My Week in Movies: March 7 - March 13
Mar. 16th, 2021 10:26 amRunning a little late this week, but I'm on vacation! I need this, as I've been getting pretty burned out at work. I've been holding my whole team up and it's exhausting.
Still running through Project Runway seasons with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sol_se. We're on Season 4, which I'm badly spoiled for, but that doesn't preclude enjoying the fashions and the drama.
Movies I've seen before are in italics
Shin Godzilla (2016)
I Vitelloni (1953)
Sadako vs. Kayako (2016)
Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
Shin Godzilla is weird. It's the first Toho Godzilla movie since the original that's not in some way a sequel to the original. It starts fresh: there's a weird monster and we don't know what it is. The movie largely follows the bureaucracy of dealing with giant monster attacks, which is a lot more interesting than it sounds. It does involve a lot of meetings being interrupted in order to have different meetings.
I Vitelloni is part of a cycle of Fellini movies, from what I can tell, following not-good people doing not-good things and we're supposed to feel for them because they are not-good. This is alongside La Strada and Il Bidone. I don't get it at all. Fellini seems to course correct with Nights of Cabiria and La Dolce Vita (the latter of which is in next week's list).
Sadako vs. Kayako is the epic Ringu vs. Ju-on fight that apparently people have been calling for. It's a very silly movie, but I enjoyed it a lot.
Godzilla vs. Gigan's only real saving grace is that Godzilla talks in speech bubbles (he's dubbed in the English cut, but we get the Japanese version in the Criterion box set). Godzilla's suit is visibly falling apart at this point.
Still running through Project Runway seasons with
sol_se. We're on Season 4, which I'm badly spoiled for, but that doesn't preclude enjoying the fashions and the drama.Movies I've seen before are in italics
Shin Godzilla (2016)
I Vitelloni (1953)
Sadako vs. Kayako (2016)
Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
Shin Godzilla is weird. It's the first Toho Godzilla movie since the original that's not in some way a sequel to the original. It starts fresh: there's a weird monster and we don't know what it is. The movie largely follows the bureaucracy of dealing with giant monster attacks, which is a lot more interesting than it sounds. It does involve a lot of meetings being interrupted in order to have different meetings.
I Vitelloni is part of a cycle of Fellini movies, from what I can tell, following not-good people doing not-good things and we're supposed to feel for them because they are not-good. This is alongside La Strada and Il Bidone. I don't get it at all. Fellini seems to course correct with Nights of Cabiria and La Dolce Vita (the latter of which is in next week's list).
Sadako vs. Kayako is the epic Ringu vs. Ju-on fight that apparently people have been calling for. It's a very silly movie, but I enjoyed it a lot.
Godzilla vs. Gigan's only real saving grace is that Godzilla talks in speech bubbles (he's dubbed in the English cut, but we get the Japanese version in the Criterion box set). Godzilla's suit is visibly falling apart at this point.
