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Autumn 2021 - Week 3
It is November, and I am adrift. There's so much that I want/need to do, but the 'oh my god my week off is almost over' heebies have hit me hard all of a sudden and so I just ended up taking a delightful little day night and now I'm watching the sun set. Maybe once it's dark and I have one last free night stretching out ahead of me, I'll be able to get it up.
One last movie to go see tomorrow, so that'll be a nice send-off, at least.
FILMS
7 Men from Now (1956): I watched the entire Ranown cycle of westerns in the span of a day, so they kinda all merged together in my head a bit, but they're seriously great, like eating potato chips in movie form. So spare and economical but still amazing to look at, hard but never mean-spirited about it? Once you pop, you just can't stop.
Across the Pacific (1942): "There's a Canadian for you. Let them take their clothes off, and they're happy." I mean, he's not wrong.
The African Queen (1951): It's a love story where he's such an awkward dirtbag and she's such a dowdy loser and they have zero chemistry and that's honestly so beautiful to me.
Antlers (2021): The deeper themes of generational trauma they try to build here fall pretty flat (and using Native mythology to tell a story that's exclusively about white peoples' problems is ecch), but as a straightforward creature flick with great effects and atmosphere? Good shit.
Bombshell (1933): Forty minutes of an excellent movie followed by twenty-five minutes each of two very stupid ones.
The Booksellers (2019): I adore a good dive into a niche subculture, even if the fetishization of the book as object in general in the last half hour or so was a bit much. Forgivable, considering where it's coming from in this case. PS eat the rich
Buchanan Rides Alone (1958): Boetticher makes movies like he has somewhere else he needs to be and it rules.
Comanche Station (1960): Cowboy vs. Cowboy only masquerading as Cowboy vs. Indian, which was a pleasant surprise.
Decision at Sundown (1957): The gender politics are, uh... questionable at best (OH MY GOD YOUR WIFE'S SUICIDE IS NOT SOME GREAT WRONG THAT SOMEBODY PERPETRATED AGAINST YOU ASSHOLE), but it's basically just a seventy-minute standoff with one ornery motherfucker at its center, you really can't go wrong.
Dina (2017): Started out as one of those documentaries that all feels just too staged for me to really connect with on that level, about a subject who doesn't feel interesting enough for me to want to spend 100 minutes with, but the sweetness won me over in the end. Not bad.
Dune (2021): EVERYTHING IN THIS MOVIE IS SO BIG OH MY GOD. So glad I didn't see it until after Part Two had been greenlit, I'd have been so unsatisfied and antsy with a non-ending like that otherwise. Time to read the book, I guess!
An Elephant Sitting Still (2018): I'm sure this is a staggering work of artistic brilliance or something, but it still took me eight fucking sittings to get through the whole thing.
The Last Duel (2021): I'm so glad I didn't know how this turned out beforehand, goddamn that last duel! A legit contender for my single favourite scene of the year, my legs felt weak by the end. I've seen a couple of complaints about the bit with the 'truth' title card in the third chapter compromising the purety of the whole Rashomon angle, but it just felt like an easy way to avoid 'both sides'ing a woman's violent rape to me, which... good? Oh boy I bet the discourse around this thing is fucking insufferable, but I'm just here for the explicit calling out of unreliable narrators through subtle visual cues and gory sword battles and how much they committed to making Affleck and Damon look as ugly as possible so that Driver could somehow be the hot one.
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967): The colour version this time, and yeah, this movie just feels wrong when it doesn't look like I'm watching it through a glass of whiskey.
Ride Lonesome (1959): Seriously, at some point I just started expecting to wake up in Westworld and see Randolph Scott there, spending another fun weekend at the park acting like the most unfuckwithable dude in the world.
Saratoga (1937): Ended Harlow!Quest on the saddest possible note, which felt right somehow. I don't know if I was just distracted by the scenes they had to film around her absence, where Carol is suddenly just always facing away from the camera for no reason or wearing a comically giant hat, or if it's just choppy and awkward because of same, but I don't think I ever had any goddamn clue what was actually going on?
The Tall T (1957): Easily the most compelling villain in all of the Ranown westerns, and Randolph Scott ditching the lone wolf hardass persona that he's so good at to play this one much lighter than the rest adds the perfect contrast. So, so good and the perfect one to end on. ALL MOVIES SHOULD BE UNDER 80 MINUTES.
SHORTS
Man in the Well (2016): Confusing and upsetting!
Un Dimanche Matin (2012): This is just seventeen minutes of a guy walking his dog and it's kinda great. Should have watched it on a Sunday.
Transformations (1972): witchy witchy woo woo, but good this time!
TELEVISION
Jessica Jones 3x01-3x05: Finally wrapping up the last of the Netflix MCU shows and yeah, I'm still real sore about how they just cancelled the whole project because they were starting their own stupid streaming service! They were such good shit! Trish really giving Fitzsimmons a run for their 'most insufferable asshole in the universe' crown, though.
Wrestling
AEW Dark 3x46
AEW Dark: Elevation 1x34
AEW Dynamite 3x43
AEW Rampage 1x12
DDT Dramatic Dream 2021 in Fuji
DDTeeeen
DDT Tokyo Dome Cup
Before the IMPACT 1x37
IMPACT! Wrestling 18x43
New Japan Pro-Wrestling 1x47
NJPW Strong 2x43
NOAH Demolition Stage 2021 in Fukuoka
NOAH Go on to the Demolition Stage 2021 Day 3
NWA Powerrr 6x07
ROH Week By Week 2x43
ROH Women's Division Wednesday 1x27
ROH Wrestling 13x43
We are STARDOM!! 2x12-2x16
One last movie to go see tomorrow, so that'll be a nice send-off, at least.
