Diary entries forGrind
Grind
Back when I was a preteen, skateboarding culture was super cool to me. Could I skate? Fuck no. Was I a poser? Yeah, sort of. And I still like skateboarding to this day. I watch X Games every year, and I was ecstatic when they finally added it to the Olympics. This movie was the shit when I was young; this movie captured, or at least seemed to, the optimal skateboarding lifestyle. So fast forward 22 years; how does it hold up now? Not great. It's about on the same quality level as a not-so-good made-for-TV movie; there are extended skate sequences to make up for a lack of plot, and there is a very strong misogynistic theme throughout the runtime. And even despite all that, it is still nostalgic for me. Should I call it a guilty pleasure? I don't know. It's probably a movie I should have grown out of, but it's still charming in its own little way.
Grind
Horror anthologies, and horror comedies: two things that when done right, are among my fav things in the world. Grind is no exception, and is one of the standouts of Panic Fest this year for sure! This particular one is about hustle culture and work in the modern age, with great segways to each connecting segment in this horrible fucked up world! MLM is a fun comedy about a girl selling leggings for a Barbara Crampton-led pyramid scheme that has incredible curses like “husband's penis replaced by noisy bird” as punishments for failing to meet quota, and death is the price for refusing/backing out early. “Every winner has had trolls. Abraham Lincoln? He had a troll named John Wilkes Booth” Delivery goes from pretty funny to incredibly creepy about delivery driver in too deep, in a time loop that tips well Content Moderation: first off, crazy to see this the same month as Faces of Death, right down to having a Charli XCX-like character too of the “who cares with how often it happens” desensitization vibes. We can, and do have, access to horrors beyond prior comprehension regularly available to us in 4K, not just HD, and not just limited to war crimes and genocides but by no means excluding that either. What does that do to us? What does that say about us? “Grinding in Hell to get to Heaven” man forced to be a content mod in interim to earn place in higher-paying exec job as final interview carrot dangled. FROGMAN_FUCKS We cap it off with Union Meeting, a tense creature feature standoff as employees of a newly-unionized coffee store lock in and devour themselves metaphorically (while getting devoured literally) trying to keep company from shutting them down the hard way. Not the best ending but a satisfying one, and hard to complain when the worst entry in an anthology is still pretty fun
Grind
watched this solely because oomf on twitter talks about this movie pretty much weekly! i tend to not watch movies that pur their main focus on comedy, so quite a special watch for me. it's funny at times (although some of the humor falls flat for me.. lol) and i liked the soundtrack! also made me somewhat interested in skating.
