I love this movie so much. It’s so fun! There’s violence, porn, fire, hetero apologists, actors from The Wire, unabashed passion, fake blood, guns, teamsters with guns, sound effects, studio slander, high body count. What more could you want! Demented forever! Die for your art! (currently free on hoopla and tubi!!!)
Truly one of the most anarchic films I've ever seen. Ridiculous, hilarious, gory, kinda vile, and yet actually pretty good stylistically. It's on the people's streaming service Tubi for your enjoyment rn.
It contains "acts that by their mere existence would make any decent person recoil in disgust! You want to see them and we've got them! Every possible thing you can think of! Come on, ladies. Come right up this way. Come see Lady Divine's Cavalcade. Come on!"
Holy shit, this was so good. Allow me to reference critic reviews: Noel Murray and Scott Tobias of The A.V. Club put Blow Out at #1 of their list of De Palma's besThe quintessential De Palma film, this study of a movie craftsman investigating a political cover-up marries suspense, sick humor, sexuality, and leftist cynicism into an endlessly reflective study of art imitating life imitating art.
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In 2023, Time selected Blow Out as part of their list 100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades, praising it as "a film filled with mistrust, one where the ghosts of Chappaquiddick and the Zapruder film lurk in the corners."
Whatever man some more immediate version of me thought it was apt at the time. I love getting older cause past versions of me keep getting younger. I can’t hold it against them I was so young then! just a rapscallion
Devastating. so emotionally honest. stunning instrumentals. Listened to this a lot 2 augusts ago and again now bc I’m venturing into a new known unknown again. Always thought August is the Sunday of summer and feel like this album captures that lethargic oppressive heat that is always ushering in change tickled with a melancholic ending, the reminder of time passing, that your childhood is another summer behind you. A sigh instead of a sob. Only 2 songs are shorter than 6 minutes.