Best of 2017

Movies

1. Raw

I wasn't crazy about any movie this year. There was a lot of pretty good movies though. And the best movie was a French cannibal movie. If I mentioned how crazy the "waxing scene" was and you knew what I was talking about we would become best friends.

2. Good Time

I finally bought Fast Times at Ridgemont High on Blu-ray this year. So the second best Jennifer Jason Leigh movie I saw this year is this bank-robbery-gone-crazy film.

3. Star Wars: The Last Jedi

The negative fan backlash is bewildering. I know assholes use the "if everyone likes you you'ren't interesting" line but it works here for non-assholes or possibly assholes-in-denial. Criticisms: 

A. The jokes aren't funny and undermine the drama.

The jokes are funny and don't undermine the drama. Swish.

B. Smoke and Captain Phantasm were built up and nothing was done with them.

I couldn't care less about Smock beyond wondering how big he was. This was answered in the The Last Jedi. Apparently Cap Fantastic was built-up in accessory material. I don't know what that is, I don't know what she is and I couldn't care less she didn't "live up to the hype".

C. That casino planet plot was dumb.

That's fair but I'm into Star Wars for the aliens and most of the alien designs are in this section. I will be buying action figures from scenes like this madness:

4. Brigsby Bear

 I guess Mark Hamill is the Tiffany Haddish of white people!

5. Gerald's Game

For that one scene.

Limited Vinegar Syndrome Movie Night

Future Bad Movie Night

I've loathed revealing the Bad Movie Night movies before the week I show them. But since nobody looks at this blog anymore and this is the last day to post a post every year for the last eight years here we are. I don't know when or if this night will happen.

I suppose the theme here is Vinegar Syndrome limited release movies. The boutique Blu-ray company already makes small runs of obscure movies, many of them pornography, but these were extra-limited. Super-rare. Ultra-scarce. Uber-singular. Kinda-unpopular. These aren't porn, that's banned from BMN ever since Bare Behind Bars never played here.

Disconnected is compared in this 2009 review as "It’s simply a film that has to be seen... much like The Room, Raw Force, or Dangerous Men." Dangerous Men. Oops, how do I emphasize that title when it's already italicized? Dangerous Men. Dangerous Men. That movie we watched two years ago. Someone who is 6 years ahead of us has endorsed Disconnected. You still haven't seen Slumdog Millionaire so you're going to have to be deferential to randos on the Internet.

Red Mob sold out quickly and I missed it. Supposedly it's available again and I have it on pre-order. See you all in 2018!

Here's what happened two weeks ago: