“We don't invent our natures — they're issued to us with our lungs and pancreas and everything else.”
Continuing on my Michael Mann watch. God, this is so unbelievably good. I think the thing that keeps me coming back to his films is the incredible moods he creates. The often cold and menacing atmosphere, contrasted with the romantic flourishes and gorgeous, dreamy visuals.
On one hand, he is deeply concerned with professionals doing their jobs. Not even just the protagonists…
This rocked my ass off. Stacked cast, ridiculously fun. No one does it like Raimi.
Val Kilmer looks into the camera and says “fuck this planet 🖕”. That is a real thing that happens in this movie.
Mission To Mars is the superior Mars flick of 2000
Wow I’m kind of blown away by this. To me, this is a love story first and foremost. It’s deeply and incredibly romantic. The distant thunder, the lush saturated midnight blues, the palm trees and white stone, the cozy and intimate shower scenes, the close-ups of necks and hands. The use of Mogwai! Stuff like this is why I just love Michael Mann’s films. Beautiful, tragic doomed romances, at odds with professional life.
I love the digital, ultra grainy look…
10th Anniversary IMAX screening.
It just gets me every time.
A movie that I think people felt embarrassed to love (or just outright hated) at the time, because it’s so deeply heartfelt and so unabashedly earnest in its idea that love is a quantifiable force that transcends dimensions and connects us to each other across time and space - a maudlin and unscientific concept to some.
But idk, I have always thought this concept is beautifully and very powerfully delivered…
