Recently Watched Films

The movie equivalent of a photocopied fanzine exploring a movement that wasn't really a movement, but more a place where the misfits could fit.

A good cast but this biographical crime movie just failed to resonate with me. 

Excellent rock opera reimagining of Phantom of the Opera. Music and bad guy care of Paul Williams. My choir mistress mentioned this movie the other day, saying how Daft Punk had taken a lot of inspiration for their costumes from the movie. I can definitely see it. Good fun and good music.

Surprisingly frank documentary about Chris Holmes. While W.A.S.P. might still be having delusions of grandeur, Holmes knows exactly where he fits in the world, and is quite happy to keep playing small venues to small but appreciative audiences. This doesn't shy away from anything, including Holmes' alcoholism and brief marriage to Lita Ford. There's a bit of live footage, and he still has the chops, even in his 60s. And unlike W.A.S.P., Holmes still plays "Fuck Like A Beast" live. I know which one of the two I'd prefer to see these days...

I've passed many a happy hour listening to Wax Trax! Records, and this was a happy hour and a half getting to know the story behind this record store and label.

I remember seeing the shorts for this ^^^ when I was a kid but have never seen it.

Not as good as Divergent, but then the books get progressively weaker as well. Still not a bad movie though.

So you know what that means...

RYM Satire!

Yakuza Law: An anthology film of three stories set in three period of Japanese history, each dealing with how the Yakuza punish those who break their internal codes.

RYM Genre Police: This is just a Gangster/Crime film, not a Yakuza film. 

Yakuza Law: The first story takes place in the Edo period.

RYM Genre Police: This is just a plain Period Drama. Jidaigekiwhat?

Yakuza Law: The first story contains a bloody Samurai swordfight as the Yakuza bring down vengeance on one of their own.

RYM Genre Police: Splatter must surely be a primary genre for the entire film. Also must be a full Action movie.

I don't believe a single person before me who voted on this movie actually watched it. 

I have seen this one before, but it came over much better this time around thanks to better subtitling (when I first watched this, the subs were so ridiculously small that it was so difficult to read them). 

I also wasn't expecting this to come across as so relevant in the 2020s: if it wasn't from 2006 I'd swear this was secretly Covid satire. 

Wow.

This one has floored me so much that I'm breaking my rule of not giving five stars to movies after just one watch.

Completely lives up to the hype. 

Hard to follow, uncompelling and boring and general all round crap.