The other things I always think about from that movie are bonnie bedelia tasing that guy in the nuts and how McClane goes on this extremely condescending rant about how the Glock 17 is made out of porcelain so it’s immune to airport scanners and costs more than dennis franz’s rent a cop ass makes in a MONTH, which even Bruce Willis knew was bullshit and complained about to the director, but they refused to change the script lmao
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Blackberry
im typing this review on my blackberry key two. every time i have this phone out people ask what it is, even after having it about 6 years, and they remark that they want one and miss the time that phones had keyboards on them. watching this movie harkend back to when cellphones didnt suck shit and then the wheel of fate turned.
theres so many good 90s cars in this movie. one of the founders drives a civic wagovan. the same guy wears a “cool guys on the beach” shirt in a scene and they recreate the photo from ID where Romero is wearing it over the credits. ProZD is here and in one scene mentions Naughty Dog hacking the psx to get crash bandicoot to run.
glenn howerton plays one of cinemas greatest assholes.
anyway its like every capitalism movie where a bunch of assholes in suits in conference rooms determine your fate, so it all comes down to impressing them somehow. and then apple comes out with the iphone and ruins the fucking world. fuck the touchscreen keyboard. fuck autocorrect. FUCK. STEVE. JOBS.
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still, it could be worse
wishing i could type this on my Lumia 830, for maximum j/k effect, though have to press * send * on this android-based Sony Xperia sth.
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May December was so good I love you Todd also does anyone know if that was a real deal boner
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The Big Sleep + The Maltese Falcon
the problem is: Humphrey Bogard is too cool so after you watch any of these movies you start wanting to act all cool guy. you start imagining having telephone conversations where you’re totally confident. handling tense situations without getting rattled.
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im continuing to watch exciting action movies this holiday season so i just watched hard target after our interfaith dinner party it’s extremely good
i love that jcvd is possibly the most like, physically agile actor john woo has worked with, it’s so fucking cool to watch him kick guys in slow motion 4k hdr this shit looks like 3d
but i also think that in terms of his screen persona jcvd is the best actor in his american phase that he worked with who i think embodies the chivalric values that john woo often portrays in his movies. it’s stuff like kindness to women and children and bravery, but i think it’s extremely important to note that it’s also like, emotional sensitivity and softness. another important message of john woo’s films i feel is that someone from any background can embody these positive values whether he’s a killer or a gangster or a cop so chance being a man who lives in poverty fits in really nicely with that.
and i lovvve how chance is more attracted to his own big gun than the pretty girl bc john woo makes the kinds of movies where it’s more likely to see men kiss each other than to kiss a woman. for example, while it’s true that leslie cheung and ti lung portray brothers in “a better tomorrow”, it’s known that homosexuals will refer to each other as family members as well (terms such as sis, motherr, etc.)
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watching Home Alone 1 & 2 and feeling this. love to see colours on the screen (even if it’s mostly red and green and white, which is funny). also: choosing the shots in the poignant end of second act chat with the elderly para-antagonist, going from wide to close and then two shot as the conversation moves and resolves. miss how movies used visual storytelling
also all the stunt guys eating shit is hilarious. A++ clowning from Stern & Pesci as they sell the hit
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About 6-7 years ago we saw John Woo give a talk at a theater in LA after they screened both The Killer and Hard Boiled… and listening to him talk so passionately about cool guys being cool was downright inspirational. They asked him a question that gave him the opportunity to talk about how important it is to him that his actors look elegant and impressive and cool, and you’re right that for him cool was something more than the word usually communicates… that combo of both chivalry and emotional openness… my husband and I were really impressed by the way being cool seemed to him like almost a spiritual goal, haha. We talk all the time about how John Woo understands cool better than anyone else because for him the term is inclusive of like, wild sobbing and hugging your bro and dying in a church and shit. He figured out how to make a much wider spectrum of human experience action-movie cool instead of just the parts relating to power and strength
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watched Violent Night, pretty fun!
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The scream from Stern when Kevin puts the tarantula on his face is hands down the funniest scream in cinema history. Career-making
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Boys In The Boat
this film interests me because i see rowers all the time in the canal and i live like 2 miles away from the boathouse where this took place
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every shot was out of focus!: the backgrounds were blurry and the camera would focus on one thing, like a face. it was so annoying.
