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I remember watching my VHS tape 10 days in a row.
He makes films based on what he watched as a young man, particularly the 60's and 70's.
With that in mind, we should consider what genre is left for him? He's done blaxploitation, Kung Fu, western, mystery, and he kind of invented the non-linear crime drama.
What genre would he really want to tackle next? There's plenty left, I just wonder what Quentin himself feels is missing from his filmography. Is it Sci-Fi, or Fantasy, or even a Musical?
her current profile photo, probably the same one when you posted this, but is that heroin sweat? She looks fucked up, definitely on drugs, it's drug sweat of some kind.
Their storyline is so random.
It's the current hipster trend. Just wait until they discover silent film, they'll all be telling us how great movies are silent in B&W.
Moo
Trail of Tears 2.0
Ok, 60 million!
Really? This is pathetic. It wasn't really that long ago when a handful of cowboys could drive a million cattle from the Red River in Texas up into Kansas City or Montana in a couple of months. Don't act like logistically, it's impossible to remove 50 million illegal aliens back into Tijuana and Juarez.
It's totally possible, all it takes is the will.
Prices will necessarily go down when 50 million illegals are no longer in the country competing for the same food supply, and this goes for the housing market as well.
It's not as good as the original trilogy, but that doesn't make it a bad movie. People judge too harshly in an all-or-nothing, hyperbolic manner.
Yes I saw this in the theater, it was the biggest blockbuster of the time. It had a marketing blitz that would become the norm, firstly with the hit Guns n Roses track that was wildly successful and was on MTV constantly, it was a daily reminder of the film. Plus, there was the innovative hit T2: The Arcade Game, plus an outstanding T2 pinball machine.
Drugs wear off.
I don't get it, as soon as a person is featured on the news they get a profile?
Rachel Zegler looks like there Green Goblin in tan face.
He was born to play a villain.
I'm not against alternative energy at all, as long as it doesn't impeed progress. Billy Bob makes a great point that we need a solution before all the oil is gone, although he doesn't mention it will take a few hundred years before that happens, and that doesn't include finding deposits of new oil in the future.
There are ways that Americans waste oil that are mind boggling, and nobody thinks about it. I can't source the article, it's been years since I read it, but I remember reading that one NASCAR race, with all the trials and tuning, plus the race itself uses enough fuel to run Reagan International Airport for 30 days or something stupid like that ( I really wish I could remember the source here).
The other fact is that Americans do a lot to conserve though, and our country tries to bring cleaner energy to the fore. What is really hypocritical and irritating about all of it is how we are lectured, when everyone knows China and India are the largest polluters of everything on this planet. America is not the source of all the worlds pollution, but we sure get the blame, and when I say 'we' I mean your average work-a-day American who does nothing more than drive to work every day to keep our economy going, and he/she buys groceries, pays bills and tries to just mind his own business but has to be lectured by really ignorant people who don't even realize their precious Iphone is made with evil oil.
How was The Day After hopeful in any way? It amazes me how there are actually, basically fanboys of Threads that continue to denigrate The Day After all these years later, like it matters. It's really a big lie to characterize TDA as hopeful though, I mean did you watch it? The land is irradiated and ruined, people are dying and suffering from radiation sickness, the hospitals and medical facilities are overwhelmed and out of resources, the livestock is dead, and the ending sequence is the main family about to lose their home to marauders.
Oh yeah and Jason Robards makes a long journey back to Kansas City to where his home once was, which is a pile of smoldering rubble in a nuclear wasteland, where he himself is also severely irradiated and about to die as you see him labor to breathe his last few breaths.
I like and enjoy both films, they both offer a unique experience.
Testament is comparatively tame.
No it doesn't, that is basically proving the OPs point, in that the despair and destruction depicted in Threads is on another level, and it always gets compared 'favorably' to The Day After, like it's leaps and bounds better, but it's a gross exaggeration and really a totally subjective matter.
Both movies were made to cater to their audience. I like them both, and they are both most effective to their respective audiences, either English or American.