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Watching Night One again. Fuck, what a great show. I realized that this band may have more songs I like than Metallica, and probably will play more songs that I like than Nine Inch Nails. I am beyond excited to see them in a giant stadium for the nearly 30th anniversary of this gig. Sorry to my many UK friends, I am indeed a big American cornball who likes them.

One sign that rock may truly be dead is that Oasis hits so fucking hard. Unapologetic bravado-based toxicity, swagger and other ways to spin their dickheadishness. Even their plagiarism feels like a loving tribute to the guitar rock gods and guides of the last century. Recontextualizing Innis, Bolan and even the Beatles feels kind of refreshing in the era of K-pop, rap’s third renaissance, and metal’s most recent mainstream turn.

This looks great, this sounds great, the performance is great. I’d compare it favorably to REM’s Tourfilm. And of course, this is available on YouTube in HD for free because we live in a digital gilded age.

Listened to this like a lecture during my workout. I have a feeling that’s going to be how I revisit a lot of these AC docs. Dude is so good at laying it all out there.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

I’ve fallen asleep trying to watch this movie so many times that now I just turn it on when I can’t sleep, which I guess makes it good for something?

I just want to be as happy as Mick Fleetwood is when he’s playing drums and not as angry as Stevie Nicks is when she’s singing Silver Springs.

God, I love this movie so much.

Everyone is so fucking toxic in a very ugly, real way. So many love stories focus on an idealized version of the self, but Nichols is transparent about how manipulative coupling is. You are trying to make someone love you, but you’re supposed to be yourself - but also stay in the moment and not be too serious while also being romantic. Love is not simple.

Law’s character plays the perfect A-Grade fuckboy, with Portman matching him beat for beat with her manic BPD energy. Owen’s character sits in the middle of a venn diagram between masculinity and human neurosis, where Roberts’ couldn’t be more of an accurate stereotype of a very particular type of girl. One of those movies I can return to repeatedly, even with that shitty Damien Rice theme song.

American Psycho before 30: “wow, I want to be like Patrick Bateman instead of an awkward dork”

American Psycho after 30: “wow, I want to be less of an awkward dork like Patrick Bateman”

Anyway, I yelled out most of the lines in the movie like I was at a midnight screening of Rocky Horror. Best parody of the ludicrousness of masculinity ever made.

Basic, but fun! I don’t know a ton about hockey, but this is a pretty fun primer. As someone from Philly, too - it’s fun to see some of that history on screen. Really classic execution, very watchable.

In my Ken era

Damn, this rules so much every time I watch this. Why did my dad show me this at 12 years old though? What the fuck?

Of the many pieces about Kaufman out there, this is the one that most earnestly gets the tragedy in his act. With the use of some incredible score cues, even moments that could have felt whimsical are rightfully grounded in a humanity and vulnerability that give the complexity they deserve. 

A ton of great footage edited exceptionally. Essential viewing.

Not the worst of Pauly’s studio movies but still not a good movie. Great casting, great soundtrack, but that’s about it for this proto-Dude Where’s My Car comedy. Could Baldwin and Shore get less likeable? 

Whoever wrote these roles for him just didn’t get what made Pauly so fun, so special. Here he’s just a deeply inconsiderate menace whose incompetence is a thin veil for what an asshole he is. Baldwin is less so, but still hard to watch. At least Joey Lauren Adam’s is super cute and the wardrobe design is great.

I think I just don’t like John Fortenberry movies.

Pauly isn’t even really full wiez in this, he’s just some loser who occasionally acts a little quirky. Abe Vigoda as the judge is pretty cool but this just kinda doesn’t have any substance. I don’t know how else to describe it, but it’s just a very thin premise executed in a very lean way.

Even when it sort of picks up steam in its second act as Pauly starts to redeem his character, it’s got the charisma of a made for Comedy Central movie from the 00’s. I mean, it’s fine - but it’s markedly a piece of shit even for a Shore movie. Bottom of this particular  barrel, which is less offensive and more bland and unremarkable.

A lot better than I ed it! The first half is mostly terror porn while the second half gets to the bizarre and perverse stuff. Really well paced and well acted. Really takes a fucked up concept and plays it better than you think would be possible. Loved the ending. Great score too!

