‘Exceedingly strange‘ in the sense that it is apparently taking seriously the concept that the Virgin Mary is the Mother of God. It’s like a 1950s Technicolor MGM epic or something, and I’m having difficulty parsing it. I kept waiting for the irony to show up.
Category: Movies
Tweet of the Day, Sometimes The Perfect Shot Gets You.
(Via @DaddyWarpig) This is pretty cool.
Behold! The “Fresh from Room 101” YOUNG WERTHER trailer.
When I saw they had made a romantic comedy called YOUNG WERTHER, I naturally laughed. Why wouldn’t I? It was such an entertaining accident.
The cobbled-together CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD trailer.
I’ve never seen a Marvel movie presented less like a Marvel movie than CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD. Also the CGI looks… I dunno. Maybe it’s fine and I’m just old.
I am coming to the conclusion…
…that many of these beach movies do not hold up well. It’s not just the out-of-date cultural referents. It’s how the culture itself sounds different, pre-Beatles. On the bright side, I haven’t seen anything that should make me do things much differently for BANSHEE BEACH. My existing rough impressions of the genre are actually fine.
I should watch JAWS again, though.
#commissionearned
The new hardscrabble MARVEL: THUNDERBOLTS* Special Look.
I still don’t know why the asterisk. Anyway… it’s kind of growing on me, you know? Sort of like SUICIDE SQUAD, with extra self-awareness. I mean, just look at this picture. Everything about THUNDERBOLTS is Silver to the MCU’s Golden Age, or possibly Bronze.
So, new plan for NotAWriMo 2024.
This week has been one for the books, in terms of dealing with the fallout of the rest of the family being sick at various points during it. Writing has taken the hit. Such is life.
So, here’s the new plan. I lean into it, and spend the weekend watching surfing and beach movies. First up is GIDGET, which is… yeah. I understand that things were a bit different, sixty-five years ago, but… okay. At least the actresses aren’t fifteen and sixteen.
#commissionearned
The THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM teaser trailer.
Question: How hard can Daffy Duck go?
Answer: Pretty damned hard. This is a 1980s, heavy metal, HEAVY METAL delight:
It is NOT true that men only think about the Roman Empire…
…sometimes we switch it out to think of MASTER & COMMANDER.
Finally watched that new Deadpool movie. I do not care about most of the references but I'm fixated on this ship in the Fox graveyard being the HMS Surprise from MASTER AND COMMANDER. pic.twitter.com/HYAzvH25Lg
— Russ Fischer (@russfischer) October 25, 2024
Via GeekTyrant.