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Don't you have everything you ever wanted here? Money...security...a big hot flat rock for jub jub to sit on?

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@EffClickBait @soonrightaway The Winter Soldier, with its Cold War-era conspiracy storyline, evokes many of the same themes as actual 1970s conspiracy thrillers. Whether you think the movie does this effectively or often is subjective, but the writers have said plainly that 70s thrillers were an inspiration.

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@EffClickBait @soonrightaway Yes, lots of fiction pits protagonists and antiheroes against government forces, but those films all exist in other contexts. The Bourne Trilogy evokes War on Terror / Patriot Act government surveillance; Minority Report is dystopian and cyberpunk.

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@EffClickBait @soonrightaway In “Winter Soldier,” Cap—the embodiment of the Greatest Generation and WWII era patriotism—wakes up to find himself in a murky contemporary world in which his own government conspires against him / its citizens.

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@EffClickBait @soonrightaway You’re only looking for visual connections between the films; if you consider theme and narrative, there are many links. “Three Days of the Condor,” “Parallax View,” “The Conversation,” etc., all embodied post-60s disillusionment and Nixon/Watergate government conspiracies.

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@WillSloanEsq This is true, but the man also has at least one big hit (and sometimes more) in every decade since 1979. He’s got six films since 2000 that have grossed $250m+.

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@fakelawn @adamjahns It’s not as weird as you think; these guys form personal relationships that, of course, influence who they want to play with. Brian Urlacher, for example, was a huge Kyle Orton fan and preferred Orton over Cutler.

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@AlexxLawson [Watching the trailer for Heat] “A detective and a thief? Having a conversation with one another!?? So this writer has no idea how the law works, huh?”

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@jaketropolis Hell yea brother

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@TheCinesthetic Best Horror movie from the 21st Century

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@Ky1eLong That year with you, Cutler, Marshall, Alshon, and Forte was the most entertaining Bears offense of the last 15 years.

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@FilmUpdates Every bit of this is perfect. The way he says “Three people died in that accident. They’re saying it’s my fault but it’s total crap” is lodged in my brain.

https://t.co/9jlN8QDWZE

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@RealWeirdWithIt @Srirachachau “THEY’RE BROTHERS IN ARMS!”

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@BabsVan I have trouble coming up with any actual ranking of writers I admire and enjoy, but I wanted to add Annie Proulx to the discussion, who I haven’t seen mentioned here. I read her short story collections most frequently, but she has written some excellent novels as well.

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@janecoaston I’m not a Godsmack fan, but this song always rocks. “I will be-have-ee-ave-ee-ave YOU BETTER FUCKIN GO AWAY!” Excellent.

https://t.co/S3nsywiD0v

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@davidcinema So much of Road to Perdition (though it’s probably more accurate to say that it looks like a cross between a painting and the graphic novel it’s based on).

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@Reinfish @EricAllixRogers @JessicaVillag Haha right?? Same with the Montrose Bird Sanctuary right by the lake. They got a target on everyone.

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@Reinfish @EricAllixRogers @JessicaVillag Winnemac is one of my favorite parks in the city. My wife and I walk there alll the time. The native plant gardens are lovely.