Dream Scenario 2023 is about Richard Stallman?
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Kristoffer Borgli's 2023 film
Dream Scenario starring
Nicolas Cage is a movie about a man, who is being dreamed about by a lot of people. At first his family have weird dreams about him. Then people related to them. Then the whole world. At first the dreams make him famous. But then they take a turn for the worst. At first he is just doing nothing in those dreams. Then he is being a creep. And then he literally murders people in those dreams. Which makes the public, in the real life, react to him with greater and greater rivalry. Apart from, for some reason, people in France.
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Vicious 2025 is a cool little therapy movie
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A lot of horror films are therapeutic in nature. They let you see and examine some dark things about yourself or the world. And that is a good thing. For example, some people were "cured" from suicidal thoughts by watching the
Saw franchise. A running theme in those films, is that
Saw would choose some rather depressed, suicidal individuals for the "games". Where they need to do some utterly bad shit crazy things to themselves, to survive. That puts the whole suicide thing into perspective. Making you really understand how pointless it is, as a solution. The 2025 film
Vicious written and directed by
Bryan Bertino and starring
Dakota Fanning is also a therapy horror film.
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Death Wish 2018 has a low rating due to politics
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17% Rotten Tomatoes score. The movie got to be shit, right? Well when it comes to the
Eli Roth's 2018
Death Wish ( the remake of
the 1974 film with the same name ) you are not quite correct. In my estimate the film should be no less than 60%, based on its execution. Eli Roth is a good enough director to pull something like this off. And you can see that he is trying. The actors are also good. And the music by
Ludwig Göransson is really fucking good. I mean this is the same guy who did the music for
Tenet and
Oppenheimer. He is really fucking good. Watching the movie, I saw that the movie is arguably a lot more watchable and a lot more satisfying than the 1974 original. What is different, is that the 1974 original was made in 1974. And since then the politics have changed.
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The Taking of Pelham 123 ( 2009 ) is Tony Scott continuing to mess with Michael Bay
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Tony Scott's 2009 film
The Taking of Pelham 123 is a remake of a 1998 TV movie with same name, which is a remake of a 1974 movie with the same name, which is an adaptation of a 1973 book, with the same name. Strangely enough, apart from
Denzel Washington playing the hero and
John Travolta playing the villain, the film also prominently shows
John Turturro and
Ramón Rodríguez which, the same year, also appeared in a
Michael Bay film
Transformens 2: Revenge of the Fallen.
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Domino 2005 is Tony-Scott-hem!
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Tony Scott appeared to be trying to outgrow
Michael Bay in the 2000s. In 2001 he does
Spy Game which is a kind of slightly bayhem-ish movie. Where Tony Scott is no longer trying to make pretty pictures, but is trying to go for ultimate intensity. His
Enemy of the State before that, is still more of a classic Tony Scott. While making
Spy Game his brother
Ridley Scott was making
Black Hawk Down while Michael Bay was making
Pearl Harbor. While
Pearl Harbor has the Bay's explosions and stuff, the colors of the film still look relatively normal. Only his next film ( 2003
Bay Boys II ) go crazy with colors.
Spy Game, while being more energetic in directing and editing department, than even
Enemy of the State still looks like a normal movie, albeit it is a little desaturated. But
Black Hawk Down ( probably in attempt of messing with
Spielberg's
Saving Private Ryan ) is super moody, with extreme contrast and intense colors. A thing that Michael Bay tries to replicate right away for
Bad Boys II and then Tony Scott also replicated for
Man on Fire in 2004. And then on
Domino in 2005, Tony Scott goes even harder with the style. While Bay is doing roughly the same thing in his own way in
The Island.
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Déjà Vu 2006 is Tony Scott's Minority Report
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Tony Scott famously didn't care about the time travel plot of
Déjà Vu which freaked out the writers of the film. As they said, he cared more about the action and surveillance aspects of the movie. He famously cared a lot about surveillance, as visible from his previous
Jerry Bruckheimer collaboration
Enemy of the State. And that means, that a sort of sci-fi surveillance movie, marks
Déjà Vu as the closest thing Tony Scott did to
Steven Spielberg's
Minority Report.
