I’ve been wondering how to start this, and I don’t know how I will end it. I was sitting down for a while wondering how I would do it in a way that I felt did my thoughts and feelings justice. I was wondering if explaining my own thoughts and feelings would translate to others beyond myself. After all I’m just an interpreter and my words are not universally felt. As much as I may want everyone to understand me…
“When this kind of fire starts, it is very hard to put out. The tender boughs of innocence burn first, and the wind rises, and then all goodness is in jeopardy”
Log Lady says this to Laura before she enters The Bang Bang Bar, and what follows is a scene that I consider one of the most difficult scenes to endure in all of cinema or tv. When you’ve seen this film before and you know what comes next, there is almost…
The opening 17 minutes with the highway log truck—off the top of my head—is the best horror setpiece of the 2000s. I just love the concept of your slasher villain being death as near inevitability and invisibility that only one person can sniff from their premonition.
Also once again… seriously! Play Laura Palmer’s Theme over the dialogue scenes or pre-kill setpiece montages and these movies become 3 times better.
Tom Cruise everyting gwan be iiiirie.
Honestly a blast, Cruise at his most handsome and like the only time he shows he is capable of having sex—eh that might be wrong cuz with Gina Gershon he kinda just flops around trying to bite her. But he does emerge from an under the cover 69 with her to drink some Dom Perignon and get back to work.
Other than his Jamaican accent, the best part is when he’s just owning Elisabeth…
Just read an interview where one of these bozos laughed at the notion of the cinema being a sacred space to people, and even called it “elitist”, calling a $12 movie ticket in a place as expensive as California, calling one of the most affordable communal entertainment experiences “elitist”. How do you make one of the highest grossing movies of all time and somehow be dumb as fucking rocks.
The theater is a sacred space in many ways, I was…
