The first words spoken to Ali in this film ask, accusingly and dismissively, what he is running from, implying a force that is responsible for his action, something that makes him run other than his own will. The film soon makes clear that this is not the case; even when the film flashes back to Ali’s younger days it shows a path of propulsion and portrays Ali as a pure force of individualism that justly and inevitable will achieve independence…
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Collateral 2004
It keeps getting harder and harder to come up with a reason why this isn't Mann's best film (other than the obvious anwser that Heat is just simply one of the most watchable films ever). Structurally it's quietly his most ambitious: it's almost too easy to imagine a version of this story where the cab driver serves as a bit of background flavor and a vessel for Jada Pinkett Smith to deliver exposition to and then disappears for good after…
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House of Gucci 2021
Corporations in Ridley Scott movies; Constantly evolving to be as inhumanely efficient as possible, almost a sinister beauty to how tight the systems that keep the money moving are.
Family businesses in Ridley Scott movies: "I am a 40 man with no swag running a billion dollar fashion company about to be bought out by Middle Eastern oil money that has no respect for my family's legacy and also about to be murdered by my doofus ex-wife."
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The Jazz Singer 1980
Guys I don't like
1. Mr. Bean
2. Neil DiamondIf I have to hear "You Baby" even one more time in my lifetime I'm burning this whole
place to the ground.
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God's Not Dead 2014
You know that scene in 21 Jump Street when Channing Tatum writes a bunch of 4s on the whiteboard, says some gibberish, and yells "Fuck you science!" while high on drugs? Well God's Not Dead is basically the 113 minute version of that scene.
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