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Best Plot Twist of All Time? *** SPOILERS *** (obviously)
Rosario Dawson in Leather
On Kanopy (free with library card) — claimed 2023 transfer
Blu-Ray quality is freaking me out
Best Director 1972: Coppola or Fosse?
Charlize Theron: A Class of One
Most Horrific Scene
The Thriller Cell Phone Problem (SPOILERS)
The Scene That Made Andy Garcia a Star (Sno-Cones at L.A. Live)
The Truth? Just Another Dumb Hollywood Flick.
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You “just” got the DVD?
Really … in 2022?
Dunno if you’re aware, but high-definition Blu-Ray discs, which have nearly seven times the resolution of DVD, are nearly two decades old and obsolete. Most major releases have been available for nearly a decade in 4K HDR with 27 times the resolution.
DVD was state of the art … in 1997.
A quarter century ago.
Let’s see: rents and groceries up 50%, rampant city crime and homelessness, druggies shitting in the streets and stabbing bystanders …
Only things missing are the heat and grinding dead folk into food, though we did get several days of 90+ here at the beach.
2022 also the year of A Boy and His Dog.
Not a counter argument.
Candy was never X-rated.
It was always R, even back in 1968.
Innocent couple vacations in exotic locale, chased a by strange Chinese man they can’t get rid of but who always seems to save their asses is a great idea for a movie. A kind of twist on Hitchcock where the innocent regular man engulfed in trouble is a world-class boxer getting his kicked by short Filipinos with exotic fighting skills — the difference here is the man slowly wises up. That’s a fun premise they could have done more with. The bad guys are always the low point in flicks like this — stick figures with no real substance and not interesting. I’d like to see real characters with a credible back story showing how they drank their own Koolaid, and … if lucky … gets the audience to drink it too a la “Jagged Edge.”
Correction: Not on a concrete floor and not in a line.
Outside, in the dirt, in a pile.
GLAD YOU DISCOVERED THE PHILIPPINES IN FIFTY YEARS.
HOW ABOUT DISCOVERING CAPS LOCK?
EVEN EASIER.
Which is … what?
I prefer action movies that also have good sound and don’t distract me with cheaply-done effects.
It’s not that hard: they had the equipment, as you can tell from the more- clear interior scenes.
A sound editor that reuses sounds with every film is a lazy hack not really doing his job and with no respect for the audience.
I did notice that.
It is weird but I chalked it up to Cohen’s guerilla filmmaking.
Have you seen the documentary on Cohen?
It covers this film extensively and claims most of the NYC street scenes were shot wild with no permit and no releases.
It was the anything-goes 70’s. Before you criticize those cut corners, know that it happened all the time back then, even in major films. William Friedkin, director of The five-Oscar-winning French Connection, has admitted to doing the same with his elevated-train chase — a very dangerous stunt that risked injury or death of civilians (can’t say “innocent” because they were New Yorkers).
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