so, thanks to weird licensing deals, had to wait for a few years until ‘The Art of Racing in the Rain’ is available for me to watch, and today was the day:
Amanda Seyfried is the best actress in this movie, and the voice of Kevin Costner the 2nd best actor, which tells you a lot about this flick already.
The real stars of this movie are the dogs playing Enzo though, which do most of the lifting in this movie. The racing is random IMSA racing bits thrown together and some F1 on top, but again nothing groundbreaking. Stereotype Italian deus ex machina plot device included, an uncanny plottwist and some random philosophic waxing on top, and voilá, that’s the somewhat racing themed movie that’s actually not about racing. Mediocre schlock, but sometimes you need something like this.
tl;dr version:
Probably better as a book, because my head can afford to cast better actors
A cope I learned about and ended up loving while doing research as a English graduate student is the concept of a “long century,” which is just the regular hundred years plus whatever amount it takes to justify using your favorite object of study for some niche rhetorical purpose. 1999 is certainly part of some long century.
i like the matrix and the wachowski sisters quite a bit but it’s so plainly imitative of the whole john woo thing yet still not quite as good, face/off is kind of a much nastier and weirder more gruesome movie than the matrix…
I feel like making a very alarming case for Predator 2
though that’s basically an 80s movie (likewise Total Recall) the same way that The Matrix is basically an 00’s movie. 90s US action is all supposed to be horribly overcooked, I feel like Wolfgang Petersen and Jan de Bont are the most representative filmmakers
yeah mann stuff has lots of awesome action in it but isnt as like monomaniacally focused on stunts, pyrotechnical effects, squibs, etc. as some of the other stuff im thinking about
i keep saying it to everyone who makes eye contact with me on the sidewalk the 90s ended at the conclusion of Alex Valle and Daigo Umehara’s SFA3 V-Ryu vs V-Akuma match on November 8, 1998
Does becomes a guy that is just making excuses to bring up the 1999 film Resurrection 1999’s forgotten cajun giallo procedural Resurrection’s manic Tony Scott-esque hyper-cranked rotation shot edits and rainsoaked, baby-flinging, rooftop gun-standoff finale qualify it as an action film?
Nicolas Cage’s action satisfaction trilogy of con air, the rock, and face/off define Hollywood action movies in the 90s for me. They have everything. You also get a sampler of bruckheimer, bay, woo, etc. only thing missing is tony scott imo
