Even streaming, remaking his own classic John Woo is more interesting and original than 90% of action directors working today. So many of the bad reviews seem to have focused on the lack of the original Hong Kong themes and theatrics that they seem to miss that Woo still knows how to place the camera in original and unexpected places, move people through the frame with style, and most importantly he still knows how to make action fun.
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The Girl with the Needle 2024
Guess I live in a different world than everyone else. To me this was exploitative and soulless, suffering as spectacle with no point other than to revel in depravity.
Scandinavian cinema has such an incredible history of investigating the dark and the difficult but with humanity and compassion. Ingmar Bergman is in my view the greatest director cinema has ever known, and one of its great humanists. And for all his foibles Lars von Trier I think truly loves all…
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Licorice Pizza 2021
Maybe we’re all just happy to be watching movies in the theater again, but the love for LP is escaping me. It felt like a long form improv’ed riff on Rushmore, but an hour longer, less funny, and less genuine. The plot is full of Crazy Aces and just because they come from an auteur doesn’t suddenly make them any less random or meaningful.
I also don’t understand why we give passes on potentially problematic or offensive material to some people…
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Joker: Folie à Deux 2024
Sadly, I feel like this movie has been totally misunderstood. So many people seem to have projected their own idea of what they wanted it to be, or what they thought it should, that they missed the total simplicity of what it really is.
And I say this as someone who was not a fan of the first Joker.
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