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1986
Fantastic opening and closing action scenes, and a top-tier car chase around the midpoint. Sadly, the rest of it is a bit of a slog, no doubt to do the circumstances around its making, where Jackie almost died when a stunt went wrong and much of the movie had to reconceived while he recovered. Still, the highs are very high. I also love the recurring gum flipping bit, and Jackie's final fight scene outfit here -- monochrome with oversized windbreaker -- is one of his coolest ever looks.
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1986
Fantastic opening and closing action scenes, and a top-tier car chase around the midpoint. Sadly, the rest of it is a bit of a slog, no doubt to do the circumstances around its making, where Jackie almost died when a stunt went wrong and much of the movie had to reconceived while he recovered. Still, the highs are very high. I also love the recurring gum flipping bit, and Jackie's final fight scene outfit here -- monochrome with oversized windbreaker -- is one of his coolest ever looks.
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2016
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How I imagine the producers pitched this to Villeneuve:
VILLENEUVE: I dunno, this seems sort of hopeful and uplifting. I prefer dark stories about serial killers and drug runners. I don't really see why you came to me, to be honest.
PRODUCERS: Did we mention there's a giant spider creature thing?
VILLENEUVE: I'M IN.
(This joke for the thirty people who saw ENEMY).
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2019
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Pretty fucking great. Peele confirms he's got the goods. The UNBREAKABLE to GET OUT's 6th SENSE, this is a darker, less crowd-pleasing, weirder film than Peele's breakout. It's also scarier, funnier, and in many ways better, stuffed to the brim with memorable nightmare imagery. Plus, it has the benefit of a showstopping performance from Lupita Nyong'o -- the best horror lead performance since Toni Collette in HEREDITARY.
It's true that the ideas aren't as cleanly presented as they were in…
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2016
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How I imagine the producers pitched this to Villeneuve:
VILLENEUVE: I dunno, this seems sort of hopeful and uplifting. I prefer dark stories about serial killers and drug runners. I don't really see why you came to me, to be honest.
PRODUCERS: Did we mention there's a giant spider creature thing?
VILLENEUVE: I'M IN.
(This joke for the thirty people who saw ENEMY).
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2019
Liked Watched
Pretty fucking great. Peele confirms he's got the goods. The UNBREAKABLE to GET OUT's 6th SENSE, this is a darker, less crowd-pleasing, weirder film than Peele's breakout. It's also scarier, funnier, and in many ways better, stuffed to the brim with memorable nightmare imagery. Plus, it has the benefit of a showstopping performance from Lupita Nyong'o -- the best horror lead performance since Toni Collette in HEREDITARY.
It's true that the ideas aren't as cleanly presented as they were in…
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