Reading in a coffee shop yesterday, a girl who works there came over. "Is that HEAT 2?" she asked, visibly excited. All my life I'd prepared for this moment. I looked at her and heard my voice saying, "Lady, why you so interested in what I read or what I do?"
There was a brief moment when THE DEPARTED was being bandied about as overrated. The problem: it's simply too entertaining. As with CAPE FEAR, cineastes can sniff about "lesser Scorsese" or "populist Scorsese", but then you watch it again and it's fucking awesome.
@standardspeeds
"This organism... imitates?"
"Imitates, Jerry!"
"Why does it imitate?"
"Who knows?! Maybe it has crippling debt or low self-esteem!"
"And you're saying it wants to be *you*?"
@ok_but_still
Biden: What's important, is we've made real progress with the Thorn people.
Trump: Yes, the CULT OF THORN. We know all about the CULT of Thorn, don't we? (applause) All the harm they've done to this country. But they do love Joe, don't they? (cheers)
Remember in THE ROCK when they've got Gen. Hummell on the speakerphone and he barks, "Who is this? Identify yourself." Hahaha, Ed Harris simply refuses to give anything less
@LexG_III
"Hi, I'm the Joker." Rubs off paint, chuckles. "Actually, I'm Joaquin, and I PLAY the Joker." Walks over to wingback chair. "You know, there's a lot of mayhem in the world today, but there's no JOKING about the gratitude I feel for the men and women in blue, who serve to make our
Right now
#FordFailedThePeople
is getting some action and I'm not sure the average Ontarian knows just how BADLY he's failed. Ending walk-in testing, 100k backlog, ending contact tracing as cases spike, the disastrous school reopening "plan". Start the countdown to lockdown.
One joy of OUATIH: the names. People relishing saying names, both real and invented. Jake Cahill. Schwarrrrrrz. Major Nathan Maxwell Janice. Hellooooo, Johnny. Sam Wanamaker. Business Bob Gilbert. DeCoteau. Patty Duke? Starlet Francesca Capucci. Rick Fucking Dalton.
Just found out that 85% of the purchases in the world are made by women and I want to throw up and not buy a single thing ever again. Consumerism is anti-feminist.
Happy for everybody excited about the Criterion sale but after twenty years I think I've finally moved on. I got what I needed from that label. Now I need to save my money for more important things, like whatever piece of shit slasher film is coming to 4K.
Any zoomer who thinks right pic is above average attractive doesn't understand that in the 90s, a "7" looked like left pic.
"Above average" meant something else back then. There'd be like ten girls
as or more beautiful than Connelly working at every chain restaurant.
@afterglow2046
Every other clip cuts out as soon as he says TRON so I had a feeling the reaction was like this. They're either so solidly in "patronize the old man" mode they're not listening, or they don't understand the premise of the film. "One of the original videogame adaptations!" haha
@VK_HM
I remember my stepdad and I laughing till we cried when this first aired. "No, Ben! No!" may have been the precise moment he defected in our household's Simpsons cold war.
How on Earth does a person who hasn't seen THE GODFATHER have a successful film podcast? Is this the modern equivalent of a book club where no one reads the damn book? WHY DOES ANYONE LISTEN TO THIS SHIT?
DAWN OF THE DEAD's opening half hour is the only convincing depiction of the thrill of living at the end of times. The first five minutes in particular are beyond reproach.
One of the longest lasting canards about the show: Jerry Seinfeld's performance is bad. Not saying he's Olivier, but he is very funny, and it's more than this "reflected light from the other performers" myth that he's helped perpetuate.
Weird to rewatch Seinfeld bc JS is a bad actor, Kramer isn’t all that funny & yet George and Elaine are the most hilarious, watchable actors/characters ever to appear on TV
Is the whole "no wearing outside clothes on the bed" neuroses some new generation gap thing? I never, ever heard anyone mention this IRONCLAD LAW OF HYGIENE in the first forty years of my life. Even the term "outside clothes" sounds like kindergarten-speak.
