad brownface -- but even then this is clearly one of the great movie musicals.
Really good!
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •With lunch, I watched —
#237, or #2199, 2025 Netflix doc "Trainwreck: The Real Project X."
Very weird to watch a documentary about something that happened down the road from where I live! I did my first round of student teaching in this town! There's establishing shots of the train station and the Grote Markt!
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
That's really the story here, isn't it. Something innocent made historically awful by idiot men who can't conceive of how other people might feel about something they think they're doing "for the meme." Men like this are my enemy.
And though I think it's a good overview, I don't think the doc quite does justice to that part of it.
Owlor
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Owlor • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Yeah, I'm over here! No, to your left! Behind the-- Yeah, that's right, --
#238, or #2200, 2013's "Now You See Me."
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
They've been brought together by tarot card invitations, at a trick apartment a projector has shown them a hologram of a stage show. One year later they're performing it in Vegas.
"Tonight, we are robbing a bank."
Alright.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
They've pulled a guy from the audience and asked him to pick a bank. It's a bank in Paris. They've put him on stage, put a helmet on him, and had him sign a card he picked.
Isla Fisher's just thrown a scarf around the stage to make a contraption appear on it, a lot of CGI for a practical stage show.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
pending handle 🎏
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to pending handle 🎏 • • •Sensitive content
pending handle 🎏
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to pending handle 🎏 • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
They're Revealing how they did it, which is about how I expected. They picked this guy, activated his pre-existing hypnosis on stage, the portal just dropped him through the floor into a replica of the bank's actual vault. He thought he was actually there.
Meanwhile, they intercepted a shipment of actual cash in actual Paris... at the same time? Or earlier that night, I guess.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
It's quite involved, but stays on the just about believable side of the line.
They did intercept a cash truck and actually steal the money, though, which I'm pretty sure Air Bud knows no loop hole for.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
They're setting up for their New Orleans Mardi Gras show. Eisenberg has his entire crew wear trackers, which the FBI knows about, so they're tracking the tracked crew. (This will not work out in their favour.)
Meanwhile Caine (working with the wizards) is hassling Freeman (working with the FBI) and asking him to cut it the fuck out. But then there's no plot, so Freeman turns down his $3.5 million check.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Their New Orleans show is 100 seemingly unconnected tricks that may or may not be connected as one giant illuuusion, aka, magic montage.
Look, I can make a rabbit disappear with Adobe Premiere, too.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Hard to incorporate a card trick into this car chase, I guess.
Card chase. Car trick.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alright, this needs a The Prestige, doesn't it. It'll either turn out to be Actual Magic, or somebody working against them will turn out to have been involved all along. Could be Morgan Freeman. Don't think it's the French cop, because they want too badly for you to suspect her.
...Ruffalo /has/ been /very/ bad at his job.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Who? Jack Wilder."
Dave Franco, who did NOT die,
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"Almost as if they were on the in..."
yeah it's Ruffalo, hahaha
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
"The real magic is taking four strong solo acts and making them all work together."
the friends we hypnotised along the way
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •pending handle 🎏
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
in reply to pending handle 🎏 • • •Sensitive content
pending handle 🎏
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to pending handle 🎏 • • •pending handle 🎏
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to pending handle 🎏 • • •Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •This concludes the July 2025 #MovieThread
Alex Daily!
2025-08-01 11:38:30
Alex Daily!
Unknown parent • • •Alex Daily!
Unknown parent • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
Unknown parent • • •Alex Daily!
Unknown parent • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
Unknown parent • • •Alex Daily!
Unknown parent • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
Unknown parent • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
Unknown parent • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
Unknown parent • • •Sensitive content
@naga A fun Raimi/Coens fun fact is that they -- alongside Frances McDormand and Kathy Bates -- all lived together at the start of their careers. They made "Crimewave" together, the Coens are in a couple of his movies, and he's in "Hudsucker Proxy."
And I love seeing how they cross-pollinate.
Alex Daily!
Unknown parent • • •Sensitive content
Alex Daily!
Unknown parent • • •@naga I was thinking of "modern Blanchett" as when she stops playing Characters and her career becomes more about her getting brought in to do The Cate Blanchett Thing. What she does in Black Bag, Tár, Disclaimer.
Post-Lord of the Rings to pre-Carol I'm a little fuzzy on her, but by Carol, in 2015, she's definitely at "modern Blanchett."
Alex Daily!
Unknown parent • • •@naga Yeah, many of Hollywood's best lead actors still have a great character actor inside them who doesn't really get to come out.
Though I suppose when you get to that level, I do get why people don't turn down jobs that're made for them and that are essentially impossible to fuck up.
But I want to see actors get actively challenged by what they're doing!