Caught Stealing 2025 is a bit dark for a comedy, but way too bright for Aronofsky
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Vincent D'Onofrio pops up on my radar lately. I somehow get attracted to the same movies as the actor, which probably means that I need to review
Full Metal Jacket by
Stanley Kubrick, where D'Onofrio had his, probably, most iconic role. In any case D'Onofrio played an Ashkenazi Jewish gangster motherfucker in a
Darren Aronofsky 2025 film
Caught Stealing. Something that I had to see, just based on the absurdity of it.
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Gladiator 2000 is Ridley Scott's turn at mimicking Michael Bay
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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.
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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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Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood 2019 is Tarantino respecting the audience
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People often complain about dumb movies with too much unnecessary spoon-feeding. We get so much explaining and over-explaining that the brain hurts sometimes. You already know what is going on. You are following the story. You don't need no god damned reminder of what you are watching. And yet the studio heads still think that you are too dumb to understand what's going on in front of you on the screen.
Respecting the audience on the other hand is a leap of faith on a part of a film-maker and only the greatest do that well.
Quentin Tarantino with his 2019 film
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood takes the hardest such leap of his career.
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Machete 2010 is about US politics of 2025 somehow
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An exploitation film is a film that exploits some talked about fear or trend in culture in order to sell tickets to a movie that is probably not very good. Exploitation films are usually low budget, badly made B-movies, with a certain charm to them, if you like
Tommy Wiseau's work. 2010's
Robert Rodriguez film
Machete is, somewhat of an intentional attempt at recreating the exploitation film phenomenon. Which exploits US politics of 2025, somehow. ( Rodriguez must have a time machine somewhere in his studio ).
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Kite 2014 attempts to be a Luc Besson film but fails miserably
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South African filmmakers, writer
Brian Cox ( who directed some bad films himself ) and a director
Ralph Ziman decided to try to adopt what appears to be a hentai ( animated pornography ) film from Japan ( with the same name ) into a cool-ass female-empowerment action flick. They even got
Samuel L. Jackson ( an objectively good actor ) involved in the project somehow. Yet almost every decision made in the production of this film was a wrong decision.
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Queer ( 2024 ) is an Indiana Jones movie in a style of David Lynch
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Coming into a film called
Queer I didn't except the movie to go where it went. It was not a romance drama film, which it was marketed as. It only started like one. If you like Guadagnino's
Call Me By Your Name and except the same movie here. Don't. This is a completely different movie.
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Why Dancer In The Dark is Unique?
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I came into the film without any knowledge that this film is a musical. I failed to see the obvious foreshadowing to it. The casting of the singer
BjΓΆrk for the lead character, the word "Dancer" included in the damn title, the beginning of the film, where BjΓΆrk's character prepares to dance in a stage-play. All of that went over my head. And when the first musical number started I was pleasantly surprised.
The Substance Will Make You Puke While Cumming
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I am still unsure whether
Coralie Fargeat meant for
The Substance to be taken seriously or not. There was a similar misunderstanding when it comes to
Lars Von Trier's
The House That Jack Built, where the audience were laughing, unable to comprehend in the intensity of the film, while the director was dead serious. The experience I had watching
The Substance reminded me of this confusion. The film is so over the top, it beats the absurdity of
Sam Raimi's horror-comedies.
Showgirls: The Porno-Cinematic Masterpiece
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Paul Verhoeven is to some extend a legendary film-maker. RoboCop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers, Hoolow Man. Movies you have probably seen and seen again. Yet it seems like his movie
Showgirls perhaps was made with a miscalculation on his part.
Florida Book Bans Situation
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In Florida
Moms For Liberty together with the governor
Ron DeSantis are fighting against the woke. Or as a
different group of Moms pointed out, they are practicing fascism in a supposedly Free Country. The situation is hilarious!