Exceedingly bleak and mean. Michael Caine is ice cold, barely a shred of humanity to him, and yet he is about as good as anyone gets in this black-hearted little world of degenerates and killers. A film with misery in its bones.
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Gun Fury 1953
Generic but decent enough, some fine nastiness from the villains, who are much better than the Rock Hudson-led heroes. Hudson is pretty dull, which is partially his so-so performance (I like Rock generally, this is just not strong work) and partially the wiener character. Very easy to imagine this as a Randolph Scott vehicle, and with a lead written more for Randolph Scott, and it being a lot better.
Roberta Haynes has one of the worst goddamn haircuts you will ever see in this motherfucker. Lee Marvin is good, as always, in a small sidekick bad guy role.
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The Clapper 2017
I watched The Clapper because I like Ed Helms and Amanda Seyfried. I still like them, even though I watched this movie.
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The Iron Claw 2023
Stands with The Wrestler as the finest films "about pro wrestling," because like The Wrestler it is not about on-screen characters or TV wrestling matches, but about the people and the actual lives lived and the tolls taken.
Unlike Darren Aronofsky and Robert D. Siegel hodge-podging about six different lives into one fictional Randy "The Ram" Robinson, The Iron Claw hones in on the very real Von Erich family, and the real life tragedy of their unbelievable fall from artificial…
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