Very Dumb Idiot
@verydumbidiot
pub trivia runner-up
easily my favorite baseball-reference page. Of the top 25 seasons of fewest walks per 9 inning in MLB history, its 24 guys who played in the 1800s and Carlos Silva in 2005
Pretty workmanlike and unobtrusive (in a good way) from a visual standpoint but I really enjoyed this shot of the tellers going into the vault filmed through the vault door hinge during a bank holdup. Impressively low-key ended, plus some great period Bruins game action.
It rocks so much that the wolves underperformed their point differential last season even though Ant was literally the most clutch player of all time
this article is so sick. also so many of these guys were either drafted by or subsequently played for the wolves lol
Sexy Beast (2000): This must rock so hard on the big screen, with "Peaches" blaring on the theater speakers and the extreme close-ups. Mostly it makes a life of crime seem pretty whack but man this scene in stylish. I love the line read of "This is a bloke you know."
Hitchcock was obviously having a real ball with this one. The tennis shot, the murder reflected in the fallen glasses, the runaway carousel. Overall just not up there on the Psych/Rear Window/Vertigo for me but not a ton of movies are frankly
Strangers On a Train (1951): Killer premise (thank you Ms. Highsmith) but sapped of energy throughout the middle third. "Barbara Morton kinda looks like Miriam & it sends Bruno into a fugue state" is a dumbass plot line & there is WAY too much tennis footage. The black & white really pops though
Joint Security Area (2000): I am officially Park Chan-wook pilled. Great script but the lower production values make it kind of look like an episode of Law and Order. The ending is a bit too morose for me but man that middle section was pure magic. Favorite shot has to be the final image.
My favorite sequence: The nighttime escape from the house in the first act. I love the image of Sook-hee and Hideko setting down their suitcases in unison each time to open the doors. Then the crane shot over the roof!! Plus, the sequence gets even better after seeing Act II & Act III! Hot Damn!!
Check this out: Push in on Sook-hee, turn to see the letter, angle down on Hideko, follow Hideko around the window, bisect Sook-hee & Hideko with the windowpane, Hideko stands back up & crosses for unbalanced composition. (Sorry, the only version I can screen record online has italian subs lol)
This shot really shocked me. The first 55 minutes have some tension & pathos but are mostly pretty breezy. I thought that Ripley would kill Dickie & inhabit his life but I really didn't think Anthony Minghella had the guts to make it this brutal. Diminishing returns as the movie went on but wowza
when Phillip Baker Hall shows up two hours into The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and his firsts line is "I don't care for B.S. I don't care to hear it. I don't care to speak it."
Theatrical in that you could almost imagine this as a black box stage play. But then again a play can't give you a dissolve cut of the night sky becoming an old guy pissing by a fence.
John Leguizamo and Mira Sorvino were both great. I loved Leguizamo saying God told him that he shouldn't do any "butt-fucking, sixty-nining, doggy-style" with his wife so he has to cheat on her. The Adrien Brody punk stuff is pretty stinky. Two needle drops from The Who is a little excessive.
He was literally on the cover of the prominently displayed Knicks book in the kids section of my local public library
Josh Hart is just the median US voter; hates Trump but loves the bible in schools
The Keep (1983): This movie, in my humble opinion, stinks. I know it had a tortured development but it is stinky. The plot is incoherent and the special effects look like ass. Redeeming features are a soundtrack with very ominous tones and a couple frames that look like cool prog rock album covers.
after hearing on like the 4th straight podcast that the spurs need "a real power forward" i think i've come up with the solution
I really appreciated the movie's trusts in the viewer to work out the relationship between Graham and Lektor A couple of gorgeous frames: -The camera slithering between the storage boxes as Graham pours over documents in FBI storage -The slightly canted angle when Graham talks to Lektor
I love the camera panning right to follow the soldiers, smoothly switching to a pan left to catch Burns & Damon then tilting up to Pepper in the clock tower. Hanks walks out of frame, Damon crosses in front of Burns, they look at each other, Hanks enters back in perfect composition. Spielberg baby!!
Two cool shots: (1) Newt looking up through the grated floor as Ripley shines a bright flashlight down at her (2) The claustrophobic look at bishop squeezing his way down the tiny tunnel illuminated by a flashlight