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e s got to have a master s thesis on this i m just going by what i see in the movies the corporal and the others 1965 a k a a tizedes meg a többiek as the author of situation normal the story spoke to me people trying to opt out of a war take refuge in a seemingly abandoned place that quickly becomes a hotspot farce ensures not as much of the good soldier schweik as i perhaps stereotypically expected from an eastern european war comedy but it was a good time overall i imagine hungary in 1965 was a tetchy place to make a wwii movie and the balancing act here is quite noticeable the nazis are portrayed as monstrous buffoons and the regular hungarian army isn t that much better while the advancing soviets hungary s nominal enemy are mainly represented by one hapless draftee i think this works in the movie s favor as a comedy driving home the fact that nobody is going to help these desertees they ve got to help each other this enthusiastic imdb user review gives some historical context bad day in black rock 1955 this film promises unity of time and doesn t quite deliver although i guess the bad day could be the one that spencer tracy has arrived to investigate this was a decent drama that had much less classic western than i expected based on the description but it had way more asteroid city than i expected based on the description which was a pleasant surprise with six you get eggroll 1968 for some reason i thought this rom com came out in 1978 and i kept thinking this is really outdated it could have been made ten years earlier the joke s on me this was all right i liked the role reversal with the parents escaping to the drive in to get away from their judgmental children george carlin s first film role is as the waiter some good banter between the leads and unlike modern rom coms it doesn t end when they get married unfortunately the comedy does end in both senses with a big car chase that s not very funny mr majestyk 1974 like watching first blood if rambo was my grandpa dalton this guy just wants to get his crop in and he s going to fuck up the whole crime syndicate to do it the elmore leonard screenplay elevates it above the usual 1970s action fare i think includes a great messy scene where a bunch of watermelons are shot up like the untouchables meets double dare also includes a good exciting car chase scene maybe they just shouldn t be in comedies decision at sundown 1957 a strangely bloodless title i m gonna need a decision by sundown tex this movie s one big seige hostage situation and maybe if i d been in more of a dog day afternoon mood i would have liked it more but probably not judging from the amazingly dull final line i ll tell you one thing none of us will ever forget the day that bart allison spent in sundown it s the kind of bad line that now sounds like it came out of an llm in fact while writing this review i asked rob dubbin s llm to come up with a better final line and it just didn t give me any output silently admitting defeat richard deacon provides some welcome comic relief the wrong arm of the law 1963 a good concept i always like a good cinematic police criminal team up but only intermittently fun to watch i hesitate to mention this since this isn t a hollywood picture and i don t know where it fits my theory but this 1963 comedy ends with a big car chase that s not very funny the long good friday 1980 loved it a better non comedy version of the wrong arm of the law the classic tale of a criminal whose life is spiraling out of control and doesn t see that he s facing threats that are way above his level before seeing this movie i didn t know bob hoskins was british because i d only seen him play characters with perfect american accents here he perfectly straddles the line between genial and thuggish which is where you want your movie crime bosses a young helen mirren has a couple of intense scenes simon 1980 a woody allen movie with no woody allen alan arkin plays the part instead unfortunately woody passed on this one for a reason the film is a mess but it s a mess full of the aesthetic i love modernist buildings creepy think tanks scientists who dress like carl sagan the space shuttle back when it was an untested and mysterious spacecraft all that good stuff the rest of the film well there are some jokes and wallace shawn s in it the indian scientist in this film is credited as simply jayant there is an indian actor who acted under the name jayant but he died in 1975 this is nikil jayant an actual scientist who ended up playing an evil scientist in a movie about evil scientists he was at bell labs at the time and i have to assume marshall brickman met him there while researching the film apart from simon 1980 dr jayant is known for his work on data compression here s an ieee paper from him from around the time of simon a paper that apparently came with a vinyl record so you could hear the examples this guy s a triple threat the lawnmower man 1992 speaking