Alex Daily! Feb 1

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#MovieThread VII: The Kino Awakens, Chapter Two — February Edition

From 2020 to 2025 I watched 2370 movies.
In January 2026 I watched another 35, for a total of 2405 movies.

This month:
* Wrapping up Fincher.
* More 1957.
* Barbra Streisand, probably.

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Of the Missouri Emptymans? It's —

#36, or #2406, 2020's "The Empty Man."

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My brother who doesn't like horror movies wants to see the YouTubesman's horror movie, so once again heading out into the cold to go see —

#37, or #2407, 2026's "Iron Lung."

Show threadAlex Daily! Feb 4

What if I wrapped up David Fincher today, it's —

#38, or #2408, 2011's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."

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Not in the mood to Mank, so let's instead check in with the man who so killed James Bond's sense of whimsy that Daniel Craig wasn't allowed to so much as smile in public for fifteen years, it's —

#39, or #2409, 1997's "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery."

Show threadAlex Daily! Feb 5

The movie that dares to ask, what if somebody wrote 1941's "Citizen Kane" and that somebody's name was —

#40, or #2410, 2020 David Fincher picture "Mank."

Show threadAlex Daily! Feb 6

Does this schtick work for a /second/ 90 minute film? Let's find out with —

#41, or #2411, 1999's "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

Show threadAlex Daily! Feb 6
This space CGI is rough even by 1999 standards.
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The Austin Powers Kama Sutra lovingly typeset in glorious Papyrus.
Show threadAlex Daily! Feb 6
why would you build a Fembot to respond to TV remotes (good gag though)
Show threadAlex Daily! Feb 6
Love going this hard on the genitalia-hiding gag.
Show threadAlex Daily! Feb 6
Is Jerry Springer why Dr Evil is back, or is he back and Jerry Springer is just why he's out in the open again.
Show threadAlex Daily! Feb 6
"Ivana Humpalot" is, I wanna say, less subtle than "Pussy Galore" and "Alotta Fagina."
Show threadAlex Daily! Feb 6
Starbucks is evil-funded, but is presented as a neutral-to-good alternative to doing evil instead of as, well, evil, like it actually is.
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Dr Evil's built a time machine to go back and steal Austin Powers' mojo, a thing people did all the time in the 90s.
Feb 6 at 2:37pmWeb
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What, exactly, do they mean by "mojo."
Show threadAlex Daily! Feb 6

Asked about time travel logistics, Basil Exposition says "I suggest you don't worry about this sort of thing and just enjoy yourself," before turning to the camera and adding "That goes for you all, too."

Yeah, definitely not one I'm gonna think about too much.

Show threadAlex Daily! Feb 6

"You know what's remarkable is how England looks in no way like Southern California!"

it's uncanny

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you can really tell from the mountain highway roadside red phoneboxes that we're in the english countryside
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Fat Bastard is like four-fifths of the way to his Shrek voice.
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The California mountains in the background really help sell this Hollywood backlot street as 1969 London.
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Great "the rocket looks like a—" sequence.
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I would maybe not shoot at the windows on the moon while unhelmeted.
Show threadAlex Daily! Feb 6

Remember when people used to steal each other’s mojo? Happened all the time in the 90s.

Honestly about on par with the first one, in that it’s a confident, reliably funny comedy of a kind that doesn’t get made any more. Repeated lampshading of things like the time travel logic making no sense and California standing in for England means it does just get away with stuff that shouldn’t quite work.

Don’t care for the Fat Bastard character — he reminds me too much of Myers’ wretched green ogre.