i feel if we’re counting die hard as a 90’s movie we should count total recall as a 80’s movie.
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I knew someone would make that case! (well then I guess I choose Die Hard)
ok its actually the tsui hark-directed JCVD-starring “knock off”. point break and speed are third tho… idk just spitballing here
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that’s true i admit i was kind of just saying shit i do like the movies directed by tsui hark and john woo from that era a lot more than the matrix tho even tho i also like the matrix… i also like “bound” more than the matrix probably idk
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any “die hard with a vengeance”-mctiernan auteurists in the chat… i should rewatch that crazy movie
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i have the 4k amazon webrip in my to-watch list, but i keep holding out for an impending UHD disc release that i feel based on only made up vibes is surely coming soon
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great first act, mediocre second act, terrible third act. when bruce willis goes into the water tunnel the movie begins its descent, and then it’s fully over when it’s revealed jeremy irons doesn’t have the stones to kill kids (“i’m not a monster even though i sometimes work for monsters” is an all-time terrible line). but yes it’s the last time mctiernan was operating as master craftsman, his sheer ability to set a scene was incredible.
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Only 90s action movie with a theme song by Sparks so it wins by default
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Echoing the above. The movie is great with Willis and Jackson solving puzzles. Then the villain (the script, which started life as a generic action movie) immediately decides to split them up?! I saw it a million times as a kid, so cant really be objective about it. Play the Die Hard Trilogy game of it after
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It’s absolutely knock off
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sounds like another russell mulcahy banger…
Road Warrior is the best 80s action movie
Riki Oh is the best of the 90s
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of the 2010s… you’ll never believe this but one of my top picks is the will smith movie “gemini man”…
and if u expand this outside of the anglosphere one of the top titles might be “spl2” (starring wu ‘the wandering wolf warrior of lake changjin’ jing (one of the last roles he had before he became one of the most famous and financially successful figures in cinema history globally) and tony jaa (in what is overall probably his best role dramatically tho he was great in ‘monster hunter’ too (the milla jovovich ‘resident evil retribution’ is up there as far as ‘action movies of the 2010s’ goes too imo))) i still like that movie a lot. they’re both successful at feeling like 90s-style action movies but with uncanny 2010s digital visuals i guess even if i don’t always love those visuals
there’s a poster on letterboxd who referred to the telugu film “eega” as “the greatest action film of the digital era” which i appreciated i know people have been critical of that director ss rajamouli for being like a conservative right winger but i did like the movie about the fly a lot
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I’ve seen mention of the The Long Goodbye many times over the years but I never would have guessed what type of movie it is based on the title. A friend mentioned it this week and that led me to actually look it up and then watch it.
It reminded me of the crime comics that I sometimes like to read. And I like how the soundtrack is just a single song that keeps changing genres.
I was left wondering about one thing: is the title referring to the protagonist’s pet cat?
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After buying it years ago on a whim (I’ve got a lot of loyalty to Julianna Margulies), I’ve finally watched City Island, a dramedy about an Italian-American family in the Bronx, which feels like The Sopranos (which Margulies appeared in!) mixed with The Simpsons. Each member of the family has their own thing going on, which they cannot tell any of the other members about, and the movie ends with all of the secrets being unveiled and everyone realizing that they didn’t need to be kept secret, which feels quite pat. Still, I enjoyed it: there’s enough specificity and off-kilterness to make the movie worthwhile. I especially appreciate the empathy the movie has towards sex work and kink. The young teen son’s Thing is a feeding kink which leads him to become fascinated with his neighbor, a fat woman who makes videos catering to that precise audience, and it doesn’t go where you expect, and in fact feels rather respectful? Similarly, the eldest daughter’s secret is that she’s begun stripping to get back to college after losing her scholarship, and her happy ending doesn’t include the suggestion that this is something she needs to stop doing. Also a part of this is Emily Mortimer as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl Struggling Thirtysomething Actress, who has loads of chemistry with Andy García of the sort that feels all but absent nowadays.
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Oh yeah I liked that. Felt like John Turturro was really happy he got to make it
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yeah the entire time i was watching RRR i was holding the dialectic of “wow these are fantastic action scenes” and “even my white and far from well read on the nuances of Indian politics ass can pick up the hindutva propaganda”
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I watched it with subs, what a cracking film. love all the clouds.
reading some reviews, ‘the pathetic human response to losing beauty to corruption’. and wondering, is this an extremely neurotypical take, Jiro is clearly autistic so his responses are a little more muted
no reconsideration, he shoulda stayed retired
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Watched Frankie Freako on wednesday, a comedy horror film made on a tiny budget until they could finish the film on a better budget. The director used his own house as the set and the movie involved basically trashing the whole place. The movie is based off a mysterious commercial that aired in the 80s
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