Robert Elliott
@robertdelliott.bsky.social
Just this guy, you know?
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Pathologically incapable of rating movies, so I no longer even try.
letterboxd: https://boxd.it/5qBXH
Pathologically incapable of rating movies, so I no longer even try.
We've all seen posters use a little hyperbole. Covers that are, ahem, unrepresentative of the film. But to just plain lie to this extent? The only truth here is 'some […] have been released by Warner Bros.' It's RBF's release of Shaolin Chastity Kung Fu, in case you wondered.
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February 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
We've all seen posters use a little hyperbole. Covers that are, ahem, unrepresentative of the film. But to just plain lie to this extent? The only truth here is 'some […] have been released by Warner Bros.' It's RBF's release of Shaolin Chastity Kung Fu, in case you wondered.
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#physicalmedia #filmsky
This went straight into my top five Johnnie To movies. It's not a musical, but definitely evokes Umbrellas of Cherbourg (more through vibe than style). Simon Yam plays against type, and is wonderful. Chameleon did us a great service by bringing this out (and including the soundtrack).
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February 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This went straight into my top five Johnnie To movies. It's not a musical, but definitely evokes Umbrellas of Cherbourg (more through vibe than style). Simon Yam plays against type, and is wonderful. Chameleon did us a great service by bringing this out (and including the soundtrack).
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#filmsky
Next in my cataloguing quest was Battle of the Damned… Dolph and Robots vs. Zombies. I had no recollection of it whatsoever. I soon discovered why; shakycam infests the film throughout and utterly ruins what could've been a most entertaining flick. Now I must excise it from my memory again.
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February 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Next in my cataloguing quest was Battle of the Damned… Dolph and Robots vs. Zombies. I had no recollection of it whatsoever. I soon discovered why; shakycam infests the film throughout and utterly ruins what could've been a most entertaining flick. Now I must excise it from my memory again.
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#filmsky
Really liked #SomeGuyWhoKillsPeople a decade ago but would it stand the test of time? It turned out to be even better than I recall.A great script elicited some damn fine performances, not least from Barry Bostwick. A fine start to my @terrorvisionvids.bsky.social collection.
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February 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Really liked #SomeGuyWhoKillsPeople a decade ago but would it stand the test of time? It turned out to be even better than I recall.A great script elicited some damn fine performances, not least from Barry Bostwick. A fine start to my @terrorvisionvids.bsky.social collection.
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#filmsky #physicalmedia
Wasn't expecting this #psysicalmedia delivery yet, but those lovely people at @terrorvisionvids.bsky.social surprised me. I'll be keeping Frogman until last in the hope – the belief! – that it's more kappa than scuba. More bayou than Cousteau. More batrachian than subaquean.
I'll stop now.
I'll stop now.
February 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Wasn't expecting this #psysicalmedia delivery yet, but those lovely people at @terrorvisionvids.bsky.social surprised me. I'll be keeping Frogman until last in the hope – the belief! – that it's more kappa than scuba. More bayou than Cousteau. More batrachian than subaquean.
I'll stop now.
I'll stop now.
User-interface enshittification continues apace, but in one regard things are better: DVD/Bluray menus. I've put a lot of disks in the player to glean catalogue information in recent weeks, and I've seen too many pointless animated video menus that leave me waiting to continue. 1/6
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February 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
User-interface enshittification continues apace, but in one regard things are better: DVD/Bluray menus. I've put a lot of disks in the player to glean catalogue information in recent weeks, and I've seen too many pointless animated video menus that leave me waiting to continue. 1/6
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#physicalmedia
This was all over the place for the first 45ish minutes, but it settled down to become a serious murder mystery with a backdrop of racial tensions in San Francisco in 1900. I was starting to feel its 135-min running time towards the end, but it was definitely worth a trip to the cinema.
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February 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
This was all over the place for the first 45ish minutes, but it settled down to become a serious murder mystery with a backdrop of racial tensions in San Francisco in 1900. I was starting to feel its 135-min running time towards the end, but it was definitely worth a trip to the cinema.
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#filmsky
Revolver is an impressive thriller with a top-notch performance from Oliver Reed. Nicely done car cases and decent action go alongside a plot that doesn't follow the traditional path such films take. Overall, a damn fine film.
