Hokey as it sound I think everybody deserves to be loved, or feel the kind of love which can make getting out of bed and looking at ourselves in the mirror easier. And though it is seemingly far easier to condemn someone and wish them nothing but misery, I view this sort of thing as a 2-way street. In short, I try and treat people as I wish to be.
As I see it, the counterculture of the late 60's…
Watched the Spanish dub with subtitles and completely different interviews and film clips in places. An odd refresher to movies of which I still haven’t seen, Coming Home being the one that immediately stuck out.
This year many a great album celebrates their 50th anniversary, but none mean as much to me personally then this. If “I Can’t Explain” is the platform to which Pete Townshend stayed thematically relevant to his generation ever since, you can unequivocally say that this is the masterclass of application to composing, and producing records of a quality that lead to an impressive run of material between 1969 and 1973 that stands on its own as truly classic rock music…
More gratuitous than the violence are the constant reminders of how much this was a movie of it's time. When "breaking news" wasn't just a buzzword and used only for something as serious as a terrorist take-over, limousines had tape decks, and the price of gas was less then a dollar. This extends to some of the production details too, namely using real locations in Los Angeles, painted backings and relying almost entirely on practical physical effects.
These things conversely…
This is my favorite Martin Scorsese film. A big reason why is nostalgia. My father played pool and himself was a fan of this, and we had a VHS rip of it in my house for years. I'm not a big sports fan, let alone pool, but the cinematic poetry applied here is never boring to watch. Defining performances from Paul Newman and Tom Cruise feel like the cherry on top. I still get goosebumps whenever I see the montage of Felson getting his act together before arriving in Atlantic City.
