Re:Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry…
A coupla other films in the same vein:
Electra Glide In Blue
Two Lane Blacktop
Re:Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry…
A coupla other films in the same vein:
Electra Glide In Blue
Two Lane Blacktop
A few years earlier but i would add Vanishing Point to that list. There’s another one I of same vane I can’t recall title too but will add when that neuron unclogs
I’d add Sugarland Express too but it’s a bit different
I think I recall Tarantino listing DM/CL on his list of influences
As I mentioned earlier, the first time I saw DM/CL was on late night television. I didn’t see the whole film, only about the last third or so.
When I was finally able to find it at a movie store, it was at Le Video in San Francisco.
This was way before DVD was the thing and the copy I rented was on VHS. Not only that, but it was a bootleg copy dubbed from a Japanese laser disc, so it had Japanese subtitles!
As for more similar films, I’d also recommend:
Easy Rider
Charlie Varrick
THE KILLER
Not to be confused with John Woo’s 1989 HK classic or David Fincher’s 2024 modern classic, this Korean guns-n-fisticuffs actioneer actually has more in common with the Taken franchise. But it’s 27x more stylish than those Liam Neeson films.
Drenched in neon, it’s teeming with slick fight sequences and solid action set pieces.
The story is pretty routine and there’s a bit too much soap operatic melodrama sprinkled throughout, but lead actor Jang Hyuk commands the screen and when the bullets start flying and bones get broken you quickly forget about the treacley bits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBxr0DyhD3s
Hmm, no mention of The Apprentice here yet (it's a rental on Prime; I got the DVD from the library)? I liked it, mostly. It's worth noting that, overall, it isn't an attack piece on Trump, though certainly he doesn't come across heroically. In fact, for at least the first half of the movie, Trump is portrayed sympathetically, as a young guy whose ambition is still struggling to emerge from unpolished dorkiness; kind of racist, sure, but he was raised by his dad to consider that as essential to being in New York real estate. He doesn't even show signs of being an awful person until about 2/3 of the way in, when he rapes his wife (which, in real life, was documented but recanted in exchange for a cash settlement).
Given that Trump's followers consider the various qualities that the movie shows Cohn instilling in young Donald as more virtues than anything else, it's far from clear that Republicans would object to the bulk of how this movie portrays their idol. Not even the rape scene should be problematic for them; Republicans mostly wouldn't consider what reportedly occurred to be rape, because she was his wife and he her patriarch.
The plastic surgery stuff towards the end, though, was overdone; close-ups of scalp surgery are a bit much. It seemed to be played as the final stage of DT's transformation into the Trump we now know and loathe, sort of like Darth Vader putting on his black helmet for the first time. But really, who cares? Lots of people get liposuction, and lots of people (including Joe Biden) have received elaborate treatments to avoid baldness. Granted, most of them don't end up looking like a ridiculous less friendly Liberace, but still... so what. This was a heavy-handed departure from what was otherwise a nuanced well done character study.
After a long hiatus from AMZ, we finally caved in. Mostly just for the Whole Foods discounts. Haha. Anyway, wife and I just blasted through Fallout and I gotta say. Skeptical as I initially was about such an adaptation from a video game series (that was excellent btw), they knocked it out of the park with this one. I'm old enough to remember playing Wasteland on PC (and my buddy's C64), and also played the original Fallout 1 & 2, then Fallout 3 on PS3. I think Fallout 2 was my fav. They captured a lot of the humor and overall fell from the games and did enough to captivate newer audiences such as my wife. I thought she was going to hate it, but ended up loving it. Looking forward to season 2!
I thought this was going to be cheesy but it actually ended up being very well done. Great surfing and an interesting look inside the life of young women trying to make it as pro surfers. I noticed it was produced by Reese Witherspoon's company. Damn these young women rip!Surf Girls Hawaii, a new Amazon 4 episode series, is pretty good. Basically a documentary about womans pro surfer season.
TURBO KID
I know that I’ve mentioned this flick before, but it’s so tasty and amazing it’s worth mentioning at least 9x more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFlZ6pVtnv0
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