november media log
MOVIES
This month I mostly watched movies that I've already seen.
Oh yeah, I forgot last month that I watched Wolf Creek. I guess it was a decent movie but I'm realizing more and more that I don't really love gorey slashers that much. Too stressful. I like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as it it so fucking scary that it's like a whole difference experience. But I don't like just feeling like, "Ah geez, so when is this girl going to be sadistically murdered?" I am turning into such a wimp in my old age.
Jurassic Park 2 rewatch - My friends were drunkenly rewatching the Jurassic Park trilogy, and I caught the last third of JP1 and left before I could be subjected to JP3. I will actually stand by the 1st one as a decent action movie with some delightfully corny nostalgia moments ("Clever girl!" "Ah ah ah! You didn't say the password!") JP2 is just kind of... dumb. And Jeff Goldblum is like wearing these weird black/brown outfit combos.
Captain America: The First Avenger - I liked the beginning of this movie better than the ending, which was drawn-out and cliche. It starts out as kind of the movie I wanted it to be though, seeing a boring old superhero through fresh, clever eyes. That's something.
Head-On (Gegen die Wand) - I think that if more people saw this movie, it would be really popular. It's got all the makings of a cult hit ... without the eyeballs on it. So see it! It's about a young Turkish woman in Germany who gets into a sham marriage with a human wreck just to get away from her family so she can date and have fun. Of course, it all goes wrong. It's brutal and moving and sad and funny and all that good stuff. My friend enticed me by saying something like, "Starring a hot Turkish porn actress and a guy who looks like Nick Cave." The women in it are beautiful, and the lead actress Sibel Kekilli is sort of insanely attractive to me, like I couldn't take my eyes off her and just google image-searched her for awhile afterwards.
Contagion - Arghhhh the scariest! I'm scared of illness outbreak!
Them (Ils) (rewatch) - I also don't really like this movie, although I get that it's skillfully done. It's just too tense! My blood pressure went up watching it!
Melancholia - Lars von Trier's new movie about the end of the world and crushing depression. I didn't like it as much as I liked Antichrist but I thought it was decent, and harrowing, and etc. Good to see it on the big screen.
Attack the Block - I really highly recommend this scrappy movie about a group of young British ruffians defending their neighborhood from an alien invasion.
A History of Violence and Eastern Promises (rewatches) - I felt like laying about at my house and watching a Cronenberg double-feature (triple-feature if you count Videodrome the next night). I love both these movies. I get that they're very different than earlier Cronenberg movies, but they're two of my favorites. I got to thinking about how Cronenberg often slips in extremely charged, physical, dangerous, slightly romantic/homoerotic moments between men. And I like that.
Videodrome (rewatch) - It's been awhile since I've watched this, so it was good to rewatch and actually remember the plot, rather than just remembering that it's got crazy body horror stuff. I can't believe how edgy it is in the S/M, grossness areas for a mainstreamish movie.
BOOKS
Freedom by Jonathon Franzen - I read this giant book in like a week! I was slightly disgusted at myself at how much I liked such a normie book. There were parts that I found unrealistic/could not relate to, not that I have to find books realistic or relate, but it just wasn't in a good way. But overall, I kind of tore into it and read the shit out of it.
OTHER STUFF
Pacquiao vs Marquez at Las Mojarras
hot dish party
first meeting of Unsettled Foundations - spooky story salon
This month I mostly watched movies that I've already seen.
Oh yeah, I forgot last month that I watched Wolf Creek. I guess it was a decent movie but I'm realizing more and more that I don't really love gorey slashers that much. Too stressful. I like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as it it so fucking scary that it's like a whole difference experience. But I don't like just feeling like, "Ah geez, so when is this girl going to be sadistically murdered?" I am turning into such a wimp in my old age.
Jurassic Park 2 rewatch - My friends were drunkenly rewatching the Jurassic Park trilogy, and I caught the last third of JP1 and left before I could be subjected to JP3. I will actually stand by the 1st one as a decent action movie with some delightfully corny nostalgia moments ("Clever girl!" "Ah ah ah! You didn't say the password!") JP2 is just kind of... dumb. And Jeff Goldblum is like wearing these weird black/brown outfit combos.
Captain America: The First Avenger - I liked the beginning of this movie better than the ending, which was drawn-out and cliche. It starts out as kind of the movie I wanted it to be though, seeing a boring old superhero through fresh, clever eyes. That's something.
Head-On (Gegen die Wand) - I think that if more people saw this movie, it would be really popular. It's got all the makings of a cult hit ... without the eyeballs on it. So see it! It's about a young Turkish woman in Germany who gets into a sham marriage with a human wreck just to get away from her family so she can date and have fun. Of course, it all goes wrong. It's brutal and moving and sad and funny and all that good stuff. My friend enticed me by saying something like, "Starring a hot Turkish porn actress and a guy who looks like Nick Cave." The women in it are beautiful, and the lead actress Sibel Kekilli is sort of insanely attractive to me, like I couldn't take my eyes off her and just google image-searched her for awhile afterwards.
Contagion - Arghhhh the scariest! I'm scared of illness outbreak!
Them (Ils) (rewatch) - I also don't really like this movie, although I get that it's skillfully done. It's just too tense! My blood pressure went up watching it!
Melancholia - Lars von Trier's new movie about the end of the world and crushing depression. I didn't like it as much as I liked Antichrist but I thought it was decent, and harrowing, and etc. Good to see it on the big screen.
Attack the Block - I really highly recommend this scrappy movie about a group of young British ruffians defending their neighborhood from an alien invasion.
A History of Violence and Eastern Promises (rewatches) - I felt like laying about at my house and watching a Cronenberg double-feature (triple-feature if you count Videodrome the next night). I love both these movies. I get that they're very different than earlier Cronenberg movies, but they're two of my favorites. I got to thinking about how Cronenberg often slips in extremely charged, physical, dangerous, slightly romantic/homoerotic moments between men. And I like that.
Videodrome (rewatch) - It's been awhile since I've watched this, so it was good to rewatch and actually remember the plot, rather than just remembering that it's got crazy body horror stuff. I can't believe how edgy it is in the S/M, grossness areas for a mainstreamish movie.
BOOKS
Freedom by Jonathon Franzen - I read this giant book in like a week! I was slightly disgusted at myself at how much I liked such a normie book. There were parts that I found unrealistic/could not relate to, not that I have to find books realistic or relate, but it just wasn't in a good way. But overall, I kind of tore into it and read the shit out of it.
OTHER STUFF
Pacquiao vs Marquez at Las Mojarras
hot dish party
first meeting of Unsettled Foundations - spooky story salon