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Three Resurrected Drunkards 1968
It's an urban legend that The Monkees wanted to make a follow-up to their scorched earth, "the butcher cover" esque metafilm Head (1968) so that its tagline could be "From the people that gave you head". Well Oshima's Three Resurrected Drunkards also casts a boyish pop band as its leads, in an act of transgression more profound than self-conscious trolling. So I can gladly say, Three Resurrected Drunkards: better than head.
Also: of course it is unshakeably like Godard's Weekend if it was less reliant on disquisition
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The Killer 2023
Should have ditched the dead girlfriend plot, dialed back the narration, and been Playtime with a contract killer (the brutal action scene central to the film with killer sound design can stay).
That said I think the people slagging it off as some poorly plotted frivolous "literally me" movie are making a big mistake.
The biggest laugh I got out of it was the venture capitalist in the Sub Pop t-shirt, kind of a headshot to Gen X's posturing cynicism + refusal to stand for anything.
This movie is funny!
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Meg 2: The Trench 2023
Has the antiseptic direction of a mobile game ad, bereft of tension and consequence to the extent that the film resembles flop-era Fast and Furious more than it does Jaws, careens artlessly from frantic action scene to frantic action scene, with a whiplash-inducing pivot halfway through the film from aspiring Paul Greengrass procedural to nonstop shark gags.
A good time at the movies, even has a successor to LL Cool J's song for Deep Blue Sea
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Light Sleeper 1992
I'm intrigued by the temporal relationship between this film and the MTV era. The glossiness of the film's portrayal of New York City: the crystalline rain and the digressions into the film's soundtrack that are dialogueless and music video-esque. Is it harkening back to stories like Less than Zero and Bright Lights Big City or still deploying these signifiers with a pretense of modernity?
This line of questioning is complicated by the film being released in 1992 (a liminal period…
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