Watched The Hunt tonight… meh. Had some potential but wound up being a weaker version of Ready or Not with nothing to say. Sorta clever premise IDK. Not worth the 90 minutes.
Ya no estoy aqui
9/10
This could have been a social justice tale of a kid fleeing violence in Mexico who comes to America, finds an adoptive family and flourishes. Instead it’s a haunting movie of loss. The camera work is great in this; it lingers and stays, drawing out moments. The main actor is great as well.
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It’s a very good premise but it’s not original. The premise and subtext were lifted from a short story from the 1920’s called The Most Dangerous Game, about a rich asshole who hunts people for sport on his private island.
I’m looking forward to watching this, it’s garbage but I love this kind of B movie stuff.
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- Pulp Fiction
- Kill Bill
- Inglourious Basterds
- Hateful Eight
- Reservoir Dogs
- Django
- Hollywood
- Death Proof
Top 3 are solid and some of my all time favorites. Pulp is top 5 of all time and Kill Bill is top 10. I do like Hateful Eight more than most. I just love the slow build of the people in that cabin.
The Killing Fields
1985 film, with Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor and John Malkovich.
War film enthusiasts might’ve missed this one.
Haing S. Ngor, who plays Pran, was himself a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime and the labour camps.[11] Prior to the Khmer Rouge’s ‘Year Zero’ he was a doctor based in Phnom Penh. In 1975, Ngor was one of millions who were moved from the city to forced labour camps in the countryside. He spent four years there before fleeing to Thailand.[12]
Haing S. Ngor had never acted before appearing in The Killing Fields . He was spotted by the film’s casting director, Pat Golden, at a Cambodian wedding in Los Angeles.[13]
Of his role in the film, he told People magazine in 1985: “I wanted to show the world how deep starvation is in Cambodia, how many people die under Communist regime. My heart is satisfied. I have done something perfect.”[14]
Ngor became one of only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Award for acting, the other being Harold Russell ( The Best Years of Our Lives , 1946).
He was shot and killed in Los Angeles in 1996.
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Of the following, whose CAREER would you choose? List is in alphabetical order. This came up with some friends recently and I thought the answer was pretty clear but some interesting arguments were made if you consider awards and movies and roles you wish you were (and were not) associated with.
- George Clooney
- Tom Cruise
- Johnny Depp
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Tom Hanks
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Focused on career alone I also think it’s pretty clear. If it’s “which of these people would I rather be”, my answer would be different.
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Tom Hanks is the celebrity that I most often get the…“you know who you look like” treatment from strangers. They think it must be great to look like him, until I remind them that----> I’ve never heard a woman say: you know who I would love to fuck? Tom Hanks. And they’ve never heard it either or thought it themselves.
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Surely lots of women find Tom hanks attractive, they might be older women at this point though
That’s like caring if your grandma thinks you’re handsome.
FWIW the reason I think it’s clearly Cruise is because he was a movie star pretty much immediately. Hanks spent years climbing the ladder (and more power to him for that). Cruise and his movies also made a ton more money.
Don’t be a p----, get on with it, do your part.
I am in favor of calling people the far more vulnerable “scrote” but otherwise was like damn, that might be the harshest thing Tom has ever said in public.
The poll is not fair unless it is comparing Toms to Toms. None of this George and John nonsense.
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Cruise has too much of an Elvis period with stuff like Top Gun, Cocktail and Days of Thunder imo. Surprised Clooney isn’t getting more love tbh.
Of the following, whose CAREER would you choose? List is in alphabetical order.
- Nicole Kidman
- Julia Roberts
- Meryl Streep
- Charlize Theron
- Oprah Winfrey
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This was next! Wasn’t leaving the grills out damnit
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ha, sorry!
Oprah??
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Hamilton watch party?
- Yes
- Of course
- Obviously
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Watched a third of jon stewards irresistible, got bored, turned it off, weird weird choice of movie to make in 2019. Be better.