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For Mean Streets? How so? The Godfather series gives me that feeling far more than Scorcese's mob pieces.
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For Mean Streets? How so? The Godfather series gives me that feeling far more than Scorcese's mob pieces.
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Spring in Fialta
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Sorry...just saw your post. I mean, isn't the whole film set in about a week's time? In The Godfather you have a college kid without a gangster career/reputation being handed a sensitive, high-profile assasination and becoming the boss of a crime syndicate in a couple of years. That seemed much more contradictory and ridiculous to me.
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Has anyone seen “I Lost My Body” by Jeremy Clapin? I just watched it and it might be one of the coolest movies I’ve seen in a very long time.
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Yeah. Really liked it; left a review either in this thread or the last. Quiet, contemplative and real.
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I also think the series, the first two seasons anyway, are better than any movie associated with the property. I was never a fan of Silence of the Lambs and was always surprised that it received such praise. So I stayed away from Hannibal until it came up on this thread. Some thoughts:
I thought the first two seasons were beyond amazing, especially the second halves of each. The second season's final few episodes felt like the darkest of fever dreams written by a genuine psychotic. I can’t imagine how NBC decided that this headspace was appropriate for network television, but I am glad that they did. Season two. especially, took me places no movie, nor work of art of any other kind, ever has taken me, an implicit plug for extended story telling.
The third season I thought was a failure on a lot of levels. A “sequel” in all the worst senses of the word, an excuse to try to make more money, nothing else. I could have tolerated the first seven episodes as a kind of closure, but the Red Dragon part was awful. Everything that was subtle and almost unconscious about Hannibal and Will’s relationship turned to obvious and predictable; their brilliant dialogue became an endless string of lazy aphorisms. Some stories are made for two seasons (Stranger Things is another one). Anything beyond that is just gilding the lily.
In terms of acting the series is beyond first rate though relatively speaking I think Hugh Dancy was the weakest link. Playing a character who possesses a vast emotional palette, Dancy seemed to end up repeating the same gestures and responses over and over. He got predictable and a little boring. Meanwhile, Mikkelsen playing a character with, necessarily, an almost non-existent emotional palette, nonetheless found infinite nuances to express what was going on inside that brilliant but unhinged head. He needed a better foil, an actor strong enough and talented enough to have played Hannibal as well as Will--an equal. Michael Fassbender would have been my ideal choice.
The second best performance in the series was provided by Gillian Anderson. Her almost druggy sense of cool and her ability to deliver dialogue often better than the screenwriters wrote it did wonders for the show. In her "psychiatric" exchanges with Mikkelsen, everything else around me vanished as I just watched them sort of coil and uncoil in counterpoint. Great television.
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Scotty And The Secret History Of Hollywood (2017) :
Part hoarder, part whore, part whoremaster who ran a gas station whorehouse, and from an early age a whoremonger, Scotty Bowers is one engaging fellow. Is he exaggerating? I don't think so. I just wish we'd heard more about early Hollywood - that was the best / most interesting part of the documentary.
Still a fun watch - you'll never meet anyone so open about sex. Never! To his credit, he's no one's victim and takes full responsibility for his life. That's refreshing in 2020.
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Part hoarder, part whore, part whoremaster who ran a gas station whorehouse, and from an early age a whoremonger, Scotty Bowers is one engaging fellow. Is he exaggerating? I don't think so. I just wish we'd heard more about early Hollywood - that was the best / most interesting part of the documentary.
Still a fun watch - you'll never meet anyone so open about sex. Never! To his credit, he's no one's victim and takes full responsibility for his life. That's refreshing in 2020.
7.5/10
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Catfish (2010) :
I went into my spam folder and found an email from "Anastasia". Anastasia is from Russia and she's HOT!!! She said she's ALWAYS loved me - she even sent me a NUDE photo so you know I must be special. She said we are "soul mates".
Anastasia asked for my credit card number - she said it will show I'm sincere and I care. At first I was hesitant but then I thought, "If she trusts me enough to send a nude photo, I have to trust her back!!!"
So I sent Anastasia my credit card info - plus a cash transfer of $10,000. I sure hope I made the right choice because I'm not a wealthy man and, for me, that's a lot of money.
Cross your fingers, my fellow movie reviewers, I think she's "the one".
3/10
I went into my spam folder and found an email from "Anastasia". Anastasia is from Russia and she's HOT!!! She said she's ALWAYS loved me - she even sent me a NUDE photo so you know I must be special. She said we are "soul mates".
Anastasia asked for my credit card number - she said it will show I'm sincere and I care. At first I was hesitant but then I thought, "If she trusts me enough to send a nude photo, I have to trust her back!!!"
So I sent Anastasia my credit card info - plus a cash transfer of $10,000. I sure hope I made the right choice because I'm not a wealthy man and, for me, that's a lot of money.
