What's a good VC review?It's how I got into vigilant citizen. You'd read his take on what you thought was just generic Hollywood trash and he'd turn it into an illuminati programming ritual and you'd think, wow, that films amazing and I'm a dunce. How did I not read it properly
And Nicholson is wearing a weird Happy Mondays hat.Yeah good early oughts America/China fears. Late enough that the writing of a new Cold War was on the wall; early enough that Chinese consumer markets hadn't made these kinds of Hollywood depictions impossible.
yeah left a real impression on me as a kid, rewatched them recently on netflix and they hold up pretty well.Anyone seen Infernal Affairs, the Hong Kong original this is based on?
(Aside from him being gay, which seems possible) Not convinced all the pater/filius/pregnancy shit is about him being gay, but there's some subtext to it, it's too coherent and weird to not be in there for symbolic reasons.
> Maguire and DiCaprio were right to be worried about how they come off in Don’s Plum, a movie so overtly misogynistic that also feels like such a close reflection to how the Posse probably talked and acted in real life. In making a movie with each other, the Pussy Posse accidentally brought their secret, back-table debauchery to the forefront. “Stop looking at me like that—I’ll fucking throw a bottle at your face, you goddamn whore,” DiCaprio says to a girl in tears, while Maguire and Connolly laugh. Jack Dawson, America’s teen idol, can’t be talking like that. (It’s somewhat ironic that in 2005, almost a decade after DiCaprio uttered that line in Don’s Plum, model Aretha Wilson attacked him with a broken beer bottle. Wilson’s attorney claimed that Wilson was defending herself after DiCaprio took a swing at her for calling DiCaprio and the Posse “a bunch of fags.”)hes probably on the mount rushmore of dudes