A masterwork in tone, atmosphere, graphics, and worldbuilding, George Lucas's talents for avant-garde filmmaking, editing, and technology really shine here.
While having a fairly simple narrative, the visual storytelling, mixed with all of the above elements really gel together in a way that continues to immediately pull me in and fascinate me.
I watch it every so often for inspiration and I'd love to make a film like this some day!
(I actually watched this a while ago and forgot to log this)
Alex is a restless teen, eager for adventure, trapped living a mundane life in a trailer park in the middle of nowhere. His only solace is an arcade game called Starfighter, located at the trailer park entrance, where he "protects the Frontier from Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada". When he beats the game's high score, however, he suddenly finds himself recruited to face the Ko-Dan Armada for real.…
A love letter to the stunt community (and a little bit to filmmaking as well) while also being a loose adaptation of a TV series from the 80s (which I'm curious to check out now), The Fall Guy is about once-prominent stuntman Colt Seavers, who, 18 months after being injured on a stunt gone wrong, is asked to return to work on his ex-girlfriend's directorial debut, only to be pulled into a dark mystery when the film's leading man disappears.…
A comedy film director aching to make a "picture that matters and shows what the world is really like", decides to go on the road and "experience real trouble" for research, only to get more than he bargained for when he encounters a struggling actress and eventually a reality check that he didn't expect.
While I had seen Sullivan's Travels previously, as it was some 10-15 years before, I didn't really understand or like it at the time. But, now…
