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This turned out to be an amazingly prescient post.
Maybe you had to be around in 1968 in order to appreciate it?
Faces are not that strongly attached, I’ve seen a motorcycle accident where the face was a flap of skin that was attached at one side. The fact that it’s revolting or distasteful to imagine doesn’t make it any more difficult than skinning an animal.
After reading the plot synopsis I immediately thought, ‘Equalizer 2.1’.
(Which ain’t necessarily a bad thing…)
I saw the first one, it was pretty good.
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
I haven’t seen it in a few years, but Employee of the Month was not as exaggerated as you think. In the 1970s I worked in a large warehouse for a major auto manufacturer. Not only did we have hideouts up in the racks, a couple of them would put the one in EoM to shame. One was wired and had lights. We didn’t have scooters, per-se, but employees rode pallet jacks around. Countless shenanigans went on every day.
I liked the film, in spite of the unevenness. Afterward, I went to IMDb expecting to find both [COMEDY] and [DRAMA] badges because it presented quite a bit of tension, mostly due to questionable choices made by Doug and Dick.
Toward the end of the film there is a phone call with his wife in which he appears to be mimicking her “Scottish” accent. It was so blatant that I expected it to have something to do with a plot twist.
Most of Lily Taylor’s lines appeared to be dubbed.
It was revealed in the opening scenes that Richard and Natalie were separated, but not yet divorced.
The critic is way off base here. I thought the movie was fine. It offered a peek into the relationship between law enforcement agencies and paid informants, as well as the tenuous cooperation between federal, state, and local agencies. The lead actor’s inexperience seemed to fit in well with the tone of the piece. It was a depressing life with no real future for those who found themselves raised up in it, and his demeanor reflected that fairly well. He presented a realistic character, while McConaughey seemed to be overacting just a bit.
Some of the reviewer’s vitriol might be explained away as the resentful blathering of a failed actor. A spin through of his Wikipedia page will reveal clues to his irascible nature, and the bombastic style which resulted.
Not only that, the subtitles on the DVD read, “Breathing stops” as he loses consciousness.
When breathing stops, you have about 5 minutes (max) to be resuscitated.
Try ‘shiksa’ next time you get the urge to correct someone.
You might enjoy ‘A Serious Man’.
In Altman’s ‘The Long Goodbye’, Marlowe has a view of his female neighbors’ balcony where they are often seen lounging nude.
A firefighter would have noticed several problems with that ridiculously contrived arson scene, including;
Mariana unscrewing a pipe union by hand.
The flame traveling along the outside of the propane line.
The tank exploding simply because the flame reached it.
The mysterious secondary explosion in the end of the trailer opposite of the tank.
A 9mm round wouldn’t do much to a properly hardened sword, particularly if the sword was hand-held.
Blue Steel