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February 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Revolver is an impressive thriller with a top-notch performance from Oliver Reed. Nicely done car cases and decent action go alongside a plot that doesn't follow the traditional path such films take. Overall, a damn fine film.
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#filmsky
I know I've seen this before, and recently. How did I make it to the end without recognising that the last ten minutes or so were lifted wholesale for the end of Top Secret? I saw parallels throughout, but the ending… I was just waiting for the airmen to play darts.
Great film, though.
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Great film, though.
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February 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I know I've seen this before, and recently. How did I make it to the end without recognising that the last ten minutes or so were lifted wholesale for the end of Top Secret? I saw parallels throughout, but the ending… I was just waiting for the airmen to play darts.
Great film, though.
#filmsky
Great film, though.
#filmsky
I've never really understood dual-format releases, but now I actively hate them as I enter another damn copy of the movie into the database. Displaying the information is tricky, too. Three of the more complex cases are shown here; if anyone has a better way of displaying the info, I'm all ears.
February 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I've never really understood dual-format releases, but now I actively hate them as I enter another damn copy of the movie into the database. Displaying the information is tricky, too. Three of the more complex cases are shown here; if anyone has a better way of displaying the info, I'm all ears.
Postie just came through with a fresh batch of #PhysicalMedia courtesy of the fine folk at Eureka. As is traditional, I just intended to order the 4K of Cure and ended up getting another bunch of stuff, too. Though I've been meaning to get the In the Line of Duty flicks for ages, now.
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February 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Postie just came through with a fresh batch of #PhysicalMedia courtesy of the fine folk at Eureka. As is traditional, I just intended to order the 4K of Cure and ended up getting another bunch of stuff, too. Though I've been meaning to get the In the Line of Duty flicks for ages, now.
#filmsky
#filmsky
My paltry words are wholly inadequate to the task of expressing the wondrousness of Violet Evergarden, and this film is a fitting coda to what must surely go down as one of the all-time greatest of all anime series.
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February 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My paltry words are wholly inadequate to the task of expressing the wondrousness of Violet Evergarden, and this film is a fitting coda to what must surely go down as one of the all-time greatest of all anime series.
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#filmsky
I try to be jaded and cynical, but even so I went into this with high hope. And those hopes were absolutely met. It's cheap, yes. But it's enormous fun. There was one scene, though, where I think the mic was visible (making me suspect that this was intended to be shown in 4:3).
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January 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I try to be jaded and cynical, but even so I went into this with high hope. And those hopes were absolutely met. It's cheap, yes. But it's enormous fun. There was one scene, though, where I think the mic was visible (making me suspect that this was intended to be shown in 4:3).
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#filmsky
Fucksake. Watching the names of directors scroll by as the database scrapes IMDb for information on my disks, and I see that Fellini's first name is Federico. For years – decades – now I've been calling him Frederico.
No wonder he never returned my calls.
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No wonder he never returned my calls.
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January 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Fucksake. Watching the names of directors scroll by as the database scrapes IMDb for information on my disks, and I see that Fellini's first name is Federico. For years – decades – now I've been calling him Frederico.
No wonder he never returned my calls.
#frilmsky
No wonder he never returned my calls.
#frilmsky
If there's one bright spot in all those years enduring dogshit like Star Treks: Discovery and Picard, it's that when something this awful comes along it can't really be considered a disappointment.
January 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If there's one bright spot in all those years enduring dogshit like Star Treks: Discovery and Picard, it's that when something this awful comes along it can't really be considered a disappointment.
#NowWatching against my better judgement: Deranged is based on the nefarious deeds of a real-life serial killer, a genre in which I have zero point fuck all interest. But the 4K just arrived as part of a subscription, so I might as well get it over with.
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#filmsky
January 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
#NowWatching against my better judgement: Deranged is based on the nefarious deeds of a real-life serial killer, a genre in which I have zero point fuck all interest. But the 4K just arrived as part of a subscription, so I might as well get it over with.
#filmsky
#filmsky
When Branded to Kill & Tokyo Drifter came out on Criterion DVD, the world was quite sniffy about Suzuki's other Nikkatsu films which I increasingly see as unfair to both Suzuki & Nikkatsu. As a case in point one can watch it this a simple Yakuza flick, but there's much more to it than that.
