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Accurate ratings of his movies. Sam Mendes is massively overrated; his movies do not fare well on repeat viewings years later. He brings out strong work from his cinematographers (Conrad Hall, Deakins) but other than a clever big-budget theatre style in his mis-en-scene, he doesn't really have anything to say.
Sara Gilbert's careworn and washed up appearance fit her updated character situation perfectly. Great acting, one of the best still working.
Charlie Rose's favorite feel good films:
Secretary
The Intern
1. Crazy - Willie Nelson
2. Crazy - Aerosmith
3. Crazy Arms - Chris Isaak
4. Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen
5. Still Crazy after All These Years – Paul Simon
6. Let’s Go Crazy – Prince
7. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – Miranda Lambert
8. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
9. Crazy Love - Van Morrison
10. Crazy on You - Heart
11. Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
12. Crazy Like Me - Willie Nelson
13. Crazy - Britney Spears
14. I'd Have to Be Crazy - Willie Nelson
15. Crazy in Love - Beyonce
You're an idiot.
NBA is HUGE in China. The NFL wants in so bad but knows there's no way they'll ever enter the Chinese consumer market. Why? Because NBA is all about hip hop and black culture, which are both nearly as much of a trend in China as it is in the US. The NFL is too white, too old fashioned. China does not want to see more pasty white people. Chinese people gobbled down Fast and Furious and xXx because those are multi-racial casts that are plain cool.
You're trying to start a troll racist post, fine.
Too bad bro. The Martian is decent entertainment.
That said, Alien and Blade Runner are really his only visually raw and inventive films. It's shocking how everything after that seems like a commercial studio blockbuster. Even 'chaotic' films like Black Hawk Down or The Martian are glossed with a Hollywood polish.
Just read that Villeneuve was a collaborator in the writing stages. This means he literally ruined the movie; the script itself is slow and dull in execution and themes. On Sicario and Arrival, the scripts were written before he was brought onto the projects.
The last fight scene was weak. It's like they were fighting in a toilet. Would you really compare it against a set piece from Inception? Mad Max? Even The Fugitive or US Marshals.
Then it asked you to suspend too much: replicants can't breathe underwater? Where does K's sudden strength come from -> when he has knife wounds all over? That works for a cheesy surprise in a Bruce Willis movie - but did not fit here, nor did the entire fight itself considering this was mostly an internal noir film.
Denis Villeneuve may not have been the right director for this universe. He has a plain, observant style than transmogrifies into a sinister horror - which worked well for Prisoners, Arrival, and especially for the nihilistic world of Sicario. This may have hampered 2049 more than it added to. Ridley Scott should've just directed this instead.
This movie should have been a tv show instead of a movie.
The plot itself was an inner memory mystery, a love story, a clue hunting plotting, a corporate collusion with police - this was too much to fit in the already near 3 hour film.
Michael Green is primarily a TV writer, a great one at that. The film was too episodic and was unable to contain its multiple themes into a united, cohesive feature. The movie suffered because of this.
Here's to hoping a TV show is greenlit though. This is the richest sci-fi universe that exists.
Ugly is the point; the antithesis as you said. Blade Runner is already a world overpopulated, over polluted. 2049 is what happens 30 years later. No fanciful lights. No blinking gadgets. No burning pyramids. This world is coarse, plain, ugly.
this turned racist quickly
Did she honeytrap him into sexually assaulting her, then using it as ransom to make a new trilogy?
Platoon - Charlie Sheen as young Jim Hawkins to Willem Defoe's Long John Silver
No, that's not what CBS the studio HIRES or ASSIGNS him for.
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The fight was for the bookend of Gordon in the river. The previous episode we saw his POV of his memories or that 'last thing you see before you go'.
At the end of the episode he's reflecting on the fight while eating a hot dog, then at the river, he dives into the water and literally pass through to the other side. Except he surfaces, and 'heaven' for him is to return to Donna (red haired) and baby, where they then move to Texas, and the whole show begins again.
It's the same shot in the previous episode in the video game Cam made that Donna was watching, where the Blue player dives into the river, then hugs a Red player, together again.
There was another callback to the fight in the episode when Donna sees Gordon still has the electric meat cutter. Either he kept it or never used it, it shows how little a fight in the past can be. She simply puts it in the garbage bag with the rest of the utensils.
The way it's described here makes it seem better than it actually was though. All of this was so literal and obvious - the lens flare flashes, the diving into water - while the dialogue was also stiff and on-the-nose.
This is a good show, but nowhere near deserving of the praise it's getting by critics like Sepinwall. Although no one's really listening to them. Glad this show is over.
Mucinex.
As a show, the writing is always clunky, never subtle. The relation to computing history is negligible and uninteresting considering what is developing at the time. Gordon's death scene was film school basics.
The interweaving connections between the characters is a draw for the show, but it doesn't have the insight or scope of Mad Men or Sopranos, which it so badly tries to be. Critics rave about this now because there's simply nothing else on the level of MM or Sopranos right now.
Did you watch the entire show high?
This show is what Lost would have been (unconventional narratives, religion, nuclear weapons, temporal shifts, deep character episode studies) if not for the ABC network interference and JJ Abrams. Thank God, which there is none, for HBO.