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yep or better yet can the OP name a policy he doesnt like from trump
like tim pool said thursday nght, 'you may not like trump but you can't deny he's right.'
trump is not perfect, but he is right about FAR more things that are fundamentally critical for our future. sadly the dem/left crowd tend to fall into emotional thinking, and/or become puppets for the MS media narrative. what they don't see is there are puppet masters BEHIND THE CURTAIN using them to achieve a bigger aim, which is to dismantle the American system eventually. this is the part they are missing inthe equation when they 'dismiss' trump based on superficial reasons.
V Lenin had people exactly like this, and they helped him take down the Tsar. Lenin called his own followers "Useful Idiots"
totally agree. way too late.
only move (as i see it) is CYA.
this is a multi-decade or even multi-century plan to bring down the west, and civilization in general. puppet masters did all this.
""Reminds me of Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School when Sally Kellerman (his teacher) asked him about the book The Great Gatsby. Rodney answered "The Great Gatsby... he was... great!""
lol yes
will be missed. one of my favorites. i must have watched bev hills cop at least 400 times over the years lol. this guy is great in everything. midnight run was excellent too.
RIP bro
Oh wow.
I didn't know until now.
A great loss. True master of the craft.
Gorgeous.
yes, all of them. anything in the brit gangster realm. in bruges, london boulevard, krays, all of em
sexy beast is a huge fave.
you are right, i am a big fan of connolly's stuff. i can't explain it, it just connects with me.
eh, maybe. but everything i could possibly say, i have said up above.
the story is jusy nebulous. for me, hollow action for action's sake is just not appealing. i gotta have conntext.
cheers.
valid point. that is exactly what i tell people about layer cake. just finished a post on this lol
thanks for posting.
i get it. most people say that. thing is, it's a different vibe, and once you plug into that, it becomes superlative.
vaughn deliberately removed most of the humor from this movei because he "didnt want to make lock stock 3" (direct quote)
but, if you read the book, it is very very funny. almost every line. he wanted to make a bona fide gangster flick with layer cake, a more serious film.
and IMO he achieved that.
like i said, the book is a much different ride.
and i do not claim layer cake is without its flaws. IMO a lot of things could've been done better. but as i've written before (many times) this is what i refer to as a 'literary film' meaning it adheres to the book so rigidly that it collapses the cinematic structure elements we generally expect from any film (plot points, minimal exposition etc) and proceeds to simply "film the book"
literary films have much more introspection in them, which causes the viewer to be left out of what is happening on screen, unless one already knows the plot from reading the book. in this case, i hated this film the first time i saw it. i really did. then i caught it on HBO in bits a few times, and as i rewatched scenes they made more sense to me because i already knew what was going to happen before i rewatched them, so the context was greatly improved. this happened several times, then i rewatched the whole film again and BOOM it was so much better with the added benefit of advanced knowledge.
( i admit this is not how it's SUPPOSED to worj with movies. but it does apply here, imo)
and in the years following 2005 i quickly grew to [b]"Worldwide Number One Fan"[/b] status, and the rest is history.
but anywho, yes, i see why you may say you like the others better.
this one is an acquired taste, much like fine wine, and that is not for everyone.
cheers.
nice post bro. glad to see another human on this board lol
yeah you are kinda late to the party. i think it was in skyfall when sidney became Q. as i understand it, craig and whishon are long time friends off screen, even before layer cake. personally i think making him into Q was a mistake, but hey it's just one of several things i wish they HADNT done with the new bond series. (post quantum, btw. i think the series was developing fine up until skyfall was released)
love that song, you got the love.
i agree about the soundtrack. if you poke around you may find some old threads where i discussed this at length with some old board regulars here (in the imdb days, that is). one was 'Damocles' Sword' but i haven't seen him here since 2017 when moviechat was launched. it's sad, really, that the boards had to die because it was a great thing for almost 20 years.
at one time i was on this board daily, but i barely even check it anymore.
the soundtrack you mention is the score too, i think. all of those songs are played in the movie.
