The Wandering Image

Thursday, August 18, 2022

Viewing Journal: 8/17/2022

492)

SECRET HEADQUARTERS

(2022 dir. Joost/Schulman) Date Seen: August 17 2022

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Viewing Journal: 8/16/2022

491) DAY SHIFT

(2022 dir. J.J. Perry) Date Seen: August 16 2022

490) MOSQUITO

(1995 dir. Gary Jones) Date Seen: August 16 2022

"GUESS I'LL TTYLAAAATTTEEEEERRRRRR!!"

Viewing Journal: 8/13/2022

487) EMILY THE CRIMINAL

(2022 dir. John Patton Ford) Date Seen: August 13 2022

486) SMASH AND GRAB

(2019 dir. Brian Larsen) Date Seen: August 13 2022

if ROBOTS (2005) and WALL·E (2008) are still fresh in your memory, parts of this seem a bit drab & generic.. But it's still mostly aight.

Viewing Journal: 8/14/2022

488) BODIES BODIES BODIES

(2022 dir. Halina Reijn) Date Seen: August 14 2022

Viewing Journal: 8/15/2022

489) THEY / THEM
(2022 dir. John Logan) Date Seen: August 15 2022

Saturday, August 13, 2022

Viewing Journal: 8/12/2022

485) SPIDERHEAD

(2022 dir. Joseph Kosinski) Date Seen: August 12 2022

thematically rich material executed in a very banausic way.. I've always been a Kosinski fan, but this was just too sterile & uninspired for my taste. I personally believe this is his first misfire as a director.

484) SLAPFACE

(2022 dir. Jeremiah Kipp) Date Seen: August 12 2022

483) WINDTALKERS

(2002 dir. John Woo) 2nd Viewing: August 12 2022

Thursday, August 11, 2022

Viewing Journal: 8/10/2022

479) ELVIS

(2022 dir. Baz Luhrmann) Date Seen: August 10 2022

478) WEST SIDE STORY

(2021 dir. Steven Spielberg) 2nd Viewing: August 10 2022

Viewing Journal: 8/11/2022

482) FALL

(2022 dir. Scott Mann) Date Seen: August 11 2022

• what if Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" played over the end credits. 😂

• Eric's gf we saw this with kept referring to "Hunter"

the peer-pressuring friend as "Cunter".

• after a rough start (that reminded me of VERTICAL LIMIT's intro) this had some good digital backdrop compositing; including tilting hemispherical landscapes that perspective convexed in photoreal ways. Aided no doubt by shooting outdoors in mostly natural light. So if a small indie like this can get 75% of their chroma key lighting to match, monolithic studios really don't have an excuse for so much of their's looking like blurry outline ass (Especially now w/virtual prod. LED volume walls)

• SPOILER↓ highlight below↓

I want to say FALL and 47 METERS DOWN (2017) would make a good thematic double feature mostly due to their having almost identical 3rd act reveals, but part of me thinks the former's tautness & vibrancy propped up against 47 METERS' intentional murk would make things too lopsided

481) HANSEL AND GRETEL

(1983 dir. Tim Burton) Date Seen: August 11 2022

480) BROKEN ARROW

(1996 dir. John Woo) 2nd Viewing: August 11 2022

The operatic way John Woo shoots action never gets old to me. It was fun revisiting this today, & also I forgot just how many epic "Shoulda had 'em bronzed" deaths the movie features (Howie Long's hilarious fall from the bridge even comes complete with an AAAHH!!! Real Monsters scream)

SHOULDA HAD 'EM BRONZED!