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Hi there. I am new to this forum. The last movie I have seen is John Wick 3. I really like this movie. I like the way how Keanu Reeves prepared for shooting and for fighting scenes. It was cool 
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Hi there. I am new to this forum. The last movie I have seen is John Wick 3. I really like this movie. I like the way how Keanu Reeves prepared for shooting and for fighting scenes. It was cool
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Every so often I revisit The Yakuza (1974). It's ultimately a movie that doesn't live up to its pedigree - you have Sydney Pollack directing, the first screenplay written by Paul Schrader (who also wrote an amazing primer for the genre upon The Yakuza's release), the script was rewritten by Robert Towne (Chinatown), and stars Robert Mitchum and his Asian tough guy counterpart and genre veteran Ken Takakura. Alot of critics beef with The Yakuza is that it's an exploitation movie masquerading as high art. While I really can't blame critics at the time for thinking this, because the amount of Yakuza movies trickling in to Western theaters was stagnant, its become a mantra that is continued to be repeated with modern critics who have the opportunity to look back at the whole genre retrospectively. The problem I have with that line of thought is that is dismisses the ability of the Yakuza genre to be little more than bloody, messy nothingness. Kinji Fukasaku's original Battles Without Honor and Humanity is not only on par with The Godfather in its scope, but also equal to the gritty realism, and less honorable gangsters that Scorsese brought the the American gangster genre with Mean Streets (1974). Sure, there are alot of yakuza film's that are nothing but proto torture porn movies (see Yakuza Law:Lynching), where the plot takes a backseat to the carnage on screen, but that's not what makes up the whole genre. The Yakuza can be both a yakuza film and high art.
That being said, the movie does have its problems. The action scenes are a big problem - Mitchum doesn't move alot in the movie, but that can be justified with him being an old American who just shotguns away his problems (both Robert Redford and Lee Marvin were also considered for that role). Schrader said that Pollack was obsessed with playing off the collision of two distinct cultures, and didn't make the bloody underworld movie that Schrader intended it to be. It's most definitely a slow burn, which is a rare pace for the genre. Looking back, it is almost a checklist of genre tropes and rituals, but I think it's a fine movie for most western audiences to be introduced to the Yakuza for the first time.
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That being said, the movie does have its problems. The action scenes are a big problem - Mitchum doesn't move alot in the movie, but that can be justified with him being an old American who just shotguns away his problems (both Robert Redford and Lee Marvin were also considered for that role). Schrader said that Pollack was obsessed with playing off the collision of two distinct cultures, and didn't make the bloody underworld movie that Schrader intended it to be. It's most definitely a slow burn, which is a rare pace for the genre. Looking back, it is almost a checklist of genre tropes and rituals, but I think it's a fine movie for most western audiences to be introduced to the Yakuza for the first time.
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The Wanderers (1979)
A brilliant coming of age/gang film from Kauffman with an outstanding soundtrack. Has so much to offer in sex, violence, comedy, tragedy, all set against a backdrop of the Bronx in the 1960s. Almost feels like The Warriors and American Graffiti mixed together, without the cars.
Highly recommended.
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The Wanderers (1979)
A brilliant coming of age/gang film from Kauffman with an outstanding soundtrack. Has so much to offer in sex, violence, comedy, tragedy, all set against a backdrop of the Bronx in the 1960s. Almost feels like The Warriors and American Graffiti mixed together, without the cars.
Highly recommended.
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Behind the Curve (2018)
Very interesting documentary about the Flat Earther community. They are like a subculture of people who deny basic scientific facts because they believe that it is all a government conspiracy. People who are attracted to this are usually people who are to some degree social outcasts who disdain authority and who lack formal scientific education.
While it is easy to mock this kind of people we have to be aware that we all are to some degree flat earthers in the senses that: We believe in many things through our basic intuition or personal connections instead of actually researching the topic. We are also often dogmatic regarding many beliefs even when presented with overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Very interesting documentary about the Flat Earther community. They are like a subculture of people who deny basic scientific facts because they believe that it is all a government conspiracy. People who are attracted to this are usually people who are to some degree social outcasts who disdain authority and who lack formal scientific education.
While it is easy to mock this kind of people we have to be aware that we all are to some degree flat earthers in the senses that: We believe in many things through our basic intuition or personal connections instead of actually researching the topic. We are also often dogmatic regarding many beliefs even when presented with overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
People can't be talked out of illusions. If a person believes that the earth is flat, you can't talk him out of that, he knows that it's flat. He'll go down to the window and see that its obvious, it looks flat. So the only way to convince him that it isn't is to say, "Well let's go and find the edge”
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Wow - I was just looking at IMDB, and saw a movie I liked, and so I clicked it to look on the bottom right to see similar movie lists, and found this, and just turned on my bad laptop to retrieve this.
Did you watch it Matt?
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Did you watch it Matt?
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Norman Jewison's imaginative mouting of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rick rock opera loses points for copping out by presenting the story as a troupe of traveling players performing the show, but its rich with striking visual trappings, there's minimal tampering with the score, energetic choreography by Rob Iscove, and Jewison is to be applauded for not casting stars, but casting people who could actually sing these roles, some straight from Broadway, with standout work from the late Carl Anderson as Judas.
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I quite enjoyed that. Thought Jessie Buckley was good. I really enjoyed the sinister vibes the island of Jersey was given. Which I'm told isn't far from the truth in some areas. Quite a good ending too.
Yeah, dark and gloomy vibe throughout with a few nice twists. Good show.
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