If you like The Other Guys, you should check out Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
OK, first off: a lion, swimming in the ocean. Lions donât like water. If you placed it near a river or some sort of fresh water source, that make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, 20 foot wave, Iâm assuming off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full grown 800 pound tuna with his 20 or 30 friends, you lose that battle, you lose that battle 9 times out of 10. And guess what, youâve wandered into our school of tuna and we now have a taste of lion. Weâve talked to ourselves. Weâve communicated and said âYou know what, lion tastes good, letâs go get some more lionâ. Weâve developed a system to establish a beach-head and aggressively hunt you and your family and we will corner your pride, your children, your offspring.
We will construct a series of breathing apparatus with kelp. We will be able to trap certain amounts of oxygen. Itâs not gonna be days at a time. An hour? Hour forty-five? No problem. That will give us enough time to figure out where you live, go back to the sea, get some more oxygen, and stalk you. You just lost at your own game. Youâre outgunned and out-manned.
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Wait, I was thinking of The Nice Guys
After watching King of Chinatown, I decided to check out Daughter of the Dragon (1931), the next in Criterionâs Anna Wong collection in which Anna puts off an marvelous femme fatale performance. As this is literally a 1930âs Fu Manchu story this movie is obviously hella xenophobic, and yet at the same time itâs one of the very few movies of its era in which Asian-American actors were allowed to speak non-broken English and also shows the heroic Scotland Yard detective Sessue Hayakawa coming to the rescue of a hopelessly dimwitted white couple. Strong recommend if you like old-timey action-adventure shit and you have 70 minutes to spare.
Two other points of note: Sessue pulls off a legit judo throw, making this the earliest example of Asian marital arts on film that Iâve ever seen. Also, Anna comes within an inch of kissing a white dude, which almost made this the first interracial kiss on film by decades. This was made back in the pre-code era, when Hollywood was allowed to show crazy subversive shit like people wanting to bone people of different races and Asian-Americans speaking proper English.
Also, I guess itâs out of copyright so you can watch it for free on youtube
Friendly reminder that if you enjoy horror and/or fun movies and havenât seen Malignant youâre missing out
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Best Bond theme song is one that was never used imo
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Best cover of a Bond theme:
Barbarian: I donât usually see horror films in the theatre but a friend begged me to go and I actually really enjoyed this. Itâs definitely different than the jump-scare laden modern horror flick. The narrative style is creative and the acting is pretty good, too.
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Cool I am not a horror guy either but was curious about this.
Somehow a Fletch movie is released and like no one anywhere is talking about it at all? Jon Hamm seems like a great choice for the role.
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Wasnât marketed at all and the trailer is meh but itâs been getting some positive buzz
You guys who recommended Infernal Affairs were right, oh man what a movie. 5 bags of popcorn, off to rewatch and then watch the other two in the trilogy.
They clearly should do this again to jazz up the Oscars
https://twitter.com/FritzandOscars/status/1570674076469071872
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That ape has some moves!
This was so good. I am not a horror person but I really loved this. Tons of layers of social commentary. Scary. Smart. Meta.
Has top 5 smash cut of all time.
Grade: A-
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Should I see Barbarian or Nope tonight?
You know youâre setting yourself up for a Whoâs on First bit, right?
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Over my head and before my time lol.
My vote is Barbarian, but I havenât seen Nope yet and Iâm basing that on Jordan Peeleâs other films.
Barbarian is just so different.
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How on earth can Whoâs on First be âbefore your timeâ?
Itâs possibly the most famous comedy sketch in history.