Tony Scott saw Vertigo, scoffed, and was like "I can do this better, I'll just tack on two additional acts and throw in a time machine"

tony scott's loveletter to man's relationship with images/technology--together, at their very best, able to conquer fate, death and reality... probably the most romantic film ever made. we miss you every day tony.

Truffaut: Can you tell me what is was about this book that specially appealed to you?
Hitchcock: I was intrigued by the hero's attempts to re-create the image of a dead woman through another one who's alive.

And I have nothing to give either—except this gesture, this thread between your humanity and mine: I want to hold you in my arms and as your soul got shot of its box of flesh to understand, as you have done, the wit of eternity: its gift of unhinged release tearing through the darkness of its knell.
—Toni Morrison, September 13, 2001

Why isn't everyone talking about that car chase scene literally all the time?

you like him?
he's smart
yeah I Iike him too

I like fiction because it's nice to see the government being efficient. This film is great because it throws the absolute most at the characters and escalates the situation to unbelievable degrees, and all of the thrills and tension are our characters efficiently staying on top of the situation. Its awesomely exhilarating and also kinda satisfying!

movie #2 on my spontaneous time-travel movie marathon. thx DizzleSizzle!

good blockbusters

"it already happened, it will keep happening and it always will happen."
"maybe."

love transcends time, reality, existence and death, emotion and humanity are more important than the laws of physics.

definitely was not expecting this to be of a piece with both Twin Peaks: The Return and Romancing in Thin Air but all three are about using images (cinema) to rewrite the past and avert catastrophic trauma, and all three are defined, more or less, by the paradoxical success/failure of their protagonists. here, branching worlds literally hold two versions of the same woman, alive and dead simultaneously, Doug's goal achieved and not achieved forever. we can shatter the past, fragment and split it, but never simply change it: suffering remains.

"Woah! This is tripping." -Doug Carlin,

- Tony Scott Ranked: boxd.it/8Og4w
- 5x5 Directors Challenge (Tony Scott 3/5): boxd.it/8NI72

I hope they made him pay for that monitor he broke.

Deja Vu is an intense and wonderful time travel film with great performances and a spectacular final act. The script is so smart about finding that zone where you get convoluted but not convoluted enough to be annoying. I love Tony Scott's direction, the editing, and Denzel's ability to play the common man with unrealized talents so well in all of his films. Films rarely are this fun and smart at the same time which I why I appreciate this movie so much.

I slept on this, it's fantastic!

This film felt like......like......
Now, what's that word again for the sensation that you're watching something you've seen already?

Scott & Washington together will always be entertaining. This is only the 4th best of their collaborations but still very good.
1 Crimson Tide
2 Man on fire
3 Unstoppable
4 Deja Vu
5 Taking of Pellham...

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Tony Scott’s movies, and I use the word MOVIE on purpose, are the ABSOLUTE shit. Breakneck, staggering, cracked-out-of-your-mind shit that keeps your eyes glued to the screen. Fantastic filmmaking, regardless of what the writers say about creative differences between the two parties - I don’t want to live in a world where Tony Scott didn’t direct this. 

That sounds really dramatic. 

But it’s true!

(Also - the events in the movie take place on Feb. 28 - total coincidence.)

Part 7 of 9 from Harrison's list.

A solid film, pretty sure I pitched a film idea with the same premise to Harrison and Jesse during lockdown last year. Although I distinctly remember wanting to cast Hugh Jackman not Denzel.

It kind of glossed over the fact they had a time machine a bit easily. I'm happy to accept weird time travel technology while watching a film, but they just accepted it far too quickly. Other than that, it was a half-decent watch.

Looks like I'm on the home stretch now. Just another Scooby Doo and the finale... the one everyone hates. Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same.

I did not expect this to be as good as it is. Hell, it has no reason for being this good. The editing and camerawork is extremely quick and snappy, which would normally annoy me but for this it works and Tony Scott doesn’t overused it. It serves a purpose to the story. Denzel is great in this, my favourite from him so far.

One of the lesser Scott/Washington collabs. Still entertaining, but the plot makes no sense.

Interesting but a bit confusing

SCIENCE

ok in my defence i was like 11 when chris brown came out with deuces and i hadn’t seen this movie until 2020 so how was i supposed to know that when kevin mccall said “she paula patton thick / she give me déjà vu” he was referring to this??  

great watch though! have yet to see a bad denzel film.

Big dumb energy

name a more iconic duo than Denzel and tony scott 

Jesus Christ the run of films these 2 made together. UNMATCHED

I feel like I have watched this before....