Two movies I've never been able to finish: Pink Flamingoes and Freddie Got Fingered. Not meaning any distrespect to the creators, not ViRtuE sIgNAlLinG, just sheer physical nope

There's nothing that I know about FGF that's morally problematic. If you like it, I won't criticize you at all. There are moral problems with the MCU movies, which I love to an extent that even I find to be a little bit cringey. In the MCU, people regularly die without leaving a body. When Black Widow shoots some anonymous bad guy for Hydra, the guy will usually just fall out of the frame, never to be seen again. It's part of the style of the MCU, and it keeps things fast, light, and fun... but showing lethal force without showing the consequences is a moral failing.

I don't know of anything in Freddy Got Fingered that qualifies as a moral failing, it's just disturbing as fucuuuucck! I kind of admire that, to be honest. Ive seen Nekromantic 2, more than once, I think, and it didn't get to me like thi

A Dada masterpiece? Sure! i have no quarrel with anyone who likes it.

Once you've seen Pink Flamingos, it's easy to avoid the notorious scene at the very end. I could watch it if I had to, but I already get the point.

I never even got near the last scene of PF. All that stuff with the chicken (which I think is around the middle of the film) was too much for me. Again, no moral judgment, and I love John Waters -- just couldn't get through it.

"HE'S A MOLESTER! HE'S A CHIIIIIILD MOLESTER!"

Maybe I'm an idiot but I loved this movie and I enjoyed it in an honest, laugh out loud non ironic fashion.

I don't even like Tom Green or give a shit about his show but I found this movie very funny.

By the way the 5 stars were for FGF, this review was quite unfunny.

Before it got bought by MTV, the Tom Green Show was incredible. It came on around midnight, which was perfect because it was permeated with this feeling of watching someone get away with something. Tom dumped "milk from my boooody" all over his co-host's head. He airbrushed graphic sex onto the hood of his dad's car. He wallowed inside a roadkill deer, yelling that he needed to get to the Degobah System. The whole thing felt like someone at corporate HQ wasn't watching. So by comparison, the highly-polished stuff like SNL looked utterly bleak.

Note that none of this material is worth revisiting. It belonged to a pre-internet era when mass media was still relatively monolithic and tightly focused on churning out family-friendly content, and any disruption of that monolith felt like a fucking bolt of lightning. It has no value outside the context of being a juvenile boy in the mid '90s.

But I still remember trying to explain this bizarre, hilarious show to my friends at school. In one episode, Tom spent five minutes of precious screentime riding up and down in an elevator, improvising stupid songs about the people who got on. "And they put that on TV? WHY?"

Exactly!

Without delving into any meta-level bullshittery, Twin Peaks The Return is the best show I've seen in years. It's weird, spooky, disgusting, and heartwarming. It's quotable and, because of Lynch's obtuse style, rewatchable. One of the first scenes is literally watching paint dry. Get into it!

I love the original Twin Peaks but I must admit I really struggled enjoying the new one. There are some scenes I liked here and there (and some great musical numbers), but overall the frustratingly slow pace combined with not understanding what the fuck was going most of the time proved too much for me.

P.S.:Episode 8 "Gotta Light?" was amazing from start to finish and I loved every second of it.

Remember the opening scene of season 2 where Cooper was lying on the floor and the old bellhop was slowly shuffling back and forth with his room service milk? And it was supposed to be so long and boring that it was supposed to wrap back around to funny?

TP: The Return was that scene stretched out to an entire season. Except the room service scene at least had the additional gag that this was going on while Coop was bleeding out and the oblivious smiling senile bellhop wasn't noticing. The Return just said, "Here's spray painting shovels for 5 minutes."

That, and the constant obnoxious Rian Johnson-esque amount of pointless expectation subversion. Want to see all the old characters after all these years? I'm shooting them all from far away with poor or no sound so you can't see or hear them! Want to see Cooper again? I'm making him a vegetable! Who hates coffee! There's practically zero music!

I think it was Michael Cera who said that pretty much anyone who contacted Lynch saying they wanted to be on the show got a part. Certainly goes in line with the whole thing feeling like a fleece of Showtime.

I'm fine with a followup not being exactly like old Twin Peaks, like Firewalk. But Firewalk was still interesting. The Return was late David Lynch boring weird like Inland Empire or Rabbits.

>>>Remember the opening scene of season 2 where Cooper was lying on the floor and the old bellhop was slowly shuffling back and forth with his room service milk? And it was supposed to be so long and boring that it was supposed to wrap back around to funny?

The great thing about David Lynch and maybe also the bad thing is not that he wants you to be bored, but he's not afraid of you being bored. He'll take that risk... and the results vary. For me the 2017 Twin Peaks was a good result.

Sometimes the pranks were pretty good The scene in THE RETURN of Dr. Jacobi spraying shovels with gold paint went on long enough for me to realize OH MY GOD! HE'S GOT US WATCHING LITERAL PAINT DRY!

The great thing about TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN is that my obsessive study of the original series allowed me an entre into Lynch at his most eccentric. I like the more plot-driven David Lynch content. Not just the original Twin Peaks, but also Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet, but this time, my understanding of TOS allowed me to get further with the Eraserhead/Inland Empire side of things than ever before. I loved it.

