Was digging STANGE BEHAVIOR from the jump, what with its creepy tracking shots and shadow play murder, and when this song played during a HS party I nearly levitated from delight.
https://t.co/5fjRUkUP6w
@mangiotto If you haven’t yet had the pleasure do yourself a favor and give “Cheat Codes”, his collaboration with Danger Mouse released earlier this year, a spin. Dustiest of funk grooves, great guest verses, and Black Thought’s bars are stronger than ever.
@KillerCritics @Timobros Of all the shitass decisions made by the new execs to cut costs, this is the most emblematic of their short term thinking; dropping a horror movie just before October/Halloween.
@alfenstermaker @ImCAntonio@netw3rk If he was smarter he could’ve just said “I’m protecting the future King of Westeros” and sauntered away smiling knowing Cole wouldn’t have had a reply to that fact.
Of all the things to love and loathe about Cimino’s HEAVEN’S GATE, one particular aspect that expresses its inherent contradictions is that despite the lavish and laudable attention to detail, firearms never need to be reloaded.
If Cimino had an ounce of humor in him, the near last scene of the showdown, the one that depicts the horror (the horror) of war by showing the badass, mercy killing woman blowing her brains out, would’ve instead found her putting the gun in her mouth, pulling the trigger, and…
Is it a masterpiece?
No.
Is it flawed?
Yes.
Was it a troubled production butchered by the studio?
Double yes.
Is it a flawed masterpiece that despite all the above is still an atmospheric, creeptastic, anti-Nazi, psychotropic good time?
Fuck yeah.
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I dig NEAR DARK as much as the next person (unless said person is @mangiotto ) but, c’mon, the big, damn near inexplicable news here is that Criterion will be streaming what I reckon will be an HD remaster of THE KEEP!
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