Film

Liam Neeson

Spoiler alert, it's a rape revenge movie. Fuck, why do I need to see that? I'm doing what I can.

Brilliant performance by Mr. Reeves.

Shouldve watched John Wick. Fuck it, if it ends before 11 I'm watching it.

Shapin up to be a damn descent action movie. Rare these days.

But I'm become an old man, gonna go to sleep.

Finished it?
I can't remember the last Keanu Reeves movie that I watched, It may have been the last Matrix.
always liked to dude though. He is very hard to dislike.
But Bill & Ted is still the best of him in my book.

I always enjoyed Speed, in part because the director is Dutch. But mostly for the cinematography. Jan De Bont, first time director then, long time DP for movies like Die Hard 1, the Hunt for Red October, Lethal Weapon 3, Black Rain, Basic Instinct. His second movie, Twister, was alright, but what he did after, Speed 2, was completely ridiculous and made me no longer want to watch what he was making.

Twister is fucking awesome. Deep. Appropriately the first movie I watched in sorround sound.

Will likely finish it today or something. I left it right as the action commenced.

Pezer wrote:

Twister is fucking awesome. Deep. Appropriately the first movie I watched in sorround sound.

Good.
Ive only seen it the one time in the theater, and I did like it but had no way to analyze the psychology as I was with antipsychoogical persons.
A film for my playlist.
Rare these times.


Have you seen Hunt for the Red October?
I like Jan de Bonts stuff as a cameraman very much. I even watched Lethal Weapon 3 many times, slow motioning the chases with this shuttle remote I had for the editing.
Nowadays you'll see heavier skills, but his work is still symphonic.

I once figured out what I like about it, why I would play his sequences shot for shot in my mind as I was waiting for sleep which didn't use to come so easily then, namely because the arrangements are musical symphonies. Later I heard him say in an interview that he arranges his storyboards like a symphony.
What this means is recurring themes within a scene, that wind together and climax into an aesthetic force that allows the storytelling to be propelled into a higher arc. Or something.

Basic Instinct ha tremendous vistas, very threatening, synthetic view of California, maybe secretly one of my favourite movies. Secretly to myself I mean. Robocop, Total Recall and Basic Instinct are all very successul portrayals of the USA, I read he arrived in LA the night the Challenger blew up. He was walking on some crackhead boulevard ready astounded by the mayhem and walked into a place where the tv was on and the space shuttle exploded. He walked right in when it exploded. He tells of his dreams that they always reveal the absolute horrible violence of existence, he is an astronomer, of hell and how he alway wake up from it sweating, and his movies are about that.

Shiet.

I liked Basic Instinct a lot, though I have watched many times and somehow never been able to finish it for some reason or another. Probably better, before the plotline has a chance to ruin it.

Also LW3 is beautiful. I watched all 3 over and over with my brother. Each is special in a different way.

Is 3 the one with the South African diplomat druglord?

All 4 I mean.

cruel intentions.

Pezer wrote:

Also LW3 is beautiful. I watched all 3 over and over with my brother. Each is special in a different way.

Is 3 the one with the South African diplomat druglord?

I think thats 2. 3 is with Joe Pesci and the Eric Clapton and Sting song and the burning 3 in the opening, which Roger Maltin called moronic in his book of 75000 movie reviews.

Oh I mean Leonard Maltin, I confused him with Roger Ebert.

that was a fun book.
just reading through reviews of the most obscure nonsense you could think of.

Pezer wrote:

Shiet.

I liked Basic Instinct a lot, though I have watched many times and somehow never been able to finish it for some reason or another. Probably better, before the plotline has a chance to ruin it.

yeah wo gives a fuck how it ends. I don't remember, thats certain.
I dint even know how Robocop ends, though Ive seen it many times.

Endings are very rarely memorable.
Ironically I find the ending of the Shield maybe the only really good ending ever.
I mean the last shot. Thats all an ending is.

I also remember

"You must lower me into the steel. I cannot self-terminate."

and the last shot, under Sarahs voice.

"If a machine can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too."

re: the smartphone consigliere.

The theme music of the last season of the Wire is just really dreary. And so are journalists.
I don't like the Hitler quote about big lies being repeated by three characters in one episode either.

Pile it on thick.

But it is still the Wire.

Ueah the last season is not very good. The guy going crazy and all, no juicy gangsters... Like I said, exhaustion.

And yes, that Terminator ending is the best shit ever. That movie has no low points, no breaks. But the ending is incredible.

Something something we drstroyed it!

Something something it lives in here *points to head*

the wire is good but obviously the show’s creator is insane. just look at his politics.

i suppose sanity and intelligence and philosophership aren’t prerequisites for being a good artist.

Sarah Connor is one of THE strongest characters eved.

So. Fucking. Badass. Human badass, badass for human.

Carving some shit in a bench...

yes and i also like ripley from alien/s.

To me it just proves the muses are real. Art is like sex. They're not sure hkw they did it, for all their talk of methid, or exactly what they did.

YES. Even Prometheus, which I thought I was gonna hate and nobody but douchebags seemed to like, is for me a true classic.

Fucking guy wakes up from cryosleep and lights a cigar.

That's 2 I think.