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definitely could have shaved off 20 minutes, but despite its uhh troubling concept (?) this movie is about as good or bad as any other farrelly bros t. bonus star awarded for when jack black refers to jason alexander as "mudwhistle"

the supreme court has roundly rejected the use of the floating ball test

i am a frequent defender of much hated movies but WOW this one really is as bad as they say! by far the funniest thing in the movie is dana carvey’s character being named “pistachio disguisey”

okay so the movie mostly doesn’t work and i didn’t laugh once, but most egregiously: it is packed with late 90s pop punk adjacent music throughout the entire movie, but in the scene where jason biggs is lonely and contemplative they play… scarborough fair by simon and garfunkel??? adam’s song was right there

entrant to the shot on DV hall of fame

a little dated and at times a little dry with the occasional moment of transcendent euphoria - thinking here of steve harvey kicking over all the furniture so he can shake his ass in the biggest suit you’ve ever seen

some of the moving camera stuff is inventive and cool, but spike’s direction really shines in the crowd shot inserts, which are what really elevate this above your average stand up special and make it feel like it really captures the time and place. interesting foreshadowing of the bernie mac show, RIP to the legend

stanley tucci makes a valiant effort to give this movie some kind of something in the third act, but after an hour of extremely boring pauly shore antics i was already prepared to kms. you would think him not doing the weasel character (as much) would lead to some interesting choices, but no.

i think this is the last pauly shore feature i hadn't seen - gotta say, despite its reputation, bio-dome is far and away my favorite. watch that instead of this!!

movie day in second grade - one of my students stirs her root beer and ice cream together and says “look, i’m ratatouille!”

and you know what? she was ratatouille.

ironically, the film might feel more revelatory without the paul reubens talking head segments - throughout the film, it's abundantly clear that he's an extremely private person whose public persona is closely guarded, which is fine! maybe good, even! but given that he's not disclosing his sickness and the jokey sparring with the director, it seems like he's still holding back quite a lot and not giving the deep divulgence that one would hope for, i guess.

the archival stuff is great and incredibly complete, and you do really feel like you see every stage of pee-wee as a character documented well. interesting insight into the "scandals" as well for someone too young to have watched these things happen in real time.

final thought: i wish we had gotten a captain carl movie

overjoyed that one of the bits that had to make it into the feature is going back in for dental floss

revisiting this one in advance of eddington and man i am a sucker for a big crazy mess of a movie that may or may not "work"

insane that this didn't get at least some below the line oscar love, the sets and use of sound are great. special shoutout to bobby krlic/the haxan cloak for doing his best harold budd impression on the score

would love a whole separate movie about the rise and fall of red's pruno operation

those who can’t do horror make horror comedies; those who can’t do horror comedy are oz perkins and theo james

jigsaw and asac hank schrader chasing tom cruise around while dave grusin pounds away on some menacing piano riffs, doesn't get much better than that

will be featured in my retrospective on films that inspired Glover (1998) for the Nintendo 64

immediately cancelling my camping trip to thailand

hmm yes this seems to be filling me with nihilistic dread

roll credits

ELECTRONIC MUSIC
KEVIN DRUMM

ah okay

American Psycho prequel

bizarre movie - the baby talking, presumably the main part of the movie, feels like it could have been an afterthought that was all done in post? bruce willis feels like a very strange choice, almost to the point of being cast against type, but i guess this is basically just who he was as an actor coming off moonlighting. unbelievable that this made $300 million and inspired two sequels!!!

need a venn diagram of movies scored by vangelis and movies denounced by the u.s. state department

in a perfect world, you'd be able to go into this movie without knowing there were vampires, but alas! pleasantly surprised at how well the music works, lots of fun directorial flourishes, several great turns from the ing cast - delroy lindo and jack o'connell in particular. you do feel mbj bumping against the limits of his acting abilities occasionally and it could certainly be 20 minutes shorter, but overall a worthy addition to the vampire canon that feels like a well run call of cthulhu campaign (complimentary).

what if the babadook happened in georgia and wasn't especially good

watched with the children today and great news: they love the contraptions

too much time spent on the painfully dull plot, generally predictable jokes, and the teens are remarkably unpleasant. that said, it did get a couple laughs out of me and i must respect even a fairly lowbrow comedy for shooting so many things on location.

philip the fiend really going method for this one

director park sinking 3s with the rare successful smartphone centric movie

can't believe "talkartoon" didn't catch on

the oldsmobile: finally, a car for guys who don't fuck

pudgy the puppy confirms betty boop's calvinism: For all are not created in equal condition; rather, eternal life is foreordained for some, eternal damnation for others.

watched with my second graders today after finishing the book earlier this week - gotta say that my opinion remains that the book is like, an a-tier classic and the movie is just quite good, but after all the buy in of reading the book it would be impossible to call the movie unsuccessful. they laughed, they cried (man did they cry), they went out for recess and said "brightbill!!!" when they saw a goose.

only wickedness can come from such eyebrows

would’ve been four stars if seagal was doing the voice

this goes against most of my closely held beliefs, but i really think society lost something when we stopped forcing retail employees to wear demeaning costumes

furiously tugging at amy heckerling’s neck, trying to reveal mel brooks beneath

you can’t outrun divorce

first it’s zany and fun and tom cruise is jumping on the bar to recite poems, then coughlin slits his fucking throat and everything goes to hell

a secret vampire movie to complement director park’s overt vampire movie

fits neatly on the nicole kidman shelf between Birth and The Northman

shocking number of high profile cameos in this teen sex comedy directed by a nobody and starring two nobodies. what gives?? because of this, the movie actually has some pretty funny moments whenever we can get away from the lead foursome - particularly fred armisen basically doing a snl sketch in the middle of the movie

obviously there are things to love in this movie but when willie is running around shrieking at animals and short round is yelling YOU CHEAT YOU CHEAT i want to blow my fucking brains out

best casting of all time??

nice and wet, lots of squelching

i too have tried to make my life like tofu

is there anything better than a movie about profoundly stupid people that runs like a swiss watch

hadn’t seen this since 10+ years ago with zero context - revisiting i’m struck by how clearly this movie is all over tarantino (and vice versa…?) some beautiful saw/matrix type grungy green industrial sets

manages to (partially) capture the timeless grandeur of hamlet and yet it’s still funny every time someone pulls out a rocket launcher and kills everyone

un canadien en mode Joker

what if Mad Max: Fury Road happened in rural pennsylvania

not even the threat of nuclear war could stop me from chilling with the boys

um, young-goon appears to actually be an android, not a cyborg - i sure hope someone was fired for this glaring oversight!

isuzu yamada scary as hell‼️‼️

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