You can tell how long this project spent in development hell in all the twitching limbs of previous drafts and versions of the project awkwardly glued together without rhyme or reason.
Gunsmoke Ginger
The moment Buckley started in with her drunk burlesque Mary Shelley voice at the start of the film I knew I was in trouble.
Oh boy how to explain this. It turns out the Bride is some random gangster mol that gets possessed by the spirit of Mary Shelley (also played by Buckley, also terribly) for Reasons. So we occasionally get cuts to the mol struggling to surface again in her own body.
Not really, just some baby's first gender studies class of the Bride feeling SUFFICATED in a BELL JAR of her own HEAD get IT?
I was really shocked by how bad he was in this, too. (Honestly, it should have been about Jake Gyllenhaal's movie star character. Everything Maggie Gyllenhaal is trying to say about fame and gender snaps into focus when he's on screen.)
It is never a bad time to be reminded of Frankenhooker. tubitv.com/movies/65056...
Kristin Scott Thompson is the only one who seems to have understood the assignment and the "I've been to Manderley but I've finally been to me" ending is almost a parody of Hollywood defanging source material.
Still in awe of making a girlboss Rebecca, a rich text of the streaming boom.
It is never a bad time to be reminded of Frankenhooker. tubitv.com/movies/65056...
I'm curious to see In the Earth which seems to be him trying to get back to his English folk horror roots. It's nuts, you'd think he'd make a great version of Rebecca, but it's peak streaming slop.
God's Own Country (2017). Excellent chamber piece where an closeted farm boy is sinking into alcoholism when he goes to pick up the help for the lambing season. What is illicit here isn't the sex, but the tenderness of it, and intimacy as a possible ward against life just being an endurance test.
While we're here, I'd like to give some flowers to Jane Seymour in Frankenstein: The True Story (1973). Showing that a femme fatale Bride can work, provided you're interested in telling a Frankenstein story and not letting a performer gobble down scenery like hot mozzerella sticks.
The Bride! (2026). This film wants what Frankenhooker (1990) has. Was honestly surprised at how much I didn't like this.
I forget if it dropped the hot minute before or after the allegations came out, either way it was another reminder of casting young and pretty doesn't sex up the adaptation if the leads have no chemistry.
Still in awe of making a girlboss Rebecca, a rich text of the streaming boom.
Greatest photo of a musician.
Leonard Nimoy and his mustache show you how to work your new Magnavision LaserDisc player. youtu.be/s4pBk3-fduU?...
"Starring Mary Tyler Moore as Angel, Devil, and Woman..." youtu.be/oK9B7Kav9_M?...
The opening titles for The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970). youtu.be/aw-84aza4Ag?...
Leonard Nimoy and his mustache show you how to work your new Magnavision LaserDisc player. youtu.be/s4pBk3-fduU?...
"Starring Mary Tyler Moore as Angel, Devil, and Woman..." youtu.be/oK9B7Kav9_M?...
The opening titles for The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970). youtu.be/aw-84aza4Ag?...
P A W S 🐾
Several hours later still laughing at Yves complete lack of chill. "Welcome stranger, I see you come from the land of Suckingdick upon Bounceonitlikeapoppeton."
I wish all [internet friends] a very [scent of fresh orange blossom]
