Last movie you watched

[rikkikow]

This evening I went to the New Parkway in Oakland for a Max Fleischer Animation Celebration. The selected shorts kept with a horror/Halloween theme and were dominated by Betty Boop and Bimbo:

I got the music but no anime

maybe boinsie could do one

[erilaz]

I got the music but no anime

Weird. I can't explain that. I can see the video just fine.

There are several versions of the cartoon (with different soundtracks) up on YouTube, though, if you want to see it. I chose this one because the music was most appropriate for the time period. The music they had at the New Parkway screening was very modern and not as good, IMHO.

This one has the same music as the one I posted before, but the picture quality isn't as good:

[rikkikow]

I wasn't talking about your post but mine. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[erilaz]

Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) in 35mm at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission in San Francisco. I've seen this movie about 25 times, and I can pop in a DVD of it anytime I want, but I hadn't seen it on the big screen since the early 1990s. Unfortunately, there were technical difficulties during the opening narration, so we only got that in bits and pieces.

It's a Small World: I had time to kill before the movie, so I got a burrito at my favorite taqueria in the neighborhood. While I was there, a friend of mine who lives in the South Bay, one of the world's foremost Tolkien scholars, came in. He had just gone to see a movie at the Roxie and was picking up a burrito to take home.

[erilaz]

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) — A 100% true, completely unexaggerated tale of rock 'n' roll (and polka) excess with an amazing cast and mind-blowing cameos. I nearly died laughing when I realized that Andy Warhol was Conan O'Brien and Salvador Dalí was Emo Philips!

[Zunu]

I saw Black Panther: Wakanda Forever on Thursday evening. It had both the good and bad aspects of MCU films. Lots of action and amazing CG, but also a clunky storyline weighed down by the need to fit it into the greater MCU narrative. Overall it was decently acted and had some really emotional beats. I could hear people sobbing in the audience, and there was cheering as well. The mid-credits scene for once actually was meaningful to the plot of the film it was attached to. (There was no post-credits scene.) For me I'd rank BPWF a bit better than the first outing, and certainly better than the jokey self-parody Thor has become.

[boinsie]

Watched One Cut of the Dead (カメラを止めるな!). It's a unique Japanese zombie horror film from 2017, which I found to be a thoroughly enjoyable hour and a half. Probably best to go in not knowing much else about it.

[erilaz]

^ I added that to my Netflix DVD queue about two months ago, but I have so many movies in that queue that if I don't proactively accelerate it, it will take almost four years to percolate to the top. Maybe I should give it a boost.

My most recent movie: Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021) — Though set in post-apocalyptic Japan and directed by Sion Sono (園子温), it's an American film starring Nicolas Cage. It's got plenty of Sono's typical weirdness, but it's not one of his best.

[Moh]

Kate (2021): I'm late seeing this movie bc I didn't have Netflix when it came out. I'm down bad for Mary Elizabeth Winstead and this made it even worse. It was good; lots of action! I had forgotten that Miyavi was in it, though his part was short lived.

[erilaz]

Violent Night — It's Christmas Eve, and a gang of mercenaries takes the members of a wealthy family hostage. But they didn't count on the real Santa Claus (David Harbour from Stranger Things) being in the house. Now the crooks are on Santa's Naughty List, and he's gonna give 'em something more extreme than a lump of coal. Directed by Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters).

I saw this at a Sunday matinee in one of the two largest theaters at a multiplex in Berkeley, and I was the only person in the audience. So it's not surprising that there are plans to tear the place down and replace it with another m*****f***ing apartment building.