DRUK (Another Round) 2020

Danish movie about 4 middle aged teachers experimenting with on-the-job day-drinking.

Was having a tough day Sunday and my friend suggested I throw on It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Can't believe it took me so long to sit down with this one. Still remarkably funny! Quite a bit darker than I was expecting too. Jonathan Winters tearing down an entire gas station with his bare hands. Magic. Dick Shawn rules in it too, but it's hard to pin down favorite performances amongst so many top-tier ones. Wild that it's the same director as Inherit the Wind!

    Watched Godland the other night. Well technically over the course of a few nights because I kept falling asleep. The movie is pretty slow but the sleep had more to do with my tendency to do so than the film itself.
    It’s an Iceland film from 2022 about a 19th century Danish priest sent to Iceland to establish a church and his struggles to maintain sanity while trudging through the rough undeveloped terrain of Iceland over the course of a nightless summer. Slow and uneasy but really enjoyed it. Apparently the story was built around five pictures that were discovered from that time frame which are also the first five pictures of Iceland. It’s up on criterion right now

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      Watched Butcher's Crossing on a whim as was surprised & quite into it. Had assumed I'd never see Nicolas Cage in a decent movie ever again, but enjoyed Pig , so why not give this a go? Anyway, very much in the spirit of 70s tough-guy cult classics, so much in that mold that you imagine it being made then and held 'til now...'cept it would've starred Bronson or Burt. Worth a look!

      BARELY HUMAN rewatched T2 recently too, what an all-timer hey?

      Rewatched it 2 days ago thanks to this thread, and I couldn’t believe how good it was – usually when I smoke weed I have the attention span of a rabbit, especially with movies, but this one kept me entertained ALL THE WAY, even after the 3rd joint. Well done, Governor!

        I just rewatched Terminator 2 last night. So good.

        Total Punk forum wholesale approval of the Terminator 2 rewatch!

        I’ll go ahead and be in the minority here, watched T2 recently and didn’t love it. To me the flaw lies in pacing, and it could have an hearty 30 min trim off the length. Also don’t love Jimmy Cameron’s signature move of adding a kid to sequels(see Aliens for similar complaints from me).

        The original flick on the other hand is a perfect genre film.

          Al Dorado I thought the Dylan flick was great but yeah I feel similarly about music biopics. I kinda feel like "Walk Hard" ruined that genre in a way.

              Vinnie Vacuum I thought it started off really strong but by the end I felt like "ooookay. wrap it up". Also was tired of the accent after 2 hours.

                Saw The Fuzztones vs the World tonight at the Hollywood. Truly boring, and that’s my positive take.

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                  Randall I was on the fence about watching Godland but I like your review so I'll give it a go.

                  Makes me think of Enys Men. I went to see it at a theater alone and got really scared but it was so visually stunning on a big screen that I'm glad I did that anyway.


                    Movie on french underground movement in east france

                      Saw this finally. Incredible flick. Every frame looks like an Eggleston photo.

                      dr_chile

                      I borrowed it through interlibrary loan. There's a book of stills from the film and the DVD comes with it

                          Mystery_Ship I second this take. It’s been a minute since my last rewatch, but I remember the whole detour to Mexico feeling more like a drag than a well-earned reprieve from all the action (despite all the incredible action). And, yeah, John Connor’s bitchin’ 90s ‘tude really grated on me. For my money, T1 is the real winner.

                          But I’ll wade even further into minority territory and declare that I prefer T3 to T2. To be sure, T2 is a much better movie, still, I find T3’s tone to be more palatable and its positioning of Judgement Day as an inevitability to be aptly bleak for the franchise and also solves some of the time paradoxes introduced in T2.

                          Salvation and Genisys are close to unwatchable, but Genisys is batshit enough to have some entertainment value.

                          And Dark Fate is better than most folks would have you believe (though, still not very good).