This looks both pretty interesting and pretty poorly shot.
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How can you diss Kansas City hometown hero Tommy Morrison like that?
I listened to the Speed Rewatchables. It always bugs me when they pick nits and donāt pick the one that jumped out at me.
When they get all the passengers off the bus, and Keanu and Bullock take their luge ride on the tarmac, the bus careens off on its own in whatever random direction. It could have hit LAX and killed way more people than were on the bus in the first place!
But thatās not the thing that really bugged me. The bus somehow finds its way to a maintenance area where some guy is towing a jumbo jet.
āGee Bob thereās like 10,000 cops over there and a bus is doing laps around the runway, do you think we should lock things down over here?ā
āBahhhh, I donāt have time for that nonsense. We got planes to move!ā
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4.9 on IMDB also. Yikes
Itās very low budget. You will see the money they didnāt have and that Soderbergh can only offer so many tips for iPhones.
One actor in particular is terrible. Just awful.
But a lot of the movie is so well executed that I canāt help but appreciate it.
Iām a huge fan of the genre where terrible people invade a home and find out the owner is so evil that the home invaders suddenly feel like the heroes.
Johnnie To is simply the most underrated director of all time in the West. Every movie he makes is a banger; I havenāt found a dud yet.
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I love this theory that The Shawshank Redemption randomly popularized this now-common phrase.
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Thatās some good shit. Several football fields worth in fact.
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How do you even begin to coordinate a tracking shot like this. I know there are clever cuts and all manner CGI trickery but still it seems insane.
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This really is quite impressive!! Whole movie like this?
iām glad adam driver is making movies about driving
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Zaslav redeems himself by releasing most DCEU movies on Prime where they can at least die free and happy.
https://tubitv.com/movies/310136?link-action=play&tracking=google-feed&utm_source=google-feed
Hotel Rwanda shakes me to my core every time.
I cry during the scene when Paulās wife tells him how to get out with their children, but the plan would require him to leave his wife behind. He tells her, āTatianaā¦! I will never leave you. Never.ā
Rusesabagina was a hotel manager during the 1994 genocide. He rose to fame when Hollywood released the film, where he was played by Don Cheadle about his actions to protect Tutsis, who sought refuge at the hotel from Hutu death squads. He was credited with protecting and saving the lives of more than 1,000 people.
I got curious what the actual Paul Rusesabagina has been up to since the brief outro text of the movie.
And it turns out the shit that happened to him in the last three years is no less harrowing. Wtf.
Paul Rusesabagina, 'Hotel Rwanda' hero, released from prison : NPR.
[His] family says he was kidnapped in 2020 after he boarded a plane in Dubai that he believed was taking him to Burundi. But the flight landed in the Rwanda instead.
Upon his arrival, he was arrested and put on trial over his ties to the Rwanda Movement for Democratic Change (MRCD), a group that opposes Kagameās rule.
Seems to be turning out okay from wikiā¦
On 20 September 2021, he was convicted on terrorism charges and sentenced to 25 years in prison. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention rendered their opinion on 18 March 2022 that Rusesabagina had been illegally kidnapped, tortured, and sentenced after an unfair trial. The Working Group further found that Rusesabagina has been targeted by the Government on account of his work as a human rights defender, because of his criticism of the Government on a broad range of issues.
In 2023, after serving two years in prison, Rusesabaginaās sentence was commuted by the Rwandan president.
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Itās not must-see, but I basically like the Dracula on a boat movie, itās an old-school monster-of-the-week movie that feels like a legit part of the Universal monster franchise. The premise seemed thin at first but they do manage to turn it into a full movie-length story.
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I was interested in this, will wait for Redbox prolly
I saw this last night. Iām not quite putting it at Superbad level, but itās very solid, exceeded my expectations. Worthy addition to the high school comedy pantheon. Theater was unusually full and the movie got a strong crowd reaction. Happy for Ayo Edebiri if she is indeed stacking another successful co-starring project on top of The Bear to continue her career momentum. Marshawn Lynch should be cast in every single comedy.
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I wanna see it so bad. Looks hilarious.
Would also add Blockers to the female-led Superbad list.
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Recently heard an interview with the director (on The Big Picture) and she said she basically didnāt know anything about his football career/antics but he was suggested to her based on Murderville. She said he seemed a little surprised/confused that she wanted him in the movie, but that he was really enthusiastic and brought a great energy to set. So, yeah, cast him in everything.
Since watching The Deepest Breath Iāve become fascinated by deep divers (either free or scuba). Came across this documentary last night and itās a pretty good one about a extremely deep cave dive to recover a dead body. Also found this long article detailing the operation and you can watch the actual dive footage since the lead guy wore a camera on his head.
These guys are really sick individuals, when youāre going down to 800+ feet you canāt even spend any time down there because of the enormous amount of gas required to keep you breathing. O yeah and that gas is basically a narcotic that makes you feel like youāre shitfaced drunk, and you canāt exert any effort or youāll generate too much CO2 and pass out. They said every minute spent at depths like that adds at least an hour of decompression time on ascent.
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