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Autumn 2021 - Week 4
A cold, very blizzardy day, but still like, nice cold? Not horrible cold just yet? So it's still cool.
Had to get up mid-REM cycle (mid-nightmare, too, just for good measure) for the first time in this horrible run of just barely sleeping, so I'm doing even worse than I have been all week, but I got all my filing done before 9:30 so hopefully I can avoid losing it on the next person who expects me to move. Everything is just aggravating me so much! My hair won't stay clipped up! I got kicked out so they could do random electric work for a while! Leave me alone!! I am made of nothing but breadsticks and yawns!
I also have not been watching many movies lately, but let me cast my mind back through the last few weeks for a few days' worth of SPOILER ZONES~~
FILMS
The Apartment (1960): Big film blind spot filled in with this one, how have I not seen this before? One of those you always hear about that makes you go 'wait, THAT'S what it's about??' when you actually put it on. Fran is an icon, and I've never yearned for a nice guy to just take care of me during my horrible breakdowns before this. I think this movie is actually perfect? But I also need to revisit it in order to figure out exactly why.
Crossfire (1947): All the actors in this movie are named Robert and it's very distracting. The message comes across PAINFULLY heavy-handed, the pivot to preachy speechifying that goes on FOREVER after an hour of spare, gripping, gritty noir is horribly jarring, but like. It was 1947, tackling virulent, murderous antisemitism was probably a good thing to really hammer home, so I forgive it.
Eternals (2021): WOW, I LOVED THIS. And it'll probably take some time and rewatches before I know for sure whether or not that was partially out of spite about the shitty reviews, but hey, that's life. This is such a cool amalgam of boring arthouse bullshit and stupid blockbuster bullshit, so I guess people who are specifically into either of those things might leave disappointed, but I like both and thought this was fun as hell? Just the sheer AMBITION of this thing, even for Marvel, rules and I desperately hope the reception won't stop them from taking wild swings like this in the future. Don't get me wrong, I still love the tried-and-true Marvel formula (stop trying to make superhero fatigue happen, it's not happening), but that just makes the deviations from it extra neat! This is easily the most audacious Hollywood movie of the year, I mean. It has a main cast of ELEVEN brand new people and managed to make me like all of them to varying degrees in two and a half hours, like! That's crazy! It's the first MCU movie since Iron Man not to include a SINGLE established character, even in passing! Also the first MCU movie since Iron Man to include anything resembling a sex scene, interestingly, and as I finally finished Jessica Jones, I was feeling this really sharp sense of loss beyond just wanting those shows to keep going; it felt important to me that there were heroes out there in the Marvel universe who actually fucked. The modern blockbuster is SUCH a thoroughly sexless vehicle, and while I appreciate them finally moving away from everybody needing their obligatory love interest just to tick that boring box off, excising anything that implies any of these people have any sort of sex drive beyond kissing save 'oh we have kids now' or 'haha Star-Lord's a slut off-screen' seemed like a really shitty, bland solution tailor-made for seamless family viewing to me. Something real and healthy was lost when the Netflix shows got canned, even if they themselves helped to further the narrative that anything remotely sexual must be R-rated. That's just not good! And Eternals FINALLY seems to be taking steps away from that 'everyone is beautiful and nobody is horny' pristine superhero dystopia and for that I am SUPER grateful. Now let's see if they keep it up! And that's to say nothing of the ACTUAL strides in diversity this thing made. We finally got a gay character who isn't just a lame director cameo ffs! ANYWAY, I was probably always destined to love this because THEY WENT FULL FUCKING EARTH X CRAZY WEIRD WITH IT I LOVE THAT SERIES SO MUCH AND SUDDENLY HERE IT IS HAHAHAHA WHAT THE FUCK I hope this is how they bring in Galactus eventually, that guy just loves eating baby Celestials!!
