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"Remember, time is luck."
"Yeah. Luck ran out."
I would die for Michael Mann; it's his slick and quick pacing, his ability to build these characters yearning for romance underneath a steel professionalism, it's the digital shot, the neon violence, the line readings, what should be tacky becomes exceptional and transcendent. You can't go wrong with this movie. I saw it at Metrograph on the big screen and it is easily the best first watch of the year for me.
"Yeah. Luck ran out."
I would die for Michael Mann; it's his slick and quick pacing, his ability to build these characters yearning for romance underneath a steel professionalism, it's the digital shot, the neon violence, the line readings, what should be tacky becomes exceptional and transcendent. You can't go wrong with this movie. I saw it at Metrograph on the big screen and it is easily the best first watch of the year for me.
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🎞the dude is so fucking cool. Ferrari unfortunately looks mid AF, but Collateral, Miami Vice, Heat... i mean come on!!!! cruise is soooo hot in collateral too.
Dec 12, 2023
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The most heightened macho buddy cop movie of all time has an incomprehensible pace and inhumanly stoic leads. Must watch. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Mar 28, 2024
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This movie is great! Watched it for my government class for a section about how the Media influences public policy. Pacino is in his full 90s glory (he is screaming SOOOO much in this film) but it works. Pacino's portrayl of Lowell Bergman was a fine performance, and Russel Crowe's potrayal of the conflicted and tempermental Big Tobacco whistleblower Dr. Jeffery Wigand brought so much suspense and heart to the film. You really feel for Wigand as he goes up against the largest and (at the time) most powerful corporations in America. Lowell and Wigand lose almost everything and are put through the wringer and the movie doesn't decide to wrap everything up neatly, but the story is satisfying nonetheless. Give it a watch!
Jun 24, 2025
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📲I'm often accused of being an "old soul", a categorization I vehemently dislike because it pretends as if my taste is because of nostalgia, as opposed to what is actually cool and compelling. (If something cool comes out now, I enjoy it, but we're in a down period when it comes to culture). But, something old about me, is that I do not care at all about TikTok ending, if does happen. If Elon takes it over from the Chinese, you might as well leave anyway, but I'm just worried at why this is a huge deal for people. It's just an app. Another one will be made. TikTok is not culture, it directly flattens culture into these ten second clips that take music, movies --- things that you need to process --- into something that is now consumed by everyone at a rapid pace, not allowing for the nuances, the style, the aesthetics to sit with us.
I have never watched something on TikTok and thought that this is something in that pushing American culture to deeper heights. I am sorry. Now I am sure they're good stuff on the app, but it's not really a necessity. Whenever I hear the words "it's blowing up on TikTok", my mind immediately growls.
I understood why X becoming overrun with Elon bots and right wingers is a big deal; X actually created things, made careers, made American life, and American events available to be seen by everyone. However, TikTok is a corrupt fantasy, chopping at the wires that make physical connection important.
Read a book! Go to the movies! Go to the restaurant of a cuisine that is unheralded, go to a baseball game. Who cares about TikTok?
I have never watched something on TikTok and thought that this is something in that pushing American culture to deeper heights. I am sorry. Now I am sure they're good stuff on the app, but it's not really a necessity. Whenever I hear the words "it's blowing up on TikTok", my mind immediately growls.
I understood why X becoming overrun with Elon bots and right wingers is a big deal; X actually created things, made careers, made American life, and American events available to be seen by everyone. However, TikTok is a corrupt fantasy, chopping at the wires that make physical connection important.
Read a book! Go to the movies! Go to the restaurant of a cuisine that is unheralded, go to a baseball game. Who cares about TikTok?
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🍖Like almost every morning, I make a big ol breakfast salad for myself. Eggs, greens, onions, tuna, spanich, olives. I never taste anything as filling as this. It's perfect. Great if you are looking for a big breakfast to hold you down during your work day. Get yourself a salad spinner; makes it easier.
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🎥There's something quite startling about Martin Scorsese's 1980's period compared to the rest of his decades as one of America's greatest filmmakers. In the 80's, he was weird, strange, and making weirdly manic films that feel more New York than even some of his movies about the mob. They're movies about characters who aren't glamarous people that they want to be, but rather, are losers who can't seem to correctly fucntion in normal society. They're non-violent sociopaths. I saw The King of Comedy at Metrograph recently, and it's exhilarating, hilarious, manic, and scary. With Jerry Lewis, Bobby De Niro and Sandra Bernhard, Scorsese was able to create a world where incels who are bad at comedy are wishing for fame. Sound familiar?
This is a great movie. In 1983, it was a box office flop. But in 2025, it is magical in how it's telling the future. A future of scam artists who don't want to work to get there, and don't want to sit in their mediocrity: they want to steal to get their fifteen seconds. Go watch this masterpiece.
This is a great movie. In 1983, it was a box office flop. But in 2025, it is magical in how it's telling the future. A future of scam artists who don't want to work to get there, and don't want to sit in their mediocrity: they want to steal to get their fifteen seconds. Go watch this masterpiece.
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