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Autumn 2021 - Week 2
Holy shit it's busy! Work making up for the weekend, and then some! Just a quick movie post today! Oh geez so much paperwork!
FILMS
China Seas (1935): Much less racist once they get out of China and into the seas, thankfully, and then it's a fun, weird balance of romance and unexpected adventure?? People die! Clark Gable gets tortured at one point! Holy hell! Anyway, normalize calling men 'toots'.
Daratt (2006): A quiet little revenge drama that's more about how even the simplest of plans have a tendency to fall apart in the face of the messiness of real life. Really beautiful stuff.
The Dead (1987): GET AWAY FROM ME, JAMES JOYCE. I'm not sure if the legit amazing final sequence made the hour plus of boring party scenes worth it for me, but I'm not sure that it didn't, either?
The Girl from Missouri (1934): One of the rapiest male romantic leads I've seen in a while, ugh. At least he was rich, and Jean Harlow is really heartbreaking in the scene where she's finally just like 'yeah you could make me fuck you, but like, please don't? because my virginity is literally all I have going for me in this suckass world for women?' and he finally starts seeing her as a person.
Hold Your Man (1933): The soppy, preachy eyeroll of a pregnancy/marriage plot was such a disappointing ending to what started out as a fun, brassy, grifty little romance with bonus manslaughter. I did not give a shit about the stakes of the entire climax, with them NEEDING to get married before he goes straight and turns himself in! That's not a happy ending just because they're married! They're still gonna be in prison and that kid won't get to meet his father for years! Ugh. Wanted more of the relationship between Ruby and the matron.
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967): 'tell me your movie's about sexual repression without telling me your movie's about sexual repression' Long before it's clear what this thing is even about, it's just the horniest, most repressed thing imaginable. It just pours out of every frame. So well done, love that sepia haze over everything, like you're watching through a whiskey glass. Also, in terms of things to throw me completely off guard when they come up in the opening credits unexpectedly, 'INTRODUCING ROBERT FORSTER' is... up there.
Suzy (1936): Damn, don't marry Suzy and then get shot, she'll either leave the country or just sit there staring while you bleed out. Not sure which was more egregious: Franchot Tone's terrible Irish accent, or Cary Grant just not bothering to sound like anything but Cary Grant while ostensibly playing a Frenchman.
Wife vs. Secretary (1936): Nowhere near the steaming pile of sexist claptrap I was expecting from the title, this was actually a really heartfelt and affecting little romance about trust?? Everyone just has the charm dialed up to 11 and it works so well!
SHORTS
White Echo (2019): witchy witchy woo woo
TELEVISION
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 6x12/6x13: I can't believe they spent a whole season wringing their hands over whether or not Sarge is Coulson or if he could maybe one day be Coulson and how much of Coulson is in him... just to end the season with 'fuck it why don't we just build a new one?' Whatever, bring on the time travel shenanigans.
Rhodes to the Top 1x06: Oh jesus, all my actual shows ended at once, this is all I have left, fuck I need to find something fictional to watch weekly.
Wrestling
AEW Dark 3x45
AEW Dark: Elevation 1x33
AEW Dynamite 3x42
AEW Rampage 1x11
DDT Dramatic Dreams Vol. 8
GANBARE Climax 2021 1st Round
GANBARE Love and Heart Wall 2021
Before the IMPACT 1x36
IMPACT! Wrestling 18x42
IMPACT Bound for Glory Preshow
IMPACT Bound for Glory 2021
New Japan Pro-Wrestling 1x46
NJPW Strong 2x42
NOAH Go on to the Demolition Stage 2021 - Day 2
NWA By Any Means Necessary
NWA PowerrrSurge 6x02
ROH Week By Week 2x42
ROH Women's Division Wednesday 1x26
ROH Wrestling 13x42
We are STARDOM!! 2x10/2x11
TJPW Tokyo Joshi 2021: Autumn Kacho Getsuro - Day 5
FILMS
China Seas (1935): Much less racist once they get out of China and into the seas, thankfully, and then it's a fun, weird balance of romance and unexpected adventure?? People die! Clark Gable gets tortured at one point! Holy hell! Anyway, normalize calling men 'toots'.
Daratt (2006): A quiet little revenge drama that's more about how even the simplest of plans have a tendency to fall apart in the face of the messiness of real life. Really beautiful stuff.
The Dead (1987): GET AWAY FROM ME, JAMES JOYCE. I'm not sure if the legit amazing final sequence made the hour plus of boring party scenes worth it for me, but I'm not sure that it didn't, either?
The Girl from Missouri (1934): One of the rapiest male romantic leads I've seen in a while, ugh. At least he was rich, and Jean Harlow is really heartbreaking in the scene where she's finally just like 'yeah you could make me fuck you, but like, please don't? because my virginity is literally all I have going for me in this suckass world for women?' and he finally starts seeing her as a person.
Hold Your Man (1933): The soppy, preachy eyeroll of a pregnancy/marriage plot was such a disappointing ending to what started out as a fun, brassy, grifty little romance with bonus manslaughter. I did not give a shit about the stakes of the entire climax, with them NEEDING to get married before he goes straight and turns himself in! That's not a happy ending just because they're married! They're still gonna be in prison and that kid won't get to meet his father for years! Ugh. Wanted more of the relationship between Ruby and the matron.
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967): 'tell me your movie's about sexual repression without telling me your movie's about sexual repression' Long before it's clear what this thing is even about, it's just the horniest, most repressed thing imaginable. It just pours out of every frame. So well done, love that sepia haze over everything, like you're watching through a whiskey glass. Also, in terms of things to throw me completely off guard when they come up in the opening credits unexpectedly, 'INTRODUCING ROBERT FORSTER' is... up there.
Suzy (1936): Damn, don't marry Suzy and then get shot, she'll either leave the country or just sit there staring while you bleed out. Not sure which was more egregious: Franchot Tone's terrible Irish accent, or Cary Grant just not bothering to sound like anything but Cary Grant while ostensibly playing a Frenchman.
Wife vs. Secretary (1936): Nowhere near the steaming pile of sexist claptrap I was expecting from the title, this was actually a really heartfelt and affecting little romance about trust?? Everyone just has the charm dialed up to 11 and it works so well!
SHORTS
White Echo (2019): witchy witchy woo woo
TELEVISION
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 6x12/6x13: I can't believe they spent a whole season wringing their hands over whether or not Sarge is Coulson or if he could maybe one day be Coulson and how much of Coulson is in him... just to end the season with 'fuck it why don't we just build a new one?' Whatever, bring on the time travel shenanigans.
Rhodes to the Top 1x06: Oh jesus, all my actual shows ended at once, this is all I have left, fuck I need to find something fictional to watch weekly.
Wrestling
AEW Dark 3x45
AEW Dark: Elevation 1x33
AEW Dynamite 3x42
AEW Rampage 1x11
DDT Dramatic Dreams Vol. 8
GANBARE Climax 2021 1st Round
GANBARE Love and Heart Wall 2021
Before the IMPACT 1x36
IMPACT! Wrestling 18x42
IMPACT Bound for Glory Preshow
IMPACT Bound for Glory 2021
New Japan Pro-Wrestling 1x46
NJPW Strong 2x42
NOAH Go on to the Demolition Stage 2021 - Day 2
NWA By Any Means Necessary
NWA PowerrrSurge 6x02
ROH Week By Week 2x42
ROH Women's Division Wednesday 1x26
ROH Wrestling 13x42
We are STARDOM!! 2x10/2x11
TJPW Tokyo Joshi 2021: Autumn Kacho Getsuro - Day 5