The visuals are original and interesting, but this is basically one of those “two lines from that guy and then one guy from this guy” type of documentary (which I loathe). But Haynes manages to make it work — it’s pretty interesting without being fawning.

Velvet Underground. Todd Haynes. 2021. ⚄

The reason I got this movie is that I read an interview with the Pet Shop Boys, and they were so fascinated by this movie that they watched it multiple times. But they didn’t really say whether it was… good, I guess?

It’s not, really. I mean, it’s kinda interesting in that they allow themselves to come off as blithering morons, spouting stuff about “two rectangles coming together and forming a square” (right), but as someone who didn’t like Bros back then, this didn’t make me like them now.

But I guess it’s pretty well-made in many ways?

Bros: When The Screaming Stops. Joe Pearlman, David Soutar, Rupert Smith. 2018. ⚂

Such impressive film effects.

As always with Mae West movies, when Mae West is on the screen, the movie is really enjoyable. When she’s not, it mostly languishes, because it seems that nobody else are given any good lines?

I totally understand why Mae West’s movies did gangbusters back then, and I also understand why none of these show up on the “best movies EVER” lists — they’re enjoyable, but lack that little spark that makes them something you’d obsess about?

I’m No Angel. Wesley Ruggles. 1933. ⚃