I don’t know why, but while I was watching the end of the previous movie, I was thinking I HAVE TO WATCH LIQUID SKY RIGHT NOW.
I’ve seen it a couple times before, but never in 2K.
Oh my god. Every single shot is so iconic.
This 2K restoration is amazeballs. I always thought this movie looked good, but I had no idea it looked this good!
And the music and the editing… it’s… it’s… I’m already flabbergasted!
That’s me! With the monocle!
She shots of Manhattan at night are so romantic.
I didn’t type anything up there because I was just riveted by this movie. The visuals are stunning, and the soundtrack is propulsive. It’s a movie like nothing else — absolutely brilliant. The costumes, the looks, the performances…
Now, I can totally understand if somebody were to ⚀ this movie, because it’s a lot. And so many rapes.
This seems like a much more serious movie than all the other films in this Bob Hope box set. But perhaps it’ll turn all funny when the Hope character is introduced?
Oh, there he is. See?
Aww.
They had nice trains back then. At least in movies.
I can’t believe I’m not enjoying this movie more than I am. The plot’s quite nice and screwy and Hope is nattering away most pleasantly, but I’m just not feeling it.
Perhaps it’s just that I’m in a really bad mood after the previous movie.
I should just pause this movie and continue watching some other day.
Yeah.
[a couple days pass]
I just watched Star Trek: Picard s3e1. It wasn’t good… but it was definitely the best Picard episode ever. Perhaps this season isn’t going to suck?
Not holding my breath, though.
I was right! I was just in a bad mode! Not mood, mode. I’m a modey kind of guy. It’s the language of the future; the language of the past.
Oops, I went on a Laurie Anderson tip there…
Anyway, this is hilarious. It’s the screwiest of screwball comedies.
Hey! That’s Bing Crosby! Showing up for one five second scene!
High speed bus chase!
This is really quite ingenious. It’s super duper silly, and the plot doesn’t make much sense, but it’s so well paced — the jokes just keeps coming, and a large number of them are keepers.
This is very very silly and very funny, but you totally have to be in the right mode to watch it.
*phew* Shakycam gone — I guess they were using it to be all dramatic and stuff.
It’s not that I have something in principle against using shakycam — I just get physically nauseated and have to stop watching if it’s too excessive.
Oh, yeah, I got this movie because I rather liked Cold Souls (by the same director). This looks extremely different, though.
Hm… she didn’t get to direct a movie for a decade after this one, so I’m guessing it didn’t set the box office on fire?
Indeed.
And… I kinda see now why. The protagonist is bored, so it’s necessary to show her being bored, and that’s er you’re not going to believe this quite boring.
Her husband is a doctor, and he has patients with disgusting conditions, and we get to see them, too.
I.e., the ultimate date movie.
Finally! The love interest!
Oh! It is The Flash! They’re very young here.
Oh deer. This feels so… I bet when she starts to have affairs she finally gets a new frock, because that frock symbolises being all staid and corseted up and stuff. That is, this movie feels like if the director has mapped out a couple of symbols (corsets and cobwebs) and is existing on them to a degree that feels frankly risible.
It’s just tedious.
Oh, The Flash wasn’t the love interest — this guy is.
Scarlet woman!
Well, more orange, I guess.
Brutal.
It’s been years since I’ve seen a Madame Bovary adaptation — there’s like a dozen of them? — but I seem to remember the character having more… vigour? She’s so passive here that whenever she actually does something (like buying new curtains), it’s almost shocking.
I haven’t read the novel, though.
Hey! It’s Paul Giamatti!
*gasp*
This is like… first she’s dull, and then she grows more and more unpleasant, seemingly at random. It’s an extraordinarily unsympathetic figure to carry a movie. It seems like the director is saying “that Bovary bird? she’s well ‘orrible”. (I’m not sure why the director turned cockney in this scenario, but she somehow did.)
Flash! Ah-aaaah! Saviour of the universe!
Man, this is bad.
But the cinematography’s quite nice, so let’s go with:
