In the end, they never discuss ANYthing so no beliefs are offered to the audience for consideration. It glorifies journalism but only if it is antitrump (they kill Trump's press secretary for no reason). It is supposed to be a warning against war, but the writer keeps showing himself.
He displays repeated disdain for the photogs' parents back on farms in colorado and Missouri (not even muh civil warring!) and for anyone staying out of it. As if those people don't really exist. But journalism is meaningful and enduring. As if it isn't local, flammable and based on electronics. These people think human intellect began in the late 1800s.
The good guys offer no way of ensuring civilization, no compass, just a strong hatred of order and boredom
The characters care about this infinitely deep mission which is to get a quote and a shot. People die and they lose their friends but they don't care because they get the quote and the shot. The quote is from donald trump and the shot is of his dead body.
So it is better to die than to sit on a farm not even killing trump. Yeah this guy just wanted to make a movie about photo journalism. Lol
In the end it is what it does. And what it will do is create annoying photographers and better armed bolsheviks, maybe an attempted hero. It may even sway a voter. It promises civility that white people can't give us. We need blacks and trannies (also spics and chinks - there is not a single white man shown as a good guy).
Every white guy is either dead or a scary hick. Edit: I mean they showed 3 in the process of torturing and 2 in the process of filling a mass grave. That's the totality of white dudes represented.
Wait there was one white guy who was pretty cool because he said retarded. I liked that. Retarded lol. Yeah he had fluorescent hair and his little butt buddy had his nails painted. So you can be white but you better be gay.
Hollywood is going up in smoke. Furiosa and Garfield both flopped in the worst Memorial Day box office weekend in over 40 years. This is another blow to Tinseltown, which is already hurting post-pandemic. How low will the box office go this summer? Will Inside Out 2 make bank or will it miss projections like Furiosa?
Wife is out of town for a week so I watch 2 movies every night. Tomorrow will be Mad Max Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome. Thursday will be Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Costner's Postman.
Got a lot of DVDs which just collect dust. Time to rewatch a few of them.
Based on the earlier book MASH, it includes several things not permissible in movies today. One black character was called "Spearchucker Jones". The guy who thought he was becoming gay (called himself a 'fairy') decided to commit suicide and was given a sleeping pill instead of poison by the doctors, then was 'cured' of being gay in his sleep by the assistance of a frisky nurse.
Just try stunts like that in today's America. Can't be done.
Analysis: There were shitskins in it who were “bad guys”. Patrick Swayze was an awesome guy. Busey is a cool nut bag. The acting was horrendous, but somehow made the movie more endearing (???). There was masculinity everywhere without it being an implied reason to dislike the characters, except Lori Petty, who acted and looked like a scrawny guy. There were some really beautiful shots of skydiving. The plot was terrible, yet somehow was 1000 times more watchable and enjoyable than anything I’ve seen in the last 15 years. Lots of eye candy for me too. Did not seem like a huge subversion body slam as most movies become when watching again, minus the part where Swayze called one trashy surfer guy a ‘Nazi’, which is why I will deduct one half a star. 3.5 out of 4 stars. Would watch again.
Like most of the new shit, you don't talk about the movie. You might discuss a couple of scenes that were notable. There were a couple in this where the cinematography/choreography were pretty cool, e.g., the scene where Eric storms the opera, but the negatives far outweigh the positives. Off the top of my head:
Shelly's character (the main female) is played by a mystery meat blackish chick who looks legitimately retarded. Between the buck teeth, droopy eyes, and lips that look like a cleft-repair, it was honestly hard to look at her. By half-way through the film, you get used to her, but during the first half, I found myself actually yelling out loud: "Are you fucking serious?" Only in the third decade of the 2000s would this woman ever dream of being cast as a lead. A dog wouldn't piss on this girl if she was painted red.
Eric's character (played by Bill Skarsgard) has this really annoying aesthetic. It's like Elton John meets a frat boy. He is extremely effeminate. It is barely believable when he begins kicking ass, even after he was given some deal by God to become a badass in exchange for his soul going to hell (yes, this is really an aspect of the plot).
The original Crow had a really great noir/gothic thing going on that they completely fail to capture in this one.
In the original, Eric was the lead singer and guitarist for a rock band. His wife was a gorgeous white girl whose own personal story played barely any role in the plot. It was enough to see the way Eric (played by Brandon Lee) acted to learn everything we needed to know about her. In this one, the blackish retard girl has a much bigger role (of course).
The Eric in the new one is a psychiatric patient who busts out of the asylum because he falls in love with the blackish retard.
In the original, the writers knew what not to show. We don't know exactly what is going on "behind the scenes" of the world; you don't see much that is supernatural other than Eric's invincibility. The new one starts right out with a fucking demon-possessed elite guy, who we find out made some deal with the devil in exchange for sending innocent souls to hell, to live indefinitely. It's over-the-top from the get-go. Not only that, but when Eric dies, you see him enter this weird industrial limbo where a nigger playing the Virgil-like role of a guide is there to deliver God's messages. The original film contained nothing about heaven or hell.
Overall, Eric seems like a helpless sack of an emo faggot who would just as soon get ass raped to save his nigger-retard girl if not for God giving him powers like dad assigning house chores.
