Jukebox Fanworks Exchange

Unsettling. I was doing some kitchen maintenance today and discovered all my teas and spices had expired in 21/22 and had a sobering realization that maybe my depressive episode had been a lot longer than previously believed.

Oh well. I'm just cleaning it all out and found a white board in my stuff to write down the 'use this by NOW' dates for the new stuff in the hopes it will at least help with meal planning.

All right, movie talk:

Marry My Dead Body - watched this with Elly, a rare modern movie for hamsters. It's a Taiwanese film about a cop who through a series of circumstances gets into a ghost marriage with a man and proceeds to solve said man's murder when the ghost starts manifesting.


Buckaroo Banzai - All this time I thought I was definitely not a fan but having rewatched it, I think I just wasn't sober the first time I tried. Very easy to follow, very fun. Enjoyed the aliens a lot.

A Touch of Cloth - not a movie, a series of tv specials. 3 of them to be exact. Source of an emotional Crisis when I shared it with Elly and it turned out she dislikes absurdist humour and prefers character driven. Taking it as a personal affront, I had a big baby episode (not in front of her) and then I got over myself and watched the other two episodes (including the third I had never seen before) with Ann and Vali, which was a better match. "A whole house of people dead because of me! For the fifth time this year!"

The Crow - Watched this like six thousand times as a teen, showed it to Vali and Ann for the first time as a special movie weekend. They didn't hate it! And to me, I was happy to see it actually stood up better than my memories.

Willow - Part of the double feature with the Crow, watched this one with just Vali for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture. Also lived up really well to my childhood memories and Vali loved it, especially the Nelwyns. Willow's tiny tiny children were so cute. Elora was also a very expressive baby. Vali said she understood why Warwick Davis was an early crush of mine.

Teen Wolf - terrible soundtrack. This is a movie about basketball, the werewolf thing doesn't really register. Easy to watch it with the earlier stuff happening to Michael J Fox's character being that he's a trans man and meant I got to make jokes about fangs being part of taking testosterone.

The Marlow Murder Club - tv show I watched with Elly. We loved the three leads and I got to do a 'OH THIS IS THE SOLUTION' when it clicked before the characters. We were, however, surprised to find out it was a miniseries and not separate episodes. We endured.

Missing Link - saw this with Ann. Absolutely beautiful movie by Laika, the entire purpose of it seeming to be about making gorgeous sets. I enjoyed how they didn't follow familiar tropes for the emotional journey of the main characters, but am sad that the main woman character's story was backseat to being the narrator of the male lead's emotional journey.

Amityville Horror - I enjoyed how the director made sure to include the details from the original telling by the family that made you go 'oh yes, this was absolutely a hoax'

The Silence of the Lambs - Saw this with Ann, it was about as scary as your average Criminal Minds episode, by which I mean not at all, but it was compelling. The lady in the well was my favourite and I enjoyed her can-do attitude.

Hot Fuzz and Bon Cop Bad Cop - a double feature I've wanted to run for YEARS, with Ann and Vali (who had not seen BCBC) and it was a hit! Hot Fuzz is a delight of foreshadowing and BCBC is like rolling around in maple syrup.

In the Mouth of Madness - another Ann and Vali joint, this was extremely meta and the villain looked a lot like Neil Gaiman and Neil Gaiman's twee little quotes about 'a book is a dream you hold in your hands' actually fit in perfectly with this dude's evil speeches. Try it yourself.

They Live - Ann and Vali had seen this, I hadn't, the extensive punchout scene was a fever dream in how long it went on and 'I think they're married now?' - They made fun of me because I thought Roddy Piper was Kurt Russell but they both had big beautiful mullets and manly jaws, okay. I can't be expected to identify people beyond that.