I recently rewatched hard boiled and something like 300 civilians just get brutally and casually shot. Like every 30 seconds a couple of people will be shot
As a kid it didn’t bother me but something about it now, having grown up with mass shootings, it just rubbed me the wrong way. I don’t hold it against the film as it’s very much of its time, just struck me how much I noticed it now
Also everyone’s pistol holds like 400 rounds and reloading hasn’t been invented yet
My favourite expression of Hong Kong action movie berserkitude is how many people get shot in the guts, Chow Yun Fat shooting some dude in the guts with dual pistols like crazy
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I do like that the generic (cocking gun) sound effect has been used like 10 times already
The most prominent impression and memory from the film Stargate, as opposed to the TV series, is that Kurt Russell's Colonel Jack O'Neil is grim serious.
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I once watched stargate at a bar with the sound off and when you watch it that way it seems like it's about kurt russell and james spader getting married and going on a honeymoon
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I once watched stargate at a bar with the sound off and when you watch it that way it seems like it's about kurt russell and james spader getting married and going on a honeymoon
I mean
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they gaze lovingly into each other's eyes an awful lot
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oh no it's G A M M A D O G S
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I still kind of love the use of panels in that film, even if it can be a little bit disorienting. If there was a way to somehow do that thing where a character's name shows up as the title font from their book he would have 100% have done it and it would have ruled.
Watching Uncut Gems on Netflix, this is a gross ass title sequence
Maybe I'm naive here but would a pawn shop really take that ring? It's extremely obviously stolen which is a big problem for such a high profile item...
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Watching Uncut Gems on Netflix, this is a gross ass title sequence
Maybe I'm naive here but would a pawn shop really take that ring? It's extremely obviously stolen which is a big problem for such a high profile item...
most would not
uncut gems is a movie about the worst possible decisions
Watching Uncut Gems on Netflix, this is a gross ass title sequence
Maybe I'm naive here but would a pawn shop really take that ring? It's extremely obviously stolen which is a big problem for such a high profile item...
most would not
uncut gems is a movie about the worst possible decisions
Good Time and Uncut Gems are the only Safdie movies I have seen.
The stories basically have a starting point but then are driven forward by the main character making the worst possible decision available to them, so long as it doesn't bring the story to the end.
The exception being of course whatever that final choice is.
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I guess just to add to this, it was a movie that follows almost exactly the same formula as Game Night, but with an actively bad supporting cast, and maybe two funny jokes
there are exactly two good scenes, at the beginning and end, where Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani are just riffing off each other, and they have a ton of chemistry, and then it turns into a different movie entirely and I felt like I was sold a bill of goods
Getting to experience a Wakaliwood action film for free is already one thing. The fact that the film is directed by greatest living Ugandan action director Nabwana IGG, had live narration from a VJ, has a villain wearing an iPod shuffle around his neck, and has a legit fun and chaotic 1) fight scene and 2) plot twist within the first 18 minutes? A bonus
65 minutes long. Available for free for five more days of the festival. The only thing crazier than Crazy World would be missing out on this experience
I guess just to add to this, it was a movie that follows almost exactly the same formula as Game Night, but with an actively bad supporting cast, and maybe two funny jokes
there are exactly two good scenes, at the beginning and end, where Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani are just riffing off each other, and they have a ton of chemistry, and then it turns into a different movie entirely and I felt like I was sold a bill of goods
Absolutely agree. I was in for that movie, but then thought oh wait it's Game Night.
I've been jonesing for the Friends at the Table holiday special to be released. Any recommendations for an actual-play podcast that uses the same system (or a Blades in the Dark system)?
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Between Glory and Last Samurai, Edward Zwick is real good at threading the needle for movies that could real easily be white savior tales, isn't he?
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Today I decided to rewatch League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a movie that I have a lot of conflicting memories regarding.
It came out when I was thirteen, before I'd read the comics (which are problematic in their own right) or honestly most of the source materials for the characters. I believe I liked it when I saw it in theaters, but later I read the books and criticism about it and decided that it was terrible, as is the way of many things I enjoyed as a teenager. But I also never watched it again - I made that decision based entirely on my memory of it.
Anyways, I went back and watched it to see where it actually falls for me. It's pretty bad! It has some fun enough parts, but overall it's not worth it.
it's the end of the month, so it is once again that time where I do a mad dash to scoop up all the stuff leaving the Criterion Channel that I need to watch
so I'm watching On the Waterfront, the first thing I've ever seen with Marlon Brando in it (no, I haven't seen the one you're thinking of that everyone's seen, no I haven't seen that other one, either)
and Brando is kinda not what I expected, I thought the younger him would be more like Jame Dean with some marque idol looks, but he's fairly stocky and his hairline is bad, makes him feel like more of a person than a movie star
anyway my main issue with this movie is I'm having trouble reconciling how much I'm enjoying it with the meta level of it's definitely Elia Kazan trying to sooth his soul for ratting on people to Joe McCarthy
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The comic is weird and flawed.
