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Watching some Bong-joon Ho in prep for Mickey 17 at the weekend: Mother and Snowpiercer.
Mother was sensational! Maybe better that Parasite. Similar gritty drama motifs.
Snowpiercer was pretty good but not great. I like his fantastical work and The Host is probably still my favourite film of his. (Okja also great but did not watch it this week.)
I also re-watched True Grit and LA Confidential this week. Both solid, True Grit better.
Mickey 17 Return To The Batcave Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit And The Pendulum
After rewatching Justice League Unlimited last week and remembering he voiced The Question, I've been having myself a little Jeffrey Combs film fest.
Watched all 3 Re-Animators and The Frighteners. I'll probably keep it going with From Beyond and/or Castle Freak, neither of which I've seen yet.
Are the Re-Animator sequels worth a watch? I love the OG, but I've always assumed any sequels would lack its charm.
Yeah, I think so. There are 4k remasters of both on youtube.
Bride of Re-Animator (2nd one) is good, and still pretty coherent (for Re-Animator anyway). It's also got one of my favorite speeches from West. It's based off the chapters of the Lovecraft story the first one didn't cover. It kicks off with West and Cain from the first one trying to rebuild Meg from spare parts.
Beyond Re-Animator is, if I'm honest, a narrative mess with plot holes you could drive a truck through, but it's still pretty fun. It's not based on the Lovecraft story at all, they made up some stuff with West in a prison for the actual 13 years since the last one. A new prison doctor who's been following his work helps him make some new reagent and shit gets out of hand.
Beyond has some of my favorite undead in the series though. A junkie gets a vial and shoots up with it, while he's still alive. It goes... poorly.
Watched mickey 17, it was okay.
It could've lost about 20-30 minutes of runtime and been fine.
All Quiet on the Western Front because I just finished the book. I gave it 3/5 stars. I enjoyed 1917 better.
In the past week I've seen:
Ne Zha
The Rule of Jenny Pen (theater)
Ne Zha was decent. Really fun action sequences and great visuals in the action sequences. Some of the humor didn't land, likely because it's a kids movie and maybe because I'm American and Chinese humor just doesn't land as well for me.
The Rule of Jenny Pen was certainly something. Its basically John Lithgow physically and mentally abusing elderly people with a puppet. I'd recommend watching it. Lithgow does a great job playing an absolutely unhinged psychopath.
I saw Mickey 17 at my local cinema. Overall it was a good experience, the other cinema-goers were quiet and respectful so we could all enjoy the film properly (doesn't always happen). The film itself was great for about two thirds and then pretty mediocre in the final third, but overall it was worth seeing for some classic Bong Joon-ho comedy.
Women in Love, definitely Ken Russell's masterpiece.
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