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"Are video games a form of art?"
My answer to this age-old question? YES...
The Shrinking Man (retitled "The Incredible Shrinking Man" in some later editions) by Richard Matheson.
An existential, soul affirming sci-fi adventure of the highest caliber.
A classic.
Some hard questions (and my opinion on them)…
1) Pineapple on pizza is good? 😒 No, who in the right mind would put pineapple on their pizza? 2) Peanut M&M's are the superior M&M's? I haven't partaken in the M&M's recently. 3) Is Metal Gear Solid 2 the best game of all time? One of them, for sure! 4) Is Death Stranding the greatest game of all time? One of them! Absolutely! Great designs and great actors in it! 5) Could a hot dog count as a sandwich? I don't think so, because it's like a vertical sandwich. 6) Is cereal a soup? The way some people make it? Yes! Me, I don't use milk in my cereal. 7) Smoking is never cool? It only LOOKS cool, but it's not cool for the biology.
The Three Musketeers (also known as The Three Musketeers (The Queen's Diamonds)) by Richard Lester.
Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.
Along with the 1993 adaptation and Randall Wallace's The Man in the Iron Mask, this is definitely one of my favorite versions of the musketeers.
A beautiful adventure film with smart and quick comedic energy.
I agree with Miyazaki.
Most monsters in this day and age are impeccably tailored and well-coiffed.
Not to mention, they smile on TV.
Coco by Lee Unkrich.
Viva la Coco!! ^^
It's beautiful.
¡Feliz Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)!
Phantom of the Paradise by Brian De Palma.
A perfect reimagining of Leroux's 1910 novel.
This is a deranged, romantic, and quirky comedy horror with a perfect soundtrack.
"Be like water; water has form and yet it has no form. It is the softest element on earth, yet it penetrates the hardest rock. It has no shape of its own, yet it can take any shape in which it is placed. In a cup, it becomes the shape of the cup. In a vase, it takes the shape of the vase and curls about the stems of flowers. Put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Please observe the adaptability of water. If you squeeze it fast, the water will flow out quickly. If you squeeze it slowly, it will come out slowly. Water may seem to move in contradiction, even uphill, but it chooses any way open to it so that it may reach the sea. It may flow swiftly or it may flow slowly, but its purpose is inexorable, its destiny sure." - Bruce Lee
"Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail." - Tao Te Ching (Chapter 76, translation by Stephen Mitchell)
What are my favorite Miyazaki/Ghibli films?
My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ) and Spirited Away ( 千と千尋の神隠し).
Over the Garden Wall by Patrick McHale.
So apparently back in 2014 there was a really good miniseries that aired on Cartoon Network. It's creepy, charming, clever, and deep.
This miniseries is a thing of beauty - a thing to treasure.
Tremendous tale! Beautiful!
"My dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C.S. Lewis." ― C.S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
In other news: King Tut's knife was likely forged from alien metals, scientist say.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Terry Gilliam.
Based on the tall tales about the 18th-century German nobleman Baron Munchausen and his wartime exploits against the Ottoman Empire.
It is, to this day, a misunderstood film.
A titanic exercise in bravura filmmaking. A testament to the power of imagination. Moving and magical.
Gilliam is a master. ^^
Time Bandits by Terry Gilliam.
This just might be one of the very best "children's story" films ever produced. Outstanding imagination and poignant humanism.
It's a Roald Dahl–esque landmark to all fantasy films.
Brazil by Terry Gilliam.
A good film, one that I felt was made exclusively for me. I was transformed upon first watching this. Brazil is an amazing masterpiece of a movie. Is it better than Blade Runner? ...Close.
Uncanny vibes, everything about it is freaky, every character in the film feels like they have this sinister agenda underneath this goofy facade, and it has an ending that's horrifyingly hopeless and really upset me upon first viewing. I was like, "Please, that is not the way it ended. Please no..." But I'm SO glad it ended like that, because apparently there was an alternate version where it ended happily. Forget that. It would not be as nearly as impactful if it didn't have that.
I should note that Terry Gilliam does this thing with fisheye lenses where he makes certain things in frame feel all the more close and intrusive to your personal space. The way he distorts the screen...say someone has a screwdriver or a syringe in their hand. It can really just bend around to really feel like it's about to get you. There's just something really intrusive about some of the visuals in this film.
Viktor Vasnetsov and Hayao Miyazaki.
Sleeping Beauty/Howl's bedroom.
Two senseis of the visual arts.
La Belle et la Bête: journal d'un film (Beauty and the Beast: Diary of a Film) by Jean Cocteau.
A superb book about the making of a masterpiece.
"The limits of your language are the limits of your world." ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
Cartoons I'd recommend showing or watching with your kids:
1.) The Iron Giant
2.) Miyazaki movies (of course)
3.) The heartbreaking The Red Turtle
4.) Cartoon Saloon films
5.) Adventure Time (amazing)
6.) Gravity Falls (also amazing...)
7.) Avatar: The Last Airbender
8.) The Legend of Korra
9.) Batman: The Animated Series
10.) Gargoyles
11.) The Spectacular Spider-Man
12.) X-Men: Evolution
13.) Over the Garden Wall
Some of my favorite Ghost Stories on film.
