I cannot disagree. Once HK/Chinese movies started getting on the western action radar everyone went bonkers for kung-fu without knowing how to shoot the fights properly. Worst example off the top of my head is "Cradle 2 the Grave" where we not only get two fights shot badly, but they're intercut with each other so you…

There are (arguably) better films, there are (arguably) better 'foreign' action films, but Lethal Weapon and Die Hard are the best action films ever made. Could be they just hit me right in my teenage brain when they came out, or could be they are objectively and empirically the best action films ever made. Tough call.

"You ask for miracles, Theo, I give you the F.B.I."

"Mr. Takagi won't be joining us for the rest of his life."

Those same bars should be holding ISIS fundraisers, but I really haven't thought that through.

It's truncated, supposed to say "Bag End". He was an 'obbit!

Mmmmmm…

You sound like an insider. I want in!

You may be onto something there. Loudest show by far I've ever seen is Merzbow. So loud in fact that, even as an idiot of a 19-year-old, I went to the toilet early on and fashioned makeshift earplugs out of loo roll cause I thought "this shit is going to do permanent damage".

I was going to say "what, not the guy from Henry?", but then realised you were 12 and it was probably for the best.

What's interesting is that Chris Corner's post-SP work as IAMX, while excellent, but much closer in sound and tone to Manson than to his earlier work with SP.

I highly recommend the series. Cass Neary is what Lisbeth Salander would have been if she weren't written by a bloke who had a massive crush on his own creation.

A good place to recommend the comic "Wytches" by Scott Snyder and Jock. Nice and creepy and much closer in tone to "The Witch" than something like "The Craft".

I'd like to nominate the Cass Neary series by Elizabeth Hand. Excellent writing with a fuck-up of a protagonist who is excellent to read about even, or because, most of her troubles are the fault of either her addictions or her inability to leave well enough alone.

Shane Black's script varies from the film in a few ways and is in itself a fantastic read. Fairly easy to find online, it's fun to read and imagine what the initial studio reader must have thought going through it for the first time in the mid-1980's.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Jai Courtney = talking meat.

I was warming up my typing fingers "oh boy, cannot WAIT to call this guy a thin-skinned arsehole" and then you pull back and revealed with the last paragraph. Still, not going to waste those warm up exercises so here I am.

It is certainly a difficult film to recommend since as good as it is, it's not one to make a person feel good about the world - especially since, as you say, it's based on a true story.

If you haven't seen it, I would recommend "Snowtown". Another serial killer film loosely based on the Australian "Snowtown Murders", it again features killers who don't compose elaborate tableaux, a plot made more disturbing by its surface normalcy, and an absolutely cracking central performance from Daniel Henshall.

Straight from NZ, cuz.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
Totally choice, bro.