see i would be on your side but i saw The Lady from Shanghai on the big screen some years back and in that moment thats when i got it
Exactly, although I'm impressed that Orson's comedy Irish accent didn't ruin the whole thing for you
see i would be on your side but i saw The Lady from Shanghai on the big screen some years back and in that moment thats when i got it
CK seems to me to get very stolid and so dark towards the end, whereas Arkadin the pace doesn't let up and you can go along with it more. The characters are all a little more off kilter if that makes sense?Arkadin is weird man,there's so much off beat stuff in terms of visual depth, angles and even how it's told that i'm surprised people haven taken from
also you say Arkadin is less depressing when i swear one of the reveals is that he's involved in a sex trafficking ring?
"If the first Predator movie concerned itself with the Reagan White House's illegal drug-money-funded death-squad-enabling wars of terror and regime overthrow in Central America, Predator 2 is the domestic blowback that results from the CIA flooding the cities of the United States with guns and crack in order to disable revolt and enact widespread genocide economics, justifying a massive for-profit mass incarceration protocol immediately upon the horizon. While Predator 2's depiction of gang life might be broadly surreal, the idea that Black and Latino organizations are fighting each other and the underpaid stressed-out footsoldier cops and the DEA in order to buy into a system devised purposefully for their own annihilation is very much a reality."
i mean lets be honest letterboxd might aswell just be an extension of twitter part of the same branch imoI think the consensus on a lot of things isn't real and certainly isn't a genuine reflection of the thing itself, particularly nowadays. Everything's exaggerated for effect, drenched in irony. You can't just reappraise 'Miami Vice'. You have to come out with either some belligerent contrarian take on why it's actually a masterpiece or overintellectualise it.
When you actually watch the stuff then you realise all the discussion around it is one of those games Gus likes to highlight. It's people posturing on Twitter and Letterboxd or whatever publication they write for.
i'd agree but tell that to the believers in vulgar auterism, they'd probably call you an idiot for still thinking in this way that the directors opinion on their own movies still matterThis is from the top rated review of 'Predator 2' on Letterboxd,
It's fun and makes sense to a degree, but it's also a stretch and I very much doubt this is what the filmmakers had in mind when they made the film. It feels more like someone trying to come up with an interesting angle for their Letterboxd audience, talk about their politics etc whilst doing it an offbeat, contrarian sort of way by doing it with a maligned action sequel, i.e. you can take literally anything you want and just decide to do this sort of reading of it.
Everything seems a bit pointless and numbing when that approach becomes the dominant one.
I don't mind it when it's done well, but it's so commonplace now that it's dull and unimaginative. We're at the point where it's reduced to halfarsed, one-sentence comments about how 'Venom' is really a love story.i'd agree but tell that to the believers in vulgar auterism, they'd probably call you an idiot for still thinking in this way that the directors opinion on their own movies still matter
There's surely no way a film can live up to being discussed as polarising anyway. I remember people going on about 'The Tree of Life' in those terms and just thinking it was a bit crap, but whatever
Let's see what Letterboxd has to say about this one...Have you ever seen The Gestapo’s Last Orgy?