Latest movie you watched (1-10 scale)

[spacehamster]

I always thought that first Spider-Man movie was hokey. I love Sam Raimi as much as the next guy, but his editing style just doesn't work for basically anything that wants to be taken seriously, and you also don't have to make the movie look like it's set in the 70s just because you're adapting old comic books. Really the only thing I liked about it was Tobey Maguire and the fact that Aunt May actually looked like Aunt May.

[cxwx]

I'm trying to get my sampling game back on point, so that's my excuse for watching all eight of the Howling movies. The australian ones are pure cringe, and ruin the franchise early on. The occasional attempts at continuity are beyond weak, and there is more just watching the 80s go by and become the 90s. Howling II had Christopher Lee, and Sybil Danning's tits, but those were the only high marks for the whole mess.

lol, I think I watched part 3 a billion times on HBO as a kid

[The Bill]

If the Howling movies and Tobey McGuire Spider-man movies had a cross over, the world would be a better place.

No, seriously. Imagine Tobey’s stupid shocked face at a pair of werewolf tits. Gold, Jerry, it’s gold

[THE KILL]

The Trouble With Jessica - 6.5/10
Reasonably entertaining, if you don't mind the ten millionth rehash of the "some unfortunate shit happens and that leads to the relevation that a bunch of middle class people are a lot more selfish than they think/ have plenty of skeletons in their closet" trope.

Nosferatu - 7.5/10 but will need to revisit after i obtain a masters degree in jungian blue balls



zero value in looking at this dude - it's like a spoken blog entry; 1.25x recommended

Not saying analyzing literature from a psychoanalytic perspective can't be rewarding, but I've been wondering whether there's any real insight to be had; Freud and Jung mostly just made crazy (albeit entertaining) shit up. Basing literature on their ideas is very fruitful, using their ideas to analyse literature not so much. I guess it's similar to "analyzing"/ interpreting your dreams: it's fun, but you can interpret them in any way you want.

[featherboa]

beekeeper -

[Necrometer]

Basing literature on their ideas is very fruitful

yeah and that’s how eggers made this movie

you are really putting in the effort for this “board’s latest pariah” gig

[THE KILL]

Basing literature on their ideas is very fruitful

yeah and that’s how eggers made this movie

you are really putting in the effort for this “board’s latest pariah” gig

That's a tad hyperbolic, isn't it? Not to deflect or anything, but is there a reason you're lashing out like this? Perhaps buying a bidet would help...

[spacehamster]

Not saying analyzing literature from a psychoanalytic perspective can't be rewarding, but I've been wondering whether there's any real insight to be had; Freud and Jung mostly just made crazy (albeit entertaining) shit up. Basing literature on their ideas is very fruitful, using their ideas to analyse literature not so much. I guess it's similar to "analyzing"/ interpreting your dreams: it's fun, but you can interpret them in any way you want.

Speaking as someone who has done more Freudian literary analysis than I'd particularly care to admit, in my opinion it's really more about tracking ideas that come from Freud and have found their way into art and popular culture and figuring out whether that may or may not be why something resonates the same way Freud's ideas resonated with a lot of people despite being basically a bunch of coked-out horseshit.

[THE KILL]

Not saying analyzing literature from a psychoanalytic perspective can't be rewarding, but I've been wondering whether there's any real insight to be had; Freud and Jung mostly just made crazy (albeit entertaining) shit up. Basing literature on their ideas is very fruitful, using their ideas to analyse literature not so much. I guess it's similar to "analyzing"/ interpreting your dreams: it's fun, but you can interpret them in any way you want.

Speaking as someone who has done more Freudian literary analysis than I'd particularly care to admit, in my opinion it's really more about tracking ideas that come from Freud and have found their way into art and popular culture and figuring out whether that may or may not be why something resonates the same way Freud's ideas resonated with a lot of people despite being basically a bunch of coked-out horseshit.

Actually when I typed it might be fruitful to base literature on Jung's ideas, I remembered a post of yours on this board in which you said that Batman Arkham Asylum was an illustration of some of Jung's core ideas. I listened to the video essay Ross posted, but I think you could just as well describe the main theme of nu Nosferatu as repression of (specifically female) sexual urges, no real need to drag Jung and his convoluted bullshit into it. It's not important enough to me to risk another spike of Ross' blood pressure though...

