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watchmorecinema · 6 months

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I was re-watching the Folding Ideas video about Nostalgia Critic's The Wall, and it got me thinking about something. I'm perfectly ok with people hating my favorite movies, so long as they at least understand them. The Wall is a dark and depressing movie and maybe you just don't want to deal with that. But if you think the main theme is "high school sucks" then you didn't really try to engage with it at all.

A lot of this I think is due to advertising. The Exorcist isn't the scariest film ever made, it's a family drama. It's very compelling but if you're looking for a lot of scares then you'll walk away thinking it's boring. Rambo isn't really an action film since it's more about the character of Rambo and how he has been dehumanized by the very machine that sent him to kill in Vietnam (the sequels dropped all of that). A lot of people went into Fight Club expecting it to be a straightforward fighting movie but actually it's a twisty thriller about the horrors of capitalism.

But outside of that I think it happens when the movie is abstract in some way. The Wall is very abstract, but it's easy to understand what it all means. An animated scene about inhuman monsters destroying London isn't The Wall trying to be a Kaiju movie for a minute, it's a metaphor for the horror and destruction of the blitz.

David Lynch and Tarkovsky get hit pretty hard by this too; people don't understand what the plot literally means so they get hung up on that instead of coming up with their own interpretation. What Stalker means to me is completely different to what it means to someone else. Any Twin Peaks theory is valid so long as its yours. Good art is a mirror that lets you engage with it and reflect about your own thoughts and feelings. If you unironically think that Whiplash or Wolf of Wall Street was about supporting hustle culture then that says more about you than about the film.

If you don't regularly engage with art in this way, well you should! Watch movies you wouldn't normally consider and see how it makes you feel. Even bad movies can help you feel a certain sort of way and that's valid. Maybe you find something that means something to you in a way that was never envisioned by the creator. Videodrome has a lot to say about parasocial relationships with online content creators, but it came out more than a decade before the Internet came into being. Starship Troopers was panned on release but now it's understood to be a pretty clear satire of right wing militarism. Every time I rewatch Akira I get something different from it, especially if I'm in a different stage of my life.

There's a lot out there to explore. And sometimes that means you walk away from a film where you might think it was well made but that it did nothing for you. It's happened to me too; I can understand that The Wolf Man did a lot for werewolves in fiction (literally creating most of the lore you recognize), but it's also mostly about a guy being really creepy towards women with pretty bad special effects. I can appreciate its influence, but I just don't think it's a good movie.

I'm sure most people reading this will have similar thoughts about Stalker. It's very slow, philosophical, a bit nihilistic and while the plot is pretty easy to understand it leaves so much open ended that you need to decide for yourself what it all means. It's a lot of work to watch. I love it for that reason; very few movies actually give the viewer homework to mull about and chew on and this one gives so much to consider. But it's perfectly reasonable for someone to decide that it's hard to relate to the movie about Russians being depressed about abstract concepts for nearly 3 hours.

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80smovies · 1 year

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#Rambo First Blood Part II #Sylvester Stallone #George P. Cosmatos #Kevin Jarre #James Cameron #David Morrell #80s

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joeyisourranger · 8 months

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me and my sleep paralysis demon

#rambo’s face #no eyeballs only frowny brow #aaron ramsdale #david raya #arsenal

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odegirlie · 7 months

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aaron ramsdale on the bench arteta you will pay for your crimes

#“raya kept 2 clean sheets” IDCCC #keeping a clean sheet vs psv and everton is impressive #but benching rambo?? come on #maybe i'm a sentimental prick but if you're rotating gks actually rotate them???#if you're going to make players compete let them compete??#i'm tired #that being said praying raya does well #my priority is beating spurs rn #yelling ab arteta's decisions comes later #aaron ramsdale #david raya #ami watches

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tachyonpub · 3 months

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#lavie tidhar #the circumference of the world #neom #book and film globe #best of 2023 #Ambling Along the Aqueduct #Cat Rambo #rainbow war blog #David Agranoff #Postcards From a Dying World #Auraist #loontown #nir yaniv

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kajaono · 11 months

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It’s nearly impossible to find a copy of RAMBO - the book here in Germany 😭

Only for 400€

Any David Morrell fan has an idea where to find a copy?

#David Morrell #Rambo #Rambo 1

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2ndaryprotocol · 1 year

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The straight up savage sequel ’Rambo’ stormed theaters this week 15 years ago. 🪖🔥🔫

"𝙻𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚘𝚛 𝚍𝚒𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕."

#otd #2008 #15 #rambo #John rambo #action #movies #david morrell #sylvester stallone #julie benz #ken howard #matthew marsden #graham mctavish #jake la botz #tim kang #paul schulze #burma #Spotify

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brokehorrorfan · 1 year

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Mondo and Nautilus are teaming up to release First Blood posters today, November 8. Designed by Matt Tobin Ryan, the screen prints measure 24x36.

Mondo’s standard edition (left) will be available at 12pm EST. It’s limited to 250 and costs $60. Nautilus’ variant will be available at 1pm EST. It’s limited to 82 and costs €75 (approximately $75).

#first blood #sylvester stallone #rambo #80s movies #1980s movies #mondo #nautilus #john rambo #ted kotcheff #david morrell #richard crenna #brian dennehy #art #gift #80s action movies

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theoscarsproject · 7 months

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Rambo First Blood Part II (1985). Rambo returns to the jungles of Vietnam on a mission to infiltrate an enemy base-camp and rescue the American POWs still held captive there.

This is genuinely pretty wild in terms of its sheer relentlessness - relentless action, relentless machismo, relentless jingoism. The character angle of the first one is gone, and instead it's just sort of really loud. Still, the stunts are pretty impressive, and the action sequences genuinely look good. A total 80s time capsule, for better and for worse. 4/10.

#rambo first blood part ii #1985 #Oscars 58 #Nom: sound editing #america #american #george p cosmatos #david morrell #kevin jarre #sylvester stallone #richard crenna #charles napier #julia nickson #vietnam #action #thriller #4/10

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flashfuckingflesh · 9 months

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Recalled to Nam is a Return Tour of EVIL! "Kill Zone" reviewed! (MVDVisual / Blu-ray)

Enter the “Kill Zone” on a New Blu-ray Home Video! Combat POWs are captured by enemy forces, imprisoned in an outdoor internment camp. Tortured for information, the prisoners are held without water in the scorching heat, strung up for hours on posts, beaten to a pulp, and stowed away in a hotbox if they do not cooperate with interrogators. When Lt. Jason McKenna snaps and loses grip on…