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2. What movie do you wish you could unwatch?
Ugh, a few years back I had a visceral, traumatized reaction to a scene in Suspiria (2018):
I went into watching this movie totally blind and thinking that most horror doesn't bother me, and that I'd already seen the original Suspiria from the seventies, so I should probably be fine. At first I was intrigued by the very weird and offputting aesthetic and vibes and pacing that it opens with, and still trying to decide if I thought it was good or not. I won't spoil too much about it, but at some point within the first hour of the movie there's this scene that kinda comes out of nowhere in which a character gets trapped in a room and then brutally mutilated onscreen. I tried to muscle my way through it, but it felt like watching this miserable, overly vicious torture porn that was dragging on forever, that wasn't even enjoyable for me in an impressively artistic gross-out practical effects way, and that hadn't been karmically "earned" nor foreshadowed enough for the audience beforehand to help them be subconsciously prepared for it (which I think is actually very important to do in a movie when you're including shocking scenes like this, unless you want to lose a big portion of your audience's trust). I ended up covering the screen with my hand so I didn't have to see it anymore and then turned off the movie with the disgusting sounds from the victim still ringing in my ears. Haven't felt that violated from watching a movie since I was a child staying up late and catching things I shouldn't be watching yet on TV! I read the plot summary later on and was very glad that I missed out on watching the rest, I don't think it got much better from there. Since then I've taken to checking the IMDb Parents Guide for darker movies that I'm a bit apprehensive about, because even though I am a fan of horror movies the brutal onscreen violence and gore kind of horror has just never been something I've enjoyed.
9. Guilty Pleasure Movie:
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973):
Maybe it's due to religious trauma, but I fuckin' love JCS hahaha. I made a list of my top favourite movies here one time, and I'm pretty sure this one was the only one on the list that had a "rotten" rating from the Rotten Tomatoes critics. Philistines, the lot of them! Everything about this movie is enjoyable to me, from the shirtless gay Pharisees to the sweaty drugged-out desert hippies to the military tanks inexplicably being driven by the Romans. I could sing you basically this entire musical by heart, but this song has gotta be one of my faves (Judas is my boy!!! Carl Anderson's performance here is iconic af):
11. A genre you just can’t stand:
I kinda hate war movies! Those are the ones I drag my feet on the most when it comes to the "all-time best of" movie lists that I occasionally try to complete. Can't tell you how many times I've avoided watching Saving Private Ryan in favour of watching literally anything else...
19. Name a movie so bad it’s good:
The Guest (2014):
(this is probably like the fifth time I mentioned it on this blog, so apologies if I'm repeating myself to you here):
An absolutely bonkers goofy masterpiece by Adam Wingard, director of Noteflix! I unironically love The Guest and have watched it probably at least 6 times since being introduced to it a few years back. My favourite ways of describing it are if Michael Bay tried to direct an Alfred Hitchcock home invasion thriller, or if Beyond Birthday tried to get adopted by the Yagamis (and they were all for some reason white Americans). Kinda gave me a better appreciation for Noteflix watching it too, because it made me realize that a lot of the cringe in Noteflix was probably Adam Wingard's dumb sense of humour just not translating or landing properly (I don't think he likes to take himself or his characters very seriously at all and loves to make them look stupid af, basically).
The bar fight scene is probably the perfect scene to show the uninitiated what a treat you'll be in for watching this:
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