Oh yeah, he would have been perfect.
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Strange Days (1995) on Criterion Channel right now --criminally underrated sci-fi film noir, why arenāt we talking about this movie more? In the distant year 1999 Local cyber-porn distributor Ralph Fiennes and his badass bodyguard/gf Angela Bassett find themselves embroiled in the police murder of a rapper. Admittedly, some of the writing gets a bit goofy, but Kathryn Bigelow just does not miss with the gritty action sequences. Fair warning: thereās a LOT of sexual violence in this one, not a good time if thatās going to upset you.
Also, Iām telling you right now you are not prepared for how much ass Angela Bassett kicks in this movie.
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As Tears Go By (1988)
Watching In the Mood for Love as my first Wong Kar-wai experience immediately whet my appetite to dive deeper into the Wong catalog, so here we are the very next day.
This is certainly a good movie, even if the thought, āso, this is Mean Streets?ā crept into my head early and persistently distracted me for much of the runtime. Narratively, it doesnāt meaningfully distinguish itself from that inspiration, but thankfully Wong has a distinct style that still manages to make it feel like a significantly different experience. The fact that itās highly derivative of the earlier Scorsese film seems like itās beyond debate, and it would obviously be even better if it was a more original work, but I donāt feel like the sun is so fully blocked out by one or the other that I couldnāt happily revisit them both.
Looking forward to continuing with his filmography.
3.5/5
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I love the recognition at the end that he fucked up both ways. āI haveā
Damn, I really really enjoyed that movie.
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He has so many cool deliveries like that in the movie where he just pulls out an unconventional line delivery that it doesnāt feel like any other actor would have even thought of. When he gets rejected later, āYeah, no, I was thinking noā was another one of those. Iām really not even sold on Barry Keoghan in general, but Iām in love with that performance.
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What do we think the pay is for sportscasters essentially playing themselves in movies?
Think Verne Lundquist in Happy Gilmore or Bob Costas in Cars.
Wanted to go to a movie today but literally nothing to see in the middle of summer. Crazy.
Only the terrible 20th Jurassic movie released this weekend!
Probably their usual rate plus residuals
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The follow-a-franchise-into-the-ground crowd is so stubborn.
Them: āLook, I really loved one of these movies once. What am I supposed to do, just stop when they stop being good?ā
Me: āYes! Thatās precisely what youāre supposed to do! What the fuck kind of question is that?ā
Them: ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆ
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Iām pretty sure we established some time ago my taste and that of the majority of the moving going population are pretty strongly inversely correlated. 
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I am with you on this franchise. I couldnāt believe how bad Jurassic World: Dominion was. Especially with that cast. I have no desire to see Rebirth until perhaps itās free on Tubi and I just stumble across it.
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I donāt really like any of the Jurassic Park sequels
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The funniest part of the new one to me was every Dinosaur is stealthy. They do a dumb fake out when they are looking for the ~60 feet tall dinos that maybe they are actually raptors.
But like, one of those things are 6 feet tall the other is 60.
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this is on hulu so i caught it. the sci fi tech central to the plot was spoofed for a sidequest in cyberpunk2077. it felt familiar when i played the game but i donāt think iāve seen this movie before. ralph was great. iām still conclave-pilled so seeing young cardinal lawrence was fun bonus
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Yes. I mean it was admirable when the catastrophic reception to Godfather 3 nipped any thought of a sequel in theā
itās kind of impressive how every JP sequel is the worst JP sequel when itās released
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I mean, Iād go see Godfather IV
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Lol
Was it worse than the talking raptor in JP3?
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