I was very fond of it when I first read it. I mean, the idea of it is very my shit, I'm a pretentious asshole who has read a bunch of gothic novels and studied history in college, and the book is full of both overt and subtle references there. It also gets extremely up its own ass with that, including plot twists you might not realize are twists if you didn't just get home from a production of Threepenny Opera. On top of that, it has a bunch of sex stuff, in... increasing levels of grossness. Which describes Alan Moore's career as a whole, honestly.
Overall they're not something I would recommend without heavy caveats and content warnings. I still bear them a lasting fondness, and they're probably my favorite Alan Moore work, all told (I do not like Alan Moore very much though). But they're deeply flawed, and since then I've experienced plenty of media playing with similar ideas that didn't feel the need to include any edgy sexual assault.
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As a kid it didn’t bother me but something about it now, having grown up with mass shootings, it just rubbed me the wrong way. I don’t hold it against the film as it’s very much of its time, just struck me how much I noticed it now
Also everyone’s pistol holds like 400 rounds and reloading hasn’t been invented yet
This is just complete nonsense, huh
I do like that the generic (cocking gun) sound effect has been used like 10 times already
The most prominent impression and memory from the film Stargate, as opposed to the TV series, is that Kurt Russell's Colonel Jack O'Neil is grim serious.
it's pretty good!
doing this to Kurt Russell's hair should be illegal
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The oddest part to me is how young James Spader looks then versus how he looks now
Heck he looks older in Less Than Zero and that came out 7 years before
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uncut gems is a movie about the worst possible decisions
Don't fuckin use Deadline or cite or share their news
They decided it would be a good idea to cover the LA protests by describing them as the police being attacked by protestors
Good Time and Uncut Gems are the only Safdie movies I have seen.
The stories basically have a starting point but then are driven forward by the main character making the worst possible decision available to them, so long as it doesn't bring the story to the end.
The exception being of course whatever that final choice is.
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All the good scenes were in the trailer
So talented, but she looks like Salma Hayek and Lockjaw's love child. And I'm here for that.
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I guess just to add to this, it was a movie that follows almost exactly the same formula as Game Night, but with an actively bad supporting cast, and maybe two funny jokes
there are exactly two good scenes, at the beginning and end, where Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani are just riffing off each other, and they have a ton of chemistry, and then it turns into a different movie entirely and I felt like I was sold a bill of goods
I've already seen one of my fav films of the year on it
Getting to experience a Wakaliwood action film for free is already one thing. The fact that the film is directed by greatest living Ugandan action director Nabwana IGG, had live narration from a VJ, has a villain wearing an iPod shuffle around his neck, and has a legit fun and chaotic 1) fight scene and 2) plot twist within the first 18 minutes? A bonus
65 minutes long. Available for free for five more days of the festival. The only thing crazier than Crazy World would be missing out on this experience
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Absolutely agree. I was in for that movie, but then thought oh wait it's Game Night.
It came out when I was thirteen, before I'd read the comics (which are problematic in their own right) or honestly most of the source materials for the characters. I believe I liked it when I saw it in theaters, but later I read the books and criticism about it and decided that it was terrible, as is the way of many things I enjoyed as a teenager. But I also never watched it again - I made that decision based entirely on my memory of it.
Anyways, I went back and watched it to see where it actually falls for me. It's pretty bad! It has some fun enough parts, but overall it's not worth it.
so I'm watching On the Waterfront, the first thing I've ever seen with Marlon Brando in it (no, I haven't seen the one you're thinking of that everyone's seen, no I haven't seen that other one, either)
and Brando is kinda not what I expected, I thought the younger him would be more like Jame Dean with some marque idol looks, but he's fairly stocky and his hairline is bad, makes him feel like more of a person than a movie star
anyway my main issue with this movie is I'm having trouble reconciling how much I'm enjoying it with the meta level of it's definitely Elia Kazan trying to sooth his soul for ratting on people to Joe McCarthy
I never read the comic, but I remember legitimately thinking the whole Mina thing was a great idea.
so, pretty typical Alan Moore fare
I was very fond of it when I first read it. I mean, the idea of it is very my shit, I'm a pretentious asshole who has read a bunch of gothic novels and studied history in college, and the book is full of both overt and subtle references there. It also gets extremely up its own ass with that, including plot twists you might not realize are twists if you didn't just get home from a production of Threepenny Opera. On top of that, it has a bunch of sex stuff, in... increasing levels of grossness. Which describes Alan Moore's career as a whole, honestly.
Overall they're not something I would recommend without heavy caveats and content warnings. I still bear them a lasting fondness, and they're probably my favorite Alan Moore work, all told (I do not like Alan Moore very much though). But they're deeply flawed, and since then I've experienced plenty of media playing with similar ideas that didn't feel the need to include any edgy sexual assault.