A clockwork crime drama/thriller. Even today, HEAT’s action scenes get brought up as among the best in the genre, and for good reason. The sound design in this film’s shootouts is immaculate— every gunshot sounds weighty, destructive, and potentially lethal. This is maybe one of the best-paced movies I’ve ever watched. It’s hard to justify a 2 hour 50 minute runtime, especially for a crime drama with relatively rote themes (De Nero and Pacino are essentially just Valjean and Javert,…
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Rashomon 1950
Classic, pretty straightforward take on the Akutagawa story, with a great freak performance from Toshiro Mifune. Interesting bookends with the priest/thief/woodcutter serving as a kind of chorus for the whole plot’s affairs, as well as bookending the film’s themes of ambiguity and our ability to trust one another. Underrated bit of physical comedy where the bandit describes his fight with the samurai as an epic clash between masterful swordsmen and then the woodcutter depicts it as abject flailing that more resembles a playground slapfight than anything else.
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Scanners 1981
a movie with a lot of good ideas that flubs the execution wildly in its back half. you can really see a lot of Cronenberg’s proclivities developing here: stuff like the art studio full of deformed plaster bodies and the super creative practical effects (esp. the final fight scene) are extremely fun. a lot of great supporting performances , particularly Patrick McGoohan as Ruth and Michael Ironside as Revok, who is in maybe 15 minutes of this film and steals…
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