I love these fucking Olga movies. This one has dialogue and not just a voiceover (which is still very present), which makes it a little less fun IMO - but not by much. Now it’s not just narcotics and prostitution, but also jewel smuggling that she’s into… a little shark jumpy but whatever. The more we try and get any sort of plot depth, the weaker the film gets - but fortunately it’s very self aware and stays light.

This is still a proto-WAVE flick, so if you fuck with that type of thing then you’ll love this. High heels and fishnets and garters, bouffants and wayfarers and satin gloves, and lots and lots of downward angled shots of women in very rigid looking lingerie in various states of minor distress.

You could watch all 3 Olga movies in the time it takes to watch the first Godfather movie, or like - Avatar or something. Are YOU a person of culture?

A solid Sunday afternoon watch. Amazing that all these years later we were able to get something that could stand up to the madness of Do America.

When Bill isn’t complaining about young people, he’s smugly ranting about how much better he is than everyone else. There’s some comedy here (about two minutes of it), but it’s unmemorable - the kind of stuff that would get cut out of an episode of Blend. Shit about how pot is legal now is about the pinnacle of actual material though.

He’s like if you made Jay Leno smug. Some of this feels like if you did an SNL skit about a stereotypical boomer standup bit - sometimes to the point where he needs to repeat the punchline in order to instruct the audience to react.

Ugh.

Someone put Cat In The Hat (2003) into MidJourney and made it into iPad kid era slop. Jason Momoa and Jennifer Coolidge remind me of the human characters you’d see in those Billie Eilish cat videos. Probably doesn’t help that I don’t know any Minecraft lore and never actually played it, especially since the action sequences were all clearly meant to emulate a video game. 

Sound design and score were fine, some of the visual effects were pretty okay… idk there’s not a lot of nice things I can say about this. A waste of time unless you’re 7 years old?

A hilarious retelling of the American Psycho story using Diddy (or B-City) as the Patrick Bateman character. What makes this more than just a MAD magazine parody and more of a watchable movie is that the narrative is intercut with dramatized scenes from Diddy’s life that we’re all familiar with.

One of the most ridiculous hood movies I’ve ever seen. But more than that, it’s actually really good. It’s well paced, it’s funny, it’s got good rhythm and the acting is that right blend of TV movie grade and actually watchable. Definitely worth the hour it takes to watch it.

Does Bill Burr realize that he’s been writing the same special over and over again? He’s old, he doesn’t get young people, he loves his wife even though he’s always yelling at her. I listen to his him riffing twice a week and it’s pretty clear that he’s got that down to a science. The “material” is really just greatest hits at this point. It’s not bad, it’s just nothing special. Part of me thinks that these things only exist for the press tour; so he can promote the live show and Monday/Thursday Morning Podcast.

I love Tom Green, but he’s not a stand up comic… so why does this exist? It feels like someone taped his drop-in set on a Tuesday in the side room of the Comedy Store. There’s just not a lot of material here. It could be the first episode of a podcast or something, sure - but those are supposed to be clunky and awkward. Green does have so many stories, but his need to frame them as a comic puts too many holes in their sails.

Presenting this in a way that highlights the size of the stage and implies a bigger audience than there should be, it really doesn’t help. God, could he have filmed this at a Chinese restaurant or somebody’s house? At a record store? It’s not like seeing Green at the National Arts Center gives him any credibility, nor does it provide some great juxtaposition. Maybe one day we’ll get him in conversation with Nathan Fielder at the 92nd St Y - then we’ll get the special this should have been.

Feels so deeply entrenched in all that was good about early 00’s media. Its tone is balanced between this almost sitcom grade romantic comedy and the dark horror that it’s billed as.

Anna Farris and Angela Bettis are just great casting and the soundtrack and score (in spite of how deeply 2000s it is) just feel perfect. It also touches upon a certain meanness perpetuated against girls that didn’t fit a certain narrow aesthetic framework. Movies like 10 Things I Hate About You did this less viscerally, and it’s nice to see the revenge fantasy in full swing here.

Been listening to Some Girls a lot recently and decided to give this a revisit. 

Mick Jagger doesn’t know what the fuck he wants to do. Is he a punk? Is he making disco now? Is he a rocker? His Swazi shirt and visible bulge through his leather pants, it’s all SO performative that you almost forget how killer his vocal delivery is here. Bill Wyman’s bass tone is immaculate, and Watts is tight as ever. 

Hell yeah.

Wow, something Chris D’Elia did that I liked! 

It’s basically just I Love The 90’s for etymology instead of pop culture, but it’s well researched and is VERY watchable.

