Hey, I nose most of those actors.
Hey, I nose most of those actors.
Kingsley is goddamn terrifying in this movie. Even that screenshot at the top I kinda want to back away from with my hands up.
I think what’s amazing about the airport scene is it demonstrates that Don isn’t just some muscled-up force of destruction. Unlike, say, Joe Pesci’s character in Goodfellas (a phenomenal performance, no slight), Don is aware of and cares about the consequences of his violent moods - that’s why he can modulate to deal…
This is easily the best performance of Kingsley’s career. The best scene is pretty much a tie between Don winding himself up while talking to the mirror, and the wide-eyed innocence he puts on while talking his way out of the airplane incident (“I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette to…
It could be argued all 3 main actors are the “Sexy Beast” of the title. Just of different flavors.
get out of the fucking car... Terrifying
as brilliant as Gandhi is, the scene where Ian McShane stares down Winstone is witheringly scary. The small smile, the piercing eyes... brrrrr
With a cameo by Ozzy as a televangelist!
And look how many years it took for McGowen to be able to speak out and be believed. It’s only been 3 years since Me Too really came to life, and it took the Cosby and Weinstein cases to effect that change.
More to the point, few such victims end up with a platform like McGowen has. The ones who never made it in LA aren’t in a good position to fight back without amplification, and these sorts of accusations still aren’t taken seriously enough.
Predators know how to pick their victims.
“Rampaging” in this case, being asking for another beer from the cooler without saying please twice. And talking a little too loudly ‘bout the Canucks, eh? The kids are bored.
B.C. is running dangerously low on Glory Holes. It’s up to the government to keep these teens safe by installing more in as many locations as possible.
What the fuck, Canada? I thought you were smarter than us. I imagine you are at least infecting each other more politely.
And we need to explain to them that being a showgirl isn’t a great life and turning yourself invincible is a bad idea. People just don’t get Veohoven
“Such a nasty thing to say!”
This.
Particularly the ones who inadvertently suggest the film’s primary value is purely just the humorous racism.
Granted, the film can’t be made today, but that’s less a matter of shirt-ripping over PC culture and more the fact Brooks is riffing on an age of film that is nowhere near as prominent and revered as it was…
It’s like HUCKLEBERRY FINN — the story is about an abused boy who gets tangled up with a pair of con artists, and is helped by an escaped slave, which causes him to reconsider his views on Negro servitude....without the life experience or intellectual framework to be eloquent about it. But for a lot of people, they…
Yeah, I’m glad I don’t have to worry about interpreting anything a different way from its creators intended meaning. Thinking critically about stuff was so time-consuming.
Yeah but like, if we go out of our way to explain satire, doesn’t that kind of kill the point of satire? I mean, I think it would be hilarious if at the end of Robocop, Robocop turned to the audience like Judi Dench at the end of Cats and started explaining the actual message, but like, you’re supposed to get that…