Sonic Youth Gossip - >>the last movie you watched

she did zero dark thirty, the hurt locker, strange days, point break, and blue steel. you must have seen at least one of those (strange days is an underrated cyberpunk ripped straight from william gibson by the most successful hollywood plagiarist, point break is keanu and the dead guy, blue steel is the best legs of the 80s, and hurt locker was a really good movie i thought-- it also won some prizes). BUT BEFORE THAT she painted stuff like this:

according to some article this was some preproduction she did for the hurt locker

so nocturnal animals would you say it belongs in what genre? i am doing an experiment trying to match genres to northrop frye's cycles ha ha ha ha haha ha ha. please no fucking spoilers giveaways hints or anything like that. you're fucking terrible with the spoilers! i'm only asking "tragedy" "comedy" "satire" that sort of thing. only that.

so yes i am a little insane. I AM ALSO VERY FUCKING BASIC. and proud of it. i drink instant coffee and miller lite. i also traded my mid-century modern "antiques" for camping furniture.

fuck refinement

but anyway, what was i saying?

also i look forward to tesla never posting here

I'm awesome at spoilers. Nobody does spoilers better than me. Nobody.

You are cranky!

Anyway, no spoilers: it's a tragedy.

(I don't think I've given away anything that you can't see in a description of the film, or by reading the back of the Bluray box, just so you know)

But it's a tragedy. There is exactly zero comedy in it.

Severian

02.27.2017 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by evollove

I like his taste in music.

I don't even think I know what he likes. I only know that he's either a very committed troll, or batshit crazy.

evollove

02.27.2017 04:45 PM

Oscars occur during the Biblical time of the sacrifice of the golden calf. FACT!

Heart surgery. Right.

And tesla's the crazy one?

Open your eyes man!

!@#$%!

02.27.2017 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Severian

thanks! i'll save it for the late summer/fall

ha ha ha ha

im serious. how tragic is that now

i wasn't cranky. it's that every time i ask no spoilers you give major clues away lol. so i had to be firm. but say no more! let's change subjects

northrop frye. airspace fast food.

!@#$%!

02.27.2017 04:55 PM

ok maybe im cranky that im not in new orleans at the mardi gras or in panama or somewhere that celebrates the carnaval

but not like, cranky cranky, more like, pining maybe

no i actually feel great. it's the day after the hangover and i'm superrelaxed

--

looking for comedies in the classical sense now or some shit about "the birth of the hero" i don't really understand (northrop frye)

Rob Instigator

03.01.2017 09:20 AM

Odd what the ratings board censors deem a PG-13 as oppposed to R rating.

I give it a 7/10.

!@#$%!

03.01.2017 09:25 AM

so comedy season is coming up (we had frozen windshields this morning, but still, spring is starting to show up on the ground) and i need a new repertoire.

comedy in the classical "happy ending" sense, not in the contemporary "oh so funny" sense. though they're not mutually exclusive of course.

basically i need movies with sympathetic characters who triumph against adversity. "heroes" who live to tell the tale not die in a fire.

terrible premise, i know, with so much hollywood pap made along these lines, but i welcome quality recommendations from the hive mind.

ilduclo

03.01.2017 09:42 AM

So, is Frozen Windsheilds the new Disney?

!@#$%!

03.01.2017 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by ilduclo

So, is Frozen Windsheilds the new Disney?

no, it's more like a tom sawyer style amusement park where i get to scrape ice off trucks because it's the greatest thing in the world!

and they serve airspace junk food like northrop fries, so in that sense it's more like... epcot

demonrail666

03.01.2017 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

comedy in the classical "happy ending" sense, not in the contemporary "oh so funny" sense. though they're not mutually exclusive of course.

It's a Gift

Some W.C. Fields are clever/funny but this one's just really really funny - and unusually uplifting (for him).

The Philadelphia Story

Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant doing clever/funny in a way that's never not funny. Utterly brilliant.

Mr. Hulot's Holiday

The perfect summer feel-good comedy, bar none. Pure uplift.

Rob Instigator

03.01.2017 05:45 PM

The Sandlot - Gets being a child right

!@#$%!

03.01.2017 06:45 PM

great, great!

i've got "bringing up baby" right here so that looks promising

hulot--yes, i love it! and mon oncle etc. all of it.

i'll look for the other ones

need more! please feed the beast. gotta plan from "very soon" into mid-summer or later. need like 4 movies per weekend, thats... a lot a ha ha

will also need *cough cough* "romances". fits frye's cycle and my wife has been enjoying POLDARK which i think fits the mold

everything alive/uplifting you can think of.

death begins some time in late august or september with TRAGEDY SEASON lololol. plus horror and vileness, ending in total cynicism (THE RULING CLASS was... wow).

but now, time for the "positive" stuff

!@#$%!

03.05.2017 03:39 PM

got REMO WILLIAMS thinking it was some sort of lost 80s action classic i had never seen

nope. it was just terrible lolololololol

Severian

03.05.2017 06:40 PM

I had been watching a documentary about Prince Philip, and somehow that brought me to this, which I didn't know existed until just a few hours ago.

It's entertaining, for a Sunday "furnace is broken and we're stuck in a shit hotel with a laptop and fuckall else to do" movie.

!@#$%!

03.05.2017 08:17 PM

holy shit i just finished O LUCKY MAN!

great film, great fucking satire, super hilarious (but in a bitter way), malcolm mcdowell and helen mirren on the same screen-- ah shit, this saved today's screenings because the previous one was crap but this more than made up for it

ilduclo

03.09.2017 12:36 PM

I Am Not Your Negro, excellent biography of James Baldwin, highest recco's

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5804038/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Rob Instigator

03.09.2017 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

got REMO WILLIAMS thinking it was some sort of lost 80s action classic i had never seen

nope. it was just terrible lolololololol

As a young teen I read aqs many of the Destroyer men's adventure series that that Remo movie is based on. I loved the character of Chiun and how he was always insulting the white man, western culture, etc., but he loved the highest art achieved in america, the soap opera. The movie captured maybe 10% of what the books are like. very disappointing.

Rob Instigator

03.09.2017 12:51 PM

then I had to see that fucker with a shaved pate pretending to be Hnery Miller trying to slam ass into anais nin and uma thurman.... hahhahahahahhah that movie sucked shit too, and was hard to masturbate to as well.....