Talk About Movies: Part 4

One more, this is one of my favorite Louie scenes. So funny.

In case you never saw the show. Louie is divorced with 2 daughters and is getting them for a few days for Christmas and goes to store and buys a doll for one of them earlier that day. Unfortunately, has a few parts cut out of the original.

The Jackie Brown Lionsgate 4k uhd treatment is magnificent...

Cell phone photos...

The last scene from Anora hit me fracking hard. Not in a Knockout sort of fashion, but more so as a jab to the face that dropped my jaw in awe 😮 It also got me thinking today about two other cinematic emotionally intense scenes that are forever engraved within my hard drive and both stem from the same movie, True Romance : the long dialogue before the father (Dennis Hopper) gets assassinated and when Patricia Arquette desperately fights for her life vs James Gandolfini.

I was also the only one in the cinema that burst out laughing uncontrollably when :

. A very solid and fascinating viewing experience. I absolutely love when a movie introduces fringe characters, regardless of if I can identify with them or not . The movie did feel uneven at times

The Anti-Cinderella story...

I rewatched Dr. Strangelove on the weekend and fall in love every time I watch it. The part where Sellers is delivering an all-time comedic performance capped off with, "Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!!!" Immediately followed by the end of the world. ****ing cinema, man. That **** makes me laugh like a maniac, then I instantly turn into shambles with sadness. I also get weirdly emotional when Slim Pickens unlocks the safe to get his cowboy hat, and then the moment where he's riding the bomb. Such a wild ride.

Twist my rubber arm why dontcha

Now would be a perfect time for a revival of this movie. Sterling Hayden and Robert Kennedy could host Ted Talks about vital fluids.

I thought Anora was more funny than anything

Thought it started out strong but kind of lost interest when we learn the

End scene I had heard about landed flat for me

I used to spend a lot of time in that part of Brooklyn so I loved seeing all that

In the end an entertaining watch but nothing to write home about, 7/10

Never much liked his standup but holy smokes this is unbelievably funny

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I rewatched Dr. Strangelove on the weekend and fall in love every time I watch it.

Surely in the most thin veil of the humorous intent, this Film Cold Era War film wraps people in the warmth of comedic relief... but there is nothing comedic about this film.

It taken decades, but Jack D. Ripper has proven correct with all his strategic assessments.

Fluoridation IS a conspiracy.
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Buddy of mine came in clutch and loaned me his blu-ray copies of Wild at Heart, The Devils (proper cut apparently?), Strange Days, Idiocrasy, Birth and some chronological version of The Godfather. I've seen The Godfather and Strange Days, others are new to me.

This weekend I rewatched The Fighter and still think it's one of Bale's best performances. That closing scene always gets me all choked up. Also watched The Fast and the Furious and while it's super goofy and slop compared to the stuff I've been watching, I enjoy it. I liked this series when it was about car culture, when the cars mattered as much as the stars of the movie. That all went away after Tokyo Drift.

I love Strange Days it's one of Bigelow's more underrated films. Wild at Heart is great and as Lynch films go, is more straightforward than others. Do you mean Ken Rissel's The Devils? Haven't seen in years but uncut version is pretty nuts. You should check out his Crimes of Passion (1984) if you haven't seen yet, Anthony Perkins is great in it.

Strange Days and Wild at Heart are my favorites by a long way

Review of Lost Highway--mostly

https://letterboxd.com/pd187/film/lost-highway/

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A ★★★★ review of Lost Highway (1997)

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Yeah Ken Russel's The Devils. My buddy told me to skip the version that's on Shudder and told me to wait for his copy heh My wife reminded me our public library system has a ton of movies and recently released movies. They have a pretty solid number of Criterion discs as well so i'll be tapping that resource.

I have also rewatched it recently and loved it as much as my first viewing. That being said, Warrior might be my favorite - which I have watched for the third time recently. I have been on a boxing/MMA movie viewing spree over the past few months, and outside of your standard Rocky 1, 2 and Rocky Balboa and Creed 1 and 2 of the worlds, Raging Bull was better upon my 2nd viewing (and 25 odd years later), I have a soft spot for the more mediocre South Paw and Cinderella Story.

What about Gladiator? The one with Brian Dennehy and Robert Loggia.

Haven't revisited it, but will do so! From memory though, even if I liked it at the time as a teenager when it came out, I remember it as being quite cheesy in hindsight... We will see

It's not good. The early 90s was overflowing with hilariously bad movies, and this is one of them. If you find that kind of stuff entertaining, check it out. If not, skip it.

The best, bad/cheesy fighting movie, from that era has to be

There was also that movie with some Van Damme clone. I think he's a teacher at some rough school and he's trained in some island martial arts. At the end, they all chant this cool island song or something while he's fighting.

That was always a fun one to watch.

No Holds Barred is great, but it's actually my second favorite Hulk Hogan movie from New Line Cinema.