You have to develop pretty thick skin when you attend a high school where a conflict over a girl can end up with the bad guys literally shooting your dad!
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Trailers really lost something when they stopped having that guy with that voice explain the movie to you.
He was kind of a pussy in Wall Street.
Youâll also like New Kids then.
Then you can watch Rad to complete the trilogy.
Someone made a different version of the trailer that utilizes the original score. Much better imo.
After recently rewatching Twister to I guess give a fair shake to a movie that underwhelmed in high school, and in doing so confirm that itâs a mediocre movie that people are extremely charitable to because ???, I rewatched Clueless - also one I have not understood the enduring popularity of - and I must say, I sold this one short in the past. Truly great movie. As teenage adaptations of classic literature go, maybe itâs even the best one. Cool time capsule also to see some young stars like Paul Rudd, Donald Faison, and Brittany Murphy cooking. I canât say I had any actual awareness of Paul Rudd being a thing all the way back in 1995.
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Awesome. One of my favorite movies. There was talk of a reunion series, but the closest we got was this commercial.
Watching Paul Rudd as Paris in Romeo + Juliet is creepy because he looks exactly the same, not younger, exactly the same.
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It remains a significant reading memory of mine when I read Emma and it got to a part where a character that Emma wasnât involved with got into a car with her âand immediately began passionately making love to her.â I was jarred; it was a MASSIVE ramp-up in whatever their relationship was, and seemed like a big tonal shift. Definitely didnât realize for a minute that âpassionately making love to herâ meant âconfessing that he was in love with herâ in Austen-speak.
I was a little surprised that this movie didnât have an âEmma acts completely shitty to someone of a lower social station and gets called out hard on itâ moment since that seems like such a compelling turning point in the story and itâs been used in the Gwyneth Paltrow and Anya Taylor-Joy adaptations, but ah well.
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Horizon: An American Saga
6/10
Saying anything more than itâs 3 hour long episodes of a mediocre TV series stitched together into a movie would be putting more effort than went into this movie.
OK one example. Hereâs how WasĂ© Chief shows up in the movie. This is her Instagram of the still where she first shows up. Eyebrows plucked, skin glowing, not a spec of dirt on her and sheâs supposed to be an Apache woman in a village. I was waiting for a GQ photo shoot to break out.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C9AqMDzvG39/?igsh=MWcyaHlkY3BoeDk5aQ==
Everything looked a little too clean, a little too little effort, like everyoneâs putting their 9 to 5 in on the set.
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Good enough for you to see part two? Iâve been curious whether the conversion gamble will pay off.
Not for me. I didnât really care too much for the characters or how it turns out
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Anxiety had a specific camera language, which benefited from the kinds of close-ups the Safdies used to convey similar intensity and anxiety in Uncut Gems. Habib says Mann took a lot of elements on board from Uncut Gems and the way it visually suggests its emotion, including the handheld camera, extreme deep and shallow focus, and the use of wide-angle lenses â even if theyâre only virtual lenses, created with CG effects.
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Getting ready to do the same and I was hoping maybe it would whelm this time.
Ah well, Iâll have it on while I play Slay the Spire, which is good enough to be able to listen to the Rewatchables.
Clueless is great, as is Legally Blonde - two movies that it seems like didnât get much serious consideration when they first came out.
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Yeah âCluelessâ is amazing, I saw it for the first time a few years ago and loved it, and Iâm also sure I wouldnât have liked it 25 years ago.
When I posted about it at the time, someone here (@skydiver8 I think, thanks !) recommended that I read some Jane Austen, and after reading âPride&prejudiceâ my appreciation for Clueless was even higher, as I felt that they really managed to keep the same spirit of light fun satire while bringing it to a modern setting.
Iâd also seen the ATJ-starring âEmmaâ which didnât do much for me. One funny thing about this movie which would make it feel very different if I rewatched today is that the âsecondary coupleâ is played by a pair of actors who at the time only seemed to me to be âsomewhat ugly British peopleâ, but who have somehow since both become sex symbols (Mia Goth and Josh OâConnor). (maybe MG was already famous at the time, not sure).
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Yeah, I mean nobody should take my word for it with Twister, youâll find legions of people who swear thatâs a classic action movie of the era. Itâs fine; I think my opinion went up slightly on rewatch, but Iâm not even altogether sure my opinion was that much different back when I first watched it. I think itâs more that it became an object of annoyance over time as people kept insisting how good it was and that hadnât been my memory at all, which I think caused me to mentally downgrade it a bit from âmehâ to âactually below averageâ when the former was probably right.
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Twister is worth watching for Hoffman alone. Guy was so elite in every role. He takes a nothing tiny role and steals the whole movie.
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I thought the pretty literal adaptation of Pride and Prejudice from 2005 worked well, the one featuring Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen. Took me a bit of watching Succession before I realized that the reason Tom Wambsgans looked familiar is that I previously saw him as Mr. Darcy. (PSA to those who would care: significant Pride and Prejudice spoilers in this video):
I thought Emma was a great book too. The AT-J adaptation was fine but was also probably the weakest Iâve seen. Iâm definitely now squarely at:
- Clueless
- Gwyneth Paltrow Emma
- Anya Taylor-Joy Emma
The other Austen Iâve read is Sense and Sensibility, and I remember finishing it and thinking, âHow could there even be a movie adaptation of this?â Book was alright, but didnât have a compelling narrative. The film having Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet should be draw enough to bother with trying it, but I just havenât yet.
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PSH was generally incredible of course, but that was one of the things about rewatching Twister that didnât work for me. I gather his character was meant to be endearing, but that wasnât my experience with the character at all. I do agree that he made the character pop in a way that most actors wouldnât have, but I didnât actually enjoy his scenes.
It does feel to me like Bill Paxton deserved an even better career than the (still good) one he got. He was an effective lead in that movie, and I absolutely love A Simple Plan and heâs a strong lead in that one too along a fantastic Billy Bob Thornton supporting performance. I guess it always felt like Paxton ended up getting kind of a Gary Sinise career while being better than Sinise.
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You mean aside from the top tier cast and excellent special effects? 
Of course, a comedian once complained: âHow can a tornado shoot a 3-penny nail into a 2 by 4 but canât get a tank top and bra off Helen Hunt?â
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