AlmostAGhost

I think The Iliad works here for sure. I couldn't say though if it was intentional, or basically such a standard classic that it is everywhere, but I like your connections.

Oh yea I guess I was thinking 'hero' in answering that, but I guess that wasn't the question. I guess that is a modern thing -- basically nobody is good in this movie.

It's not Clint? Aren't we rooting for him the whole film?

While I'm not overly familiar with westerns, my takeaway from Unforgiven was that it wasn't really all that revisionist. Paul and Amy brought up some angles that I hadn't noticed so I guess it is more than I thought at first, but still overall, it feels to me to be basically built on the usual Western characters and telling a fairly typical story (an old vet pulled back into his old life; a 'search' for a bad guy). This isn't particularly a knock on the film though, I think it is told very well and gets a lot of strength from using those types of characters. It does infuse all of them with more moral depth which often makes them more interesting than, say, John Wayne in The Searchers, but still I'm not so sure. Perhaps I need to watch more classic ones than I have, though, granted.

I have a good guess for this Also R&H did the Cinderella we watched a few turns ago! But actually that makes me more stoked for this...

Well we only have 2 days to watch it so flip a coin!

gonna try to remember to post these here for archival purposes if I see them here's this week's poster from twitter

Does anyone have some favorite Spaghetti Westerns I should dive into for this?

my final question is "how did this get made?" @paulsheer please answer this

Remember the music video where they fall in love in a trashyard under a bridge surrounded by homeless children? What's more romantic than that?

This is why I just can't like this movie. Sure there's some enjoyable things in its goofiness, but they just seriously WERE NOT TRYING. The levels of "not trying" are unforgiveable. You have to at least have one sentence about who the mirror guy is. About why garlic, crosses, and killing aren't part of his makeup. There's nothing. It just ignores common lore and I'm supposed to buy it? In fact, it's so disparate from vampire lore, I'd argue he's NOT a vampire. I don't know what he is exactly, but it's not that. He just lives forever, has fangs, and can turn into a gross bat person.

Even better, Letterboxd has spoken https://letterboxd.com/2018/#title-page

Mirror Guy is such a main part of the movie, I can't fathom why they wouldn't even attempt to explain him

Also can the mirror alter ego also turn into a farty bat?

They spelled the actress' name wrong on this poster

Ah sorry, didn't make it back home until just a bit ago anyway. Thanks for hosting it yesterday

Well it was just Grudlian and me and we'd both seen Gigli and we figured that one would be better with a big group to snark at it so we flipped to Rockula. (Polly ended up joining in time for that one.) . Also I have Amazon Prime so neither of us had to pay for Gigli.

please Mr. Earwolf, we need this

Yea who are the people in charge of picking movies? I know the 'movie rec' forum is a giant wasteland but maybe can you guys reward us, your faithful forum commenters, and do Rockula? Please? It's PERFECT. I need to hear Jason and June react to this

We made the executive decision to watch Rockula instead Come quick, starting soon

So we're all gonna want to watch Jack Frost again? Or just go with Rockula? Haha

Hmm this isn't super helpful for our purposes. We could theoretically be waiting until the 18th for the next mini-EP? And thus also to discuss Rockula? Or should we just do Rockula this week, since this is just a rebroadcast?

Yea, those undercurrents are what I was wrestling with -- I get they are there and maybe give the simple story a bit more depth, but I just don't think they change it enough for me in the end.

Unforgiven is the Unspooled movie next week btw!

So sorry to hear that Gigi Bad films will be waiting for you when you return