Jed Dawson

“If we only defend, we lose the war.” Trequartisti senza confini

[Jed Dawson @TheRealJed]

"Propaganda ceases where simple dialogue begins." - Jacques Ellul

[Jed Dawson @TheRealJed]

#USA left backs out here humbling entire nations.

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@pablofindsout "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," by Gay Talese. Esquire, 1966.

[Jed Dawson @TheRealJed]

By deferring the consequences of this conflict, he buys time for a process he does not yet fully understand, which will involve encountering the divinity in the forest.

[Jed Dawson @TheRealJed]

Ashitaka's deliverance of San from Iron Town about 45-50 minutes into Princess Mononoke features what we call superpowers, yet transcends power fantasy and arrives at genuine, gripping drama.

And it's all grounded in wants and needs.

[Jed Dawson @TheRealJed]

The trail of his blood that he leaves is the path of a peacemaker who is content to risk his death now, knowing that a gruesome death awaits him anyway.

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Riley.

[Not Adam @NotAdamNB]

PG: who cares
SG: Wade
SF: LeBron
PF: Giannis
C: Shaq

The Miami Heat franchise is 38 years old

[Jed Dawson @TheRealJed]

A little sore after England 0 - 0 Ghana!

[Simon Clancy @SiClancy]

Very much doubt it breaks the top ten. The knockout stages would have to be an all timer for it to do so.

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@embassydavies In case anyone's unsure about the qualifications of the list-maker, he is unburdened by journalistic anything.

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@bkoo Agreed. Tubi's approach to catalogue-building...I don't know how to categorize it, other than just an understanding of how (small-c) catholic a huge portion of movie-watchers' taste well and truly is.

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@ShaneRyanHere The idea, however fanciful, has everything to do with tech varying from situation to situation. A match ostensibly could be run by an official using a regular ol' clock, rather than a stopwatch.

Is this everyone's idea of an ontological good? Not really. But here we are.

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The movie puts itself in a real dilemma that it has no idea how to resolve: the protagonist played by Nicolas Cage only really comes alive when he's stealing cars, but this cannot be a movie about a man stealing cars and saving his brother for it.

Hence, the third act.

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The blocking and composition for Gone in 60 Seconds is far better than maybe 10 popular movies you'll see this year.

The casting (Delroy Lindo! Timothy Olyphant! Grace Zabriskie!) is even better. Victoria Thomas earned every dime of that paycheck.

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Given that the director is Dominic Sena, the visual style is Propaganda Films run through a Bruckheimer funnel - some Bay, some Fincher, and it all comes together in this pulpy crime adventure.