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L.A. Takedown 1989
All the basic plot points of Heat are here and so is much of the dialogue but the characters don't feel fleshed out. I'm impressed that Mann had the foresight to see that what this entertaining (but not terribly compelling) failed cop show pilot needed was a larger canvas.
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Heat 1995
When this came out in the 1990s, a crime movie starring De Niro and Pacino seemed like a dated and clichéd idea and yet, they had never shared screen time in any movie up to this point and looking at it now, you realize that it would be a crying shame if this movie didn't exist. As a remake of L.A. Takedown, this is an improvement in nearly every way though it occasionally flexes the increased budget in ways that…
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Dune 1984
What's fascinating about David Lynch's Dune is how artless it is. It's fairly faithful to the source material but in an incredibly superficial way. All the depth and complexity has been sucked out of Frank Herbert's novel reducing it to a shallow, morally dubious husk that due to many shoddy effects doesn't even deliver on visual spectacle.
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Grand Prix 1966
Grand Prix is the greatest racing film of all times completely putting to shame more recent examples. Grand Prix is also a dreadful bore. To watch the film is to reconcile these extremes, to ping pong between the exhileration of the most technically impressive and viscerally exciting racing sequences of all time and the tedium of dull, listless non racing sequences. It's a shame it doesn't exist in a tighter edit but it's absolutely worth sittting through the three hour…
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