well, to be fair, I would also punch sarah silverman. awesome movie about two gay guys getting into trouble!
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We all would, and yet - you think - have I ever seen a movie actually do this before? Really sets the tone.
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My experience re: showing this movie to people has been the opening scene setting the hook and then⌠it turns into mumbling about codes and budget small-unit tactics so about the time thereâs a very slow car chase they get mad that the car chase is so slow, and donât buy my argument that the slow is why it is good?
Sometimes they perk up for the dry fountain gag.
They want to see the movie that scene is selling them. They donât get it.
itâs a character/thematic (at a stretch) beat so I wonât argue itâs bad or shouldnât be there, it just seemed to wrong-foot all my extremely small sample of mostly dock guarding assholes that I hope I never speak to again
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this is also why its good
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in the dvd commentary christoper mcquarrie talks about how he and his friends started an altercation with ultimate frisbee players and determined the wisest course of action, since they could not win the fight, would be to punch all of the other guysâ girlfriends in the face so theyâd be more mad at their boyfriends for starting a fight later on. THE OPERATOR MINDSET!!!
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angelina jolie deserves so much better
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Wrath of Manâs Subdued Womblescore Tension Guy Ritchie (everyone still has very particular, stupid Guy Ritchie nicknames and most of them run their mouths performatively, but Statham is Sixth Sense Bruceing his way through every scene) is a weird tone + I donât know that trying to go John Wickish is gonna paper over his usual failures as Action Director. Very possible Iâll fall asleep and forget to finish this movie. Against that eventuality:
Early on, the way Stathamâs Secret Badman Identity is whispered about/alluded to like heâs some kind of horrifying cryptid really is doing it. Itâs delivering the promise of the trailer: Exploring the terror/trauma of living in a world where the movie persona of Jason Statham is real and doing Jason Statham things that no power can stop him from doing and that could intersect with your life at any time.
Itâs like serious adult (âadultâ) grimdark CRANK.
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Speaking of John Wickses that have tonal problems, should we talk about this Better Call Saul spinoff where Saul is Mike for some reason? Probably not
Outside the Wire is a stupid movie with decent action scenes. Trying to divine any sort of meaning or message from that mess of a film is a fools endeavor, but I suspect itâs somewhere in the middle of âforever war is badâ and âthe us military is just humans trying their bestâ which is to say: a nonposition. What a messy messy piece of confusing propaganda.
The Old Guard is extremely serviceable. âWhat if 4 immortal John Wicksâ is enough to carry a whole film.
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I liked the old guard! It felt like a throwback to a simpler era of lite sci fi summer movies. Just a low key, non special effects intensive weird premise, good funny supporting cast guys
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kinda wish the old guard was on every week as a procedural on TNT or USA or something like some kinda leverage meets highlander tv show because the movie sure is sort of a pilot for that.
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It absolutely had a âthis is the premise if the pilot gets picked upâ feel to it
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hell yeah this movie rules. Is the blu ray region free?
i need to go back to this soon. years ago someone did a tumblr post juxtaposing frames from something i made with frames from time and tide.
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Finally, cinema is saved.
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It never occurred to me to think of Jackass as an action movie, but⌠Youâre absolutely right
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sorry, Jackass is yaoi
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