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The girl in the red coat
A Challenger Appears
His presence instantly makes any movie he's in much better
Underrated Director
First half feels almost like a different movie from the second half
Historian breaks down the trailer
Vanity Fair article
S2E01 ending made no sense
M. Night's Box Office History
Why did his career evaporate after My Cousin Vinny?
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Having now seen both films, I totally agree. I've actually watched Togo three times now, I think, and loved it each viewing. It felt very much like classic Disney and made me wish that they devoted themselves to making movies like that today instead of sucking so much, like they do 99% of the time.
Disney has totally fucked up the MCU in the last few years. I would take what Sony is doing over what Disney is doing these days.
Morbius wasn't actually that bad of a film. I sort of enjoyed it.
And Madame Web definitely is not good but it is entertaining in its weirdness.
Frankly, I would rather rewatch either of those than some of the more bland MCU films.
Reagan ended up at $30 million. With a production budget of $10 million and little spent on marketing, it made money. And that's not to mention whatever it pulls in on DVD/Blu-Ray and digital sales and rentals.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Faux is an adjective. Adjectives modify nouns. "Celebrating" is a verb and requires an adverb for modification.
Agreed. That was an awesome time for America.
Growing up in the 80s and early 90s, I was obsessed with martial arts, and Van Damme was a big part of the reason why. He was charismatic, had a great physique and his kicking ability was like poetry in motion.
It's a shame that he was in his prime for only a brief time and that his career basically ran off the rails after the mid-90s. It would've been awesome if he could've gotten some better scripts and worked with better directors and made at least a couple of classics that were on the level of Terminator 2 or Rocky, or even Total Recall or Demolition Man.
It would be interesting to know how Van Damme's career might have gone differently if he had worked with some better directors and gotten some better scripts.
This is not to say that everyone he worked with sucked, but they weren't A-listers. And even when he did work with a good director, the work the director did with Van Damme was not his best. For instance, Peter Hyams' films with Van Damme were a big step down from 2010, and Hard Target was nowhere near as good as Face/Off or many of Woo's Hong Kong films.
The exception was Sheldon Lettich. When Lettich and Van Damme worked together, Sheldon was at his best.
Likely he made Daylight because disaster movies were trendy at the time and he wanted to capitalize on that. Independence Day and Twister had just come out earlier in the year when Daylight was released, and Dante's Peak and Volcano were slated for the next year.
Sudden Death, on the other hand, was a Die Hard clone that came out seven years after DH did, and that followed several imitators, including one of Stallone's own in Cliffhanger.
I think you're right, at least in part, about social media. The Internet has given celebrities the ability to interact directly with the public in a way that they never had in the past. I think another problem is that Hollywood has become such a place that they reward the kind of behavior that we're talking about and so I'm sure actors will chase the kudos by being as vocal as possible and virtue signalling as much as they can.
In regard to celebrities being normal human beings, I think that many of them have lost sight of this fact themselves. They always have cameras in their faces and people fawning over them and they start to buy into their own hype after a while.
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