Somethin’s brewing at Westeros…

A 2020's rewatch of this (first in quite some time) drove home one particular thing like never before: how much Manni sucks

i’m dying laughing at you defending this like your life is on the line.

In the books, Ludlum managed to keep her around, while not as actively as in the first film (or book) but still enough to keep her fairly prominent. While not spoiling it, she is plays a vital role in kicking off the second book’s plot, and has a lot of action on her own, away from Bourne.

The film was exhausting in a brilliant way.

When I saw this (gulp) 25 years ago, I was blown away by both the movie and the soundtrack - which works perfectly with everything happening onscreen.

This movie reminds me a lot of the 1984 Robin Williams film Moscow on the Hudson in which Williams plays a Soviet circus clown who defects to the US when they were giving a performance in NYC. He wasn’t stuck in the airport, but the whole “New Yorkers of various social classes and races unite to help the hapless…

And one of the best showcases for Franka Potente, one of the great down to earth and yet ethereal movie stars 

The movie also provides a nice little snap shot in time of post-unification Berlin when it was still in its Bohemian stage. 

Run Lola Run is one of the few German films to briefly capture American pop culutre’s attention back then so much that even The Simpsons and a few other shows did parodies of it.

Love this film so much. Bummed that its current 25th anniversary theatrical release never came to a theater near me, I imagine this would be so fun to watch on the big screen with an audience. I will note that Run Lola Run’s concept was quite heavily influenced by Kieslowski’s Blind Chance (1987). 

I was introduced to the film when I was in high school, taking german class, and it was a mind-blowing introduction to modern European cinema and way more interesting than the stupid TV show designed for learners we also had to watch. A couple of years later in University it was one of the first movies I acquired in a…

RIP The Daily Show’s live studio audience.

10.23.26?  That’s not even a full IPv4 address!

“I love his work, he makes me sound like everyone else!”

Maybe you are making a joke, but the Armand Hammer he is named after made his money in oil. He did buy some stock in Arm & Hammer as a joke, but the name is completely coincidental.

Anything that could be salvaged from the original production would suffer badly by comparison to Villenueve’s version, so I don’t see how there’s the first bit of incentive for Lynch to even attempt it.

They talked about it last week:

Sure, no kidding. I’ve got all the Charlton stuff. So Lindelof could’ve just renamed them all similarly, right? Why not. It’s not outrageous to say making them more original worked for Moore and Gibbons and could’ve worked for Lindelof too? Then he’d be the visionary satirist of contemporary America or something in…

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