of sci fi messes what i didn t know until just before i saw this film is that it s not a normal hollywood production it s a low budget movie made by a vr booster to get the public psyched up about vr as a creative work it s a b movie that unexpectedly made it big as a piece of cinema it s kind of an industry propaganda film like hats off to soup or telephones when you need to talk to someone but they re in another town go in with this knowledge and the movie makes sense it s not as boostery as hats off to soup because the director also cares about telling a story but that s why the vr segments are the way they are do i recommend this film not really no the goofy cgi isn t funny out of context and the contextual matter is too slow and predictable to be interesting on its own however there is some nice looking old tech and if you can get over the cheese factor and the total nonsense factor there are still some chills to be found in the scenes where human beings are transformed into human shaped collections of pov ray balls also young dean norris was a nice surprise 1 wed jan 31 2024 14 12 schickele mix archive to commemorate the recent passing of composer peter schickele r i p i ve created the schickele mix online fan archive this site presents all of the extant information online about schickele s amazing music education radio show schickele mix which stopped airing in 2007 and has been in copyright clearance hell ever since an inevitable but undeserved fate i ve scraped the now defunct official perl cgi that gave out schickele mix listings and reformatted the listings with links to archived recordings of all the episodes that have been saved by fans about 130 of about 180 episodes total have been archived thanks entirely to two people both of whom show up in this reddit thread to take credit thanks frodo_picard and gattgun from a grateful world all this metadata is now available as a big json file so no one else has to download those old listings from the wayback machine and rewrite my scraping code and i also created a podcast rss feed that lets you experience schickele mix in its haphazard original broadcast order this is different from the benofsky com schickele mix podcast mainly in that it includes the gattgun archive not just the frodo_picard archive i ve got one more big piece of this project planned but this is enough to tell the world i think the web page makes it clear which episodes of schickele mix are still missing fan archive recordings if you think you might have one of the missing episodes on an old cassette tape or something please email me at leonardr segfault org 1 sat jan 20 2024 18 25 the 2023 crummy review of things part 2 books and games ok i ve finished looking over my records and i m ready to do book and game recommendations as often happens the crummy com review of things will proceed in fits and starts this year but i ll eventually get it all done i ve discovered that this is now how i keep track of the passage of my life rather than blogging the things i do right as i do them like a normal person the crummy com book of the year 2023 is happy snak because it s the only book i wanted to do its own blog post about other good books i read in 2023 include rescuing prometheus four monumental projects that changed the modern world by thomas p hughes and the conceptually very similar the backroom boys the secret return of the british boffin by francis spufford the crummy com game of the year is mr sun s hatbox by solo developer kenny sun which sets roguelike combinatorics in a platforming environment with a slapstick style to create a comedic customizable spelunky style experience other games i really enjoyed include the legend of zelda breath of the wild mosa lina factorio and void scrappers finally sumana and i added a few new games to our irregular daily rotation diffle a wordlelike that apparently fits with the way we think about words connections from the nyt metazooa metaflora and birdle games of cladistics next up something else sat jan 20 2024 11 32 happy snak while making a list of books i read in 2023 i realized there was one book that i wanted to give its own post happy snak by nicole kimberling published in 2018 i was recommended this book by i believe liz henry who said that she recommends happy snak and constellation games as a package deal since anyone who likes one will like the other as the author of constellation games i had to test this hypothesis well i can tell you that happy snak is a lot of fun and definitely has a similar feeling to constellation games it s got weird aliens cultural exchange focused on low culture and a snarky main character whose reaction to first contact is to start a business all things i love reading and writing it gave me a fun you re probably wondering how i got into this situation feeling so check it out mon jan 01 2024 14 27 the crummy com review of things part 1 film 2024 already eh well i ll do the easy part i ve updated film roundup roundup with the best 