Nick Nolte got nominated for something for "Blue Chips" right?
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NO?
Same director as "The Exorcist" and “The French Connection” right?
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YES!?
Everyone on LETTERBOXD loves this, right?
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Oh...
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Blue Chips 1994
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Chungking Express 1994
The first half is loads of fun, but the second half is absolute movie magic. The kind of chemistry that leaps off the screen and would make most rom-coms green with murderous envy. Aside from some choppy editing that was en vogue at the time, this is nearly perfect. And I very well may find it to be so on subsequent rewatches. I fell in rapturous love with this film and there’s no going back.
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Assassin's Creed 2016
Much of this is well-photographed and you can see every dollar of the $125M budget in the production design--- but it's just dumb. I’m unfamiliar with the game upon which it is based, but still. Dumb.
The action set pieces range from "laughably bad" to "boring and derivative". None are good. The ending is so incredibly rushed that it is really distracting, as if the movie is playing at 1.5x speed suddenly. And the performances, from several wonderfully talented actors, are all phoned-in at best.
Man, it’s a shame that this torpedoed the rise of Kurzel's career. I had such high hopes early on. -
Barbie 2023
I’d been eagerly anticipating taking my pregnant wife to see this opening weekend, and I was much more excited than she was. And then our son decided to come a month early. That Saturday morning at 7am, she went into labor. And the fever pitch of reviews started to pour in. And I got a little nervous that one of my five most anticipated films of the year wouldn’t live up to my expectations. We were bowled over when we…