#cinema humour

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

[logicallyblind]

you don’t understand the amount of money i would be willing to pay for a batfamily related film shot in the style and feel of the live action scooby doo movies from the early 2000s oh my god-

[schirs77]

[autumnalfoxfire]

I Smell a Rat

[harleybarbarahandler]

peak cinema is whenever I get to see Margot Robbie’s expressive eyes full of so much Emotion on the big screen

[jackie-elysium]

The Truman Show

[yoga-onion]

Bullet Train

Last week, I couldn't stand the suffocating weather and unexpectedly went to the cinema. It was perfect that was the first day of the screening of Bullet Train.

Maria Beetle by Kotaro Isaka, which years ago, I read in one go while hospitalised in Kolkata, is a long suspense story that can only be read on such occasions. Once you get on, you can't get off, it's super-fast speed, like a bullet train, so the pun is exquisite. He's the kind of novelist whose brain is made up of Rubik's cubes ,deep.

So if you get into his sense of humour, you can't get off, and even the blackest scenes are pleasantly funny.

This is one of the Isaka works I was looking forward to seeing made into a film, but when I read that it was going to be a Hollywood film starring Brad Pitt, I thought "no way", but it was really real.

I happened to see it in IMAX that day because of a convenient screening time. The aftertaste was like riding a rollercoaster, passing the bullet train to the end of the line as soon as the "Departure Progress~" train departed.

It took me about 10 minutes to get used to the gap between the film and the original, and also to the IMAX specifications, but I remembered Haruki Murakami once saying that he enjoys reading the translated versions of his books as the work of others, and when I watched the film detached from the original, I was able to concentrate on it, no problem. In the end, it was exactly 'Maria Beetle’.

Surely, filmmakers, directors, actors and Mr Isaka are all on the same radio.

It's a cool film that transcends the stresses of the empty pole with a laugh. The violence didn't bother me, because life is bloody.

'More and more guests are either falling down the stairs. Please be careful when exiting the staircase", I inwardly thought " Hmph", but there were quite a few people who really did fall down.

30 years after ‘Thelma & Louise’, Brad Pitt is immortal.

ブレット・トレイン

先週、天気の息苦しさに耐えられず、思わず映画館に行った。タイミング良く『ブレット・トレイン』の上映初日だった。ワオ、おすすめです！

数年前、コルカタで入院中に一気読みした伊坂幸太郎氏の『マリアビートル』、こんなときにしか読めない長編サスペンス、一度乗ったらそう簡単には降りられない、新幹線のような超高速スピード、このシャレが絶妙だ。脳みそがルービックキューブでできているような小説家、奥が深い。だから、ユーモアのセンスにハマったら抜け出せない、ブラックな場面でも気持ち良く笑える。

映画化されるのを楽しみにしていた伊坂作品の一つだったけど、まさかのブラットピット主演のハリウッド映画化予定と読んだ時は「ありえない」と思っていたら、本当に本当だった。

その日はたまたま、都合の良い上映時間だったせいでIMAXで観てしまった。”出発進行〜”の発車と同時に終点まで新幹線を通り越し、ジェットコースターに乗ったかのような後味。

原作とのギャップとIMAX仕様に慣れるのに10分程かかったが、以前、村上春樹さんが「自分の本の翻訳版は、他者の作品として読んで楽しんでいる」と言っていたのを思い出し、原作と切り離して観たら、問題なく集中できた。最終的には、きっちり『マリアビートル』していた。

きっと、映画制作者、監督、俳優陣、伊坂さん、みなさん同じ波長なんですね。

空極のストレスも笑って超越しちゃうクールさにスッキリしちゃう作品だ。バイオレンスは気になりません、だって人生って血みどろですもの。

「階段で転ぶかお客様が増えております。ご退場の際には十分お気をつけくださいませ」という案内が画面上に現れたときには、内心「フン」って思ったけど、本当に転んでいる人が結構いた。

『テルマ＆ルイーズ』から30年、ブラピ健在。

[mariocki]

Return of the Living Dead: Part II (1988)

"Is it serious?"

"Is dead serious?"

[eucanthos]

Bill Domonkos

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Jacques-Louis David‘s “La Mort de Marat,” 1793 animated in b/w 

“The extraordinary thing about cinema is its ability to suggest the ineffable—something that cannot or should not be expressed in words, only hinted at through sounds and images. It is this elusive, dreamlike quality that informs my work”

https://blog.myarthaus.com/haunting-absurd-animated-gifs-bill-domonkos/

[nothoward]

Happy World Diabetes Day!!!

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

Freeway is a 1996 American black comedy crime film written and directed by Matthew Bright and produced by Oliver Stone. It stars Kiefer Sutherland, Reese Witherspoon and Brooke Shields. The film's plot is a dark take on the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood"

[pearl-beads-on-a-string]

Mary and Max is a movie about two pen pals from across the world. A wonderfully animated film made in 2009 by Adam Elliot (Based on a true story). Very humorous and dark. Strongly recommended for 13 years or older. Please don't watch if triggered easily!

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔊𝔞𝔫𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔞 𝔊𝔞𝔰𝔬𝔰𝔞 - 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔬𝔲 𝔞 𝔊𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔥𝔞 𝔢 𝔉𝔬𝔦 𝔄𝔬 ℭ𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔪𝔞

[overobsessedfanboy23]

AU idea where instead of ruining Riley's arc, either Leo or Henrietta is the one to get de-aged into a baby Z-Arc vessel and Declan and Riley just:

[thewondermentofillustration]

Drive-In Theatre Dagger-Thrust "Oh, I saw this in town, it's a real thriller!" "He's going up to stab her while she's talking on the phone!" "I just can't look at this again - he's going to -" "Step into the light-well!"

     -- The Bulletin, December 26, 1956