Cross your fingers, my fellow movie reviewers, I think she's "the one".
3/10
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Citizen Ruth (1996) - 7/10
I think it might be a bit less relevant now that we have or are starting to move past the abortion debate in most non-backwards places in the west. But it's still a solid dramedy that does drag a bit in places and has a nice 90s charm. Seeing crazy Laura Dern scream is fun, final scene is better than the rest of the film.
I think it might be a bit less relevant now that we have or are starting to move past the abortion debate in most non-backwards places in the west. But it's still a solid dramedy that does drag a bit in places and has a nice 90s charm. Seeing crazy Laura Dern scream is fun, final scene is better than the rest of the film.
Veronica (2017) Directed by Paco Plaza 5A
Veronica, trying to get in touch with her dead father, buys a Quija board and gets in touch with something else instead. The situation goes from bad to worse with a few good scares along the way. Finally, she and her three younger siblings become directly threatened when Veronica attempts to exorcise the demon in her living room while her mother is at work. Kids can make the damnedest decisions, eh? Supposedly Veronica is based on an actual police report by a cop in Madrid. Don’t know about that. Director Paco Plaza, a shopping mall in his previous life, has a deft touch with horror (he directed the much better [Rec], a zombie thriller in an apartment building). Here the execution is fine but the story of a possessed teenager is all too familiar and its narrative arc way too predictable. We’ve seen very similar situations at the movies before. At best Veronica is like hearing a decent cover version of a popular song. Veronica is a competent horror movie but nothing more.
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I saw this in its first release in the theater when it was a very buzzy, very hyped thing and boy did I dislike it. The lead dude is so irritating. But the thing I hated the most was the absolutely ridiculous catfish metaphor. Kudos to them for getting it firmly into the lexicon but when that faux-intellectual explanation comes for the term my damn eyes rolled so hard they fell from my skull onto the dirty theater floor. I had to wash both thoroughly in the sink before reinserting.
Coronavirus Outbreaks From Bars Are Plaguing Global Reopening Efforts
I have nothing against outside terraces but this writer touches on my pet peeve about inside bar re-openings. I admit, I'm also weary about film theatres. Just because the govt. is letting them re-open doesn't mean we should all go necessarily. Admittedly, I am tempted, but I don't want to feel buyer's remorse the next day, wondering if I should go get tested. I'll stay home.
I love the reviews here, gives me good hints on what to go searching for next
I have nothing against outside terraces but this writer touches on my pet peeve about inside bar re-openings. I admit, I'm also weary about film theatres. Just because the govt. is letting them re-open doesn't mean we should all go necessarily. Admittedly, I am tempted, but I don't want to feel buyer's remorse the next day, wondering if I should go get tested. I'll stay home.
I love the reviews here, gives me good hints on what to go searching for next
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LOL.
I found the whole thing exploitive and mean spirited. I felt like I needed a shower after watching it.
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The Predator (Black, 2018) - They really tried to make it fun - with the alien dogs and dumb humor - but didn't even make it funny. They completely lost me when the alien hunter took the mic to tell the soldiers (in translated English) that they should make the 9 y/o autistic kid their leader. 2.5/10
MILF (Laffont, 2018) - You'd think it would at least appeal to women, but my gf thought it was only embarrassing. Naked beautiful 'older' women couldn't make it worth its runtime. 2/10
Cloack & Dagger (Franklin, 1984) - I guess that I would have liked it if seen when I was part of the targeted audience (for some reason, this one escaped my youth). It has some fun ideas, but the execution is tiresome. 3.5/10
The Neon Demon (Winding Refn, 2016) - I like NWR, and I really liked the idea of him making a horror film, but there's always a layer missing for me in his work. This one isn't as pretty as Too Old To Die Young, it's not as cool as Driver, and it didn't feel as meaningful as Only God Forgives (not that I'd pretend really understanding where he wants to take his audience in any of those). Still a needed breath of fresh air in the horror spectrum. 6/10
MILF (Laffont, 2018) - You'd think it would at least appeal to women, but my gf thought it was only embarrassing. Naked beautiful 'older' women couldn't make it worth its runtime. 2/10
Cloack & Dagger (Franklin, 1984) - I guess that I would have liked it if seen when I was part of the targeted audience (for some reason, this one escaped my youth). It has some fun ideas, but the execution is tiresome. 3.5/10
The Neon Demon (Winding Refn, 2016) - I like NWR, and I really liked the idea of him making a horror film, but there's always a layer missing for me in his work. This one isn't as pretty as Too Old To Die Young, it's not as cool as Driver, and it didn't feel as meaningful as Only God Forgives (not that I'd pretend really understanding where he wants to take his audience in any of those). Still a needed breath of fresh air in the horror spectrum. 6/10
Funny enough, I looked at this one the other day, but decided to watch Land of Mine instead.
If I want to look at naked women, I can always just watch actual adult entertainment.
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