AlmostAGhost

hey I noticed that the Unspooled FB group was using Kast to have a watch party for this week's movie. I know you guys looked into it a few months back, but has anyone tried it recently? is it better? if we're self isolating, it'd be fun to watch some stuff with you all

I decided to start with whatever I could find on Amazon Prime (there looks to be over 10 I can stream there; there's also 11 Cage films on Netflix). So today I watched The Frozen Ground The story isn't bad, I guess it's all true - about a cop trying to capture a serial killer (with a lot of focus on him trying to locate, help, and convince the victim who survived). Cage is pretty restrained in it. Pretty middle-of-the-road Cage film, had some things worthwhile (showing off Alaska), and some annoying aspects (the wobbly "real" camera work).

Also justwatch.com and actually Letterboxd has a feature I just noticed last week that you can tailor to which apps you have. But yea I've got quite a few streaming apps at this point that have movies on them, so unless we set up an order, I'll just do what I can find. As we do, I say post your thoughts about them here. I have been also turning to TV lately with my extra watching time, but I still have plenty of time for movies haha. Just started Westworld and Umbrella Academy.

I'm willing to go through as many Nic Cage films as I can find across my streaming apps. Is there any order or plan? When I watch one, should I just come here and share?

Amy & Paul rise up for 1927's expressionist F.W. Murnau masterwork Sunrise! They learn how Janet Gaynor won the Best Actress Oscar for three films at once, praise the film's groundbreaking soundtrack, and ask how such a simple story can resonate so strongly. Plus: Animal trainer Laura Bourhenne talks about the challenges of training pigs. For 12 Angry Men week, help defend a criminal character you think deserved a fairer trial! Call the Unspooled voicemail line at 747-666-5824 with your answer.

yea the top films on Netflix are all stuff like that, I don't get it

Yea, same. I can barely look at the internet because all the news is overwhelming, but I can come here and Letterboxd and it feels normal and I appreciate it

I did this watch before Unspooled started a few years ago, and watching it again sort of surrounded by all the "great" films made me like it more. I could see the cinematic language and what Murnau was developing and pioneering. I am curious - I did consider some of the scenes in the city to be almost filling space. Like why was the dress strap guy there? Even the drunk pig: is there a symbolism there I missed? But I feel like Murnau knew what he was doing and maybe had a reason for these things. Any theories?

Dude, you came here solely to troll us. Fine, you don't like June's politics, nor the podcast anymore. Thanks? Instead of examining your anti-politics stance, which fine, but maybe examine why you felt it necessary to come on to a podcast's fan board and announce you hate it and you're not listening anymore, when you've never said one word to anyone here before. That's trolling. I'm not sure how that's not against the rules in here, tbh.

Yea I've seen it too, I watched right before I knew Unspooled existed and I was starting to go through old classics on my own. I look forward to rewatching it

This movie is icky and gross and should not be looked at with any esteem

That's interesting to know that moving the parts around works reasonably well. I noted on my letterboxd review about the structure, which was I think the major problem of the movie. (sorry for friends on here who already saw this) A normal romantic body swap film would follow the lines of: 1. relationship 2. problems develop / confusion 3. body swap 4. realization of love for each other This movie, though, goes like this: 1. relationship 2. body swap 3. problems develop / confusion 4. realization of love for each other Which, I think, really makes it a total mess. The body swap should fix or clarify or lead to something, but here in the movie, it just leads to problems. And since the relationship is fairly fine up to that point, it's just weird and stupid and you hate it. If you're going to introduce a bit of magic into your realism, it should be fun or something, here it becomes a total drag.

Haha I used to always "argue" with an ex about Veronica and Logan. I wanted way better for her but she was like, he's great.

I'll add that most of the women in his life are still seriously loyal to him, and he often had female bands and engineers (music engineers are especially mainly men, esp. back then). I think womanizing and misogyny are quite different things which people blur. What I think it boils down to, as it always did with him, was control. That's his ENTIRE ethos. He played and wrote everything. He rebelled against music labels. That's why his bands didn't last. This probably showed up in the movie as him negging Apollonia and stuff like that, it's dated and immature, but that's him showing control. I don't think in any way is this misogyny though. The homophobia mainly crept in when he became a Jehovah's Witness in the late '90s. It's a crazy turn, since before that he was always so into sexual openness and challenging roles and androgyny and whatnot (I do wish Purple Rain tapped into that more). See, the "Kiss" video.

Yea, that's exactly what happens

Slight change, doing a live ep this week instead of MASH. Assuming MASH will be the following week and the order is still the same 2/27 - Repo Man (live episode) 3/5 - M*A*S*H 3/12 - Sunrise 3/19 - 12 Angry Men 3/25 - Sullivan's Travel

Here's a favorite Prince moment James Brown is closing a show. Calls Michael Jackson on stage, who comes up and kills it. Then JB calls Prince up there, who gets carried to the stage piggyback by a Hodor-sized roadie, and then BLOWS EVERYONE AWAY https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/rembert-explains-the-80s-james-brown-prince-michael-jacksonat-the-beverly-theater-in-1983/

Ooh ya, I forgot that was a sequel. I haven't seen it either. I'll try to watch it sometime too.

I took Prince's behavior in this movie as less 'asshole' and more 'petulant child' (I know... not big difference, I guess) But since his character is named The Kid and still lives at home, I think that immaturity was intentional. (It is an odd choice, though, for sure, to have the biggest rock star at the time do this. It does date the film a bit and as you guys touch on, it is a little problematic at times. Would have been nice to see him grow out of it by the end of the movie too.)

What's a jam tho

Next week!

I haven't either, though the soundtrack album is amazing. Top-5 Prince album

I haven't finished this ep yet.... But I did just watch Portrait of a Lady on Fire and I think it's as great as Parasite and certainly better than most of the nominated films last year.