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Lavender-Fae
@Lavender-Fae

posted about video games in February, didn't post about the movies I made people watch

Week One: It Is Just The Blues Brothers: No double feature, because this is a very long movie. It's close to two and a half hours on its own, I didn't actually remember that.

The Blues Brothers still holds up wonderfully. It holds up better, it turns out, when you have someone in your Discord call who grew up in the area it takes place in, knows all of it intimately, has been in several of the buildings, and has also watched the movie like thirty times. Learned a lot about Chicago. (Also, this was the first time I caught that the clerk at the end was Steven Spielberg.)

Somehow, every single song in this movie is the best song performed in this movie. A lot of it is two men in sunglasses no-selling progressively ridiculous situations, which is also great.

Week Two: I did the same movie twice, kinda: (Little Shop of Horrors, and also Little Shop of Horrors but the other one)

okay I'd never seen the original 1960 Little Shop, was anyone gonna tell me it was in fact just a bizarre dry comedy about people being incredibly weird at each other in a flower shop, and the sci-fi elements are honestly pretty minimal (it's genuinely pretty fun in several spots!)

The 1986 one remains absolutely incredible, too. I originally wanted to run that with Blues Brothers (two 80s musicals containing one Ghostbuster, one Belushi, John Candy, and Frank Oz), but it'd run longer than I try and make my movie hosting nights. (Awhile back I did Music Man and How To Succeed In Business together and that was entirely too much, turns out. Real fun pairing otherwise, though.)

Week Three: 80s Cult: (UHF, Buckaroo Banzai) There's not a whole lot of thematic connection here, and there's some weird mental connection I've made between these films for years now, despite having never seen Buckaroo Banzai. That's part of the reason it happened, honestly (and some of my movie crew hadn't seen UHF).

UHF, to steal a description from one of those folks new to it, is a movie that is somehow both very timeless and extremely of its era at the same time. It has not aged well in quite a few ways! But under some real iffy jokes there is a movie about some weirdos trying to make what turns into a community TV station, and that's still really delightful.

Buckaroo Banzai is a fascinating movie to finally see for the first time. I had very little knowledge for what I was getting into....and now, having watched it, I couldn't really tell you what I got into. It's a movie that just kinda goes and expects you to nod and go along with it. Why is Jeff Goldblum dressed like a cowboy? Fuck you that's why, it's not important anymore, we gotta go learn about how the War of the Worlds was real. I did not think I could stop paying attention to it or I'd immediately be lost forever.

It's a genuinely weird movie (positive) in a great many ways and a genuinely weird movie (kinda negative) in a few ways, mostly in terms of pacing. I liked it, though. I'd watch it again.

Week Four: I'd only ever seen one Laika movie: (Paranorman and Kubo) I was not feeling well (and tested midway through and discovered I had Covid), but you know what, both of these were fantastic.

Paranorman is a movie that low-key is eager to dig a bit at the commercialization of witchcraft even when that's not really the point, and as a horror-obsessed kid I was immediately happy to relate to our hero. A movie about empathy for the most extreme of outsiders. Loved it.

Kubo was beautiful and it emotionally wrecked me a little and it had some neat action sequences but also, damn, I'd just have watched the origami sequences for a full two hours. Cannot recommend either of these movies hard enough if you ain't seen them.


Lavender-Fae
@Lavender-Fae

I do need to make it real clear that the end credit sequence to Buckaroo Banzai is the coolest shit ever made and every ending sequence to every media should just have your entire cast walking around like this


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