The Driver 1978 is not quite the original Drive from 2011

  Blender Dumbass
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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.


#theDriver #WalterHill #action #film #movies #review #cinemastodon

Piranha II 1982 taught James Cameron how not to make sequels

  Blender Dumbass
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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.


#Piranha2 #JamesCameron #horror #movies #review #film #cinemastodon

After The Hunt 2025 is an exploitation film about the #MeToo

  Blender Dumbass
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In my article about Corruption of the audience I observed the talent of Luca Guadagnino in this regard. I was mostly talking about his film Bones and All where he managed to humanize cannibalism. But I think with his 2025 picture After the Hunt he is finally attempting the hardest challenge yet.


#afterthehunt #lucaGuadagnino #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

What is the meaning of "The Lovely Bones" 2009 by Peter Jackson?

  Blender Dumbass
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In my review of Transformers 4 I touched upon the uncanny resemblance of it to Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones. I have not seen the movie when I did that. I knew it existed. I knew what it was about. I've only seen it now, for the first time. And the uncanny resemblance ( as in, the father is played once again by Mark Wahlberg and the villain is played once again by Stanley Tucci and we have Steven Spielberg's involvement ) is rather strange. It begs a rather profound question, what was the point to make the movie?


#TheLovelyBones #PeterJackson #SaoirseRonan #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

She Rides Shotgun 2025 is a hidden gem of near perfection

  Blender Dumbass
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I'm furious! How the fuck nobody knows about the 2025 Nick Rowland film She Rides Shotgun starring Ana Sophia Heger and Taron Egerton? What the fuck is this? This movie is so good, yet because studio-heads apparently didn't get it, there was no advertising for it. And only a limited theatrical run. Which resulted in very little people seeing the damn film in the cinema. This fucking film! Are you fucking kidding me? They have fucking best picture Oscar material, and yet they try to hide it from everybody? What the fuck is wrong with you, Lionsgate? Fuck!


#SheRidesShotgun #AnaSophiaHeger #TaronEgerton #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Gladiator 2000 is Ridley Scott's turn at mimicking Michael Bay

  Blender Dumbass
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There are quite some differences between the Scott brothers ( Ridley and Tony ) and the Maximus himself Michael Bay. You can read Troler's observations and then my rant in the comments to see why they aren't quite the same. But specifically Tony Scott films sometimes feels almost like Michael Bay movies. Especially early Tony Scott and early Michael Bay, before both of them knew how similar they are and before they started trying to develop each other into opposite directions. Which happened roughly in time with the 21st century. And yet with all this the Ridley Scott epic Gladiator which was shot at 20st century and released at 21st, bluntly steals one of the shots Michael Bay is known for.


#Gladiator #RidleyScott #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Dream Scenario 2023 is about Richard Stallman?

  Blender Dumbass
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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.


#DreamScenario #NicolasCage #film #review #movies #cinemastodon #RichardStallman #RMS

Man on Fire 2004 is Tony Scott's Leon: The Professional

  Blender Dumbass
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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.


#manonfire #tonyscott #dakotafanning #DenzelWashington #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Honey Don't! 2025 is a meandering mess by design

  Blender Dumbass
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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.


#HoneyDont #EthanCoen #MargaretQualley #film #review #movie #cinemastodon

Please Don't Feed the Children 2025 shows that Destry Spielberg has more balls than her father

  Blender Dumbass
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Steven Spielberg directed some rather intense movies throughout his career. He made Duel in 1971 about a maniac truck driver. He made a blog-buster sensation Jaws in 1974. And he made films like Schindler's List and War of the Worlds that could be considered horror films. But he never did a true, scary horror film. My mother used to say that "Steven Spielberg is too sentimental to make truly scary movies". But that statement isn't true about his daughter Destry. 2025 film by Destry Allyn Spielberg Please Don't Feed the Children shows that she is capable to rival fucking Eli Roth if she wants to.


