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Spring Season: Week 75
lol yup, this week off was a total wash
Unwinding with some AEW Dark while I do my nails, hoping the return to work tomorrow and having a strict schedule for a week will give me a chance to reset my everything. Diet, mainly, wow do I feel like hot garbage after the way I've been eating this week! I also want to write things, though. At least I'm relaxed?
I dunno, I'm all over the map. Nothing coherent in me at the moment. Tomorrow, tomorrow, always tomorrow.
One more movie roundup for the road. See you in the morning, internet.
FILMS
Female Trouble (1974): John Waters has been something of a tragic blind spot in my pop culture knowledge (outside of Hairspray and that episode of The Simpsons), and I'm looking forward to fixing that a bit!
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (1971): If Grace Jones was mad at me, I would simply end my life! This is a pretty unfocused documentary, and I'm not sure there's much to be gained from the intimacy of some of the footage; it could probably be edited into something cohesive and telling, but this ain't it. That concert footage, though, my GOD! So dynamic and engaging! I would have much preferred just an entire concert movie in that style.
The Green Knight (2021): Beautiful and thoughtful and alright fine I guess I'll finally watch some more David Lowery stuff!! I've been largely avoiding him for ages (even though he edited Upstream Color which I fuck with so hard), mostly because of the discourse around Ghost Story when it came out; I gotta be in the right frame of mind for stuff that so many people are gonna say is boring! But yeah, this was fantastic, one of the best pure character pieces I've seen in a dog's age, and I'm gonna be so pissed in a year when Dev Patel doesn't win an Oscar. Leshia's Pick of the Week, obviously.
His Kind of Woman (1951): Sultry and moody and what even was the plot here? I don't know, I was too distracted by all the gratuitous sexiness right up until good guy Vincent Price got to go absolutely buck wild in the last act. That ruled.
In Name Only (1939): Refreshingly restrained in terms of melodrama, right up until the last act, when someone slips and lets go of the firehose and it goes flying all over the place, spraying uncontrollably every which way. Nice to see a movie this old where the moral isn't just 'stick with your wife' in the end, even if they had to make her cartoonishly evil to pull it off.
Macao (1952): The von Sternberg parts were VERY von Sternberg, it felt exactly like a rehash of all those foreign-set Dietrich collabs in all the best ways in so many parts of it, but the tonal whiplash from the random Ray sections that really stick out make this a thoroughly weird movie on the whole. Not bad, just... weird.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941): Had no clue Hitch had ever directed anything as funny as Robert Montgomery trying to discreetly bloody his nose at the dinner table, but here we are. An uneven movie, but Lombard makes it all feel so effortless.
Personal Best (1982): You know it's good when the arm wrestling scene is more erotically charged than the sex scene that follows it. I had to get the queer Olympians movie in before the weekend was out, obviously! A beautiful celebration of bodies in motion, and if I hadn't known that so many members of the cast weren't even actors, I never would have guessed it.
The Suicide Squad (2021): I'm so glad Marvel briefly caved and tried to appease a right-wing Twitter mob and I can't believe a giant starfish almost made me tear up. This shit's great. Leshia's Pick of the Week Runner-Up; any other week and it would have probably been a lock, but it was a good one for going to the movies.
SHORTS
The Adventurer (1917): How many times is someone falling down a cliff funny? Exactly this many times.
Lu tempu di il pisci spata (1955): Oh, to be a midcentury Italian man, lounging in my boat and singing as I wait for the swordfish to arrive. This was almost jaw-droppingly beautiful.
Babysitter (1984): Inappropriate! But charming in spite of it. Possibly because of it?
The Count (1916): "THIS CHEESE IS TOO STRONG. DESTROY IT!" Truly a level of dramatic that I aspire to.
The Cure (1917): I gotta get me some of that water. The bit where the guy goes flying out of the wheelchair into the water hole was a legit impressive stunt? I think this Chaplin kid might have a real future in the business!
La Légende de Rip Van Winckle (1905): Night nap goals.
TELEVISION
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 6x01-6x05: Operation Marvel Catchup continues! I was really dreading these episodes, they are such fun parallel universe/space insanity constantly dragged down into the mud due to Fitzsimmons being the absolute fucking dirt worst; I seriously cannot think of another example of a single relationship so thoroughly ruining a show I once loved. Like, what Toni/Cheryl did to Toni's character was horrendous, but it didn't make me despise watching all of Riverdale! Ugh, whatever, this was how much I watched before giving up the first time around, gonna try to push through.
Marvel Studios: Legends 1x10-1x12: A fun assortment of subjects this time around, since they're settling up for What If? and there's a lot of ground to cover. HYPPPPPPPPPE.
Rick and Morty 5x08: Ending on a heavy note, we are! (Yes, yes, not actually the end, but the finale isn't for like a month, so it might as well be for now.) Slightly confused about Birdperson's role in the backstory; did he end up coming with Rick after all? Since he seems to be from the same world, one where Beth died. Does Rick just portal him over for special occasions? Did he move when he met Tammy? I NEED BIRDPERSON ANSWERS. Wild that all of Beth's daddy issues stem from a Rick that isn't even ours (or one just like ours, as has been the assumption since the Cronenberg world switch). LOT TO UNPACK, HERE.
Wrestling
AEW Dark 3x32/3x33
AEW Dark: Elevation 1x21
AEW Dynamite 3x31
Before the IMPACT 1x25
IMPACT! Wrestling 18x31
New Japan Pro-Wrestling 1x35
NJPW Strong 2x31
NWA Extra Powerrr 1x01
NWA Powerrr 5x08
ROH Week By Week 2x31
ROH Women's Division Wednesday 1x15
ROH Wrestling 13x31
We are STARDOM!! 1x21-1x25
We are STARDOM!! RIP Hana Kimura
Unwinding with some AEW Dark while I do my nails, hoping the return to work tomorrow and having a strict schedule for a week will give me a chance to reset my everything. Diet, mainly, wow do I feel like hot garbage after the way I've been eating this week! I also want to write things, though. At least I'm relaxed?
