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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.

 Previous thread:

Of the Missouri Emptymans? It's —

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

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."

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

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

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."

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."

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.

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I always count these, don't I.

#42, or #2412, the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony legally known as "Cerimonia di apertura dei Giochi Olimpici Invernali Milano Cortina 2026."

Leaving now to go see a movie we were gonna see earlier this week, but then I got frozen in and couldn't leave my house, so I guess it was me who had —

#43, or #2413, 2026 Park Chan-wook picture "No Other Choice."

This 1957 Best Picture nominee in which Marlon Brando learns the Japanese are people and experience racism sometimes is either a complete fucking disaster or, like, kinda progressive for its age and a little pointless today, no middle ground, either way it's two and a half hours long, it's —

#44, or #2414, 1957's "Sayonara."

My brother hasn't seen this, which is a thing that must of course be fixed, leaving now to go see a 45th anniversary screening of —

#45, or #2415, 1980's "The Shining."

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Finally finished watching, and so can now count in the thread —

#46, or #2416, 1915-1916 silent French film serial "Les Vampires."

Not seen so much as a trailer for this, but I dunno, I'll go see a zombie comedy (zombedy), leaving now to go see —

#47, or #2417, 2026's "Cold Storage."

This is the one of these I've never seen, it's —

#48, or #2418, 2002's "Austin Powers in Goldmember."

Ping pong movie let's go, leaving now to go see —

#49, or #2419, 2026's "Marty Supreme."

(Fully forgot to hit send. Pretend I tooted this 3 and a half hours ago.)

Know nothing about this 1990 Lawrence Kasdan picture my dedication to podcast completionism is making me watch, it's —

#50, or #2420, 1990's "I Love You to Death."

In a genuine Valentine's Day coincidence, my dedication to Blank Check completionism is forcing me to watch a movie with the word "love" in the title that I would otherwise never have put on, it's —

#51, or #2421, 2008's "The Love Guru."

It's another Best Picture nominee that seems like one of those that had a good point at the time but we wooshed past that point half a century ago, it's —

#52, or #2422, 1957's "Peyton Place."

With and after dinner, watched —

#53, or #2423, 2026 doc “Disneyland Handcrafted.”

Truly just wall-to-wall violations of even the most loosey-goosey of basic modern health and safety standards.

I've definitely seen at least one other adaptation of this that I fully do not remember, leaving now to go see —

#54, or #2424, 2026's ""Wuthering Heights"."

David has told me to watch this 1972 TV movie that dares to ask, "what if a Black man was President of the United States, wouldn't that be something," it's —

#55, or #2425, 1972's "The Man."

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It's the 1957 Best Picture nominee that dared to ask, what if there was a —

#56, or #2426, "Witness for the Prosecution."

The first of the 1958 Best Picture nominees, I know nothing about this one, it's —

#57, or #2427, 1958's "Gigi."

One of those "well if you can see it on the big screen, ya gotta" movies, leaving now to go see a 30th anniversary screening of —

#58, or #2428, 1996 Baz Luhrmann picture "Romeo + Juliet."

In this one Glen Powell kills the rich for fun and profit, leaving now to go see —

#59, or #2429, 2026's "How to Make a Killing."

Alex Daily not going to improv comedy class tonight, on account of it being a vacation week, and so Alex Daily can instead go to the Mystery Classic. (Like Sneak Preview but the movie is old.)

The hints are "The day after carnival," and "Iron ....," and we like @kurt 's suggestion of it being "The Hangover," but only one way to find out, leaving now.

#60, or #2430.

It's the third of four movies that have ask, what if a star was born, it's —

#61, or #2431, 1976's "A Star is Born."

I've seen the 1937 one, because Best Picture nominee, and the 2018 one, because Blank Check, which is also why I'm watching this one — they cover it as the start of their Barbra Streisand series, presumably because she had a lot of creative control over it.
I should watch the 1954 one at some point, obviously.
This retains from 1954 the choice to switch it from a movie star to a music one, again presumably because it's meant to be a vehicle for Babs.

You can really see where the Bradley Cooper version of the dirtbag singer character comes from: Here.

This one just put on a rubber mask of a mummified corpse, though, radical.

Babs' character instantly very charming. Very human, a singer you're gonna look at instead of treating them like background noise.
I would not take this dirtbag home.

Beep Boop Two is a dirtbag-free zone.

Did have a dirtbox over once, a package a neighbour took three days to come pick up.

This guy sucks.
The Bradley Cooper one at least has something to him.
If the 70s had health and safety standards every single music-on-stage professional depicted on screen so far would be in hyperprison.

If I was in this person's vicinity, I would do everything in my power to change that.

...But I think I might feel the same way about the 70s.

Why is she in love with him? Is she stupid?
Kind of like these bits of them faffing about around the house, but none of this _really_ works.
Everything seems nice, which means he's about to get A Star Is Born ending'd.
No movie spends this much time on a character drunk driving if they're not about to car themselves to death.
damn, they don't even show you it happening, just him going over the horizon, cut to a police chopper at da scene

None of this works, they don’t just not have chemistry, I actively don’t believe she wants to be in the same room as him, never mind date him or marry him.

"A Star is Born" (1976) makes "A Star is Born" (1937) look like "A Star is Born" (2018).

@Alexis Record-breaking burn from an Alex Daily movie thread. Bravo.

Obviously accomodating my brother's schedule isn't an issue at all, but I do sometimes miss seeing movies at like 10:15am on a weekday.