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#filmsky
January 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
When Branded to Kill & Tokyo Drifter came out on Criterion DVD, the world was quite sniffy about Suzuki's other Nikkatsu films which I increasingly see as unfair to both Suzuki & Nikkatsu. As a case in point one can watch it this a simple Yakuza flick, but there's much more to it than that.
#filmsky
#filmsky
Yes, yes. I know film titles follow their own rules, and are under no obligation to follow any rules of grammar. Even so I still feel a little soiled when I omit the possessive apostrophe while entering "The Vampires Night Orgy" into the database. I hope you're happy, @vinsyn.bsky.social.
January 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Yes, yes. I know film titles follow their own rules, and are under no obligation to follow any rules of grammar. Even so I still feel a little soiled when I omit the possessive apostrophe while entering "The Vampires Night Orgy" into the database. I hope you're happy, @vinsyn.bsky.social.
Not normally something I'd go for, but a subscription to @filmsradiance.bsky.social means that I got it anyway. And though I Fidanzati is essentially a romance (not in my top 78 favourite genres) I loved them both, & must add yet another director to the 'get everything' list.
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January 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Not normally something I'd go for, but a subscription to @filmsradiance.bsky.social means that I got it anyway. And though I Fidanzati is essentially a romance (not in my top 78 favourite genres) I loved them both, & must add yet another director to the 'get everything' list.
#filmsky #physicalmedia
#filmsky #physicalmedia
Finally watched all the disks in the house, so the time had come – decades too late – to create the database to catalogue all the movies. And writing the interface in python seemed like a good idea, right up to the moment I realised I'd have to learn python. It's mostly working now. Mostly.
January 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Finally watched all the disks in the house, so the time had come – decades too late – to create the database to catalogue all the movies. And writing the interface in python seemed like a good idea, right up to the moment I realised I'd have to learn python. It's mostly working now. Mostly.
Every time I see this I'm astonished that such a film was made in the 50s. The ideas, long in print, were rarely on screen and when combined with amazing effects and a compelling story, it's clear that we've been blessed with a true masterpiece of the genre. Nay, a masterpiece of cinema.
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January 17, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Every time I see this I'm astonished that such a film was made in the 50s. The ideas, long in print, were rarely on screen and when combined with amazing effects and a compelling story, it's clear that we've been blessed with a true masterpiece of the genre. Nay, a masterpiece of cinema.
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#filmsky
We're all tragically familiar with the abuse of language in the political sphere but it's prevalent in the mundane, too; usually, but not always, via the wretched world of advertising.
Today I encountered, and not for the first time, the ridiculous phrase 'esports athlete'.
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Today I encountered, and not for the first time, the ridiculous phrase 'esports athlete'.
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January 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
We're all tragically familiar with the abuse of language in the political sphere but it's prevalent in the mundane, too; usually, but not always, via the wretched world of advertising.
Today I encountered, and not for the first time, the ridiculous phrase 'esports athlete'.
#languagesky
Today I encountered, and not for the first time, the ridiculous phrase 'esports athlete'.
#languagesky
Imagine yourself trapped in room with a bunch of drunken first-year drama students who've just realised that someone's watching them, and they think that person runs a talent agency. To be fair, though, the room does have very, very nice wallpaper.
Anyway, I just watched Nosferatu.
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Anyway, I just watched Nosferatu.
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January 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Imagine yourself trapped in room with a bunch of drunken first-year drama students who've just realised that someone's watching them, and they think that person runs a talent agency. To be fair, though, the room does have very, very nice wallpaper.
Anyway, I just watched Nosferatu.
#filmsky
Anyway, I just watched Nosferatu.
#filmsky
The plot in Johnny O'Clock takes a while to get going, but the time is well spent in drawing the characters, and the great dialogue keeps the attention so that one doesn't really mind. It's really that dialogue that stands out here, elevating a standard noir to a few points above average.
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#filmsky
January 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The plot in Johnny O'Clock takes a while to get going, but the time is well spent in drawing the characters, and the great dialogue keeps the attention so that one doesn't really mind. It's really that dialogue that stands out here, elevating a standard noir to a few points above average.
#filmsky
#filmsky