I’m watching this because it’s on the list.

Oh, Paul Mazursky… I feel like I used to see his name all the time, but haven’t seen it mentioned at all for decades.

Oh, right… I have seen a lot of these movies, but not his 70s films.

Ah, rural Brooklyn…

The promised land…

The promised beret.

The lighting on this is pretty odd. Usually just a single lamp, so you get a lot of hard shadows. So it’s not natural lighting, either. Could they only afford a single lamp?

It fun to watch a movie made in the 70s that’s so nostalgic for the 50s. (The cool bits of the 50s, i.e. New York, mind you.)

Hey!

I’m going alternatively “wow, this is really good” and “wow, this is really cheesy”. Like every other scene or something.

The performances are good, and I like the look of the movie. The plot has a few surprises, but is pretty much what you’d expect. It’s a nice movie.

Next Stop, Greenwich Village. Paul Mazursky. 1976. ⚃

Heh heh.

There’s a lot of awesome shots here, but the movie also looks just really weird.

Like… it’s been overly smoothed or something? I’ve watching the 4K bluray, and it’s just odd-looking.

Heh heh.

Heh.

Oh, it’s Thor!

I’m 40 minutes in, and I’m really bored. And there’s almos two hours to go? Oh deer.

The digital compositing is really bad — perhaps that’s what makes so many scenes look so awkward?

Yeah, nobody would ever guess that that’s a girl!

This movie, so far, would have been better as a two paragraph Wikipedia recap. That’s what it feels like watching this — somebody making a movie from a recap.

OK, that’s good stunt…

But then the next shot, they have the worst digital explosion ever. It’s just… eh.

That’s an oddly CGI-looking crane thing.

OMG! SHE”S A GIRL WITH GIRLY HAIR

*sigh*

But it was a fun action scene.

This should have had a Charli XCX soundtrack.

The charm of Fury Road was how real much of it looked (because quite a lot was real). This does not have that feel at all. Which makes me wonder abour the budget.

Oh man. I didn’t know that this bombed. Anyway, the Fury Road budget was:

So this had a larger budget than Fury Road, but looks so much worse. Some of the scenes here are just cringe-worthy — they’ve composited Thor into a car and do digital zooms to emulate him driving towards the camera and stuff.

There are entertaining scenes in here, but this is barely a movie. I was bored witless most of the time. And I was disappointed that it looked this bad.

Furiosa. George Miller. 2024. ⚂

Hey! It’s not a Walkman, but it’s a Schlepman!

This starts off as a 30s screwball comedy, but then…

Suddenly it’s a horror movie!

Oo, that’s a nice balcony. I want one of those.

This has some great lines, but I don’t think it’s quite gelling? The tone is just off.

I love matte paintings like this. It’s better than the real thing.

Well, I don’t agree. Myrna Loy and William Powell are indeed perfection, but the movie isn’t. And it’s so weird — it’s got some really, really funny gags, and really good performances, but it just doesn’t quite cohere. There’s bits that are more nightmarish than funny, and things don’t zip as they should. It’s like… they needed to turn the zany up 20%? But this is a 1941 movie, so this is like a holdover from a previous era, and they’ve made things more serious and less frantic than it would have been in 1935.

In 1935 they would have made this movie perfectly.

Love Crazy. Jack Conway. 1941. ⚃