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Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".
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I saw an interview where Quentin Tarantino praises the 1980 Hitchcockian Brian De Palma film Dressed to Kill. And now after actually watching it myself, I can totally understand why.
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Being almost a parody of Hitchcock, Dressed to Kill is a directing masterpiece. The way the camera is used in this film is so fucking good I was literally yelling at the screen while watching "this is so fucking good".
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Obviously since it is not a Hitchcock movie and since it wasn't done during the code, and instead was done when R-rating was a thing, the movie can dare to show way more sex and way more violence. We get a pussy closeup in the opening sequence. And yet de Palma doesn't go too raw on any of the sex or violence. He approaches all of it with an insane cinematic flourish. So many good shots. So many good edits. So much good film-making.
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The film has actors, but it is not about the actors. It is all about the god-damned director. The whole film is one big directing muscle flex for de Palma. Like yeah, the story is kind of good. But it's not designed to be just told. It's designed to be cinematically presented. It would not make for much just talking about the story. Without the directing, the story is kind of pointless.
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I really liked this movie and will definitely re-watch it later. Many times.
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Happy Hacking!!!
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Knock Knock 2015 is more of a Lars Von Trier movie
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Before there was 2025 Balerina there were two other movies ( I know of ) which were collaborations of Keanu Reeves and Ana de Armas. One is the 2016 film Exposed which I am still yet to see. And then, before that, marking their first collaboration, there was a 2015 film by Eli Roth called Knock Knock, which I was curious to see for multiple reasons.
#knockknock #eliroth #anadearmas #keanureeves #film #review #movies #cinemastodon #larsvontrier
Alien VS Predator 2004 is a Predator 2 sequel
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In my Predator 2 review I observed that the merger of Alien and Predator franchises was not a Paul W. S. Anderson's ( the director of AVP ) fault, since even that movie already had a lot of Alien references in it, including a Xenomorph scull. So it was almost expected by this point that the next movie in the franchise would feature Xenomorphs.
#Alien #predator #AVP #film #review #horror #movies #cinemastodon
Dressed To Kill 1980 is a cinematic treat
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I saw an interview where Quentin Tarantino praises the 1980 Hitchcockian Bryan de Palma film Dressed to Kill. And now after actually watching it myself, I can totally understand why.
#dressedtokill #bryandepalma #film #review #movies #cinemastodon
How Cuarón builds tension in Children of Men
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2027 is around the corner and thank God babies are still being born. That is not the case in the 2006 Alfonso Cuarón film Children of Men. Children of Men is bleak and depressing. It is without hope. Without hope, that was lost, long time ago, because children are not being born anymore. The world has gone to shit. The world has gone to shit because there are no children. There are no Children of Men.
#childrenofmen #AlfonsoCuaron #film #review #movies #cinemastodon
Transformers is Good if You Take it Seriously
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I decided to re-watch the first Transformers film today, but differently. Instead of indulging in it as mindless entertainment, I decided I want to actually view it seriously, as I would with somebody like Steven Spielberg, who, by the way, was an executive producer on the film.
#transformers #MichaelBay #film #review #movies #cinemastodon #ShiaLabeouf #MeganFox #VFX #CGI
Hollow Man 2000 takes the horror trope of not seeing the monster to a whole new level
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Before Kevin Bacon played a much more complex man with a psychological sexual abnormality in 2004's The Woodsman, he played a man with a psychological sexual abnormality in 2000's Hollow Man. Where the fetish is voyeurism and the crime is ghostly rape. You kind of know it is a Paul Verhoeven movie from this description.
#hollowman #paulverhoeven #film #review #kevinbacon #movies #cinemastodon
Pearl Harbor 2001 made me cry for 3 hours straight
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In my review of Bad Boys II I talked about how Michael Bay needed to discharge from Pearl Harbor and do a properly Bayhem! movie. This speculation of mine is largely based on some stories from the set of this movie, where it looked like Bay tried to actually make a properly directed film in the very beginning and then suddenly snapped and started setting up Bayhem! shots out of nowhere in the middle of production. And when people pointed that out to him he told them to "Shut the fuck up" and that he "knows what he is doing".
#PearlHarbor #MichaelBay #movies #film #review #cinemastodon
American Graffiti 1973 is some strong shit
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You will probably laugh at me right now, but so far I've seen 1973 George Lucas film American Graffiti just twice. First time I stopped at about 25 minute mark, not getting the hype around the movie. This time I decided to get through to the end, no matter what it takes. And believe me, if you are not laughing at me right now, you don't understand. This is fucked up! Holy fucking shit!!! I see it now!!! I see it!
#americanGrafitti #GeorgeLucas #HarrisonFord #movies #film #review #cinemastodon
Flow ( 2024 ) deserves the Oscar
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I don't know if you know but Flow was in fact done using Blender. At the 2024th Blender Conference the head of the animation department on the film Silly-Pélissier Léo even presented a talk about this. ( available on PeerTube )
Let that sink in.
#flow #cat #cats #animation #blender #blender3d #b3d #oscars #GintsZilbalodis #film #review #movies #cinemastodon
The Fifth Element 1997 is the most tragic film in Luc Besson's career
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It is not a spoiler in 2025 that the message of Luc Besson's 1997 film The Fifth Element is "Love". The fifth element itself ( a revelation in the end of the film ) appears to be Love. And the thesis is that Love is the thing that can defeat the evil in the world. But looking at the film and the behind the scenes drama around it, you can say that Besson didn't really mean love in its purest sense. But he was instead preaching a Bonobo Philosophy. Where "love" or in modern language sex, is used to deescalate conflict. Bonobos are known to fuck each other instead of fighting with each other, making themselves more peaceful. Looking at how horny The Fifth Element ( and Luc Besson ) is, the Bonobo philosophy theory sounds to be a much more plausible reading of the film. Making it very tragic indeed.
#LucBesson #Maiwenn #MillaJovovich #Love #film #review #movies #cinemastodon
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