"whoever was responsible" ...that would be matthew vaughn the director. he talks about the music a lot in the DVD commentray. IMO vaughn has a great ear for music and a great sense for choosing the right song to amplify a scene, even if it's a diminutive track such as all the soft droning ethereal vocals/instrumentals used in layer cake. his music taste is evident in all of his films, but layer cake was his first directorial effort, though he also probably chose most of the music in Snatch and Lock Stock, both of which are very well done musical scores too.
vaughn is a genius when it comes to matching music to a movie scene, IMO.
Official release was 20 years go this month (September) in London.
Viva La Layer Cake!!!!!
And once again, I am on here talking to myself. lol
totally agree.
i really miss the good ole days of imdb. it was a major part of my life for many years!! lol
i will never forgive col needham for killing the boards
oh okay
thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!
""I don't care for her political crap but I still think she's absolutely stunning and I'd give her a colonoscopy with my tongue ""
lol me too, bro.
agree.
these people giving this 7.5 are very lost.
moreover, this one is IMHO typical of the hollow fare put out these days. movies generally suck so bad now that I rarely watch aything made after 2007.
nope.
just making tv series.
lmfao
"your honor, I would liek to present exhibit A" ^^
this is a good example of why i say this site is BS. you pour a lotta sentiment out in a post and nobody even reads it let alones gives one half of a FUCK lolololololol
man, fuck this dumbass site
IDGAF
movies are dead anyway. at best, on life support.
go enjoy yalls' 'netflix original series' lol
---These days we are lucky to get 1 a year and its usually insulting with heavy handed propaganda.---
definitely agree here, 1000%
ii used to see movies AT THE THEATER 2-5 times EACH week, and now i may ride through to look at the posters twice a year (then drive away without entering)
the stories ALL suck now, and on top of that scenes are BORING as hell. movies now are full of pointless scenes where the characters are discussing something the viewers are NOT interested in at all. but they will be discussing it like has the importance of nuclear fusion or life/death. and they have so many MOOT superfluous details in films now that add nothing to the momentum, plot.
also every fucking filmmaker now tried to mimick tarantino's 'royale w cheese' conversation (in style i mean)
i have written on this extensively. for me the true death nell was 2020. but it was going on prior. i think it was somewhere around 2014-16 that i stopped going to the theater except for a handful of times in a year. and as bad as that was and i tought it couldn't get worse, the movie business said hold my beer and took it to a new low in the 2017-19 era. then covid hit and things were REALLY dead, probably for good. (i refer to quality, not attendance)
the one moment that defied all this was top gun maverick, IMHO. it actually suceeded in taking me back to an earlier time when movies were good and everyone in the theater was visibly having a great time, truly transported to another world for 2 hours. (reminds me of my grandfather talking about how he was glad he saw Florida in the days before the world discovered it, pree turnpike era of the 20s 30s)
they beat it out of me (the movie industry)
i was one of the most hardcore movie fans onthis planet, and they literally made me entirely numb to it.
as things sit now i just rewatch old greats on my TV at home, and enjoy the OCCASIONAL discovery of one i missed in the 70s or 80s, and when this happens that is a real treat.
i will add that good movies do still get made today, but they are very hard to find and usually i discover it 12-18 months later so i miss the theater experience.
another thing I'll add is that the industry as somewhat 'retooled' towards producing TV episodes INSTEAD of feature films, due to the public's hugs taste for the limited series format. i for one can take it or leave it (the limited series format) but i prefer by far a fine feature film.
we are also victims of the younger crowd running things in hollyweird, a contigent i think are likely unaware or unconcerned with good writing the way the filmmakers of a decade or two ago were. (been in a deep dive on carl franklin lately. he is a good example of top notch story sense and skillful directing)
i could go on forever, but gotta stop somewhere.
cheers
the acting was horrible. i guess we have different sensibilities. oh well. evidently i am alone in my tastes lmfao