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[Randorama]

Re: Wenders (in general). I believe that his movies went downhill roughly when he became (relatively) mainstream (mid 1990s?). I just have blurry memories of several of his works after Lisbon Story being beautifully shot but being weakly written. Maybe I just lost interest in his style, so I cannot add much.

Re: Russ Meyer.

….same definitely blurry memories again, but I remember that if you approach his (best) movies as exaggerated, “live action looney tunes cartoons with tons of skin” (but no actual fully explicit deeds, sadly), they are ok. I am pretty sure that I watched Beneath the valley of the ultra-vixens with friends while being extremely drunk and nevertheless we concluded the session by asking each other: ‘WTF did we watch?’ And ‘should we prevent Marco from ever choosing movies for movies night?’

Marco still resents us to this day (Also, 1970s Cans had their charms!)

[xEbb1993x]

War of the Worlds on Prime Video. I... have no idea what to say about it.

[GaijinPunch]

GP, you lead a rich and colourful life. Looking forward to your Vixen write up!

If you know what I fucking did, you'd wonder why I haven't died of a heart attack. This current relationship is crazy-town long distance. (SF to London). And we see each other a lot, all things considered. I went for 10 days in mid-June, then we went to Spain for about 9-10 days late July. (I work about half of it btw). I have not pulled the trigger on it, but I might be going to Berlin to see her leaving on a Thursday, coming back on a Monday. Then she comes over and we go to Burning Man.

And in all of that, I take a million photos of her and she posts about 5 on her IG. And yes, I use film cameras. $$$

My tombstone will say "at least it wasn't boring".

War of the Worlds on Prime Video. I... have no idea what to say about it.

You don't have to - the rest of the internet is.

[xEbb1993x]

I never saw the 2005 War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise (2005 is one of my most hated years of my lifetime and I don't think Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg make a good pair given how boring Minority Report was despite it being the primary inspiration for the anime series Psycho-Pass), but this might be even worse.

[RGC]

I never saw the 2005 War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise (2005 is one of my most hated years of my lifetime and I don't think Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg make a good pair given how boring Minority Report was despite it being the primary inspiration for the anime series Psycho-Pass), but this might be even worse.

My favourite of Spielberg's films so far this millenium. It's very easy viewing. Discerning types would probably say Lincoln is his best though.

I have a morbid curiosity about this recent attempt at WotW. There will be worse films making a shit load more $$$ at the box office this year, that's for sure.

[RGC]

GP, you lead a rich and colourful life. Looking forward to your Vixen write up!

If you know what I fucking did, you'd wonder why I haven't died of a heart attack. This current relationship is crazy-town long distance. (SF to London). And we see each other a lot, all things considered. I went for 10 days in mid-June, then we went to Spain for about 9-10 days late July. (I work about half of it btw). I have not pulled the trigger on it, but I might be going to Berlin to see her leaving on a Thursday, coming back on a Monday. Then she comes over and we go to Burning Man.

And in all of that, I take a million photos of her and she posts about 5 on her IG. And yes, I use film cameras. $$$

My tombstone will say "at least it wasn't boring".

Madness! It's tiring just thinking about all that jetting about. Hope you like airline food. My epitaph will say simply:

"Survived, mostly."

[xEbb1993x]

I never saw the 2005 War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise (2005 is one of my most hated years of my lifetime and I don't think Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg make a good pair given how boring Minority Report was despite it being the primary inspiration for the anime series Psycho-Pass), but this might be even worse.

My favourite of Spielberg's films so far this millenium. It's very easy viewing. Discerning types would probably say Lincoln is his best though.

I have a morbid curiosity about this recent attempt at WotW. There will be worse films making a shit load more $$$ at the box office this year, that's for sure.

Honestly, I only liked his Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones movies, as well as Jaws, Bridge of Spies, Saving Private Ryan, and sue me, but I loved Ready Player One. But really, I don't think Cruise and Spielberg work together. He has much better chemistry with Christopher McQuarrie.