{"id":3286,"date":"2021-02-09T12:58:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2021-02-09T13:00:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T21:00:54","slug":"lets-see-how-many-movies-i-watched-in-the-last-four-wtf-months-i-can-give-one-sentence-reviews-before-i-get-tired-and-stop-typing-asterisk-means-it-was-a-rewatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2021\/02\/09\/lets-see-how-many-movies-i-watched-in-the-last-four-wtf-months-i-can-give-one-sentence-reviews-before-i-get-tired-and-stop-typing-asterisk-means-it-was-a-rewatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s see how many movies I watched in the last four (!) (wtf) months I can give one-sentence reviews before I get tired and stop typing. Asterisk means it was a rewatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><i>The Sword of Doom<\/i> (1966) Starring NFD favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/view\/findlaymarks-japanese-yojimbo-fire-watch-it-burn-gif-15971360\" title=\"fire-watch-it-burn-gif\">Tatsuya Nakadai<\/a>&mdash;who I actually haven&#8217;t named here, how have I not done that?! he&#8217;s awesome&mdash;as an extremely dead-eyed murder samurai, this movie has homophobia and a sexual assault in it, but all the other parts of it rule hard as hell.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Hackers<\/i> (1995)*: On its 25th anniversary with live cast commentary!!!\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Kiki\u2019s Delivery Service<\/i> (1989)*: Everybody wants to make magical-kid movies like Miyazaki, nobody wants to make meandering unmarketable gentle conflict-free movies like Miyazaki.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>The Sweatbox<\/i> (2002): I hope you made time to watch this after I linked to it back in September, because it got taken down again, but I will link it if it pops back up, because it is a fucking fascinating portrait of years-long, slow-motion institutional failure.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Shaolin vs. Lama<\/i> (1983)*: I don\u2019t know if I noticed the first time (when I saw it at the Hollywood Theater) that <i>Crouching Tiger<\/i> (2000)  referenced this movie&#8217;s \u201cstealing the secret book\u201d sequence very directly for its opening set piece.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>A Silent Voice<\/i> (2016): Bittersweet anime with bittersweet anime club about bullying a deaf person and the consequences thereof; spent all its budget on beautiful sign-language animation and not enough on bringing actual deaf people into the creative process.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner<\/i> ( 2001): This movie deserves more than one sentence!\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Kwaidan<\/i> (1954): Japanese folk-tale horror anthology with artificial-but-gorgeous sets and matte paintings, which I wish I\u2019d actually written about in October, because it\u2019s perfect for a spooky mood!\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Jennifer\u2019s Body<\/i> (2009): Karyn Kusama seems to have a gift for getting a fantastic central performance from an actress (Michelle Rodriguez in <a href=\"\/nfd\/2019\/11\/18\/october-ovies\/\" title=\"Jennifer's Body does a better job surfacing its queer material, but could serve the trans aspect of the story better!\">Girlfight [2000]<\/a>, Megan Fox here), but I think the technical fundaments&#8211;sound mixing, shot composition, editing and story structure&#8211;hold up less well.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>The Princess Switch: Switched Again<\/i> (2020): The Netflix Christmasatic Universe posits a Europe with 43 tiny English-speaking-but-somehow-Catholic absolute monarchies and zero security personnel of any kind.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Happiest Season<\/i> (2020): There\u2019s this meme image where Superman is exerting tremendous energy to stop a train from running over a child, and in this case the child is me, and Aubrey Plaza is Superman, and the train wreck is this napkin sketch of a movie.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai<\/i> (1999): I didn\u2019t know if I\u2019d like this because I didn\u2019t like the only other Jim Jarmusch movie I have seen (<i>Only Lovers Left Alive<\/i> [2013]), but, however, it rules hard as hell.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey<\/i> (2020): So many animators, musicians,<br \/>\nartists, performers and designers worked so hard on&#8230; this&#8230; attempt to lionize a Victor von Frankenstein figure (???), which displays zero trust in its audience, its own conceits, or its animators, musicians, artists, performers and designers.<\/p>\n<li><i>What\u2019s Your Number?<\/i> (2011): It\u2019s a three out of ten.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>First Cow<\/i> (2019): A beautiful movie about love and foreboding in which, I can promise you, no violence happens on screen, including to any animals, and especially to the cow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sword of Doom (1966) Starring NFD favorite Tatsuya Nakadai&mdash;who I actually haven&#8217;t named here, how have I not done that?! he&#8217;s awesome&mdash;as an extremely dead-eyed murder samurai, this movie has homophobia and a sexual assault in it, but all the other parts of it rule hard as hell. Hackers (1995)*: On its 25th anniversary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,23,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hackers","category-movies","category-roundups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3289,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions\/3289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}