1) Casper
2) Personal Shopper
3) The Innocents (1961)
4) The Uninvited (1944)
5) Ringu (リング, "Ring")
6) The Haunting (1963)
7) The Stone Tape
8 ) The Shining (1980)
9) The Others (Spanish: Los otros)
10) The Sixth Sense
11) Kuroneko (藪の中の黒猫, "A Black Cat in a Bamboo Grove"; or simply "The Black Cat")
12) The Woman in Black (1989)
13) Any episode of BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas
14) Kwaidan (怪談, "Ghost Stories")
15) David Lowery's A Ghost Story (Masterpiece.)
16) The Changeling
17) Hasta el viento tiene miedo (known in English as "Even the Wind is Afraid" and "The Wind of Fear")
18) Stir Of Echoes
Favorite non-DC/Marvel, comic book adaptations:
The Mask
The Crow
The Rocketeer (released internationally as The Adventures of the Rocketeer)
Ghost World
A History of Violence
The Lone Wolf and Cub films
Ichi the Killer (殺し屋１)
The Amazing Screw-On Head
The Rabbi's Cat (Le chat du rabbin)
Danger: Diabolik
Urusei Yatsura: Only You/Beautiful Dreamer
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Snowpiercer
Persepolis
Blue is the Warmest Color
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
The Death of Stalin
Wrinkles (Arrugas)
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Akira (アキラ)
Gantz (2010)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Road to Perdition
American Splendor
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Oldboy (올드보이)
Some adapted superhero movies I love:
Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 1 and 2
Blade
Richard Donner's Superman and Lester/Donner Superman II
Superman Returns
Batman (1989)
Batman Returns
The Dark Knight
Black Panther
Unbreakable
X-Men and X2: X-Men United
Guardians of the Galaxy
Jon Favreau's Iron Man
Logan
Wonder Woman
Doctor Strange
Thor
V for Vendetta
Watchmen
Chronicle
Split
RoboCop
Dredd
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
In my opinion, this show is one of the most well-realized and exciting/compelling cartoons around.
The Red Turtle (French: La Tortue Rouge; Japanese: レッドタートル ある島の物語) by Michaël Dudok de Wit.
One of the most beautiful animated films.
A story about the circle of life and all its splendor and benign brutality. It's a masterpiece. Sublime animation and a deep meditation about life, love and man's place in the natural world.
The main character faces mysteries that elude him, but eventually surrenders to love, life and his place in the universe. This film is a poem.
Freaks (also re-released as The Monster Story, Forbidden Love, and Nature's Mistakes) by Tod Browning.
Based on elements from the short story "Spurs" by Tod Robbins.
Step right up and be horrified! Or be sympathetic, that works too. This is a unique film. Believe me, there has never been and will never be a film like this again.
Get this: After the success of Universal's original "Dracula" in 1931, MGM approached its director Tod Browning to make "the scariest film ever made". So what did Browning do? He gathered real circus sideshow performers from all over the country and made the movie "Freaks". The movie's so shocking that MGM was sued by one audience member who claimed that seeing the movie gave her a miscarriage. This movie is so controversial that there are still cities in the United States where it's illegal to even show it!
Just a word of warning before you decide to go see this, some of the people in this movie do look very disturbing. If you'd rather not subject yourself to that kind of imagery, then it would probably be best to not see it. Regardless, this film is full of iconic moments of pure cinema, pulpy horror, carny noir, and perverse melodrama. Freaks is still unclassifiable after many decades. It's still sick, twisted, perverse and profoundly human. It contains Tod Browning's view of the world at its purest.
"Cigarettes and chocolate milk These are just a couple of my cravings Everything it seems I like’s a little bit stronger A little bit thicker, a little bit harmful for me." —Rufus Wainwright, "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk"
Fun Fact:
Zeus was even more popular than you realized.
There's actually a temple in Egypt that was dedicated to Zeus. I'm not making a word of that up. It's not dedicated Osiris, not Set, not even Horus. A temple dedicated to Zeus.
Apparently, the site was originally found in the early 1900s when French Egyptologist Jean Clédat found ancient Greek inscriptions referring to a temple to "Zeus Kasios". Kasios being the local Syrian Mountain where Zeus was worshiped at one point, but the temple wasn't excavated until recently. They've also found inscriptions in the area that tell of the Roman Emperor Hadrian renovating the temple as recently as the second century. The team of archaeologists are continuing to explore the site and personally, I can't wait to learn more about what they dig up.
Everyone knows about the Salem Witch Trials, but have you ever heard of the European werewolf trials?
Between the 15th and 17th centuries, individuals across Europe, including countries like Switzerland, Germany and France were accused of lycanthropy, wolf-riding and wolf-charming (wolf-charming meaning they used magic to summon a pack of wolves to attack someone).
The most famous case of someone being charged with lycanthropy took place in 1598. German farmer Peter Stumpp was accused of using witchcraft to turn himself into a wolf and go on a killing spree that led to the deaths of two pregnant women and 14 children. The worst part is they said he ate his victims while in his wolf form. After being stretched out on the rack, Peter admitted to all of the accusations, said he'd been practicing magic since he was 12 years old and that he used a magical belt the devil gave him to take his wolf shape. After his admission, Peter was executed on the wheel where he was skinned alive, had his limbs broken, his head chopped off and his body burned.