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I think the word everyone is looking for is sequel.

"We were going to do a DI anyway, and if I shot color it would be very easy to turn the saturation knob all the way to zero," Elswit decided.

Without defending his lack of a coherent motivation for shooting on black and white (not that an artist "needs" to understand their stuff, that's an audience's/critic's job . . . but it helps [someone said an artist is a critic with superpowers, which seems right to me]):

Would you really rather watch redcode data than color graded stuff?

I mean, how many black and white sensors are there available? The Alexa and Red Epic each have one, but this was shot on a DSLR—they didn't pick either go-to (even with RGB sensors), I assume, for a reason. Lighting for color as a problem I understand, but criticizing it for being graded seems unfair. But I also don't

What's incompetent about its black and white?

I can't find a source on "My revolution is through emotion" so I'm going to pretend he didn't say it.

Even Slate—which haters be damned, is great—has a GJI, called Browbeat, and yet their execution is usually a lot better. I don't object to GJI on principle. In fact, internet bullshit is as worthy of interest/praise/analysis as anything else on a pop culture website.

Yeah, but in this case you'd be asking them to listen to Linkin Park.

If this is what the leisure class does with their time, the proletariat really needs to get on that revolution thing.

Is there something about Danes and Westerns or is the Mads Mikkelsen just a coincidence?

And yet, weirdly, Bone Tomahawk was in a Staff Picks instead.

This is one of the (very very) few movies that I think I may have seen too young. Way brutal, horrible, and one of the (very very) few good movies that actually does read to me as nihilistic.

Plus "Western" (that documentary—actually all border- and cartel-docs might fit into the western category, though I wouldn't say "Sicario" is a western) and "The Keeping Room." And, technically, "The Ridiculous Six," though that doesn't contribute to this as a "good" year for westerns.

OH GOD D'Angelo's review of "Home Sweet Hell," right? That remains the most unexpected and totally fucked aside in a review ever.

So, spoiler space? Because no thanks to anything else about this.

Bone Tomahawk is good too

US Netflix used to be really good a few years ago, but now its streaming section is an atrocity, more and more so as they host their own content.

Every delivery of his was perfect.

Serious question: how do y'all access the movies you watch now, especially older or obscure movies? Has the combination of Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon prime ever failed you?