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Man on Fire 2004 is Tony Scott's Leon: The Professional
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Critics gave negative reviews to 2004
Tony Scott's film
Man on Fire because of "grim story that gets harder to take the longer it goes on". Are you fucking serious? How then
Lars Von Trier movies get good reviews? Something isn't quite right here. To be frank, the film is very ultra-cinematic. Which could rub some critics the wrong way. Scott doesn't just direct the shit out of it. He also edits the shit out of it. Making one of the coolest directed films in existence. Which if you think about it, isn't particularly what critics find as a serious picture. And yes, the film is grim. At times it feel like a horror film. Not just a thriller. But the film is a rather satisfactory experience.
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Don't Look Up 2021 is Melancholia, but a comedy
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A lot of people see the 2021
Adam McKay film
Don't Look Up as something that fails to communicate the message of climate change well enough. McKay stated that the movie was written specifically to point people at the absurdity of the "climate crisis". And yet the film's allegorical comet / asteroid doomsday plot seems to fail at giving it justice. For once an asteroid that is about to destroy the planet is nobody's fault. While the climate change is somebody's fault. But if you look at the movie relatively to other disaster flicks of the same type ( like
Armageddon and
Melancholia ) you see something rather interesting.
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The Neon Demon 2016 begs for a psycho-sexual analysis
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Nicolas Winding Refn seems to be making only cult-classics. His 2011
Drive was a moderate box office success. But a banger of a cult-classic later on, as people understood that it is not a mere action film. Then he made
Only God Forgives. A strange psycho-sexual movie where the plot lives in the crack-space between reality and dream-land. The film got misunderstood and barely made its money back. Yet those people who like it, like it very much. And then he made a straight box-office disaster
The Neon Demon that made only half of its ( rather small $7.5 million ) budget back. Yet it is seems like it's the kind of movie that just begs for a deep analysis.
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Prey 2022 tries to be annoying to concervatives
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The
Predator franchise started its life as a masculine super-macho, mega-violent little B-Movie with
Arnold Schwarzenegger. In
my review of the first film, I even speculated, for a second, that it might have even been racist. Something that a certain side of political spectrum finds to be a quality of a movie. That certain side of the political spectrum really didn't get when
Dan Trachtenberg decided, he is making a feminist, native-American movie in the same franchise.
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The Driver 1978 is not quite the original Drive from 2011
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A lot of people say that
Nicolas Winding Refn's 2011 film
Drive is a remake of 1978 film
The Driver by
Walter Hill. And to some extent it is true. Both are about a getaway driver. And both drivers are these tough, melancholic characters played by a guy who's first name is Ryan. But that seems to be about it.
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Streets of Fire 1984 is Walter Hill over-directing a bit
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Some actors cannot produce emotion, which looks very bad. But a lot of bad actors over-act. Which is not good either. Today, watching the 1984
Walter Hill movie
Streets of Fire, I think I finally saw an over-directed film. Is this a bad thing? No! The film is a blast. But it is not your typical movie. It is trying so hard that it crosses the line into avant-garde cinema, while remaining a dumb action film.
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Piranha II 1982 taught James Cameron how not to make sequels
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We all know that
James Cameron is a master when it comes to making sequels. His films like
Terminator 2,
Avatar 2 and
Aliens are extremely good examples of how to make a sequel right. Unlike
Steven Spielberg that avoids sequels. Steven avoided doing the second
Jaws movie. James Cameron goes for it and wins. Speaking of Steven Spielberg's
Jaws, not only sequels from that film were produced. Rip-offs, like the 1978
Piranha by
Joe Dante also were produced. Those were parody material B-movie exploitation films. And so writer / director James Cameron decided to take the project of making a sequel to that
Jaws rip-off, with his 1982
Piranha II: The Spawning.
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True Lies 1994 is James Cameron doing a Michael Bay movie
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1994 film
True Lies feels like watching a
James Cameron directed
Michael Bay movie. It has explosions, check, it has outlandish set pieces, check, it has beautiful shots of the military, check, it has sexy ladies, check, it has teenagers with an attitude, check. It is a Michael Bay movie through and through. Yet it is a James Cameron movie, so what happened?
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Honey Don't! 2025 is a meandering mess by design
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Being a sort of a sequel ( not really a sequel ) to
Drive-Away Dolls 2025
Ethan Coen film
Honey Don't! is also kind of silly and kind of B-movie-like. And it also stars
Margaret Qualley but this time not as lesbian Texas gal, but as a lesbian private detective.
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