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This clip has been making the rounds all week but some of y’all desperately need to see it.
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Don’t stand up to exit the plane until the people ahead of you are walking towards the exit. Sometimes you may need to step back a row or two to grab a bag from the overheads.
The first half of Spies Like Us is side-splitting funny. Once the mission starts it sort of fizzles.
I think the distinction is reasonable - Elizabethtown is largely forgotten at this point, probably by the cast itself. It doesn’t reach and fail, it’s just kind of there.
But seriously, was there ever a chance that the Academy then would reward “Raiders”? It wasn’t a “prestige picture”. “Reds” on the other hand was pure Oscar bait.
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To me the big reason it didn’t land with audience is that in 1987 the Warren Beatty-Dustin Hoffman pairing wasn’t funny in the way that viewers of the time expected, both way too mannered and image-conscious. With Steve Martin and Bill Murray it would have killed
I like Heaven’s Gate quite a bit, but I’ll be the first to admit that it has serious problems. To me, that’s primarily the first act, especially the entire sequence set at college. It’s not as egregious as the glacially-endless wedding scene in The Deer Hunter (and I love The Deer Hunter, but when I think of film… Read more
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Yeah 2 is probably the “best” movie but I ranked 4 so high because it’s the 1st one I saw in the theater at age 10. Read more
I also place Part 2 at the top. By far the best visual style, fantastic editing that really builds effective tension, genuinely engaging characters, and Ginny’s confrontation with Jason in the shack is easily the best scene in the entire franchise.
And I also have a lot of fondness for Part 3. It’s one of the most… Read more
“Based off” has grown in usage a lot over the last few years and, like you, I’m annoyed by it.
This is a terrible film, but for some reason I *love* the holodeck scene where they put Jason into a recreation of Camp Crystal Lake and he starts freaking out because he doesn’t know what’s going on.
Fun interview! Jason X has had a fun ride over the years, that two-year shelving wasn’t good for the anticipation but it seems like by now just about everybody’s warmed up to it.
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Based ON. Not based “off of”. FFS.
And what’s the deal with airline genies, anyway?
I’m shocked there’s not a 90s toy or beverage that was called Max Max.
Disney is the perfect example of the downside of the democratization of information. Back in the 90's in the early days of the internet, if you did some decent research you really had a huge leg up on most visitors. You could come up with line avoidance techniques, touring strategies and great “secret” or “hidden”… Read more
We all know that Tatooine is very hot, sandy, and home to a wretched hive of scum and villainy, but what this new show presupposes is...maybe it isn’t? (It is.)
I hope it is set on Tatooine. It seems like there could be a good opportunity to dig into what is going on there.