important question: Assuming that Gable plays the Albert Brooks role, does Spencer Tracy play Bryan Cranston’s character or Ron Perlman’s?
annotations asked: Now I have to followup: the moment in Krull that made you frustrated and angry, yet you felt you had to accept it, was it the fact that the dude loses the glaive?
Actually, [SPOILER ALERT] it’s the death of Rell. Who saves their asses COUNTLESS times. Never gets enough respect. And knows that if he accompanies them he’s going to die saving their asses one last time. AND HE FUCKING RIDES THAT FIREMARE TO SAVE THEIR ASSES (again) ANYWAY. Mr Hero Guy tries to save him but then the lightning zaps start coming and he’s all “fuck this”. Couple this with how when the wizard asks Rell what he’d wish for Rell replies “Ignorance.”
Though, admittedly, losing the glaive is frustrating as hell too. Can you imagine playing a videogame where you have to through hell to get a weapon like that… and then you have to lose it? C’mon!
Raphael - Balada de la trompeta (De la Película “Sin un adiós”, 1971)
Finally saw The Last Circus. At times it tested my patience. But unlike another film I saw recently that I found essentially terrible and worthless (Shame), it didn’t take itself so seriously, had some really awe-inspiring and truly beautifully grotesque moments and, ultimately, worth it even if you only consider it as an elaborate setup for its final perfectly/truly tragicomic scene.
THIS IS NOT A DREAM
that Cinefamily/Everything Is Terrible screened this on the day/night that I took and passed my Wing Tsun Primary Technician test is probably a good omen. (also, who wants to send me that French version of Paint It Black?)
re: Miranda July
(via 6h057)
This thought was actually born of “After Me And You And Everyone We Know, did/do I/we need a single other thing from Miranda July?” For me the answer is a pretty easy “No.” The same goes for Gondry, pick either Science of Sleep or Eternal Sunshine… and you can trash the rest as repeatable, predictable same-on-a-theme (visually and otherwise…). Of course, when I think about it, I’ve absolutely devoured every succesive effort from Nicholas Winding Refn (who certainly has a style you could define) so the “one trick” ish isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but makes “worth” come down exteremely to a simple matter of taste where Your Mileage May Vary.
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Not to take anything away from certified legend Bruce Lee but… that’s actually Yuen Wah (who you may remember from his more recent amazing role as rubber tai chi Landlord in Kung Fu Hustle). Yuen Wah did most the acrobatic stand-in stunts for Lee in Enter The Dragon, and he’s a legend in his own right. It’d be a shame to erase his legacy with Lee’s.
The beginning of this supercut suggests Big Trouble In Little China is a perfect film (true) and then, by way of tongue in cheek humor over Kurt Russell’s lines, proves one of the big reasons why: The protagonist we follow (Jack Burton) is exactly like all of us, completely fucking baffled as to what exactly the hell is going on. He is in constant and impossible confusion but soldiers on through it.
Ryan Gosling’s character from Drive is what we wish we were: the well-attired smooth operator of beautiful machinery, juggernauting through life, propelled by an ourobouros of Courage and Capability. Jack Burton is what we are: bumbling and rumbling in the crusty trucks we need for our job, drawn into situations we will never truly understand, absolutely lost as to the nature of even the mundane, much less the mystical, and while blindly groping, with a little bit of luck (and cracker-jack timing) we just might make it to a successful end, whateverthefuck that means…