I dunno, I'm all over the map. Nothing coherent in me at the moment. Tomorrow, tomorrow, always tomorrow.
One more movie roundup for the road. See you in the morning, internet.
FILMS
Female Trouble (1974): John Waters has been something of a tragic blind spot in my pop culture knowledge (outside of Hairspray and that episode of The Simpsons), and I'm looking forward to fixing that a bit!
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (1971): If Grace Jones was mad at me, I would simply end my life! This is a pretty unfocused documentary, and I'm not sure there's much to be gained from the intimacy of some of the footage; it could probably be edited into something cohesive and telling, but this ain't it. That concert footage, though, my GOD! So dynamic and engaging! I would have much preferred just an entire concert movie in that style.
The Green Knight (2021): Beautiful and thoughtful and alright fine I guess I'll finally watch some more David Lowery stuff!! I've been largely avoiding him for ages (even though he edited Upstream Color which I fuck with so hard), mostly because of the discourse around Ghost Story when it came out; I gotta be in the right frame of mind for stuff that so many people are gonna say is boring! But yeah, this was fantastic, one of the best pure character pieces I've seen in a dog's age, and I'm gonna be so pissed in a year when Dev Patel doesn't win an Oscar. Leshia's Pick of the Week, obviously.
His Kind of Woman (1951): Sultry and moody and what even was the plot here? I don't know, I was too distracted by all the gratuitous sexiness right up until good guy Vincent Price got to go absolutely buck wild in the last act. That ruled.
In Name Only (1939): Refreshingly restrained in terms of melodrama, right up until the last act, when someone slips and lets go of the firehose and it goes flying all over the place, spraying uncontrollably every which way. Nice to see a movie this old where the moral isn't just 'stick with your wife' in the end, even if they had to make her cartoonishly evil to pull it off.
Macao (1952): The von Sternberg parts were VERY von Sternberg, it felt exactly like a rehash of all those foreign-set Dietrich collabs in all the best ways in so many parts of it, but the tonal whiplash from the random Ray sections that really stick out make this a thoroughly weird movie on the whole. Not bad, just... weird.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941): Had no clue Hitch had ever directed anything as funny as Robert Montgomery trying to discreetly bloody his nose at the dinner table, but here we are. An uneven movie, but Lombard makes it all feel so effortless.
Personal Best (1982): You know it's good when the arm wrestling scene is more erotically charged than the sex scene that follows it. I had to get the queer Olympians movie in before the weekend was out, obviously! A beautiful celebration of bodies in motion, and if I hadn't known that so many members of the cast weren't even actors, I never would have guessed it.
The Suicide Squad (2021): I'm so glad Marvel briefly caved and tried to appease a right-wing Twitter mob and I can't believe a giant starfish almost made me tear up. This shit's great. Leshia's Pick of the Week Runner-Up; any other week and it would have probably been a lock, but it was a good one for going to the movies.
SHORTS
The Adventurer (1917): How many times is someone falling down a cliff funny? Exactly this many times.
Lu tempu di il pisci spata (1955): Oh, to be a midcentury Italian man, lounging in my boat and singing as I wait for the swordfish to arrive. This was almost jaw-droppingly beautiful.
Babysitter (1984): Inappropriate! But charming in spite of it. Possibly because of it?
The Count (1916): "THIS CHEESE IS TOO STRONG. DESTROY IT!" Truly a level of dramatic that I aspire to.
The Cure (1917): I gotta get me some of that water. The bit where the guy goes flying out of the wheelchair into the water hole was a legit impressive stunt? I think this Chaplin kid might have a real future in the business!
La Légende de Rip Van Winckle (1905): Night nap goals.
TELEVISION
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 6x01-6x05: Operation Marvel Catchup continues! I was really dreading these episodes, they are such fun parallel universe/space insanity constantly dragged down into the mud due to Fitzsimmons being the absolute fucking dirt worst; I seriously cannot think of another example of a single relationship so thoroughly ruining a show I once loved. Like, what Toni/Cheryl did to Toni's character was horrendous, but it didn't make me despise watching all of Riverdale! Ugh, whatever, this was how much I watched before giving up the first time around, gonna try to push through.
Marvel Studios: Legends 1x10-1x12: A fun assortment of subjects this time around, since they're settling up for What If? and there's a lot of ground to cover. HYPPPPPPPPPE.
Rick and Morty 5x08: Ending on a heavy note, we are! (Yes, yes, not actually the end, but the finale isn't for like a month, so it might as well be for now.) Slightly confused about Birdperson's role in the backstory; did he end up coming with Rick after all? Since he seems to be from the same world, one where Beth died. Does Rick just portal him over for special occasions? Did he move when he met Tammy? I NEED BIRDPERSON ANSWERS. Wild that all of Beth's daddy issues stem from a Rick that isn't even ours (or one just like ours, as has been the assumption since the Cronenberg world switch). LOT TO UNPACK, HERE.
Wrestling
AEW Dark 3x32/3x33
AEW Dark: Elevation 1x21
AEW Dynamite 3x31
Before the IMPACT 1x25
IMPACT! Wrestling 18x31
New Japan Pro-Wrestling 1x35
NJPW Strong 2x31
NWA Extra Powerrr 1x01
NWA Powerrr 5x08
ROH Week By Week 2x31
ROH Women's Division Wednesday 1x15
ROH Wrestling 13x31
We are STARDOM!! 1x21-1x25
We are STARDOM!! RIP Hana Kimura