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Wick is just shorthand for cool stunts - I gleaned from the trailer that there’s way more to it than that obv

wick movies I like mainly because they are stylistically really cool. yeah they do look like watch commercials I guess.

Monkey Man is absolutely great, and yeah the anti-Modiness lands even better after the recent election.

Yeah I want to back up the progressive bonafides but I think I've just aged out of pure action films, especially ones that lean hard on the violence.

The elevator scene was amazing

Andrew Mccarthy's Brats documentary is ... interesting if you want too see someone basically going through therapy onscreen

Yeah as a big Huges fan and 80s kid, I wanted to love this, but I just couldn't. It felt very indulgent, tbrh. Rob Lowe came off really centred and happy, and seemed like a really nice person. Demi was cynical but knowing about the therapy angle. But Mccarthy was this bundle of anxiety and repetition that started to feel really heavy and weird by the end. His interview with the author that coined the phrase felt off to me - like, Mccarthy's face was giving up this real anger he didn't know where to put, one he came to understand the guy had meant no malice!

one = once, my fingers are frozen and I'm typing like crud.

I’m watching Ripley and need to give a shout to whoever handled the sound design on that show. It’s really incredible and just as deliberate as the all the beautiful cinematography. There are numerous scenes where I’d expect music to fill in all the gaps, but they just let the sound of scene happen. And this is especially played to the hilt for almost the entire last half of the third episode. It’s really epic. If you have a good set of speakers at home I highly advise watching/listening to that episode. When the guy with the mop comes along toward the end it’s practically a jump scare because they’ve done such a good job training your ears to lean in.

xxpost yeah I realized afterwards that McCarthy is barely even mentioned in the article, but i think the unstated upshot is he’s angry on behalf of all of them, i guess? idk

but Blum doesn’t come off great either. imo he had some jealous axe to grind against all these handsome privileged stars & figured he’d take them down a peg or two. He does a lot of out of pocket shit-talking that feels very “fuck these clowns, I’m smarter than all of them” and it would have been good to see a longer conversation about that imo.

Oh yeah he came across as quite a dick.

To add more to support to Monkey Man, its really good, partcularly as a genre stew of the kung fu revenge thriller, and the modern stuff re: Modi is interesting too. Well worth it imo

Oh BTW to add one last thing re Brats: I noticed that Anthony Michael Hall's name and face did NOT come up at all even in passing. That seemed weird?

they showed him in clips from 16 candles and the Breakfast Club but to my mind, neither he nor RDJ were really 'brat pack' actors.

i think the other somewhat sad thing is that...andrew mccarthy was not a very good actor. it's possible this label hurt his career to a point (though pretty in pink came out after that article), but there's a reason why Rob Lowe, Demi Moore and Emilio Estevez kept working.

yeah there’s a lot of iirc Brats not covered at all.

AMH is one of the core 8 brat packers, according to Wikipedia

Also, it seems like McCarthy has worked regularly, at as much as Estevez

Breakin' On The One is a fun doc on Hulu. early 80s nyc breakers. you'd think people might be a little burnt out on the burnishing of the early hip hop legend (kinda how i feel about the endless nyc hardcore or nyc disco/club worship) but the footage is so damn cool that its always fun to watch. lots of background on rocksteady crew and dynamic rockers.
i used to watch the ny breakers in NYC in the early 80s when i was a kid. catch them in washington square park. i miss grimy 70s and 80s new york. it was nuts. i never even knew what to look at. there was something amazing to see in every direction.
its crazy how early breaking and graffiti became some sort of international museum piece. from the very beginning. so much footage and documentation! lots of early scenes didn't get that kind of coverage. helps to be in new york.

its short though! kinda wouldn't have minded more. there is stuff at the end about the breakdance fever that swept the world and i would have liked more of it. prince charles saying "dig that crazy rhythm" is a treat. i need to sample that.

los espookys fans need to be watching fantasmas, julio torres’s new show. just so good

Yeah it’s a real treat!