Just gonna hop back in to say I wouldn't blame anyone for not enjoying The Return. For people who have a certain taste, it's great. But that doesn't mean it's a "superior" taste: it's just something that connects with certain audiences and not others. I watched Tarkovsky's Solyaris, which features a ten or fifteen minute sequence of a man driving to the airport, and loved it. I also like walking simulators and postrock bands that noodle around with distortion effects for 17 minutes. Again, this isn't "better." I've just always enjoyed the company of my own thoughts, and I value works that inspire a certain mood but offer enough space to daydream. The Return felt like wandering around a gallery exhibit of a skilled but out-of-touch artist who has spent a lot of time expressing certain themes and atmosphere -- that's all. If that's your jam, okay. If not, okay. And if there was more stuff like it on TV, I probably wouldn't rank The Return so highly, but there isn't so I do. Anyway, I don't get the sense it was any kind of grift, or that "subverting expectations" for its own sake was Lynch or Frost's highest purpose.

As for Rian Johnson, if you took out the casino planet I'd say he made the best Star Wars movie since Empire. I found the development of Luke and the newer characters to be more interesting than Star Wars strictly needed. The internet glommed onto this idea that he was "subverting expectations" as if they'd found some damning Pentagon Papers that explained everything, but I don't buy it. I suspect Johnson was desperately trying (to wildly varying degrees of success) to give a bunch of cardboard characters some actual stakes, personalities, and arcs. And so of course half the room hated it. They wanted Luke Skywalker, Jedi Master, to train Girl Luke while babbling pseudo Eastern wisdoms and plotting stunning attacks against the Evil Empire. And that would've been perfectly fine, even satisfying, in an adult colouring book sort of way. Personally, I think it was more interesting to go slightly off the rails: it reminded me of the latter half of Casino Royale, the only Bond movie that made me feel disoriented as to where we were headed next. At this point, I give a lot of credit to blockbusters that try a little harder to tell story, even if they don't entirely stick the landing.

I will applaud both George Lucas and Rian Johnson for taking risks. I think they both fell flat on their faces, but if you don't give it that try you don't get great art.

There's this amazing film critic named Lindsay Ellis who pointed out what a huge risk the portrayal of Gollum was in LotR. Just a little too far one way or another and it would have been that movie's Jar Jar Binks. Lucky for them they struck a bullseye. Last Jedi... not so much.

Let's test that theory! First thing I clicked on.

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=164782



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Anaxagoras - 2018-03-03
I've loved her content ever since she dropped the NostalgiaChick shtick. (And even some of her NostalgiaChick stuff is OK)

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Cena_mark - 2018-03-03
I really loved her video about how edgelords miss the point of Mel Brook's works.


Old_Zircon - 2018-03-03
Ugh, I wasn't aware that edgelords were doing that.


Old_Zircon - 2018-03-03
Anyhow I haven't watched this, my stars are for DQL.


Marlon Brawndo - 2018-03-04
I don't know what an edgelord is but this is the first time I've seen her and I really like how well researched this video was. Especially the background of various fairy tales and the origins of the Beauty and the Beast story in printed form.


Anaxagoras - 2018-03-04
Edgelords are douchebags who adopt an edgy persona and regularly say offensive things under the guise of "telling truth to power", or somesuch shit. They're kinda annoying.

Anyways, if you liked this video, check out Lindsey's other stuff. Her videos are usually like this; 10-25 minute in-depth videos about whatever her chosen subject is. I believe she majored in film studies, so she usually knows her stuff, even if I don't always agree with her.


dairyqueenlatifah - 2018-03-03
Ugh.

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SolRo - 2018-03-03
"Ugh." - the sound DQL makes when he starts choking on the black cock he's deep throating.


Xenocide - 2018-03-03
I'm guessing DQL is one of the aforementioned edgelords who missed the point of Mel Brooks' work.


Cena_mark - 2018-03-03
DQL is an easily triggered snowflake.


simon666 - 2018-03-04
Guys (gals) what's an edgelord?


John Holmes Motherfucker - 2018-05-21
Ugh is sort of DQL's catch phrase.


Chancho - 2018-03-03
"Before I die, I'm going to fuck me a fish."

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Boomer The Dog - 2018-03-03
Never mind her Beauty, or being Nostalgia Chick, I'm in awe of her broadcast quality microphone audio.

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Caminante Nocturno - 2018-03-03
Ha ha, look at how sober she's pretending to be.

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John Holmes Motherfucker - 2018-05-21
Actually, she's pretending to be sexy. She was never bad looking, but her original persona was kind of dour and glum looking, but her more recent videos have really consciously upped the hotness quotient, perfecting the makeup and vamping the camera with her eyes in a way that is so obvious it's almost a joke, but totally works for me.

But even more than that, her videos are really intelligent and interesting film commentary. We've seen an increase in long detailed, well-researched commentary on youtube. it's not just Lindsey, it's Cody Johnston and HBomberGuy.

I think it's patreon. It used to be that in order to make a living on youtube, you had to crank out an improvised video a week about Anitia Sarkeesian.

Uh thanks John, are you part of Piss Squad now?

I’ve got this crazy theory that a person can be cute AND smart

(Baffled, JHM googles "piss squad". The first thing that comes up is an ad for a sticker for your pickup truck, with Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes, only Calvin has tje face of Trump, and he's pissing on "the squad". Also there's a video shot in a high school cafeteria with 10 views. JHM decides to play along.)

Why, yes, Crackersmack, I AM part of the Piss Squad now!

On top of making oblivious execs writing a blank check the literal plot of the movie.