Jack reacher 2 was fine
It wasnāt horrible I guess, but it felt kind of like an episode of a mid nineties jack reacher TV series on USA, that the McQuarrie film would be an inspired re-imagining of
Also Tom lookedā¦ Puffy?
Man, this movie totally rules. Ghibli with amped up, naked menace is so my shit
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It was very much worth being told the wrong time, driving across town, and then having to drive all the way across town the other direction to see it.
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True Stories is incredible. I love it. Iām from Virgil, Texas.
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I canāt love this movie enough. I wish I could buy a nice version of it but the best I can find is an Australian widescreen DVD. I watch the intro every few months, which may be my favorite part:
I only wish he managed to squeeze Laurie Anderson in there too
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Watched Phenomena last weekend also, and loved it (Iām grateful that at least Amazon Primeās terrible interface lets me dig in to find their weird stuff, where I canāt convince modern Netflix to show me anything beyond their top 100 no matter how I try. I want trash!) Interesting how sedate it is until the last 15 minutes takes a hard turn into shock and the vat of gore just had my wife gasping, the decapitations, the mutilated handcuff escape, oh man
It was shocking how directly Clock Tower apes this ā itās the same degree that Deadly Premonition runs on Twin Peaks. And āmansion horrorā seems to have been a big aesthetic in mid-90s Japanese horror. Resident Evil 1 makes more sense in backwoods Europe, with Americans abroad, then it ever does as a US locale.
Also too: the title track could fit in place as a Castlevania track (it rocks):
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Phenomenaās soundtrack rules so hard.
Even when an Iron Maiden track suddenly pops up out of nowhere.
Especially when an Iron Maiden track suddenly pops up out of nowhere.
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this drives me mental and is the main contributor to my cancelling netflix every time Iāve signed up for it for a month to watch one thing that I canāt find a torrent of
nothing makes me upset like polished, check-out-these-big-budget-favourites presentation, thatās why I prefer the interface of torrent sites in the first place. admittedly I am not going to make anyone any money as a customer but still.
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They used to have a ācustomers also watchedā queue you could dig into endlessly and I loved it. Now I can catch one of a dozen Netflix originals. This does not improve my life.
Iām very grateful someone linked instantwatcher.com because when canIStream.it became obviously broke I feared Netflix had shut down their API for title listing.
those are typically useless in canada because the selection is so much worse due to different licensing here and no one can be bothered to make an app that checks the canadian API endpoint. thereās a whole cottage industry here of people who use VPNs to get access to the US netflix selection and it boggles my mind, the interaction becomes so much worse than piracy at that point
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I guess the more obvious answer is that I should listen to more Goblin. Rectifying now.
Their Suspiria music, which may have already been mentioned, is amazing and a good place to start
Speaking of Phenomena, Jennifer Connellyās fly cube sequence shows that Argento could have made a wonderful Nancy Drew (or generic girl detective) movie.
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My wife said sheās a lot like a videogame protag in that she keeps getting beat up and just gets up, unfazed
Sheās pretty awesome in it
Thatās weird because it seems like Netflix canāt wait to show me every DTV action movie in its catalog. Unless that isnāt trash enough for you???
man I wish
LIVE BY NIGHT continues Affleckās streak of looking too batman massive for any role that isnāt Batman.
Otherwise a handsome bore.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark holds up as one of the all time great films. I mean, itās racist as fuck and itās bullshit that Karen Allenās character goes from two-fisted tough when we first meet her to passive/helpless by the end. This aside, itās so compulsively watchable. I meant to just see the beginning, and ended up sitting through the whole thing. Itās a masterclass on pacing and editing. Thereās no fat on it at all, just 100% Pure Movie.
I also love how they got away with a juicy head shot during the bar fight, not to mention the gory climax, on a PG rated film.
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I think itās the pacing that makes it a true masterpiece. Every scene and plot point perfectly transitions to the next. The action and tension keep building up throughout the film.
One of my favorite moments in the film that is largely forgotten is when Indy swims from the smuggler ship to the German submarine. At first the smugglers donāt know where Indy went, then they spot him and then they start cheering him on! Itās exactly how the audience should feel.