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14/SEP/24
WATCHED: (Film) Clue - 1985 dir. Jonathan Lynn
Today I watched Clue for the 3rd time, with my friend Jono who has not seen it before, and it's been catapulted into being one of my favourite films of all time. Is is a "good" film? No. Does it make total sense? No. Is it funny enough to make up for these facts?... Not really. But I love it. The acting is so superbly camp without ever feeling forced to be over the top. The plot is convoluted, made even more so by the twists (spoilers ahead about this). And it just is so bad it's good. So many shots are held for a second too long or jokes are played too many times. Initially I thought that some of the jokes didn't age super well and I kinda agree but also it's so over the top that it's not serious, and it feels like actual those on the other end of the jokes are not the women, but the men. Love Mrs White! There are so many iconic lines or scenes and I adore the cast. I can't believe Tim Curry was the third choice to play Wordsworth!! The multiple endings is so fun to watch with someone new to the film as everytime just as they think it's finally over, you get the best reveals. I could go on and on about the hints dropped throughout the film about the twists and the fact that Mr Green is both a plant and a fruit but I shall stop here. Go watch it!

07/SEP/24
WATCHED: (YouTube) weird & kinda scary tokusatsu girls - hazel
on 05/SEP/24 and I loved it. The content is something I've never come across before. I'd never heard of V-Cinema before and certainly not seen these Power Ranger / Magical Girl heroines before. I really loved how the Hazel formatted and shot the video (I'm a big fan of her physical media collection her owning a box tv whilst shooting on an early 2000s sony camera) and that she seemed to go into detail about each topic but not drag anything out. Cool to know that some of these robot tokusatsus are still a thing and making music?! I gave watching Akiballion a go and although didn't get through much, as Hazel says, I think watching one of the short films with a group would be pretty rad - although I'm not sure how they'd think of me afterwards...

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