Tagged movies

Zack Snyder's Justice League.  A better movie, but not a good movie.

At the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Whoa. #rhpsmtl

It's not that #GlassMovie was horrible.  It's that it could have been so much better.

On a list of "movies I watched and liked as a kid but in retrospect of kind of horrific" I think "The Parent Trap" is near the top of list.

I saw Blade Runner 2049 recently. I have some (not very original) thoughts to share. Spoilers ahead.

The original Blade Runner only really caught my attention in my adult years. Unlike, say, Back to the Future, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Superman, it was not one of my "childhood movies". I saw it once when I was very young, found it boring and weird, and then promptly forgot about it until I was made to watch it sometime in my 20's or 30's with my eyes fully open.

Once I did, though...wow. That movie drips atmosphere. I'd be lying if I said it's one of my favourite movies of all time - I feel like that kind of designation is less about the movie itself and more about my frame of mind at the time I see it - but it's definitely up there as one of the movies I admire most from a visual standpoint. It's still beautiful 35 years later.

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So I saw Spectre.

So it's funny when the characters in the reboot are recognizable, not from the originals, but rather from their Austin Powers counterparts.

I never really watched most of the original Cold War Bond movies.

I'm addicted to a site called tvtropes.org. It's basically a catalogue of various literary and artistic devices used in various forms of media (books, movies, TV). It's fun because the site gives names to practices that you already recognize but haven't bothered to identify in any specific way. Examples include Genre Blindness, which explains the tendency of Bond villains to reveal their entire master plan to the spy rather than just shooting him, and Lampshading, which is an attempt to diffuse an obvious plot hole by having a character draw attention to it.

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