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  1. I watched all of those over a couple of days last week and I totally agree. The sequels are too bogged down in building lore. Origins is a return to form but still not as strong as the first one. All of them have at least a couple of effective scenes though.
  2. I’d say middle period Pacino starts with Sea of Love and ends with Insomnia. His next picture after that is Simone, and that’s about a wrap on Al. I wonder what kind of relationship he had with Nolan because they never worked together again.
  3. I just got my front row seats and I’m so hyped.
  4. They’re basically part of a shared universe since Keaton is playing his ATF character Ray from Jackie Brown.
  5. Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead is one of the more entertaining 90s Tarantino knockoffs. The plot is silly, but there’s a murderer’s row of character actors giving unhinged performances. Think goofier Usual Suspects. I don’t know how well Summer of Sam holds up, but from my recollection it’s populated by some of the dumbest characters ever assembled in a studio movie. The Berkowitz scenes are quite disturbing though. It’s been a while since I’ve seen The Long Riders too, but I remember liking it a great deal. It’s Walter Hill in his prime, and the idea to cast real sets of brothers to play the James-Younger Gang was brilliant. After you watch Being There, I’d suggest the HBO biopic The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. Geoffrey Rush is extraordinary as Sellers.
  6. As far as later Wilder, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes has always been one of my favorite Holmes adaptations.
  7. I really wish that Sputnik Monroe movie had gotten made.
  8. Before Fred Phelps was disbarred for being a psycho, his work in civil rights law helped dismantle Jim Crow and integrate schools in Kansas. He was apparently a virulent bigot even then and just did it for the money, but depending on what you think of Vince’s philanthropy there’s an argument that Phelps has done more tangible good than Vince ever has, even though both are tremendous pieces of shit.
  9. They definitely needed to redistribute one of the multiple Phoebe subplots to Trevor. Phoebe: Trevor
  10. When Tony signed him, he knew This Fire Burns.
  11. I would at least read a Wikipedia plot summary just because Afterlife introduces a lot of new characters that carry over into Frozen Empire.
  12. I liked Frozen Empire. My biggest issue was it felt a bit unfocused since it’s practically an Altmanesque large ensemble piece. On the other hand, I wasn’t crazy about spending the entire film with the sitcom family dynamic set up early on, so I’m glad they opened the world up. It felt like the script needed another pass, but the last act is a hoot. Cool creature design, fun support from Nanjiami, Oswalt, and the legacy actors, plus it’s a tent pole movie clocking in at a merciful two hours.
  13. Tenebrae and Opera are my favorites. The theme song to Tenebrae goes so hard.
  14. He played John Goodman’s father in a few episodes of Righteous Gemstones, and when he first popped up I felt like I’d seen a ghost.
  15. I always think of Out of the Blue as the American analog to Christiane F. They’re both very heavy adolescent dramas, but they also explore youth culture from the era in groundbreaking ways. With Out of the Blue, it feels like one of the last moments where Hopper felt truly dangerous as a performer before he started embracing his counterculture cred for nostalgia or playing straightforward creeps and villains.
  16. It’s annoying when celebrities peddle bullshit to excuse doing paycheck movies, but Murray’s, “I thought it was written by one of the Coen brothers” for Garfield is way better than the typical, “I did it for my kids.”
  17. I’m higher on Valley Girl than almost any of the movies mentioned so far. Years and years ago I got to go to a screening of it at Lincoln Center that had a Q&A with director Martha Coolidge and the Valley Girl herself, Deborah Foreman, hosted by Kevin Smith. It’s fascinating how fully formed Nic Cage already was as a performer; he brings his whole dog and pony show to a teen romantic comedy and elevates it with new wave bizarreness. It’s also really fun to see a young Michael Bowen as a preppy douche and a scorching hot E.G. Daily. Plus, Frederic Forrest and Colleen Camp are one of the first examples of hippie burnout parents in 80s media, almost a prototype for the parents on Family Ties.
  18. It basically goes American Grafitti ->Fast Times->Clueless->Mean Girls as the generation-defining high school movies (maybe with some room for a Hughes film in there somewhere) but I think after that youth culture became too atomized for there to be a clear successor. Is there any high school movie from the past decade with that kind of reach?
  19. That’s going to be a huge date night movie for couples who inhale keyboard cleaner together.
  20. I don’t know if it’s legal to call a movie a contemporary western if it doesn’t have Tommy Lee Jones or Jeff Bridges among the cast.
  21. Thinking of taglines is almost certainly more fun than watching that. “He’s not an arctic wolf, but he plays in the snow.”
  22. Lest we not forget the Zoolander soundtrack. Also the part in Body Double that turns into a Relax music video is great.
  23. You can’t spell apartment without Apter, so I’m convinced.
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