What a silly fucking movie.

Rambo’s probably his coolest here that he’s been up to this point (barring the first movie of course), and that Goldsmith score and sound design are unquestionably the best up to this point — but there still isn’t quite enough violence here on the top end to make up for the propagandist plot which has aged with a chef’s kiss. 

There’s definitely more of Rambo with a machine gun than ever before, and there’s certainly more helicopter explosions though, and once it gets going it’s pretty great. Obviously it’s far from the original Rambo but who the fuck cares? The original Rambo was also filled with corny one liners and Stallone bought the film back just to cut out all the dialogue. If anything, this is full circle.

The El Topo of bubblegum pop movies, Spice is the best case scenario for presenting the awe and spectacle - but also the legitimate talent of the Girls. The cameos and general casting is incredible, down to Meat Loaf as the bus driver and Roger Moore as the chief. So much of this movie feels like a fever dream; it’s wild to think it did so well - but that’s the Spice phenomenon for you.

Does the movie make sense? I don’t know, can you tell me what “zig-a-zig-ah” means? All I know is that it’s instantly quotable and just generally a lot of fun even as it nears 30 years old.

He’s got his groove going! Most of this stuff still feels like standard mid 00’s topics like how dating is hard and other social follies - but he’s got his signature ranting down, along with his unapologetic delivery. I still prefer his stuff a little later when he feels a little more natural, but this is undoubtedly a prime Burr special.

This is so well made, with editing and cinematography at the top of the indie film pyramid and casting that feels natural and appropriate — it’s such a bummer that the acting isn’t really that great and the script is spotty. The tone is generally great but it gets weird every now and then and feels like it doesn’t know what it wants to be. It’s the Sound Of Metal dilemma, in the sense that when you get too close to the material it ceases to be fully committed to being cinematic. 

Still, it’s an independent juggalo buddy comedy with horror undertones - the bar isn’t super high. The ending goes off the rails; which is nice - I just wish it wasn’t so spotty getting there. There’s just clearly so much potential here, and I look forward to seeing the team behind this make more generally focused movies. All the tools are there to make something truly great.

Kind of exhausting, honestly. 

By the third movie the whole schtick with Mike Meyers doing rejected SNL characters making cheap jokes/funny noises and running them into the ground has gotten too self indulgent to enjoy. Even the general story feels lazy, and often like an excuse to flex an obscene budget. I mean, the costuming is still good - but that’s maybe the nicest thing I can say about this piece of shit.

Beyoncé is not great, particularly in comparison to his female partners in previous movies — but the lack of chemistry is just generally abundant in the whole film’s vibe. Just entirely phoned in. Why are there so many dumb musical numbers too? A real fall from grace when you compare it to the undeniable chemistry of International Man Of Mystery. Boooooooooo.

Immaculate fucking vibes.

The fact that this movie has no real English dialogue for its first 10 minutes outside of that godawful Steppenwolf cover of ‘The Pusher’ says volumes about the quality of filmmaking here. Hopper made the ultimate love letter to that wave of late 60’s highway freedom - tragic as it may be. 

4K remaster looks and sounds insane, albeit a bit too smooth in places. Soundtrack sounds incredible.

Mostly incomprehensible WAVE film about the end of the world or something? There’s a young Tina Krause and lots of scenes where chicks die in the woods - the usual for a production of this kind. As you would expect, individual scenes go hard but I don’t really know if they string together as a movie.

One of the easier WAVE flicks to find as it’s on streaming services - but I’d look for a different one to intro the genre with if you’re looking to initiate a beginner.

Now THAT’S what I call gore porn. Not much to complain about since the porn parts are pretty hot and the gore parts are pretty gnarly - despite them not really showing anything until the movie is half over. It’s not spectacular by any means though. On a whole it’s needlessly wordy without much need for said words, and that brings it down a ton.

Hell yeah.

Horny Japanese teens head to an abandoned spot to party and get haunted by a pussy parasite. Solid gore, acceptable levels of nudity, great pacing. This is exactly how I want most of my horror to be. Sleazy, fucked up and kinda funny. That said, there are a lot of shots of tits being squeezed so depending on your tolerance of that, your individual mileage may vary.

Another perfect movie. Love that Roberto Cavalli did most of the costumes. Insane cast too.

A great date movie!

