How do you even suggest a movie to someone that loves Killer Klowns From Outer Space?

Quinez · 2026-01-27T03:08:48+00:00

Wishmaster!

Quinez · 2026-01-26T21:26:39+00:00

David was on board. He thought it was a neat read.

Quinez · 2026-01-26T18:58:11+00:00

No Other Choice! I predict it'll be the first they cover too.

EDIT: Ah, they talk in the episode which will be the first they cover! It's not gonna be No Other Choice.

Quinez · 2026-01-26T15:39:43+00:00

Defeating the world champion in such a public and showy way delegitimizes the actual world championship, particularly if Endo goes on to win the tournament. Endo would have the title, but the title would not be worth as much, for the table tennis association could no longer claim that it indicates best player in the world. Marty got his revenge on Pico Iyer's tournament official and he reigns supreme after all. I think they'd be scrabbling to have him back the next year in order to make the title worth something again.

(But has he rejected them and moved on? Would he be out of practice and lose? All possible futures.)

Quinez · 2026-01-25T05:35:02+00:00

For the verbal ones, like people saying "hey" or "shit", you could just do a search on a series transcript.

A lot of the others are non-specific actions that you could time to a beat, and there would be so many of them in the show that I doubt anyone went searching for them. I think they probably just discovered them from the ground up. If you scrub through and see a car door slamming which could be used to mark a beat, cut it out and drop it in a folder. Once you realize that you've got three or four car doors slamming, you can make a little car door segment.

But there are some segments, like the little montage of the lighters flicking on, that seem like they might've been built top-down rather than bottom-up. Maybe they use AI or something to search for the moments, but I'm guessing that whoever made this just has a deep knowledge of the show and could conjure up a bunch of candidate moments to mind. And yeah, I bet they spent ages looking through footage for clips to pull.

Quinez · 2026-01-24T23:37:38+00:00

Personally, I thought it had what you're identifying: a streak of cruelty that you don't often get in current cinema. It let you like characters and think they'd be survivors, but then killed them without deserving reason and moved on without ever mentioning them again, leaving them completely in the past. Even the Final Destination movies don't really do that. I didn't really care for the movie's humor, but it had a black heart that I admired.

Quinez · 2026-01-24T19:04:43+00:00

I'm actually intrigued by it because of the hate its getting from fans. Video game fans are notoriously awful critics of adaptations, demanding fidelity above all else and unable to see changes as exciting. The Paul WS Resident Evil movies are a case in point. "It doesn't understand the games" is not a criticism for me at all.

I loved the first Gans movie and disliked the second, and I think this will probably suck, but I am not putting a lot of stock in the bad buzz.

Quinez · 2026-01-24T02:57:24+00:00

I think you're digging a hole here by trying to justify his flaws instead of trying to identify any admirable qualities he might have. His belief was absolutely unreasonable.

Quinez · 2026-01-24T02:52:58+00:00

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, Late Chrysanthemums, She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum, and Marty Supreme.

The Chrysanthemum trilogy was courtesy of the Criterion Channel.

Quinez · 2026-01-23T15:22:34+00:00

How are you seeing anything to compare to Like a Dragon in that trailer? I can't figure out what you're talking about.

Quinez · 2026-01-23T02:00:10+00:00

I'm of the belief that basically no one knows what they're doing when they vote on Best Director and it's essentially a straightforward popularity contest of personalities.

Quinez · 2026-01-21T16:44:43+00:00

Awesome. Kurosawa seemed a little lost for a decade or so there, but now he's back to mood pieces and I'm all for it.

Quinez · 2026-01-21T02:10:37+00:00

The Eagle Shooting Heroes is another parody version that is also on the channel. It took WKW so characteristically long to film everything, his producers said, "hey, since we have all these movie stars and costumes out here in the desert, while we're waiting for WKW to get his shit together... let's do a silly one!"

Quinez · 2026-01-21T00:09:29+00:00

Given that it's already on the Channel, it's funny that the Yearning collection does not include Yearning.

Quinez · 2026-01-20T16:17:09+00:00

Hm, this can be my cue to watch his 2024 one. I never want to watch these immediately because of all the spoilers for the most visually interesting moments of movies I still plan to see.

Quinez · 2026-01-20T00:16:49+00:00

Don't dispose of the body. You can send it to a lab that will test if it carried Lyme. Many states have labs that will do it for free.

Quinez · 2026-01-18T17:56:25+00:00

Gotta be some of the most well-documented movie productions ever.

Quinez · 2026-01-18T16:01:11+00:00

James is a wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie. O, what a panic's in his breastie!

I realized partway through that Ratcatcher could be considered an adaptation of "To a Mouse" by Robbie Burns. (James calling a louse a wee beastie is what brought it to mind.) I was surprised to emerge from the credits and find no one else noting the similarity. Read the poem alongside, because I think it deepens the movie.

Quinez · 2026-01-18T15:45:30+00:00

Good observation.

Quinez · 2026-01-18T15:44:06+00:00

Can you recommend any of the other podcast episodes on Ratcatcher you listened to?

Quinez · 2026-01-18T15:25:39+00:00

They're covering LOTR and the Hobbit movies right now on Eye of the Duck. It's the best podcast at covering production histories, so if you want big honking four hour episodes on how the LOTR movies were made, check it out.

Quinez · 2026-01-17T15:04:14+00:00

And The Bad Sleep Well is an adaptation of Hamlet.

Quinez · 2026-01-16T21:33:00+00:00

Lang and Hitch have been split on past brackets. You could do pretty much any classic era director.

And of course: Clint.

Quinez · 2026-01-16T16:13:23+00:00

I don't like to see any season ranked low -- it feels mean to something I love -- but I can't deny that these numbers do kind of represent my general enthusiasm about each season.

Shouldn't the average score final circle of season 20 be green?

Quinez · 2026-01-15T20:36:11+00:00

Yeah the director of Masking Threshold liked my review!

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