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forget it jake

Forget it, Jake. It’s Castration Town.

Forget it, Jake. It’s Bio-violence Town.

Forget it, Jake. It’s Puffball Town.

Forget it, Jake. It’s Forced Amnesia Nerve Stapling Town.

Forget it, Jake. It’s Town Zone 1-3.

Forget it, Jake. It’s Floating Sky Town Zone and you don’t have Boots of Icarus yet.

“Forget it, Jake. It’s Town.” -@cadenzafiorillo

Forget it, Jake. It’s Train Town it went choo-choo over in that direction

Forget it, Jake. I can hear everything. It’s Everything Town.

Forget it, Jake. It’s Tone Argument.

Forget it, Jake. It’s Owl Town. Owls are big and will kill you.

Shotgun Stories

I recorded this from Shotgun Stories. I highly recommend this and the director’s other film, Take Shelter.

viggo mortensen bleeding in a bathhouse

the bathhouse fight scene in Eastern Promises is amazing–depicting as beautiful this naked man fighting, in the way women are more commonly depicted

the beautiful physicality of naked, bleeding Viggo Mortensen

 

a string of sentences after seeing Prometheus the movie

Prometheus is a movie where they cast a young dude as a super old guy because they can? they use six hours of makeup to do this.

there are no old actors who would appreciate work. you must hire a handsome young man and remake him.

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Bug March

“Victory For The Bugs!! A Glorious March! 栄光!Drama and Action perfectly mixed!!”

notes from abandoned Sports Film screenplay

establish they’re a shitty team of ragtags
slices of small town life
big city team kicks their ass
some drama happens
training montage
big deciding game against city team
they almost lose
they win

CAST

COACH (maybe he has a dark past and is alcoholic)
shoots bottles at night with his gun
maybe he’s an ex-detective
“i may be an ex-detective…but you’re gonna be an ex-alive dude”

SHITTY SMALL TOWN TEAM
Galileo (he’s the smart one)
Buck (cool dude?)
Johnny (his role is to have a normal name)

FOOTBALL DIALOGUE
this ain’t figureskating get your head in the game
toss that ball at me! TOSS THAT BALL AT ME
you need to learn to toss the ball!

The Banner Saga & Eyvind Earle

Some ex-Bioware doods are working on an interesting looking game called the Banner Saga right now.”Battle painstakingly hand-animated foes in strategic, turn-based combat. Make decisions with real consequences in conversations with people you’ll actually care about.” Apocalyptic tactical rpg with Vikings in a painterly style is interesting enough, but what caught my eye was the similarities between their art style and Eyvind Earl’s work (the painter best known for defining the look of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty).

Look at the shadows and trees in the Banner Saga–

And back at Eyvind’s landscapes. The same long shadows that cover the face of the earth, cast by unseen light just beyond the edge of the painting, and the crescent curve of the trees.

A beautiful influence to draw on.

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notes on take shelter

Take Shelter is fucking powerful and intense. Doubt and dread in equal measure.

The film makes us feel the weight of everything hanging over the character’s heads until we fear it as much as they fear it. We understand what everything means to them.

Take Shelter has a Biblical feel, but avoids the anti-feminism and uncomfortable depiction of women that it could so easily have fallen into.

This is a film dealing with the question of insanity. But we don’t know which reality to turn to because we’re so far inside the head of the main character (Michael Shannon) that we have as much idea as he does. His portrayal carries the movie–subdued, cringing torment, beautiful to watch.

The Gimmicks of William Castle

“Homicidal (1961): This film contained a “Fright break” with a 45 second timer overlaid over the film’s climax as the heroine approached a house harboring a sadistic killer. A voiceover advised the audience of the time remaining in which they could leave the theatre and receive a full refund if they were too frightened to see the remainder of the film. To ensure the more wily patrons did not simply stay for a second showing and leave during the finale Castle had different color tickets printed for each show.[1][p 18–9] In a trailer for the film, Castle explained the use of the Coward’s Certificate and admonished the viewer to not reveal the ending of the film to friends, “or they will kill you. If they don’t, I will.”[3] About 1% of patrons still demanded refunds, and in response:

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A Lonely Place To Die

Often a horror film pairs lack of characterization with stupidity. Two-dimensional characters doing dumb, selfish things that get them killed. A Lonely Place To Die is a film with briefly sketched characters who matter because of the things they do, not less. We don’t know anything about the people beyond that they are mountain climbers hiking the desolate mountains of Scotland. But the end of the film depends on everything they do.

Low budget at 4 million, but with beautiful shots of mountains and moor and cloud-shadow. There is little more inspiring than the shadow of clouds across wide, untrammeled earth. No masterpiece, but definitely worth watching, with humanity in the sum of its parts.

Film: Kill List (2011)

Just saw the British film Kill List. Another film worth watching without knowing anything about it. The UK’s response to Audition?

The mounting tension, the lean cuts, the way a certain line is delivered, the ambiguity. Unraveling layer by layer. If you like dark things full of dread, full of wondering.

Film review: 50/50

A FILM THAT DERIVES CONTENT FROM THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SEXES. MEN HAVE ENORMOUS BOILS ON THEIR BELLIES THAT REGULARLY SPEW SOME KIND OF HARD MATERIAL LIKE GIANT CUT NAILS. WOMEN HAVE THIS THING WHERE THEY DON’T HAVE HEADS.

ONE MAN GETS CANCER. THE MAN’S FRIEND IS BIGGER THAN HIM AND LIVES FOR SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH ANONYMOUS WOMEN. THE MAN’S BIG FRIEND SAYS TO WOMEN: MY FRIEND HAS CANCER, THAT IS TERRIBLE.

WOMEN ARE AROUSED BY DISEASE AND LET THE MAN’S BIG FRIEND PUT HIS PENIS INSIDE THEIR NECKHOLES.

THE MAN WITH CANCER IS TOO SOCIALLY INEPT TO EASILY HAVE SEX OR COMMUNICATE WITH WOMEN, BUT FORTUNATELY HE IS INEXPLICABLY SURROUNDED BY BEAUTIFUL WOMEN WHO ADORE HIM AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO BE NEAR HIM. HE DOESN”T REALLY SAY ANYTHING OR SEEM TO DO ANYTHING CREATIVE, INTERESTING, OR EMOTIONALLY TRUE. BUT WOMEN LOVE HIM.

THESE WOMEN ARE EITHER VAPID, BROKEN, OR QUIRKY TO THE POINT OF NEUROTICISM. THEY GIGGLE AND CRY THEIR WAY INTO HIS PENIS.