I think John Carpenter's move to semi-retirement came out of an element in common with his enduring success as a filmmaker: he understands normal people. Why would he want to keep working? I mean, I'm glad Ridley Scott is still out there, but it's not a drive I can comprehend.
The way EON ended things with him makes the whole thing unlikely but can you imagine how awesome it would be to have Pierce as OLD BOND for a couple of movies?
@Srirachachau
Yeah, Krusty's been pretty consistent on this point. He softened a bit with the Ribwich, but the poorly matched insert shot of someone else biting the Mother Nature Burger suggests that by season 20 he didn't even want to take the chance.
@brianchaley
These days it seems impossible I'd go to see any movie more than once, but I saw this one like five times. Other kids were getting their driver's licences
It's never, "Yay, we love ya, Marty!" Instead, "Dinosaur Scorsese voices preference for 'canceled' tech over CGI, but yeah, Marvel isn't cinema," and the quote is like, "I have a sentimental affection for matte paintings in film."
Guys, I just had a great idea how to improve FULL METAL JACKET's second half: insert the ghost of R. Lee Ermey into the background yelling encouragement at Modine during the Battle of Hue City.
@Saveydro
Oh, there are plenty of people who can get away with it, but then there are the others who have "y'all" delusions and I just don't want to be one of those, haha
The "how a successful person overcame receiving an incredible honour from her peers and went on to continue being successful" genre being stretched to the breaking point.
Revisiting THE TRUMAN SHOW for the first time in twenty years, a film I loved dearly, watched several times, then forgot about. What prompted me was this man's passionate championing from a hospital bed. He said it made him hope we were returning to a cinema that meant something.
Remember when you'd humble yourself before towering works? Step back, recognize your opinion is at odds with decades' or centuries' worth of consensus, maybe try again in a few years? Well, that's fucking over, so Journeyman Jon can go to the grave saying "Joyce was mid".
"You found paradise in Seattle. You had a good trade, made a good living. The police protected you and there were courts of law. So you didn't need a friend like me. Now you come and say 'Don Douglas, give me justice.' But you don't ask with respect. You don't offer friendship."
Look, if one wanted to read the facts of the case, they've been widely available for years. This is ghastly flavour-of-the-month exploitative bullshit. Reality TV and true crime podcasts have fucked up people's minds.
@LiveAndLetDave
Love it when he's primed to cap Ben Tramer in part 2 and that cop car nails him out of nowhere. Loomis and the sheriff just looking on in wonder.
Some film twitter accounts would benefit from posting more idiosyncratic stuff about their lives. How do they take their coffee, what are their thoughts on passing in the right lane, etc. No need to rhapsodize SPEED RACER or subject us to the phrase "vulgar auteurism" yet again.
Just came across a clip from AFFLICTION where the surly restauranteur corrects Wade about the term "grilled cheese" and Wade hurls him onto the bar, haha. I need to see this again already. Schrader's finest hour.
This is so unremarkable, so transparently correct, rooted in the most easily observed societal change of the last twenty years, so naturally the reaction has been appropriately muted.
Hugh Grant says movie sets “are so weird now” as actors no longer get drunk and fall “in love with each other” because of mobile phones: “It’s so sad.”
(via
@colbertlateshow
)
Wouldn't climb a sapling like "it's a stealth masterpiece" but it has more going for it than some will acknowledge. I guess I alone like the noirish, flashback-within-flashback storytelling. Henstridge, awesome. Carpenter's matriarchal society gags. Good music. Good atmosphere.
I believe it was
@faceyouhate
who prompted me to give THE ICE HARVEST another look. Now on third viewing I think it's a tiny masterpiece. Neo-noir is a broadly deployed term these days and blah blah but there haven't been many authentic ones this good in the last 20 years.
Maybe I'm just a dumb country boy but it's still remarkable how great the first three Indiana Jones movies are. An all-time masterwork followed by two of the most lavish and entertaining adventure films ever made.