Last Night in Soho (2021): Oh man. So, uh. I really, really, REALLY did not adequately prepare myself for how hard it would be to see Diana one last time, ESPECIALLY hot on the heels of No Time to Die absolutely breaking me in really specific OHMSS-shaped ways. I really loved this, though. My gut says that it's my favourite movie of Wright's, though surely there's a lot of recency bias at play there, Shaun and Fuzz are HIGH bars to clear. Only time will tell! PS: How the hell did that man get the final performances of not one but TWO '60s Bond girls in his homage to/send-up of '60s gloss and misogyny, he is a witch and we must burn him.
Margaret (2011): HMM. I saw this years ago, and now I'm wondering if I saw the previous cut, because I remember really fucking hating it and it worked for me a LOT better this time around, despite being three fucking hours long. Or maybe I'm just further removed from my own horrible teenage girl years and can look on them with more forgiveness? Like, Lisa is still fucking infuriatingly horrible oh my god somebody please just fucking slap her already in places, but it's in some painfully real ways and also the movie makes it extremely clear why that is and she is doing her best! Really enjoyed the score, too, and I don't remember that, so.
Stalag 17 (1953): william holden hot
SHORTS
Caprice (1986): A student film by Joanna Hogg and it fits perfectly within the timeline of my hating every film she puts out more than the last; I like this so much more than ANY of her actual movies. It's fun! And has itty bitty Matilda Swinton!
On the Edge (1949): This is honestly pretty lame, but at its core, it is clearly just a couple of parents humouring their child's arty bullshit, and it's kind of impossible not to be thoroughly charmed by that.
TELEVISION
Jessica Jones 3x06/3x07: Trish much more bearable once the initial 'yeah whatever I killed your mom who cares have adventures with me' period was over. Jeri swiftly taking over as dirt worst person around, including the incel serial killer.
Wrestling
AEW Dark 3x47
AEW Dark: Elevation 1x35
AEW Dynamite 3x44
AEW Rampage 1x13
Before the IMPACT 1x38
IMPACT! Wrestling 18x44
New Japan Pro-Wrestling 1x48
NJPW Strong 2x44
NWA Powerrr 6x08
ROH Week By Week 2x44
ROH Women's Division Wednesday 1x28
ROH Wrestling 13x44
We are STARDOM!! 2x17/2x18
Had to get up mid-REM cycle (mid-nightmare, too, just for good measure) for the first time in this horrible run of just barely sleeping, so I'm doing even worse than I have been all week, but I got all my filing done before 9:30 so hopefully I can avoid losing it on the next person who expects me to move. Everything is just aggravating me so much! My hair won't stay clipped up! I got kicked out so they could do random electric work for a while! Leave me alone!! I am made of nothing but breadsticks and yawns!
I also have not been watching many movies lately, but let me cast my mind back through the last few weeks for a few days' worth of SPOILER ZONES~~
FILMS
The Apartment (1960): Big film blind spot filled in with this one, how have I not seen this before? One of those you always hear about that makes you go 'wait, THAT'S what it's about??' when you actually put it on. Fran is an icon, and I've never yearned for a nice guy to just take care of me during my horrible breakdowns before this. I think this movie is actually perfect? But I also need to revisit it in order to figure out exactly why.
Crossfire (1947): All the actors in this movie are named Robert and it's very distracting. The message comes across PAINFULLY heavy-handed, the pivot to preachy speechifying that goes on FOREVER after an hour of spare, gripping, gritty noir is horribly jarring, but like. It was 1947, tackling virulent, murderous antisemitism was probably a good thing to really hammer home, so I forgive it.
