recent watchings of whatever

[bad_juice]

it's saturday night and i am home alone drinking!

a perfect time to update.

the dark knight rises -- more of goyer's tin-eared dialogue and nolan's fondness for fascist apologia, both ramped up to often unbearable extremes. especially the latter's weirdo fox news digs at the occupy movement. after watching this movie i feel like nolan probably

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[bob_le_flambeur]

the wrong man -- at times the most beautiful hitchcock movie i've seen (never watched rope) and simultaneously the most depressing. henry fonda's complete refusal to ever stand up for himself and the way he completely gives himself over to the societal mechanics of (alleged) crime and punishment even got a bit much at times, to the point that i found myself hoping for a weird "empowerment" scenario or whathaveyou. as a comment on how spoiled for such moronic bits of catharsis people (well, me anyway) can become, it was pretty effective. also if i'm not completely mistaken, the only form of rebellion hitch offers to fonda's model-citizen-catatonia is fonda's wife's mental breakdown and subsequent estrangement from everything and everyone. in that sense, not sure how the famous "miracle" sequence that godard talked about can feel anything other than completely cynical. and the ending too, jesus christ.

after having last watched it about 8 years ago, revisiting the godfather was a pretty drab affair: the lone highpoint was the sequence

[dominoparker]

Django (1966)- I started watching this and got really bored with it so I turned it off, then came back to it a few days later and was just ready for it I guess. It's very bland for long stretches, but it very nearly culminates in a very dark climax. Although now that I think about it, it may be darker still. I like the reveal of what was in Django's coffin. It has a very big plot holes that didn't really make much sense to me. Too much to gripe about.

Rolling Thunder (rewatch) - I really like William Devane in this movie. The beginning is so quiet and brooding and has some moments of genuine, frightening darkness. I kind of wish it continued with that kind of pace, but then it sort of barrels through it's 70s grindhouse revenge conceit and kind of ruins the tone. I really wish it had capitalized on the tomboyishness of the love interest that it introduces. Instead the movie sort of shoves her to the side so that the Major and his war buddy can go relive Nam or whatever. I do like the scene where Devane goes to tell Tommy Lee Jones

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