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I'm gonna see 'Arctic' tonight
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Weird is relative.


Blade (1998)



Thanks for the recommendation. I thought it was a well made film: good direction, good acting. Matt Dillon made the Bukowski-like character almost charismatic. The writer romanticised the alcoholic, making him more like a Jack Kerouac or Neal Cassady type.

The glaring error was that Dillon not only never seemed to be drunk, but he was always clear eyed and fairly clean looking-- not possible for a drunk of his type.

Lili Taylor as Dillon's fellow dipsomaniac squeeze was first rate, and seemed more true to life.

I think the story would have been better told set in the 1940s, like the book, rather than in 2005. That probably would have added a prohibitive amount of production costs though.

Dillon seems a natural at portraying druggies and drunks. He was pretty good in 1989's Drugstore Cowboy, with the redoubtable William S. Burroughs in the cast..

~Doc



Weird is relative.
Wait a minute... Gillian Jacobs is in this?

Okay, my night just got WAY better.



Life Partners (2014)





Cold Pursuit (2019)
Cricket, you should watch the original Norwegian film and compare them.

Im sure Liam is just as great as Stellan




Weird is relative.


I Vitelloni (1953)