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The Town 2010
We here at the Lunchtime Workforce Classics team love any variation of Heat. Heat is the I-Ching. The urtext. Heat is the platonic ideal of a crime movie. So if you took heat and gave them all Boston accents, naturally we're gonna love it.
While the town doesn't have a pursuer on the side of johnny-law in the same category as Vincent Hannah, and it'd be an unfair ask of poor John Hamm, it does make up for it with…
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Brawl in Cell Block 99 2017
The second film in S Craig Zahler’s oeuvre, this picture cements the writer/director’s status as a singularly talented (albeit quite problematic) auteur. After being called a “Gringo” by a hostile Latino inmate, protagonist Bradley Thomas (Vince Vaughn) delivers one of our favorite lines, one which highlights Zahler’s wit, as well as his racially provocative inclinations: “Don’t call me a foreigner. Last time I checked, the colors of the flag weren’t red, white, and burrito.”
In a film with plenty of…
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Heat 1995
The Lunchtime Workforce Classics Cinema Club begins and ends with Heat.
Pacino's performance is the epitome of scenery-chewing, oftentimes reaching a level of intensity that has nothing whatsoever to do with the given scene. In David Roth's great (but not always correct) article for Deadspin (RIP,) he calls the performance "the acting version of Steve Vai making some wow-I’m-surprised-at-this-crazy-riff face during a grandiose guitar solo."
theconcourse.deadspin.com/presenting-the-al-pacino-matrix-1820561428
There is a (perhaps apocryphal) story that in the original script for Heat, Pacino's…Translated from by