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Platoon 1986
François Truffaut said "every film about war ends up being pro-war". I'm not sure I entirely agree. But I do think Platoon is so fundamentally
"hollywoodized" and overly soap operatic that it ultimately becomes too entertaining for its own good. The only American “anti-war” war film I’ve seen is Malick’s The Thin Red Line.Translated from by -
Joker: Folie à Deux 2024
“Sometimes people build you up just so they can knock you down.” - Phish
I actually really really enjoyed Joker 2. It was a ballsy sequel that perhaps tarnished the first one’s legacy, and I think that was the point. Possibly the biggest middle finger to studios and audiences alike since Freddy Got Fingered, which might sound like an odd comparison, but, yeah. That Arthur Fleck’s character arc parallels the movies (Joker lauded, Joker 2 panned) is such a brilliant…
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Jackie Brown: How It Went Down 2002
Some interesting tidbits I learned from this:
1. The half a million dollars in the bag was actually a half a million dollars - Tarantino wanted to be as authentic as possible.
2. When Pam Grier entered Tarantino’s office to discuss the film, the walls were covered with posters of her. Thinking Tarantino was trying to flatter her, she asked, “Did you put those up because I was coming in?” Tarantino, worried he’d come across as an obsessed fanboy, responded,…
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Dragged Across Concrete 2018
After three batshit crazy films, I’m declaring S. Craig Zahler one of my favorite directors of this century. His films are an amalgam of all my movie watching pleasures: the gore, the pulp, the principled yet deeply flawed characters, the meandering dialogue, the brooding tone... it’s like film candy to me. Film licorice, precisely. Why licorice? Jerry Garcia said it best: “We're like licorice. Not everybody likes it, but the people who do like licorice really like licorice.”
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