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despite taking place like 2 miles from where i live there are almost no recognizable landmarks. i feel like they constructed the outdoor shots using historical photos and cgi, because theres no mt rainier. if youve been to seattle on a clear day; were surrounded by mountains! its beautiful! it would have made for some good shots! idk
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theres like 8 rowers but the movie focuses on two: the orphan and a guy who gets the flu. and the coach. the boys were hard to tell apart. the film is 2 hours long and has a bunch of scenes that dont drive the plot forward or really do anything.
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this dialog is just…flat as hell. idk what it is but i feel like nobody talks like a real person.
irl: rowing teams will leave graffiti in the montlake cut for other teams to read while they row. one of them read “Bust a nut in The Cut” and i think about that frequently. this was not present in the film.
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Poor Things was pretty funny most of the time and wonderful looking. Everyone but the waifish medical student gave great performances. It’s absolutely another for the folder where we put all the male auteur gives a grand but sympathetic gesture to the ladies for how bad the patriarchy movies made in the past decade or so. But it’s a good one, or at least not very annoying or mistakenly preachy or accidentally just disgusting. To be honest I think it’s a more interesting movie about Barbies and a better Barbie movie than Barbie, because at least it doesn’t pretend to be for kids and basically has as much to “say” about the subject. Frankly I’m not sure I believe that completely, but it’s something I am considering.
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i’ve watched a lot of movies in the last few days
muppet christmas carol i’ve somehow never seen this and was in the mood for a silly xmas watch. sets, camerawork and puppetry are really amazing, definitely jim henson co working at top form. counted 3 double entendres about chicken fucking
jingle all the way we watched total recall recently so i decided to subject my wife to more arnold. forgettable 90s kids movie but i kept saying TURBO MAHN all day so
die hard i know it’s cliche but the movie whips and i was feeling the Christmas Sads and nothing chases that away like a big pile of bearer bonds. drastic said everything above about this one.
RRR this was a lot of fun even tho it really beats you over the head with the hindu nationalist propaganda. i am an idiot about politics in this region so do not ask me to explain how it’s propaganda but it just has The Vibe with the like, city guy teaching the noble savage tribal how to act thing going on. all that aside, amazing work of craft and i was hollering at seeing british colonials getting wrecked 284742 different ways.
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oooh im so glad you watched this, legit one of my favorite movies period. i didn’t watch it until adulthood either and yeah it rocks
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light the lamp not the rat LIGHT THE LAMP NOT THE RAT
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my brothers and i tried to get our parents to watch that to no avail. charlatans!! im glad your disdain for Muppets was a dead end gene!!!
yet despite that we somehow got them to put on GREMLINS and GREMLINS 2 THE NEW BATCH. the former i saw yeeeeaaaars ago, the latter i had never seen before. they both fucking own. G1 is just a note-perfect family horror movie, still kinda hard to fuck with in 2023 besides the eye rolly Mysterious Chinese Shop of Needful Things and the nice black dude dying first. G2 ive of course heard described as a Live Action Cartoon many times but that didnt prepare me for how utterly gonzo and ludicrous it is. somehow did not know about the interlude where the movie literally breaks down in fiction and fuckin Hulk Hogan (also problematic in 2023, along with the Trump analogue being a figure of fun) yells directly at the fourth wall. And then there’s a musical number. And everything involving the Brain Gremlin. And Christopher goddamn Lee!! i absolutely loved it i already know it’s gonna be a permanent favorite
Though speaking of problematic bits:
is it wrong that i love her…
she literally takes instant HRT! out of a little vial marked with linked Mars/Venus symbols (as shown above)! i scoffed and muttered “god i wish it was that easy” to the great amusement of my bros
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I loved muppet Christmas carol as a kid and like The Muppet Movie is capable of emotionally destroying me as an adult.
With what I know now, with the loss of Henson and Richard Hunt dying while it was still being filmed (none of the puppets he performed are in the movie) really comes through in how much the film grapples with mortality.
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Great sadness Neo Rude has no interest in Muppets yet (despite liking sesame street).
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also Muppet Treasure Island is a piece of shit so you can tell they really didn’t know what they were doing without Jim Henson for a good while after that
Muppetvision at Disney World still rules though (it’s a tragedy they closed the Disneyland one) and they do a great job of maintaining it and keeping it up to date, he was still involved in that one before he passed
you take that back, muppet treasure island slaps
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