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I have that movie on my list, maybe I will pass.
What are we watching now?
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I have that movie on my list, maybe I will pass.
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If ya got time to kill and aren’t looking for a jaw dropping flick, do it up. It’s not terrible. My assumption with movies like this is the original writer had one movie in mind, but once it got funding you get dipshits footing the bill throwing their own ideas into the pot whether they make sense or not.
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I haven't seen that one. Thanks for the recommendation!
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Last night we finished watching The Boston Strangler from 1968. This was one of the best films I've ever seen; it's immediately in my top ten, and it completely blew me away. This was the same year 2001: A Space Odyssey was released, so maybe I shouldn't be so shocked.
I love Tony Curtis. I saw The Sweet Smell of Success within the past couple of years, and that guy just had something about him in his style; it not only felt viscerally real, but intelligent and thoughtful in his approach. Intense and spookily able to change the air in a room without saying anything. I thought "If I were an actor, this is what I'd want to be."
I love Henry Fonda. As he got older, he was just himself in every movie, but what a self to be. He plays a sense of deep decency that comes across as rare to me. The character he created for so many films is just the best kind of person to me: always introspective, highly intelligent, always focused on morality first, and you can just feel that in his performances.
The first thing that roped me in with this film was a complete lack of music. I just know if some composer had been hired for this in 1967 it whenever they were doing the hiring that the music would've been wrong and would've aged the film badly.
But the biggest surprise was the director, Richard Fleischer. This guy I've actually seen direct several films, including the piece of shit Red Sonja, the interesting Conan The Barbarian, the incredible The Vikings, and the very cool and well crafted Compulsion. This dude's career is all over the fucking place.
Here Fleischer is experimental in his approach, and it starts out jarring but turns powerful and utterly magnetic. He uses weird techniques that transform the film from something that could've been dry to something devastating. When it was done it felt kind of the same way it did the first time I saw The Deer Hunter, where I couldn't speak for a few hours.
If I taught film school, I'd teach this film, because there's so much going on, I could just go back to it again and again to see what mastery looks like in so many different ways.
I love Tony Curtis. I saw The Sweet Smell of Success within the past couple of years, and that guy just had something about him in his style; it not only felt viscerally real, but intelligent and thoughtful in his approach. Intense and spookily able to change the air in a room without saying anything. I thought "If I were an actor, this is what I'd want to be."
I love Henry Fonda. As he got older, he was just himself in every movie, but what a self to be. He plays a sense of deep decency that comes across as rare to me. The character he created for so many films is just the best kind of person to me: always introspective, highly intelligent, always focused on morality first, and you can just feel that in his performances.
The first thing that roped me in with this film was a complete lack of music. I just know if some composer had been hired for this in 1967 it whenever they were doing the hiring that the music would've been wrong and would've aged the film badly.
But the biggest surprise was the director, Richard Fleischer. This guy I've actually seen direct several films, including the piece of shit Red Sonja, the interesting Conan The Barbarian, the incredible The Vikings, and the very cool and well crafted Compulsion. This dude's career is all over the fucking place.
Here Fleischer is experimental in his approach, and it starts out jarring but turns powerful and utterly magnetic. He uses weird techniques that transform the film from something that could've been dry to something devastating. When it was done it felt kind of the same way it did the first time I saw The Deer Hunter, where I couldn't speak for a few hours.
If I taught film school, I'd teach this film, because there's so much going on, I could just go back to it again and again to see what mastery looks like in so many different ways.
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Even the preview had my "oh, come on!" reflexes twitching.
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I tried earlier this week. I can never sit still long enough to make
it through an entire movie, though. Been under the weather, though,
so I thought I could get through Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
Nope. 33 minutes in and I had to tap out.
I don't even watch movies and the stench of cliches and stereotypes wore me the F out.
TSJMajesty
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Landman's latest episode. This show has some fantastic dialog. To wit:
"I'd like to point out to you that you don't need a license to carry concealed in this state. That's why we all wave at each other when we're driving. Because everybody's fucking armed."
Uhg. But I could really do without the soap-opera parts. I'm thinking they wrote those in so couples would sit down and watch this show together...?
"I'd like to point out to you that you don't need a license to carry concealed in this state. That's why we all wave at each other when we're driving. Because everybody's fucking armed."
Uhg. But I could really do without the soap-opera parts. I'm thinking they wrote those in so couples would sit down and watch this show together...?
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I’ve quickly lost interest in that show. The plot is literally all overt the place. I found myself saying “what the fuck does this have to do with the story” every episode. If it weren’t for Ali Larter’s tits and ass, I wouldn’t probably stopped watching.Uhg. But I could really do without the soap-opera parts. I'm thinking they wrote those in so couples would sit down and watch this show together...?
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Just me thinking out loud here..., They're going in several directions at once because their plan is for this series to last for years. So rather than starting to build dumb, extraneous plot lines into a show after a few successful seasons (that are obviously fluff just for the sake of adding episodes), they're doing it early on, to avoid that.
I'm still digging it quite a bit. I look forward to watching the next episode, and I really like the main story. But yes, there's a lot going on.
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Yeah eliminate the ex-wife and daughter characters and there is no impact to the more compelling storylines. I think season one is done right?Uhg. But I could really do without the soap-opera parts. I'm thinking they wrote those in so couples would sit down and watch this show together...?
norminal
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So I guess season one is basically character development season?
TSJMajesty
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Could be.
The "setup" for things to come...?
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My wife and I binged Day of the Jackal. FYI - It has nothing to do with real-life Carlos the Jackal.
It was pretty enjoyable, odd in that you end up rooting for the bad guy. I won't spoil anything but apparently it diverges from the book in some ways that will allow them to do a season 2.
It was pretty enjoyable, odd in that you end up rooting for the bad guy. I won't spoil anything but apparently it diverges from the book in some ways that will allow them to do a season 2.
The trouble with trying to setup multiple characters and plotlines over many season is what I think of as the Game of Thrones problem – once the toast of the world picking up a swag of Grammies every year,, by the end of Season 8 it was a hopeless joke everyone despised and said so loudly.
The model set up by Joss Whedon with Buffy was to have a season arc and Big Bad every year while the characters you liked continued. Splitting Angel off and having Buffy reborn (Dawn was the damn key!) killed it for me. It became so popular the Studio wanted 2 shows so the first suffered, imho.
Does anyone prefer Season 7 Sopranos to Seasons 1-4?
I hope it works out for them. I liked Yellowstone until I didn’t.
The model set up by Joss Whedon with Buffy was to have a season arc and Big Bad every year while the characters you liked continued. Splitting Angel off and having Buffy reborn (Dawn was the damn key!) killed it for me. It became so popular the Studio wanted 2 shows so the first suffered, imho.
Does anyone prefer Season 7 Sopranos to Seasons 1-4?
I hope it works out for them. I liked Yellowstone until I didn’t.
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