Hell yeah. Paul McCarthy forever. Between this, Final Flesh and Trash Humpers there was a solid decade of incredible video art that said more with absurdity and aesthetics than be expressed overtly. Even without any message though, Painter is pure chaos in its staging and execution. It’s funny and angry and desperate all at once. 

I guess Kanye made an instagram story about this, according to the YouTube comments. Especially funny considering the subject matter at hand here.

This is a very bad, confused movie. Tone is all over the place, performances are all over the place; it’s like someone saw Happiness and thought they could make something similar without any of the talent or skill. The score is just awful too. Fortunately it’s silly enough that it’s not actively offensive to watch.

Not as fun as the first, nor is it meant to be! Still great though, with lots of action and generally great performances from everyone. Some of the homages are a little on the nose, and the pacing isn’t as tight as the first - but it’s hard to stand up to how flawless the first is.

This was the perfect movie for a 15 year old, and watching it instantly takes me back to that age. This first installment absolutely works upon the aesthetics of anime and Asian cinema but rarely stops feeling like a music video in it’s construction. I don’t think this will ever stop being one of Tarantino’s best directorial efforts, even if the second half remains the heady, dramatic one.

My favorite movie, and for sure my favorite love story. Watching the newest 4K with a 7.2.2 setup just highlights how good even the sound design is. An incredible script from QT, music supervision by Trent Reznor, insane editing, psychedelic cinematography and the powerful direction of Oliver Stone. Arguably the quintessential roles for Lewis and Harrelson as well, at least for my generation.

First hour is the same Rambo sequel shtick dominated by his poor interpersonal communication skills, last half hour is iconic Rambo blowing people up. By now, you really know when to start paying attention and when to tune out.

Wild what five years of separation can do. Maybe it was the audacity of it, and it certainly is audacious - but now that the climate of media is so much more online it’s at least more fun. It’s so obviously a spectacularly strange movie that it never feels like anything less than a nightmarish failure of literal blockbuster proportions.

The songs are still fuuuuucking annoying but throwing this on in the background will always exert a vibe of abject weirdness without ever resorting to being ironic or going for cheap thrills. I still can’t imagine active viewing with this, as I’m sure that giving it your undivided attention will still rot your brain.

“And by the way - this table came from a REAL monkey brain restaurant”

I love this silly fucking movie. Could be better than the original Faces just because that one tends to drag and this remains short and sweet with all the effective stuff left in. Even as a kid, watching the Gorgon Video boxed set release, I could tell that they were all just goofing around with this one.

A love story about identity, the fickle nature of sexuality, and the perseverance of love above all. It’s clear this was adapted from broadway, but it’s done so well that it feels like the perfect hybrid. Laura and Edd are fucking terrible and Arnold deserves the world.

Yeah, the best comedy ever made. Perfectly edited, perfectly paced, perfectly cast. Criterion edition when???

If you don’t see the beauty in Humpers then we just can’t be friends. It’s anarchistic, it’s silly, it’s poignant. Just like Gummo transports the viewer to Xenia, Humpers brings me back to being a semi-feral kid in the Florida suburbs during the early 00’s. Life is a beautiful, nonsensical monster. Sometimes you just have to fuck around with trash in all its forms because of the visceral thrill that comes when it hits the ground.

Hell yeah, brother. 

It’s weird, it’s funny, it’s fucked up. The MiniDV era of filmmaking seems like it was so ridiculously liberating.

I looooove this. Conceptual standup may be the new way to do something original in this space that actually works.

One more time, but with the crew. 

Even more fun in a group setting. The best skate video ever, ever, ever.

There is no greater art form than the talking dog movie. Except maybe talking monkey movies.

• Best Friend from Heaven

  the ghost of the dog talks, it counts

• Sherlock: Undercover Dog
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3
• Marmaduke
• The Shaggy D.A.
• The Shaggy Dog
• Rover Dangerfield
• Little Nicky

  okay, maybe not technically a talking dog movie but there's a dog that talks so that's my justification your honor

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

These are the most fucked up movies I've ever seen.

An ongoing list.

• Robot in the Family
• Meet the Hollowheads
• The Girl Next Door
• The Flying Luna Clipper
• Super Xuxa Contra Baixo Astral
• Meet the Applegates
• Bugsy Malone

• Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
• Senseless
• Mo' Money
• Raising Arizona
• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
• National Lampoon's Vacation
• Back to School
• The Wedding Singer
• Major Payne
• Bulletproof

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.