Monthly Archives: August 2019

You Can’t buy me love Movie (1987)

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Brilliant movie and I like the part where she has Patrick Dempsey’s back says he sits in the visitor seating to fuck with the other team , it’s physiological warfare. This movie is 80s but so extremely 80s but most of these actors never make a big break anywhere else. A film about superficial lives to the fullest and his younger brother is a G cooler than him. Also the scene where he jumps into the clean ass white VW rabbit. No half jump either. What a believable nerd that rises to popularity and the story takes place in AZ which is different from most California teen movies. Also most every teen movie the guy likes the girl he cant get her but this one the girl cant get the guy even though she usually gets whatever she wants. Very different idea. They two even have a pretend break up but he doesn’t realize he took it way too far in public. The girls like him for being an asshole for it which is also kind of a different theme to show on film so openly. Very dark version of most teen era movies. Dark but not bad just in real form. When he comes in to school pretending to be the new kick ass guy the scene is over the top but with NO entrance music as he walks in. That just gives you the Independent film feel which makes scenes feel so unique like it really happened not a theatrical movie. Brilliant work! After he is deemed “cool” for paying the popular girl to pretend to date him he can finally take girls out in his weird-dads car that gets flipped into a cool shag’n wagon to his peers. Extra 80’s arcades that look like more actual footage than a movie. Now he is suddenly hangin with the popular people, the jocks, and pretty girls. Even to the point where the girls are open to sharing him something never seen in a breakfast club movie or 16 Candles. Again how a darker real high school movie goes. Every TV in the movie is old but really small giving you a different cinematic look at the 80s because it wasn’t a remake but actually filmed in the 80s. The actors are so unknown so they are more believable. Also the younger brother is hell bent on figuring out why his brother is now the cool kid all of a sudden. At the school dance they have a live music singer which at the time was a far out cool school dance for it’s time. Watching B style movies like this you just couldn’t place who they were or who they could have become. Dempsey drinks for seemingly the first time spiking the punch bowling something always known and talked about but rarely shown on film. The girls laughing thinking he was in special ED dancing like an idiot but then they try to make him feel better by mimicking his dance moves. However as they do it, soon it literally turns into a cool dance sequence. Very artistic dance scene with super funky music playing in the background. The entire soundtrack is amazing with Paul Mccartney singing the opening soundtrack theme song. Alantac star , living in a box and cutting crew but more of the B side songs in my opinion. Comedy you have never heard or scene making it all fresh and new. This movie plays between serious drama teen soap opera to Fast times & Richmond high comedy. PERFECT BLEND. It exploits rich communities but interestingly it shows richer people within rich neighborhoods and how their dynamics clash into social layers. Genius script in my opinion. The clever comebacks and witty remarks shine through the entire film. She later walks into new designed Ronnie who is no longer Ronald in the bathroom kissing some girl which would never been shown in that way for mainstream teen movies, too real for the time of 1987. also the movie taking place during new years as opposed to most movies displaying summer time and good weather was different. The scene with the longest speech ever by Amanda Peterson revealing the lie her and Dempsey had seemed really authentic like it was based on a true story. What will he do next you think. This is actually a real drama but also a comedy, dramatic, dark but unforgiving about its content or delivery. Makes you love it more. Probably the best ending a teen movie could have giving you everything you anticipated for all into great visuals. Petersen lived a troubled life in her real life ultimately to her death. Many of the others besides Dempsey did not go on to do many other films. Check this one out if you loved all the classic high school movies.

The Iceman Movie (2013)

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Take a look into the most dangerous one man army maybe of all time. Ruthless contract killer who worked for the Mafia by sort of falling into it. His name was Richard Kuklinski and he was not Italian he was Polish. This is a true story with every highlight covered in the movie so don’t think they left much out. Michael Shannon does an excellent performance playing the part and if you want proof wait till after you watched the movie then look up the real life interviews of “The Iceman” talking to psychologists detailing the zero remorse for the killings he did. The film also has great stars like Ray Liotta playing Roy DeMeo who was head of the Gambino crime family in that time which later was run by John Gotti as many already know. M.Shannon plays a mellow killer who shows no feelings for his business, chopping them up, killing people whether in broad daylight or not. He also was known for freezing the bodies to make it difficult to tell time of death, he used poisons, guns, knives, crossbows, rope to choke people and you name it he did it. If Iceman wanted you he would get you. He also had a specific moment in the film which was a true story that a man begged for god to be saved from being killed by Iceman. So Iceman sat down and said he would give him a few mins to pray to god and if anything changes or interferes he would let the man go. After the time was up Iceman said (paraphrased) “you called for god and maybe he was busy, now you die” and shot the guy in the head. After this movie check out his comments about that day in the real life interview. Though he cared about his family he would kiss his kids goodnight then tell mafia soldiers death-goodnights all in the same week. This guy was deadly, standing 6’5″ almost 300lbs and not to be fucked with. Terrible childhood and upbringing lead him to the emotions he was lacking. When you watch the documentary/interviews you can see how on point the acting was so watch it after. The Iceman died in prison serving a life sentence and showed zero emotion admitting he was a killer and it was his time to die. The Iceman, look for it.

A Scanner Darkly Movie (2006)

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One of the greatest movies of all time that didn’t get bad reviews but also wasn’t all over every headline. I first seen this years ago and enjoyed it with the same medium view point you can find online. I re-watched it now in 2019 and it shows me all new meaning. For one it was filmed in Rotoscoping which is where the movie is filmed then traced over with digitally digitizing each frame of pictures which also gives the director the chance to manipulate scenes. Manipulate reality more or less because it’s now digital but not like a cartoon. Yet this style has been around since the early 1900s this was one the first to have the ENTIRE film in rotoscoping as opposed to just scenes in other films. Not to mention the films message about a drug epidemic and how it can be as simple as a pill. Which over a decade ago was not as prominent as it is now. Now you hear about adderal or Xanax, percocets,fentanyl even along side traditional cocaine. People have this vast fascination over drugs and how quickly things can get them high. I have never used a hard drug in my life so maybe I am bias but I really don’t see the point in taking things to the level you could lose your life over being high . Which then makes this movie was ahead of it’s time coming out back in 2006. Not to mention the movie plot is that the government is secretly doing it to our own country. Which Keanu goes deep deep cover to the point where he gets addicted to the drug himself to eventually be checked into a care facility that makes the actual drug addicts who are half brain dead harvest and crop the illegal death drug for the government. Basically a conveyor belt of getting their own country of people high and addicted then using them to create massive farms to harvest move of the drug. A crazy concept that really doesn’t seem that far fetched with the way over-the-counter drugs have been being sold the past decade with little restraints on providing limits tot he public. Robert Downey Jr plays a guy addicted to the drug yet he is seemingly very smart using $5 dollar words with every sentence as if he is an a astute professor. Woody Harleson is whacked out high energy when he is on the drug while Roy Cocrane plays the weirdest of them all never sitting still thinking bugs are on him all the time. Keanu plays a lost individual overly calm and distant. Get all these guys together in a room and watch them argue the logic, reason and physics of a bicycles gears and how many they should have and if missing any gears they are orphan bicycle gears. The amount of trippy brain twists they have in each scene is unreal having you feeling like you are high as a kite watching it. Keanu must get inside and infiltrate the government rehab facility to reveal the governments diabolical plot but how can he snap out of the brain damage from the drug to carry out his mission? That’s the best part of the whole movie so pay attention.