Eternals (2021): WOW, I LOVED THIS. And it'll probably take some time and rewatches before I know for sure whether or not that was partially out of spite about the shitty reviews, but hey, that's life. This is such a cool amalgam of boring arthouse bullshit and stupid blockbuster bullshit, so I guess people who are specifically into either of those things might leave disappointed, but I like both and thought this was fun as hell? Just the sheer AMBITION of this thing, even for Marvel, rules and I desperately hope the reception won't stop them from taking wild swings like this in the future. Don't get me wrong, I still love the tried-and-true Marvel formula (stop trying to make superhero fatigue happen, it's not happening), but that just makes the deviations from it extra neat! This is easily the most audacious Hollywood movie of the year, I mean. It has a main cast of ELEVEN brand new people and managed to make me like all of them to varying degrees in two and a half hours, like! That's crazy! It's the first MCU movie since Iron Man not to include a SINGLE established character, even in passing! Also the first MCU movie since Iron Man to include anything resembling a sex scene, interestingly, and as I finally finished Jessica Jones, I was feeling this really sharp sense of loss beyond just wanting those shows to keep going; it felt important to me that there were heroes out there in the Marvel universe who actually fucked. The modern blockbuster is SUCH a thoroughly sexless vehicle, and while I appreciate them finally moving away from everybody needing their obligatory love interest just to tick that boring box off, excising anything that implies any of these people have any sort of sex drive beyond kissing save 'oh we have kids now' or 'haha Star-Lord's a slut off-screen' seemed like a really shitty, bland solution tailor-made for seamless family viewing to me. Something real and healthy was lost when the Netflix shows got canned, even if they themselves helped to further the narrative that anything remotely sexual must be R-rated. That's just not good! And Eternals FINALLY seems to be taking steps away from that 'everyone is beautiful and nobody is horny' pristine superhero dystopia and for that I am SUPER grateful. Now let's see if they keep it up! And that's to say nothing of the ACTUAL strides in diversity this thing made. We finally got a gay character who isn't just a lame director cameo ffs! ANYWAY, I was probably always destined to love this because THEY WENT FULL FUCKING EARTH X CRAZY WEIRD WITH IT I LOVE THAT SERIES SO MUCH AND SUDDENLY HERE IT IS HAHAHAHA WHAT THE FUCK I hope this is how they bring in Galactus eventually, that guy just loves eating baby Celestials!!
Last Night in Soho (2021): Oh man. So, uh. I really, really, REALLY did not adequately prepare myself for how hard it would be to see Diana one last time, ESPECIALLY hot on the heels of No Time to Die absolutely breaking me in really specific OHMSS-shaped ways. I really loved this, though. My gut says that it's my favourite movie of Wright's, though surely there's a lot of recency bias at play there, Shaun and Fuzz are HIGH bars to clear. Only time will tell! PS: How the hell did that man get the final performances of not one but TWO '60s Bond girls in his homage to/send-up of '60s gloss and misogyny, he is a witch and we must burn him.
Margaret (2011): HMM. I saw this years ago, and now I'm wondering if I saw the previous cut, because I remember really fucking hating it and it worked for me a LOT better this time around, despite being three fucking hours long. Or maybe I'm just further removed from my own horrible teenage girl years and can look on them with more forgiveness? Like, Lisa is still fucking infuriatingly horrible oh my god somebody please just fucking slap her already in places, but it's in some painfully real ways and also the movie makes it extremely clear why that is and she is doing her best! Really enjoyed the score, too, and I don't remember that, so.
Stalag 17 (1953): william holden hot
SHORTS
Caprice (1986): A student film by Joanna Hogg and it fits perfectly within the timeline of my hating every film she puts out more than the last; I like this so much more than ANY of her actual movies. It's fun! And has itty bitty Matilda Swinton!
On the Edge (1949): This is honestly pretty lame, but at its core, it is clearly just a couple of parents humouring their child's arty bullshit, and it's kind of impossible not to be thoroughly charmed by that.
TELEVISION
Jessica Jones 3x06/3x07: Trish much more bearable once the initial 'yeah whatever I killed your mom who cares have adventures with me' period was over. Jeri swiftly taking over as dirt worst person around, including the incel serial killer.
Wrestling
AEW Dark 3x47
AEW Dark: Elevation 1x35
AEW Dynamite 3x44
AEW Rampage 1x13
Before the IMPACT 1x38
IMPACT! Wrestling 18x44
New Japan Pro-Wrestling 1x48
NJPW Strong 2x44
NWA Powerrr 6x08
ROH Week By Week 2x44
ROH Women's Division Wednesday 1x28
ROH Wrestling 13x44
We are STARDOM!! 2x17/2x18