vershy versh
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The sound when he stomps that guy's head in Cell Block 99 and scrapes his face across the floor is toe curling.
Half way thru The Incident now
That's one I would recommend with reservations, but those reservations pretty much just boil down to pacing issues and the finale is on par with the best parts of s1 and successfully differentiates itself. The back half makes the mess of the first half (and most of Taylor Kitsch's character) worth it.have u watched true detective s2? hes great in it. his character shares lots of wisdom
The Martin Sheen one? Thought that was great, albeit extremely uncomfortable. A whole film with the atmosphere of the "Funny how?" scene from Goodfellas.
i wished it was a bit different, but i liked it all the same. the traumatized war photographer thing didn't go deep enough i thought. i want to see that done in a more nuanced way. it's not much more than a trope. a copy of the copy too far removed from the real thing. thought as well that they studiously avoided politics, which was good, but then clattered without even noticing into the usual contempt for poor and rural white people (the yokels doing the torturing, arguably the executioner man). it's a cool enough film though. just the premise itself meant i was always going to like it. can't go too far wrong with transposing a conflict onto a known territory i love that kind of thingcivil war is pretty cool. some good stuff in there. but its all a bit hazy. a film about war photographers but not that much depth on that. a film about a civil war but not much really on the politics. gets intense near the end, but up til then its a bit of a slow/intermittent burn with some truly weird music choices that i am assuming are meant to be irreverent but just come off tone deaf. alex garland can obviously direct, but not sure he can write, or think as well. a bit like a more conceptually ambitious edgar wright.
was surprised to see how far back that american thing of dominance and humiliation went, i had thought that was something more recent but it's there throughout, a main theme.
OMGNow you can watch Ms .45 again and savour Abel's grisly tribute.
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