Movies (and occasionally face slaps) (Part 1)

Waaaaaaat?

NBD but I played poker with Nick Cassavetes multiple times over the last few years. Didn’t recognize him at first since he was no longer rocking this look

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I un-ironically love The Rock, Face / Off, and all mid 90s action Nic Cage

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Environmentalists make a useful villain because their malevolence can be obscured by a patina of reasonableness. Global warming and other manmade problems are going to end the world if we don’t do something — so just about anything is justified! But their villainy resonates with the masses because they actually do want to make life worse for people, for the most part.

There’s a reason France convulsed in recent weeks, as middle-class protesters angered by taxes pushed for by environmentalists took to the streets. Environmentalists want to increase the costs of everyday goods and services by taxing carbon. They want you to fly less and to pay more, via offsets, when you do fly. They want you to stop eating meat. They want you to stop having kids. They want to deprive you of disabled-friendly plastic straws — and they’re coming for your delightful balloons next. They want to turn your corpse into food for plants because even the sweet release of death cannot save you from the environmentalist menace.

There is no aspect of your life that environmentalists don’t want to tinker with, no realm immune from their meddling: just think of those poor small-businessmen whose livelihoods were destroyed by a deranged EPA bureaucrat in the 1984 classic “Ghostbusters.”

Also true of a lot of political kayfabe that goes on where Republicans grumble about plastic straws and whatnot. On one hand I get it, but on the other, do a lot of people complain about incandescent lightbulbs anymore?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/03/environmentalists-make-good-movie-villains-because-they-want-make-your-real-life-worse/

Looks like they’re found a replacement for George Willl. Looking forward to more great takes!

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Hey, no need to semi-apologize. Fun movies are fun movies. Not everything has to be an Oscar winner.

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Don’t stop in the 90s. He continues to make great movies!

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/ffyvir/nicolas_cage_made_29_directtovideo_movies_in_the/

Nicolas Cage made 29 direct-to-video movies in the 2010s. I watched all of them.

A couple of weeks ago, I showed my son National Treasure, and the whole time I kept thinking “damn, I really miss Nic Cage”. I knew that he was pretty much in the DTV world for the past 10 years, but I didn’t realize to what level. Turns out that Nicolas Cage made 29 direct-to-video movies in the 2010’s, and almost immediately, I was determined to watch every one of them. So I did. In no particular order:

The Trust. 7/10.
A not half-bad way to start things off. It’s a little under-cooked at a brisk 90 minutes, but him and Elijah Wood play well of each other. Cage gives his character some quirky traits in the first half coming across as a likeable guy trying to do something he shouldn’t, but quickly turns to full-on bad guy in the second half. There’s a good story here but it’s never fully realized. We are treated to a Cage Out though in the third act, which is always welcome.

1 down, 28 to go.

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Never seen it…

Worth watching?

It was!

Watching Soderbergh’s 2-part Che biopic, trying to resist the temptation to sign up for the Criterion Collection’s streaming service. Man, they just let Ghost Dog in the collection, I’m jonesing to watch that now.

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MY BODY IS READY

https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/keanu-reeves-reportedly-talks-cameo-flash-constantine/

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Flash movie without Grant Gustin… what’s the point of that?

He’s in it too.

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I’ll allow it.

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I heard John C. Reilly mention this on a podcast and then it completely went out the memory hole until just now when I read your post. That said I haven’t seen a new movie other than Frozen 2 since my daughter was born unless it’s on Amazon or Netflix.

Wife and I finished the Before series - loved Before Sunset, didn’t really care for Before Midnight even if I understand why it exists and they made it the way they did.

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Tell us more about what you’re watching. Even if someone has already seen it, we haven’t heard about your perspective and experience. It’s like getting to see the movie all over again when someone describes their own unique experience watching it.

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A good western I haven’t seen? Best movie recommendation in a minute.

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looked for this, but couldn’t find it. did find this cool documentary by the same director, though

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Famous movies you’ve never seen inspired by Lawrence of Arabia

The Godfather trilogy

Citizen Kane

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Watch the first two Godfather movies. Skip the 3rd and Citizen Kane.

I’ve never seen Titanic or Schindler’s List.

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The opening scene of the first Godfather is SO GOOD. Always somehow better than I remember. It shows just how irrationally compelling Marlon Brando was as an actor.

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