It Follows

1) Seeing the movie

Went to see "It Follows" and liked it very much. Well actually that turned out to be an often very interesting straight movie without things being added for pointless shock value. There were some very nice dream visual composition shots in it as well and there wasn't anyone as irritating as hell either in it. But there were occasional things turning up here and there that certainly made sure this director left you with his own enjoyable vision. Possibly quite an achievement for a modern young director in this day and age.  It probably helped to know about the dream that it was inspired by to accept the scenario. The idea of movie taking place in a semi dream like world was inspiring too, and probably that might have taken inspiration from David Lynch. Probably looking forwards to the directors next film, whether it's inspired by dreams or not or is horror and not.

2) Feelings Afterwards
Watching the film with its feeling of paranoia activates within the brain of Wmm the urge to imagine things from the movie Jacob's Ladder since he is travelling on the train right now rather than imagine being chased by something that looks like a lone zombie or whatever. Right at this time a woman is playing loud strange foreign music through her earphones that might be arabic or indian that is also contributing to the odd state . So naturally this film has a slight toxicity to it. Yes there was a seated man wriggling his foot in the air in the train and Wmm wanted to imagine it turning into a giant beating fly wing.

3) Feelings A Month Later
Okay, well what is all this about It Follows being a horror movie? Probably don't know too much about that sort of thing. There were some bits that seemed like homages to Jacques Tourneur famous for Cat People and to David Lynch, and possibly to Dawn of the Dead with the monster chasing  in its different guises as slowly as a zombie . But it does disinterest me to compare this movie to an actual horror movie. Probably horror movies are not likely to be that interesting to me anyway these days, but the dream like ideas caught my imagination and the presence of an organ player in the cinema was a fun thing to see, because one is unlikely to see such a thing any more. It was an adventure into timelessness,  somewhere between the modern world and last few decades, which is something that David Lynch has played with in his movies and Twin Peaks

Jupiter Ascending probably with a Stupid Arse Ending

a) Managed to see this Jupiter Ascending yesterday evening, and well as a film, the sort of thing odd thing that one might expect from the Wachowski brothers or is it brother and sister now, I am not sure what to say in that respect. It was a movie made from many seemingly slightly bland often used space opera ideas blended together that might be found on TV. Some of it was very surprising though.

b) Was it a Matrix type story for women trying to work out underlying feelings that might turn into something like a young girl's Princess Anastasia complex who might have an urges for bare chested intergalactic ice skaters? Perhaps the scenario had touches of something of the zaniness that one might expect to see amongst the pages of the Metal Hurlant / Heavy Metal comic books. The performances were fine. Terry Gilliam's cameo appearance comes at a time as a perfect answer to a point when one might ask "what's going on here?".

c) Probably the CGI spaceship designs were just too plentiful amidst the darkness and perhaps not easy to recollect for some and it might have done better with a Chris Foss type splattering of colour than this eternal combinations of blue and orange.

d) Very glad that the Wachowski siblings made this odd and perhaps ridiculous film rather than did nothing with their past year or so and if it turns on TV in a year or so, would be glad to watch it again despite the seemingly pointless silliness of it and the low expectations one might have about it and perhaps it is for people with low expectations. However none of the background to these extra-terrestrials in this movie arouse any curiosity to their background history because probably there wasn't any. If there was another level to it all on that level, that might have helped it a bit but still it was probably a $200 million of the entertainment industry's money well spent in 2015.

Birdman

Had a very good time watching the movie Birdman today starring Michael Keaton. Directed by a Mexican film director Alejandro González Iñárritu who made a vaguely remembered movie a few years ago with Xavier Bardem called Biutiful. But this movie which I only had half an idea about seeing it some time but went past the cinema just ten minutes before it started and bought a ticket.

It appeared to be a washed up movie actor producing and acting in a play and all the troubles within and around it and how it effected him with his experiences of being a screen super hero, was actually very fascinating. It seemed to be the sort of film that might have been inspired by the Coen Brothers and Woody Allen, steering off perhaps in the direction of the oddity of when Terry Gilliam is making a movie based on someone else's script. 

There was wonderful slightly confusing deliriousness of overlapping realities where one start to ask what is real and what isn't and never have a final answer, in that way it might be said to have a touch of the recent Walter Mitty movie about it. But it showed that Michael Keaton despite not having much of a career over the last decade and so on, still has some go in him as a leading actor. This film is not likely to interest fans of superhero movies very much.

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Managed to see Exodus, a strange interpretation of the Moses story almost, quite bleak, and also enjoyed the performances enough and the film in general. Many scenes may well have bored a typical mainstream cinema goer Perhaps the exploration of what kind of world they were really historically dealing was a generalisation that they couldn't really afford to get too bogged down exploring but what they put on the screen was elaborate enough. So they had the plagues, ditched anything that seemed too visually supernatural unless it could be explained away as an internal mental vision and they ditched the golden ark as well. Not a movie for Indiana Jones fans to get obsessed by certainly. Perhaps in its own way was an essay about what sort of person Moses was and how he was being mentally led by something that at the same time in itself was acting as a catalyst for odd events. May need to see it again because a bunch of wide skilled irish gypsies with young triplets and a wailing baby couldn't keep their mouths shut in the back corner. Joel Edgerton had an interesting makeup job to play Ramesses, fifty years ago they probably would have been after Yul Brynner. It would good to see an extended cut of this.

Botexting

The news now says that botox may well stunt emotional growth in the young. Already amalgamated as words for feeling rejuvinated by a dose of mass texting. So botox and texting may well go hand in hand with one another to do this. The brain is already transforming this writer's Blackberry with keypad. Into a much more sausage like form filled with Botulinum toxin. Out of its sides come little tendrils to inject the face of the user with botox. As he or she starts texting away to friends one foot away. Eventually leading to total paralysis of the human body by botox. Stuck with lethal mobile phone in hand that's slowly fuses with the flesh

Jedi council take the back seat

Wmm's visual response to the photo of the new Star Wars cast sitting in a ring

Fear of Wuthering Heights

1) Today I am erasing my misperception that in the song Wuthering Heights, Kate Bush sing "It's me. It's me , Oh Cathy, come home now!" instead of  "Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy, I've come home " 

2) And this would be followed by the line " So-ho-ho. I'm cleaning your window" instead of the line "I'm so cold, let me in in-a-your-window " Indeed there would be no reference to Heathcliff at all.

3) The story might be that Cathy ran away, because her window was dirty and it was Kate who had to clean them otherwise Cathy would not return.

4) Kate had to show that she herself was in the act of cleaning the windows to show Cathy that she didn't just get someone else to do it

5) Did Kate have to phone her up where she was staying and make sure that the sound of the wet cloth rubbing against the window could be heard?

6) No answer to that indeed and now the very idea will fade away since I've watched the video after many years and finally read the lyrics and the story being told to me has changed..

7) The other thought begins to form immediately that Cathy was always home but not mentally, and the window was always clean but not to Cathy

8) And Kate has to simply mime out the action of cleaning the window with a dry duster , or perhaps. she might even be holding a piece of perspex in her hand or anything that looks glass like and cleaning this, every time that Cathy's eyes look more and more distant.