25 films i saw in 2023 actually 27 since i m counting the entire before trilogy as one entry after 10 years of film roundup there are nearly 300 movies in my recommended list amazing and as long as i m messing around with this spreadsheet here s a top ten of the films i first saw in 2023 before sunrise before sunset before midnight 1995 2003 2013 godzilla minus one 2023 when harry met sally 1989 polite society 2023 barbie 2023 oppenheimer 2023 the french dispatch 2021 eat drink man woman 1994 what s so bad about feeling good 1968 the blind man who did not want to see titanic 2021 asteroid city 2023 sun dec 31 2023 14 48 december film roundup happy new year while doing some end of year housekeeping i discovered a pretty large number of movies i d seen this year but not reviewed in film roundup the downside is that i generally forgot these movies because they re not very good anyway here we are let s start 2024 with a probably clean slate danger flight 1939 i can barely remember this movie but i know we watched it and i anti recommend it highly enough that the details don t matter much it was trying to bring a wartime level of airborne action movie excitement to a world that was not yet at war so the plane is a mail plane and the threats are bad weather and hoodlums maybe this was even a serial pasted together into a feature i don t remember and won t look it up but it had that feeling goverment girl 1943 this one wasn t great either but it gives an interesting glimpse into the extreme housing shortages of wartime washington there s a car chase sequence in this film that was actually filmed on the streets of d c and while watching it i was struck by how rarely i ve seen such a thing in code era movie it s not technically impossible buster keaton was filming car chases in the 1920s but i feel like from the invention of talkies until 196x car chases were done in the studio with rear projection and are thus not very exciting in fact i think the only reason they filmed this one on location is that it s a motorcycle not a car so rear projection wouldn t work visit to a small planet 1960 maybe a science fiction theme will make dorky jerry lewis comedy more bearable i thought oh what an innocent fool was i it s bad i remember some alien beatnik interactions that were kinda funny oh and the moment in the nearby screenshot had a great jerry lewis delivery the secret life of walter mitty 1947 this film does not have the courage of its convictions after a few fun fantasy sequences a la the original source material walter mitty is quickly thrown into a world of real thrills and excitement and excuses for danny kaye patter songs at that point it turns into a fish out of water scenario like north by northwest or something when walter mitty is about a fish who wishes he was out of water and never will be james thurber hated this movie but presumably not enough to tear up his big check from samuel goldwyn i merely found it a bit dull and got no check from goldwyn whatsoever ok now for the movies i saw this month before sunset 2004 and before midnight 2013 excellent continuation and conclusion to the trilogy the naturalistic conversational style continues before sunset perfectly captures the long lingering when you really need to go but you re with the one you want to be with good stuff luv 1967 the elaine may jack lemmon peter falk collaboration we needed to heal our nation pretty sure nothing bad happened after 1967 but there s still time from the period when broadway plays were routinely turned into movies this has very heavy play marks on it and it s not exactly a great comedy but we were in the mood for dark madcap humor and this delivered the neurotic late 60s neil simon ness of the characters in this movie brought to mind the elevator scene from sweet charity 1969 that scene is a lot funnier than anything in luv but it was nice to be reminded of it the philadelphia story 1940 can you be more specific i thought i was going to see rocky i m going to go against the moviegoer grain here and say this was just okay so much sitcom style misunderstanding admittedly this movie predates sitcoms but at this point i m tired of it just communicate people i m pretty sure i fell asleep for about 10 minutes and missed nothing yeah good thing film roundup isn t one of the inputs into the rotten tomatoes aggregator or this review would spoil its 100 rating and i d have the hardcore storyheads coming after me scrooged 1988 i finally understand why people my age claim die hard 1988 as a christmas movie because otherwise they d have to watch scrooged every year a decent concept with great practical effects becomes disappointingly random due to countless script rewrites self indulgence and bill murray s insistence on improvising important bits sure that speech at the end is an impressive feat but we have large language models now so the burden of rattling off vague sentiments can now be lifted from humanity s 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