movies

[JoeMcKim]

Going by yourself you can go to whatever showing you want to and you end up going to the movies you want to go see instead of compromising and seeing a movie both of you're willing to see together. I try to go to movies at 11:30 or so if I'm going by myself just because movies before noon are the only times it's kind of reasonably priced to see it in the theater.

It's so much better seeing movies at a theater for the first time instead of watching them at home. I have a nice TV at home but it doesn't beat a giant screen that covers the entire wall with dolby surround sound, plus you can watch a movie uninterrupted with the normal distractions of life.

[Maclowery]

I go to a movie by myself probably four times as often as with someone. Will be doing it next for Mad Max. Although I kind of want to buy three tickets, put the extra two stubs on the seats on either side of me, and sprawl out revelling in my American-ness.

[MrCrowesGarden]

On my current shift, I have Fridays and Saturdays off, but because it's overnights it's really more like having Thursday and Friday off.

If I get the position I hope to get, I'll have Mondays and Tuesdays off. Suffice it to say going to movies by myself doesn't bother me, and in a lot of ways, I prefer it. It's nice having the theater practically to yourself, and it usually means I don't have to see movies like The Wedding Ringer with my wife.

[MrSaigon]

I'm so tired of people complaining about how many comic book movies there are. If they're tired of those they can go see distopian future young adult adapted movies. We're so lucky to live in a time of TWO choices.

[Vidor]

I'm so tired of people complaining about how many comic book movies there are. If they're tired of those they can go see distopian future young adult adapted movies. We're so lucky to live in a time of TWO choices.

What a load of crap. We also have movies based on toys and games. So, THREE choices.

[Famous Mortimer]

Plus sequels, prequels and reboots of movies that did well before!

[JoeMcKim]

I don't know why people care about movies that don't interest you. If you don't like comic book movies then the solution is to just not go see the movies. I don't care for American Idol, The Voice or any of those type of TV Shows but guess what I do about it, I just don't watch them. And then life goes on.

[Famous Mortimer]

For the same reason people post in threads relating to arguments they appear to have absolutely no interest in, I suppose.

[The Third Man]

I don't know why people care about movies that don't interest you. If you don't like comic book movies then the solution is to just not go see the movies. I don't care for American Idol, The Voice or any of those type of TV Shows but guess what I do about it, I just don't watch them. And then life goes on.

There are only so many screens even at a multiplex. When The Avengers is taking up four of them, something I'd like more is possibly being squeezed out.

Anyway. It Follows. My favorite horror movie since Black Swan, and maybe even since Lost Highway. I was a huge fan of Mitchell's previous effort, The Myth of the American Sleepover, a quiet coming-of-age ensemble film that perfectly captures the emotional flux of pubescence and the quiet warmth and stillness of suburbia. Kinda Sofia Coppola-ish, but with a more deliberate out-of-time/timeless feel (which is even more pronounced here, a universe in which some kind of weird clamshell e-reader exists but kids still watch old monster movies on floor-unit CRTs with knobs). The beauty of this one is that it maintains that same tone but transplants it to a horror film that plays like a mashup of Halloween and Charles Burns' Black Hole. A lot have read it as an analogy for sexually transmitted diseases, which is fair enough, but I took it more as a a general anxiety about sex as it pertains to a loss of youthful innocence, emotional maturation giving way to feelings of helplessness and mortality. It's one of the absolute best-looking films I've seen in some time, let alone horror films, and if there were any justice it would be a shoo-in for every Best Original Score award at the end of the year. Mitchell all but totally eschews jump scares, relying instead on the dread that comes with slow-approaching death, heading straight at you from the center of the screen. I've found myself checking over my shoulder more than a few times in the past few days. Can't imagine this will fall out of my year-end top five.

Then I watched The Devil's Rejects, which sucked. A bad pastiche of grindhouse cliches that rubs your nose in how gritty and archetypal it is while being utterly exhausting and repetitive. Nothing to recommend it. Boo, Rob Zombie. I hope your Halloween remakes and The Lords of Salem are more worthwhile.

Also got to catch Don Hertzfeldt's latest, World of Tomorrow, which is yet another leap forward for him aesthetically. It's Such a Beautiful Day is probably the best animated film I've ever seen so I'm excited that he's proved he still has room to grow (and if this isn't ultimately as accomplished a piece, that one has the benefit of 4x the length and a deeper emotional resonance). He's as comfortable with digital effects as he ever was with live footage or stick-figure animation. Go buy it, it's on Vimeo.

[JoeMcKim]

Speaking of Devil's Rejects makes me remember just how bad of a filmmaker that Rob Zombie is. His Halloween movies were absolutely terrible. I don't like how he felt like explaining why Michael Myers was doing what he was doing. That's best left unexplained.