I’ma thread a list of Horror flicks of early-mid 2000 that didn’t get enough love. Feel free to add:
1. My Little Eye (2002) ; Big brother style horror ,punishing & effectively brutal. A little too ahead of its time hence the lack of love.
Stars fuckin Bradley Cooper
People make fun of Steven Seagal Because he’s a pretentious douchebag. The actor Stephen Tobolowsky has what is perhaps my favorite Steven Seagal anecdote ever. In the 1996 flick “Glimmer Man”, Tobolowsky played a psychopathic serial killer. And Seagal had to kill this horrible villain, as any hero in any action flick ought to. But he suddenly decided he did not want to kill anyone anymore because killing people, even fake people in a movie, would be “bad for his karma”.
Steven Seagal was big in his Tibetan Buddhism phase. And like all things in life, Seagal adopted it with the childlike enthusiasm only the simple-minded with a strictly rudimentary understanding of matters could ever hope to possess — Buddhism says killing is bad, I fake-kill people for a living, this is bad, so I cannot do it anymore. The director, in desperation, talked to Tobolowsky and asked him to not entertain Seagal’s delusions as the death scene had to be shot for the film to be concluded…
And so, Stephen Tobolowsky explained to Steven Seagal that his character was “in pain” from his sinful and horrible life and that he was begging to be killed through his actions. And that if Seagal’s character killed his, the character’s soul could then be reincarnated in a better place and start anew and the world would be better for it. “You would be doing him a kindness,” he concluded Tobolowsky solemnly. After which Seagal did shoot the scene, and killed the villain.
In The Godfather, while Clemenza is teaching Michael how to use the gun he’ll kill Sollozzo with, he tells him that the murder will probably start a war.
“These gotta happen every five years or so. Ten years… been ten years since the last one.”
However, the film never explains what that previous war was or why it took place. But Mario Puzo’s original novel does - in great detail.
And it’s essentially the missing chapter explaining how Vito Corleone went from being the neighbourhood Don of Little Italy to one of the most powerful Mafia bosses in all of America.
By the end of Part II, Vito is a “man of respect” in his neighbourhood, and he leverages that reputation to further grow his olive oil business. He uses his “formidable powers of persuasion” to buy out his competitors and establish a monopoly on the olive oil business in New York City.
He has warehouses, trucks, and a highly efficient distribution network. When Prohibition comes into law, Vito repurposes many of these assets into an incredibly lucrative bootlegging operation.
During this period he restructures his organization into a formal crime family, with Genco as his consigliere, Clemenza as caporegime of the Bronx, Tessio controlling Brooklyn, and the men working under them as soldiers. He also builds an invaluable network of police and political contacts, which would serve him for years to come.
However, when Prohibition comes to an end, Vito needs to pivot to another criminal enterprise to keep his organization afloat.
He reaches out to Salvatore Maranzano, who controlled all gambling activity in Manhattan. Maranzano was based on the real mafia boss of the same name, one of the most powerful crime figures in New York City’s history.
Vito proposes a partnership. He would offer his political connections to protect Maranzano’s businesses and help him expand into Brooklyn and the Bronx; in exchange, Vito would receive a share of the gambling profits.
Maranzano “spurned the Corleone offer with contempt...”
He took it as an insult, and Vito as a threat that needed to be stamped out.
Maranzano had a much bigger, more powerful organization built through union-busting and extortion rackets, and strong ties to the most infamous gangster in the country, Al Capone in Chicago.
“Maranzano’s refusal touched off the great war of 1933 which was to change the whole structure of the underworld in New York City.” (1/2)
@Timobros A short video I made on The Night Comes for Us. I think it’s one of the best crime-action films of recent years. I recommend this film to people all the time.
If you missed this one before, this is a Godfather thread I did on the great mafia war that took place ten years before the events of the first film. Clemenza references it when he tells Michael, “Been ten years since the last one.”
If you missed this one before, this is a Scarface thread I did on Tony Montana and Sosa’s meeting in Bolivia. It goes into the hidden motivations of Sosa that are only revealed in the original screenplay.
Might be controversial, but I disliked the polygon TR games , until the 2013 game came out which I absolutely love, including Rise & Shadow.
Absolutely Banger trilogy, with fantastic bow upgrades & skill tree.
Celebrate 30 years of Lara Croft's PlayStation adventures 🎒
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