Out of interest, did you like the backrooms stuff, particularly that by Kane Pixels, before the movie?
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I haven't really checked out his YouTube channel. Just vaguely aware of the creepypasta.
I've seen lots of posts from fans clamoring for an exclusively found footage movie so I'm assuming that used to be his thing.
The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act
I am a good boy and won't spoil it, but... It's garbage. The memes are true and I brought this on myself.
Fandom this or fandom that, but the last hour and a half of the show is mostly unfun and boring. The worst aspects of the earlier episodes i.e. just characters talking to each other slowly with almost no personality take up most of the runtime. The brief funny moments in between become unexpectedly jarring. In a wacky comedy show. Because it's surrounded by uninspired therapy talk.
1/5 and I'd give the rest of the show a 4/5
I am a good boy and won't spoil it, but... It's garbage. The memes are true and I brought this on myself.
Fandom this or fandom that, but the last hour and a half of the show is mostly unfun and boring. The worst aspects of the earlier episodes i.e. just characters talking to each other slowly with almost no personality take up most of the runtime. The brief funny moments in between become unexpectedly jarring. In a wacky comedy show. Because it's surrounded by uninspired therapy talk.
1/5 and I'd give the rest of the show a 4/5
Went and saw Obsession for a second time. It's much funnier when you know where it's going, and there's lots of small details to appreciate. Inde Navarrette is a goddamn superstar. I guess my main puzzlement with this movie is how many people think that Nikki has genuine feelings for Bear. I could not pick a single moment where there was any indication of that. If anything, she seemed annoyed with Bear's inability to just come out with his feelings for her. I think it also adds to the movie's punch that Bear ruins his and all his friends' lives over someone who's not even into him, while missing the obvious signs from Sarah.
The actress has said they shot her scenes both ways - she's into him, she isn't - and then mixed it up in the editing process, sort of what they did in American Psycho and whether Kimball is or isn't onto Bateman. So the intention was that it should be ambiguous, which is what I got from the movie. Her being annoyed at the dude for not being able to express his feelings doesn't necessarily preclude the fact that she has feelings for her. My read was she may have had a crush on him way back in the past but sort of lost interest once it became clear he'd never do anything about it.
For what it's worth I don't think they would've worked out as a couple in the long run. I think she would've gotten sick of him within a few months.
A ★★★★★ review of The Public Enemy (1931)
“You ain’t changed a bit. Besides, your hands ain’t so clean. You killed and liked it! You didn’t get those medals by holding hands with those Germans!” This movie, a pre-Hays Code era film based off of an unpublished novel named Beer and Blood, did have a couple of shake-ups in terms of...
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A ★★★★½ review of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
“The men, of course, they would follow Lucky Jack anywhere, rightfully confident of victory. But therein lies the problem. You aren’t accustomed to defeat. And chasing this larger, faster ship with its long-guns is beginning to smack of pride.” An adaptation of the Aubrey-Maturin series of...
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Genuinely crazy how Obsession came from the mind of a guy who made skits on YouTube Shorts. Or at least, that's what I knew him for. I guess it only makes sense that the Jordan Peeles of the future will be coming from social media backgrounds.
There is a certain pipeline from comedy to horror, yes.
It's also funny, because it's really easy to imagine the basic premise of Obsession as some shitty 00's romcom starring, like, Adam Sandler or Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston or something.
Honestly it's not super far removed from Ben Stiller's The Heartbreak Kid, in terms of bags hottie > slowly realizes he's stuck with a maniac.
Jordan Peele even said one of the things that drew him to horror is that, at their core, both horror and comedy rely heavily on timing to have the greatest impact, so he felt like it wasn't as much of a swerve as people seemed to think it was on the surface to go from comedy sketches to horror directing.
I wasn't remarking that its crazy that he went from comedy to horror, more that making the jump from short form content to Hollywood is incredibly impressive. His YouTube channel isn't even that big, subscriber wise. The producer must have REALLY loved his stuff.
A ½ review of Scary Movie 5 (2013)
“But the minute it becomes too difficult, I’m giving up.” “That’s the spirit!” After they finished making A Haunted House, but before it was released, the Wayans brothers received an offer to buy the movie from none other than The Weinstein Company. According to the Wayans, the Weinsteins...
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La casaca de Dios ("The Jersey of God")
Cornier than corn, in the grand tradition of Argentine comedies. An aging, doddering kit man who after the FIFA quarter-finals of 1986 watched in despair as Maradona exchanged jerseys with an English player is desperate to get the jersey back after Diego dies and the jersey goes up for auction in 2022 (which in real life went for £7.1m). Supposedly he's operating on the superstition that Argentina, up until 2022, hasn't won another world cup in 36 years because that one jersey never came back home. Uh huh. We eventually learn the real reason why he wants that jersey back, and that pushes the movie from silly folksy stuff to something that's a bit more earnest but the movie is simply not equipped to deal with it so it just becomes sappy and tasteless. But even without this twist the movie simply isn't very funny. You expect the old man's daughter and a few of his reimaining devotees to do some Goodbye Lenin shit for his own good but the movie half-asses that particular subplot and can only think of a couple of things to try out before surrendering itself to a series of contrivances that fail to land the plane, emotionally speaking.
Cornier than corn, in the grand tradition of Argentine comedies. An aging, doddering kit man who after the FIFA quarter-finals of 1986 watched in despair as Maradona exchanged jerseys with an English player is desperate to get the jersey back after Diego dies and the jersey goes up for auction in 2022 (which in real life went for £7.1m). Supposedly he's operating on the superstition that Argentina, up until 2022, hasn't won another world cup in 36 years because that one jersey never came back home. Uh huh. We eventually learn the real reason why he wants that jersey back, and that pushes the movie from silly folksy stuff to something that's a bit more earnest but the movie is simply not equipped to deal with it so it just becomes sappy and tasteless. But even without this twist the movie simply isn't very funny. You expect the old man's daughter and a few of his reimaining devotees to do some Goodbye Lenin shit for his own good but the movie half-asses that particular subplot and can only think of a couple of things to try out before surrendering itself to a series of contrivances that fail to land the plane, emotionally speaking.
A ★★★★★ review of Nope (2022)
“I guess some animals ain’t fit to be trained.” As part of Jordan Peele’s 5 year production deal with Universal Pictures, this film was announced in 2020, although it did not have a title at that time. Peele himself has said that he wrote the film both out of concern of what he saw cinema...
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