FILMS
7 Men from Now (1956): I watched the entire Ranown cycle of westerns in the span of a day, so they kinda all merged together in my head a bit, but they're seriously great, like eating potato chips in movie form. So spare and economical but still amazing to look at, hard but never mean-spirited about it? Once you pop, you just can't stop.
Across the Pacific (1942): "There's a Canadian for you. Let them take their clothes off, and they're happy." I mean, he's not wrong.
The African Queen (1951): It's a love story where he's such an awkward dirtbag and she's such a dowdy loser and they have zero chemistry and that's honestly so beautiful to me.
Antlers (2021): The deeper themes of generational trauma they try to build here fall pretty flat (and using Native mythology to tell a story that's exclusively about white peoples' problems is ecch), but as a straightforward creature flick with great effects and atmosphere? Good shit.
Bombshell (1933): Forty minutes of an excellent movie followed by twenty-five minutes each of two very stupid ones.
The Booksellers (2019): I adore a good dive into a niche subculture, even if the fetishization of the book as object in general in the last half hour or so was a bit much. Forgivable, considering where it's coming from in this case. PS eat the rich
Buchanan Rides Alone (1958): Boetticher makes movies like he has somewhere else he needs to be and it rules.
Comanche Station (1960): Cowboy vs. Cowboy only masquerading as Cowboy vs. Indian, which was a pleasant surprise.
Decision at Sundown (1957): The gender politics are, uh... questionable at best (OH MY GOD YOUR WIFE'S SUICIDE IS NOT SOME GREAT WRONG THAT SOMEBODY PERPETRATED AGAINST YOU ASSHOLE), but it's basically just a seventy-minute standoff with one ornery motherfucker at its center, you really can't go wrong.
Dina (2017): Started out as one of those documentaries that all feels just too staged for me to really connect with on that level, about a subject who doesn't feel interesting enough for me to want to spend 100 minutes with, but the sweetness won me over in the end. Not bad.
Dune (2021): EVERYTHING IN THIS MOVIE IS SO BIG OH MY GOD. So glad I didn't see it until after Part Two had been greenlit, I'd have been so unsatisfied and antsy with a non-ending like that otherwise. Time to read the book, I guess!
An Elephant Sitting Still (2018): I'm sure this is a staggering work of artistic brilliance or something, but it still took me eight fucking sittings to get through the whole thing.
The Last Duel (2021): I'm so glad I didn't know how this turned out beforehand, goddamn that last duel! A legit contender for my single favourite scene of the year, my legs felt weak by the end. I've seen a couple of complaints about the bit with the 'truth' title card in the third chapter compromising the purety of the whole Rashomon angle, but it just felt like an easy way to avoid 'both sides'ing a woman's violent rape to me, which... good? Oh boy I bet the discourse around this thing is fucking insufferable, but I'm just here for the explicit calling out of unreliable narrators through subtle visual cues and gory sword battles and how much they committed to making Affleck and Damon look as ugly as possible so that Driver could somehow be the hot one.
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967): The colour version this time, and yeah, this movie just feels wrong when it doesn't look like I'm watching it through a glass of whiskey.
Ride Lonesome (1959): Seriously, at some point I just started expecting to wake up in Westworld and see Randolph Scott there, spending another fun weekend at the park acting like the most unfuckwithable dude in the world.
Saratoga (1937): Ended Harlow!Quest on the saddest possible note, which felt right somehow. I don't know if I was just distracted by the scenes they had to film around her absence, where Carol is suddenly just always facing away from the camera for no reason or wearing a comically giant hat, or if it's just choppy and awkward because of same, but I don't think I ever had any goddamn clue what was actually going on?
The Tall T (1957): Easily the most compelling villain in all of the Ranown westerns, and Randolph Scott ditching the lone wolf hardass persona that he's so good at to play this one much lighter than the rest adds the perfect contrast. So, so good and the perfect one to end on. ALL MOVIES SHOULD BE UNDER 80 MINUTES.
SHORTS
Man in the Well (2016): Confusing and upsetting!
Un Dimanche Matin (2012): This is just seventeen minutes of a guy walking his dog and it's kinda great. Should have watched it on a Sunday.
Transformations (1972): witchy witchy woo woo, but good this time!
TELEVISION
Jessica Jones 3x01-3x05: Finally wrapping up the last of the Netflix MCU shows and yeah, I'm still real sore about how they just cancelled the whole project because they were starting their own stupid streaming service! They were such good shit! Trish really giving Fitzsimmons a run for their 'most insufferable asshole in the universe' crown, though.
Wrestling
AEW Dark 3x46
AEW Dark: Elevation 1x34
AEW Dynamite 3x43
AEW Rampage 1x12
DDT Dramatic Dream 2021 in Fuji
DDTeeeen
DDT Tokyo Dome Cup
Before the IMPACT 1x37
IMPACT! Wrestling 18x43
New Japan Pro-Wrestling 1x47
NJPW Strong 2x43
NOAH Demolition Stage 2021 in Fukuoka
NOAH Go on to the Demolition Stage 2021 Day 3
NWA Powerrr 6x07
ROH Week By Week 2x43
ROH Women's Division Wednesday 1x27
ROH Wrestling 13x43
We are STARDOM!! 2x12-2x16