#PleaseDontFeedtheChildren #DestryAllynSpielberg #StevenSpielberg #horror #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

The somber tale of Summer of '42

  Troler
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Sex and love are hard to miss on present block-busters. Even topics such as love between a child and an adult are discussed. In early 1970s and before it was hard to find films delving into such topics. A nostalgia film of that. The movie may start out light-hearted, it went deep so to make the illustrious Kubrick cry.


#Summerof42 #1942 #JenniferO'Neill #GaryGrimes #JerryHouser #RobertMulligan #HermanRaucher #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

The Fury 1978 what the hell is this movie?

  Blender Dumbass
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While Brian De Palma was making Carrie ( as a part of his Alfred Hitchcock imitation films ), Alfred Hitchcock himself was making his last picture Family Plot, where he used the composer from Steven Spielberg's Jaws John Williams for the score. De Palma, probably knowing Williams through Spielberg, decided to mess around with Hitchcock himself, making a sort of yet another Carrie ( a film about people with superpowers ) but this time hiring John Williams himself for the score. And weirdly enough ( while Spielberg was finishing Close Encounters and starting 1941 where his camera sexually obsessed over De Palma's GF at the time Nancy Allen ) De Palma hires Spielberg's girlfriend at the time Amy Irving for the lead role.


#TheFury #BrianDePalma #AmyIrving #StevenSpielberg #JohnWilliams #Israel #Palestine #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Carrie 1976 ... the psycho-sexual analysis

  Blender Dumbass
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The 1970s are an interesting time when it comes to cinema history. It is the time after the code was changed into the MPAA rating system ( allowing more violence, nudity and harsh language on the screen ) and yet before new blog-baster Hollywood was born. 1976's Carrie by Brian De Palma was already released after the 1974 Steven Spielberg sensation Jaws. But still before George Lucas broke the planet with his Star Wars. Everybody knew the movies were intense at that time. Some of the most depressing shit came out at the 1970s. And with it, there was also Carrie. A psycho-sexual revenge-tale about child-abuse.


#Carrie #BrianDePalma #StephenKing #film #review #horror #cinemastodon

Blow Out 1981 is De Palma's take on The Conversation

  Blender Dumbass
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47th Academy Awards from 1975 ( giving awards to movies from 1974 ) was an interesting spectacle. Francis Ford Coppola's film The Conversation ( which was nominated for Best Picture ) lost to The Godfather Part II also by Francis Ford Coppola. In 1981 Brian De Palma, one of the people who hanged out with Francis at the time, decided to remake a 1966 Italian film Blowup, but doing it like Coppola's The Conversation. Where sound plays a critical role in the plot of the picture.


#BlowOut #NancyAllen #BrianDePalma #JohnTravolta #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

The Island 2005 is Michael Bay's Minority Report

  Blender Dumbass
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As far as my speculation goes, I think, it is safe to assume, the following happened: In 1994 ( before doing Bad Boys ) Michael Bay signed a 10 year contract with Jerry Bruckheimer which expired in 2004 ( after Bad Boys 2 ). Knowing that the contract is about to expire, 2 years prior ( in 2002 ) Steven Spielberg, in an attempt to get on good terms with Michael Bay, added a small reference to Bad Boys into his film Minority Report. And then took Bay under his supervision for the next 10 years. Starting with the 2005 film The Island. And through the Transformers franchise. Bay returned the favor by showing a concept car designed for Minority Report ( Lexus 2054 aka Lexus Minority ) multiple times in the background of The Island. Still that's just a theory. I don't actually know what happened. But it seems plausible.


#theIsland #MichaelBay #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Michael Bay is a Properly Good Director and I Will Stand by it Because it is True

  Blender Dumbass
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It seems like the entire world of film-enthusiasts came together and decided to bully one person for no reason what so ever. And that one person is Michael Bay.


#MichaelBay #Cinema #Film #Filmmaking #Auteur #Action #Transformers #BadBoys