film director friday -- GEORGE MILLER

Of course, their plans to make another Mad Max flick went awry when SOMEONE had to go off and make their "Jesus gets slowly tortured" movie.

I leave it up to you to determine whether this was a bad thing or not.

Master Blaster can carry a fucking sequel!

Babe 2 and the Road Warrior is a toss up.

Only one of them has monkeys

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Not too surprising, but there's no monkeys in that one.

Babe: Pig In The City must have been a real challenge to make. Possibly the weirdest mainstream movie I've ever seen. The choir of cats was hilarious. Couldn't believe there was even a thunderdome scene. It's one of those films where the sheer amount of stuff going on distracts me from caring too much about the effects and other things that don't work that well.

It's an amazing movie, but I always wonder about the shear amount of animal handling in the movie if it was all on the up and up.

Can anyone tell me about Lorenzo's Oil and 40,000 Years of Dreaming?

I never saw it, but wasn't LO just a prestige-y Oscar grab?

never seen it but lorenzo's oil is supposedly a bit weird for a stab at a prestige Oscar which iirc may be chalked up to nolte.

40,000 Years of Dreaming is a documentary about Australian films. Didn't know there was a Happy Feet 2, haven't seen the first one either. Bunch of tv stuff and short films not listed here.

Happy Feet feels compromised--Robin Williams's antics are tiresome and unfunny--but it there are moments of perverse unease that definitely mark it as a film by the same director as BPitC.

BPitC is brilliant and deserves a lot more love than it gets. but it's awfully uncomfortable, yeah. long drowning of the thugdog villain is tough to watch.

BPITC is one of the greatest kids' films ever. More films need to be like it, but they won't be. Such surrealism, such brutality! It always takes just too long to reveal that the injuries aren't quite fatal...

Yes! I remember not even breathing during the near-drowning scene.

I never saw it, but wasn't LO just a prestige-y Oscar grab?

― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko),

It is not. The casting -- as odd as talking pigs and geese -- keeps it going. Susan Sarandon, an Italian Nick Nolte, and Peter Ustinov!

This poll list misses out the first Babe.

Lorenzo's Oil is really good, maybe up there with his best. The scene with Nick Nolte reading the future symptoms of his child might be the heaviest thing I've seen in years. I think the reason it wasn't a bigger hit is that some scenes are bit distressing, it feels quite long and the bulk of the film features research and science among a sort of community of parents, scientists, doctors, nurses and friends which is just far too in depth to feel like Oscar-bait or too "inspirational". But I never found all that science (which I know nothing about) too alienating.
After you see it you'll inevitably want to read about what happened to the real family.

first babe was directed by chris noonan though is produced by miller

rambo: first babe

White Fellas Dreaming is now on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaHBpxlFc34

so are all three parts of The Dismissal, though grossly cropped into 16:9 so nobody has a forehead

witches of eastwick

jack nicholson as personification of female desire, but it turns out that the traditional embodiment of masculinity tells women what they want to hear, negs and seduces them, then reacts with anger and violence and each womans worst fear when he doesn't get what he wants. Cher confronts JN and he explains looks, I just want a little bit of affection and subservience, I didn't WANT to hurt you, but look what you made me do. End of the movie portrays a fully functional non-traditional family unit who try and keep the toxic masculinity away by literally silencing JN at the end of the movie.

cool tennis match, turns out the first blush of love is when everything is effortless. also there's a dolly zoom into cher that struck me as very mad max-y.

speaking of cher, daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn! (also her performance is great, sarandon seems too much and stone seems too little, it's all about Cher's charisma)

cherry vomiting is some fucked up imagery.

full list of things going on at the mansion according to the woman who breaks her legs and is murdered by husband (felicia! like felicious!)

list of things that are going to happen at the house, according to felicia, presumably in order of awfulness:
vice
shamelessness
drugs
rape
incest
spanish fly
dildos
anal intercourse

no votes is fair because MM2 I guess but damn, good movie.

also I guess MM:FR would sweep dis ting nowadays