[spacehamster]

Actually when I typed it might be fruitful to base literature on Jung's ideas, I remembered a post of yours on this board in which you said that Batman Arkham Asylum was an illustration of some of Jung's core ideas.

Arkham Asylum is very overtly about Jung and Crowley though, to the point where I really don't even feel like it's much of an "interpretation" to say it is. IIRC they both even briefly appear as characters, or at least Crowley does.

Anyway, if you want the prehistoric psychoanalytical approach to gothic literature, just go read Freud's Das Unheimliche, that's pretty much it. Although tbqh I think you're better off watching Contrapoint's video essay about the Twilight movies and why women have rape fantasies, but I probably just feel that way about Freud at this point because you can't escape him if you major in English literature.

[FVBTVS]

se7en restoration in imax was pretty sweet

[spacehamster]

I'm going to post my "why I didn't like Se7en" pet theory here to take some of the heat off of THE KILL. I haven't seen the movie since not long after it came out and never reevaluated this, but I like my little pet theories.

I really just hated the ending, for two reasons. One is that way too much hubbub is made about "what's in the box" when everyone already knows what's in the human head-sized box from the serial killer who was last seen with Brad Pitt's wife, and the other is that clearly, the idea is that Kevin Spacey's character wins, but he actually doesn't. He says Brad Pitt should kill him because he has become the embodiment of envy, and thus Brad Pitt will become the embodiment of wrath, but if his thing is to kill people who symbolize one of the seven deadly sins, who's going to kill Brad Pitt? Nobody. He's leaving his project unfinished.

[THE KILL]

I'm going to post my "why I didn't like Se7en" pet theory here to take some of the heat off of THE KILL.

Wait what, what heat. Ross just got out of the wrong side of the bed that day, he's a sweety really!

I really just hated the ending, for two reasons. One is that way too much hubbub is made about "what's in the box" when everyone already knows what's in the human head-sized box from the serial killer who was last seen with Brad Pitt's wife, and the other is that clearly, the idea is that Kevin Spacey's character wins, but he actually doesn't. He says Brad Pitt should kill him because he has become the embodiment of envy, and thus Brad Pitt will become the embodiment of wrath, but if his thing is to kill people who symbolize one of the seven deadly sins, who's going to kill Brad Pitt? Nobody. He's leaving his project unfinished.

the "what's inside of the box"-thing, I always assumed Brad's character totally knows what's inside the box, his asking this question again and again visualizes his struggle to accept that his wife was killed. It's a very tense scene, not sure if his reaction (shooting Spacey's character) was convincing, but that's super subjective admittedly.

[MPD]

Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action - 0
Look Into My Eyes - 8

[godofdeadlydeath]

I'm going to post my "why I didn't like Se7en" pet theory here to take some of the heat off of THE KILL.

Wait what, what heat. Ross just got out of the wrong side of the bed that day, he's a sweety really!

I really just hated the ending, for two reasons. One is that way too much hubbub is made about "what's in the box" when everyone already knows what's in the human head-sized box from the serial killer who was last seen with Brad Pitt's wife, and the other is that clearly, the idea is that Kevin Spacey's character wins, but he actually doesn't. He says Brad Pitt should kill him because he has become the embodiment of envy, and thus Brad Pitt will become the embodiment of wrath, but if his thing is to kill people who symbolize one of the seven deadly sins, who's going to kill Brad Pitt? Nobody. He's leaving his project unfinished.

the "what's inside of the box"-thing, I always assumed Brad's character totally knows what's inside the box, his asking this question again and again visualizes his struggle to accept that his wife was killed. It's a very tense scene, not sure if his reaction (shooting Spacey's character) was convincing, but that's super subjective admittedly.

By the time he sees Freeman's reaction, he knows what's in the box. He can't admit it to himself, but he absolutely knows.

[ghost boner]

Casa bonita mi amor - 8.5/10

Doc on the south park guys buying the restaurant. This is way better than you'd think