Jake Gittes
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Just remembered one film that came out the same year as Citizen Kane that both the old-movie skeptics and enthusiasts need to see: Hellzapoppin'. One way or another, that thing would blow everyone's fucking mind. -
SNATCHED | May 12 2017 | Fox | trailer on page 1
Jake Gittes replied to kayumanggi's topic in Box Office Discussion
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I think Psycho up to and including the murder on the stairs is the greatest filmmaking Hitch's ever done but it definitely goes downhill after that.
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Finally this holiday gets its own Polar Express
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Don't think I've ever seen a poster for an individual scene before.
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Incidentally The Birds remains by far my most hated classic.
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Whether or not something is a classic is not a matter of opinion. "Classic" doesn't reflect quality (which is subjective) so much as a work's place/significance in culture and history. You are free to hate a classic movie but that doesn't make it any less of one. Yeah this is what I was talking about above. Citizen Kane is a prime example of a movie harmed by its reputation because after freaking decades of BEST FILM EVER talk people come to it with expectations that are impossible to fulfill.
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I think it does more harm than good to approach any film as a sacred cow tbh. Don't see anything wrong with critiquing any consensus-masterpiece as long as you can come up with a reasonable argument.
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Lemmon is great in that and Some Like It Hot. And even more so in Glengarry Glen Ross which I can't recommend enough.
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Yup the one that Apes is currently on.
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If you dug Sunset Blvd. I'd recommend diving into Billy Wilder's stuff. Double Indemnity, Ace in the Hole, Stalag 17, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, can't go wrong with any of that. Also from the '50s: Gun Crazy, The Night of the Hunter, The Killing, Paths of Glory. All fantastic.
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I'm not a fan of Sucker Punch but I think out of context that bit works a fun over-the-top comic booky depiction of patriarchy (and was clearly intended as such). From my recollection its fundamental problem is that Snyder wanted to make (his version of) a feminist movie with women empowering themselves and shit, yet never made the main characters anything more than overly sexualized fuckdolls devoid of personality. Pretty ridiculous misstep there. But at least it gave us this?
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He was good in The Lost City of Z. Like approximately 98% of actors he needs both good material and a good actor's director to guide him.
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Thanks for the memories Blanks?
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I dunno how Ghost in the Shell looked in the trailers but on an IMAX screen it was an eyeful. Beautiful work.
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Seeing this on Thursday. Oh boy.
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Arrival and Prisoners are my least favorite Villeneuves easily. I'm all about Enemy and Sicario, maybe not a coincidence that his heavy portentous tone combined the subject matter in both fills them with so much dread they're practically horror movies at times. Polytechnique his French-Canadian black-and-white drama about a school shooting is really good too, avoids pretty much all of the traps it could easily fall into. I still have Maelstrom and Incendies to see.
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He's been nominated a few times as producer and screenwriter
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Somewhere Paul Verhoeven can't stop laughing.
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The actual story of the first Blade Runner and the character of Deckard have always left me completely cold. For me its impact is entirely in the visuals/music/overall atmosphere (where it's practically unmatched), and Rutger Hauer's final speech. But it's not a movie I love. Which is actually good for BR2049 because I don't have any through-the-roof expectations other than for Deakins' work.
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I think Enemy is by far his best movie and it's the one the least number of people have seen (not counting his pre-breakout stuff).
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You gotta watch more movies.
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Is it just your avatar or have you actually started to talk more like Tarantino in Dogs/Pulp. This reads like the beginning of a Jimmy rant.
