Watched the 1980 creature feature Alligator. Didn’t realise before going in that it was written by John Sayles, and it turned out to be a great, sometimes slow burning, film. There were little hints of the ideas and themes he puts into a lot of his own films, and I quite enjoyed it. The special effects were pretty great too (save for the couple shots where you could see the dolly under the giant prosthetic alligator).
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Watched Misery, and it was a blast! Kathy Bates and James Caan are just fantastic in this film together. James Caan’s performance gives the premise a lot more longevity than you might think as he doesn’t wallow in the titular emotion, but is committed to solving his problem by any means necessary. There’s some fun shots and the music is effective but forgettable. But the dialogue is just wonderful. Every time Annie says “Cockadoodie”, I smiled. Every time anyone says “Cockadoodie”, I smile.
When Annie hobbles Paul, my wife had a blanket over her head asking me “what’s happening now?”
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Watched The Iron Giant today ! It was pretty cool [I watched it a while ago]. I liked the anti-imperialist message…or at least, that was my reading of it
I also liked how it starred a cute waitress; I’ve been getting to know one of those myself. In fact, had her over last week to watch Hey Arnold! the Jungle Movie [she loves Hey Arnold!, but had never seen the movies!]
Speaking of which…I always note, Arnold! himself was kind of useless on that particular adventure…
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As a part of spooky season, I watched It Follows. It was more scary in concept than in execution, but I enjoyed all the pieces of the film. Solid performances, strong cinematography, a truly great score, and a fascinating premise make for a movie that is entrancing even if I didn’t find it greater than the sum of its parts. That being said I would recommend it and I am interested to see where the sequel will take this idea especially after the lingering element of the ending.
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Yes, such a good movie and I found it better than the book which usually is the other way around especially for Stephen King books.
Whenever George R. R. Martin does something else instead of finishing the Ice and Fire series I think of this movie and wonder how long until someone will tie him up to a bed and force him to finish it. 
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The best part, of a film full of great things, is Disasterpeace’s soundtrack.
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Yea, fantastic score. It was the first thing I mentioned to my wife as the credits rolled. I’m hoping Disasterpiece returns for the announced sequel along with the director and star.
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I recently resubscribed to Max, and when I was bringing the app up on the TV to put Totoro on for my son, he noticed Adventure Time was available to watch. He only knows what the show is because we have a Toybox 3D printer, and they did a collaboration with the Adventure Time brand where you can print all the characters. He wants to watch it. @BMO is Adventure Time OK for a 7 year old!?!
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Yes, I think so. A lot of the more complex ideas will go over any kid’s head, but he’ll eventually understand it as he gets older, but it’s very much the kind of vibrant and chaotic thing that kids love.
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Watched The Peanut Butter Falcon last night. Shia Lobouffffff feel good movie set along the east coast of the carolinas. Its about a small time outlaw who befriends a young man with down syndrome who wants to be a professional wrestler. It was okay, apparently got a lot of awards. Made me laugh a couple times, had some sweet moments.
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What went wrong with Uzumaki’s second episode? The anime’s executive producer has an answer, sorta
Many viewers have taken to social media to express their confusion and disappointment at what they have described as visible decline in the quality of the second episode’s animation, especially when compared to the series’ first episode. Fans online are upset and naturally want answers as to what happened. Fortunately, we now have something in the way of an answer, courtesy of since-deleted comments made by one of the series’ creators.
In a series of posts made on the social media website Bluesky, Uzumaki executive producer Jason DeMarco stated that not only was the reaction to the series’ second episode expected, but that someone was responsible for the noticeable dip in the animation for the episode. “I can’t talk about what went down but we were screwed over,” DeMarco wrote in a post that was screencapped before it was deleted. “The options were A) not finish and air nothing and call it a loss, B) Just finish and air ep 1 and leave it incomplete or C) run all four, warts and all. Out of respect for the hard work we chose C.”
DeMarco expressed understanding for the frustration and anger that Uzumaki fans had for the episode. “After waiting so long, it makes sense people would be mad. Unfortunately I can’t tell them who to blame it on… but someone is definitely at fault here, and we all just had to do our best when things imploded.” He then went on to commend the hard work of the animators and staff who worked on the series and said, “I didn’t think the actions of just one or two people should be the reason it never saw the light of day.”
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I watched it with all of my kids. I would say no preschool age as the show doesn’t mind the occasional scare, but it’s tame compared to the stuff we watched as kids. Plus there are genuinely good lessons in it for kids.
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Learned about this from @Sir_Laguna’s reporting on it.
What a shame. I was eagerly anticipating this but oh well I guess.
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I’m guessing you haven’t watched it yet, yes? From those tweets it certainly sounds like the second, third and fourth episode all won’t live up to episode one.
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It’s a big step down from the first episode, but I didn’t find it unwatchable. It’s just so-so, with a few running animations in particular looking crummy. Which of course is all a shame, given how nice the premiere looked… but them’s the breaks.
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I did see that second episode and my response was “woof”
I was somewhat hoping considering the amazingly short length of the series that the show would maybe bounce back, but this is pretty clearly saying it won’t.
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I haven’t watched any of it. What exactly is wrong with the second episode? Technical issues, or something deeper?
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Animation quality dropped substantially. Character models are off. Animation was choppy. Sometimes a cel is dragged to mimick motion, but it feels less like animation and more like a Sunday school flannelgraph. It would be spookily jarring to watch the first and second episodes back to back to see how far it really fell off.
Also the pacing sped up substantially. While I was happy with the inclusion of two stories I feel are important to the canon, there were four and a half stories covered in a 23 minute episode so none of them had enough breathing room.
There are two more episodes so maybe I’ll watch just to see some moments I like, but it also has become something I care much less about.
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Anyone else see Megalopolis?
I figured I needed to see it before it left theaters and I’m glad I went. I enjoyed the experience, but not sure if I’d categorize the movie as “good”.
It definitely gave me a lot to think about, especially knowing that it was a self-funded passion project from Francis Ford Coppola. It felt like he said what he wanted to say and was not super concerned with adjustments that would lead to better audience scores.
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But Francis Ford Coppola is a horrendous piece of shit so I’m kind of glad the movie is doing so poorly.
What makes him a piece of shit. I’m pretty uninformed and his wikipedia doesn’t have a “controversy” section which is usually where I go to figure out the bad thing a celebrity did.
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