But he doesn't care about these, so leaving now to go catch the 10:15am screening of —

#62, or #2432, 2026's "Scream 7."

Basically enjoyed this, though it’s hard to deny just how much this feels like it /had/ to be a total ass-pull.

Maybe the original "Scream 7", as planned before the firing of Melissa Barrera over her support for Palestine and the departure of Jenna Ortega and director Christopher Landon over the rock that threw at the picture’s head, would’ve been similar enough that I’m the one talking out of my ass here, but do you pull out the things you pull out here if you’re not desperately scrambling?

Characters are constantly basically looking straight at the camera to tell you how improbable this all is, and it doesn’t feel like the picture is hanging a lampshade on it but like it’s gotta cover its own ass for what it knows isn’t particularly strong material. And it’s so determined to be big and gory that you’ll figure out who it is just by going, well, who’s still alive?
One of the weaker stabs at keeping these going, for sure.

I'm... pretty sure?, this is Jewish Mulan, it's —

#63, or #2433, 1983 Barbra Streisand picture "Yentl."

The opening caption tells us 1904 is a time when studying was for men, and already the people around Babs are talking about how she should be getting married.

She finds herself drawn to the book cart, which has a boys' section (study books, religious scholarship) and a girls' section (dumb picture books for small babies.)

Bookstores still have boys' sections, I think, there's a dude crowding out the manga shelf every time I'm in there.

"Yentl knows Talmud? My father says a woman who knows Talmud is a demon."

oy oy oy

Babs a lot more believable to me as curious, smart Yentl, who just wants to escape the restrictions put upon her by society, than she was as Esther in A Star is Born, who let herself get emotionally run over and dragged along by some stupid man.

Yentl: *does literally anything*

Everyone around her: "It has to be a man, Yentl!"

oh, /this/ is what "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" is from
Yentl, now with short hair, wearing men's clothes, going by the name of her brother Anshel, going by he/him pronouns, is practicing his boy voice.
woah, young Mandy Patinkin extremely hot
rude of the movie's title to deadname Anshel
only Babs allowed to sing in this, huh.
this is SO gay
anshel bro just kiss him

"I want /you/ to marry Hadass."

lmao

So much of these songs are essentially voice-over — reportedly done so Streisand wouldn't have to do any lip synching — and it's a weird effect. Just full musical songs over dialogue scenes.

"And please, sir, a grandson nine months from now."

how's Anshel gonna get outta this one

Beautiful film, extremely gay. It does chicken out a little in the end, but still, SO gay. :)

Babs obviously a lot more believable to me here as curious, smart Anshel, who just wants to escape the restrictions put upon him by society, than she was as Esther Astarisborn, who let herself get emotionally run over and dragged along by some stupid man.

But, like, yeah, incredible directorial debut from Streisand, this. She has complete control over all of it.

Remember how bad "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" was, well, what if there was a moderately better movie about Wolverine that was also a little weird about Japan, it's —

#64, or #2434, 2013's "The Wolverine."

It comes up sometimes how goofy it was for WB/DC to do a second Suicide Squad movie only five years after the very bad first one, but there were only four years between "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and "The Wolverine."

Same title trick, even.

Anyway, I would simply not perform seppuku upon myself.

"X-Men: First Class" was a pretty clean reboot, it actively contradicts both the original trilogy and "Origins," outside of the one little scene of Jackman in the bar, there's nothing tying it to those movies.

But this is a Logan from after "The Last Stand," a Logan who still lives in the old continuity.

Logan is fighting a bunch of shitty hunters who killed his nice bear pal. This is really what Logan should be up to at the start of every movie he's in.

A bar, a cause, a fight.

Audio of Lynn Collins as Silverfox from "Origins" appears briefly in the context of a dream sequence, but the picture otherwise largely ignores the previous film.
You know how sometimes a character will be living uncomfortably in self-imposed exile, and then somebody will come and pull them out to draw them into a righteous cause that will allow them to be their best self, but then that will always turn to shit in the end, too, because comfort itself will always be uncomfortable, too? Great stuff.
Yashida, who Logan saved from a nuke in the cold open, is dying, and has hired only the sexiest supermodel lady doctors to look after him.
Yashida, having not had Logan's healing factor transferred to him, has stopped dying on account of having died.
I would simply not have my ass kicked at a funeral.
Love a two-level chase sequence.
train fight
"Logan checks into a love hotel" is pretty basic, but it's also always funny to see him uncomfortable in this specific way.

A thing I said about "Origins" is it felt like it was stitching itself together from movies like it without actually doing anything meaningfully different with even an inch of it.

This is really doing the same thing, but — and this is crucial — the picture fundamentally understands the ways in which putting Logan in this material changes it, alters it, and what situations are fun to see him in.

Very convenient that nobody shoots Logan in the head while he's sans healing factor.
I don't care about any of this Silver Samurai business.
Perpetually wondering why anyone who knows what his deal is ever tries to fight Logan. You really think /you're/ gonna be the person to take him down? It's like pissing on a mountain and expecting it to erode away to nothing.
Viper is waiting to get into the fight until she's done shedding her skin sexily, which you'd really think she'd do at a less time crucial moment.
@Alexis likewise, how does he remember Yashida, when that would have take place before Origins.
@Alexis If Mason Gooding survives a third one after being filleted like a fish again I am done with that series.😂
@retrosponge Without spoilers, without confirming whether or not he's even in it: Yeah, the man is an unkillable pin cushion, isn't he.