#Marathon51 over. #Mickey17 was trying to be at least 5 different movies at once, and I liked at least 3 of them, so it worked out.
Now I'm home and the cats are fed, which for them is the big hit news of the weekend <3
#Marathon51 Eyes resting for the back half of Frankenhooker...but from what I heard, I enjoyed the ending.
#Mickey17 was scheduled to start at 12:40. Trailers running now...
#Marathon51 The internet argues over whether Dune 2 is a Bechdel pass (all conversations come back to Paul, not slowly).
Repo is an easy pass, though! Possibly just our third one of the night.
#Marathon51 Skipped out on #Dune 2 (saw the first one, wasn't dying to see what happened next).
Surprise 3 is #RepoTheGeneticOpera, which I remember fandom being really into for a hot minute? ...almost 20 years ago, wow. Didn't feel the need to see it then, hasn't changed since.
#Marathon51 #Krull was the expected fun fantasy epic. Villains in spiky black armor, comic-relief shapeshifter, bandits with hearts of gold, shiny magic weapon of destiny. I like how the evil castle was built like a body: the architecture is giant bones and blood vessels, the kidnapped--
#Marathon51 As tends to happen with these, I ended up losing #ALGOL's plot, just closing my eyes and enjoying the live music. (The player called it something like "one of the craziest films I've done this for...")
Weird fable about an alien giving one guy a perpetual motion machine, so he--
#Marathon51 But seriously, we're watching this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algol_(...
With an "Out of the Inkwell" short to open.
The coding PP was to give our live score player time to set up his gear:
silentfilmlivemusic.blogspot.com/?m=1
#Marathon51 Surprise 2 was #TheCatFromOuterSpace ! Extremely red old print. Looks like they were dedicated to using An Actual Cat for all the cat scenes. I dozed off toward the end, but it looks like the good guys won.
#Marathon51 Oh, wow, that mystery Star Wars cartoon was a clip from the Holiday Special? With no relation to the rest of the special? Huh.
thefilmexperience.net/blog/2015/4/...
#Marathon51 Saturday Morning Cartoon Break, aka "playing a bunch of cartoon opening themes, try to gage the age of the audience by how many people song along."
...Although it was way shorter than last year's. Tactic to make up time? Surprise 2 was set for 11:30.
#Marathon51 Woke up just in time for the start of #RobinsonCrusoeOnMars, the Tomb-Buster-era intermediate step between Robinson Crusoe and The Martian. It was fine. I liked the monkey. (I hope the monkey was treated well on-set.)
#Marathon51
gonna sleep through #MadMax too, just wanted y'all to know our pre-movie cartoon is Gumby Racers
#Marathon51 #Dinosaurs was a lot of fun. Surprisingly modern/natural-feeling dialogue, lots of comedy bits that aged well, the hateable villain got a Disney death, the plucky kid got to ride a brontosaurus.
Not everyone part of it aged well (Bechdel fail, too) but overall, a good time.
#Marathon51 #Parasite (1982) was also in 3D, with a behind-the-scenes look at the restoration efforts!
...And it was enough of a Gross Bug Movie that I took the opportunity to rest my eyes. (Too early to fall asleep, but I gave them a break, at least.)
#Marathon51 Sweet little bonus feature, a documentary clip about the guy who made it his mission to restore these old 3D films, including both the pieces played here.
Good for him.
#Marathon51 Surprise 1 is the reason they were handing out 3D glasses on the way in! #RobotMonster (1953), B&W, deeply terrible. They have a slapdash plot, a max of 3 sets, even the 3D effects seem glitchy.
A surprising Bechdel pass. (Mom and kid daughter talk about one of the girl's friends.)
#Marathon51 Fire alarm! Somebody took their eye off a popcorn machine. The alarm went off at exactly the moment the movie went "Intermission", leading to mass confusion about "Wait, is this part of it, or...?"
So now we're all huddling out in the cold. Yay.
Still a good movie. Funny and fast-paced enough that it's enjoyable even when you know where it's going, and it really benefits from the energy of an audience to cheer at the good bits.
And hey, I know a bunch of those places! I saw them film one of those scenes!
#Marathon51 #Superman
#Marathon51 here we go!
First few trailers are all straightforwardly "movies on the schedule later."
Cartoon was a lackluster Super Mouse, but then we got a Special Message From James Gunn. "I regret that I can't be with you all in Cleveland tonight..." :3
#Marathon51 was supposed to start #Superman at 8pm, and opening safety announcements didn't start until 8:05. Is this the fastest we've ever fallen behind schedule? Might be!
Gearing up to liveblog #Marathon51! (Would be really nice if my country could avoid doing anything apocalyptically stupid and/or murderous in the next 48 hours...)
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