“It’s getting dangerous to be poor in this country? Isn’t it?”
“It always was.”
A true American epic that has so many moments of greatness, but I thought ultimately it just didn’t all come together like I wanted it to. Very curious to know what Cimino took out of his original 5 1/2 hour cut.
I can kind of understand why this was dismissed as it was for so long: from what I gather about that late 70s, early 80s…
Birth is one of those special movies that I had only seen once before I rewatched it yesterday, but it always stuck with me.
I can that first viewing over a decade ago really clearly. It was late at night and I came across this on one of the movie channels. The premise is certainly attention grabbing. Nicole Kidman meets a young boy who claims to be her dead husband, reincarnated. Director Jonathan Glazer takes what could just be…
A truly, truly abysmal movie in every way and it has now accomplished the incredible feat of making me think that I was far too hard on Expendables 3, which now looks like The Godfather by comparison.
Also, the budget was $100 million dollars?!?? This has to have been a money laundering scheme right???
This was wilder and wackier than I expected. To call the kills over the top might be under selling them.
Felt like Oz Perkins was maybe trying to channel a little bit of Sam Raimi, and that got me thinking “man, if Raimi directed this, we might have a real classic on our hands” but instead it’s just really good. Would like to see Perkins continue to cut loose more in the future, because this feels like he had a real fun time making this one.
