Originally Posted by Rosco Benson
Pretty much agree.
Not to mention terrible plot holes and gaps, such as the one surviving "likeable felon" burying multiple dead bodies in shallow graves at the end of the film, with the viewer being asked to believe that such went undiscovered forever, plus the abrupt and unexplained disappearance of both of the protagonist cops going apparently unquestioned by friends or family.
And it was way too long for a silly "actioner".
"Therefore, since the world has still... Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure, Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure,
I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good." -- A.E. Housman
Watching VEXED - a funny British cop show on Netflix.
The crew behind The Night Manager and The Little Drummer Girl are remaking The Spy Who Came In From The Cold next.
Interestingly, the novel was written in 1963. Le Carre wrote a sequel, a Legacy of Spies, in 2017.
"When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man."
Watched Killing Them Softly with Brad Pitt etc last night. I liked it. I thought the dialog was meaty and the character development was spot on. B+.
In The Electric Mist, starring Tommy Lee Jones. It was a pretty fair adaption of James Lee Burke's novel In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead. It's not bad if you ignore the quibble that almost nobody in the movie sounds like they live in the South, let alone Cajun country.
It went straight to DVD. Only the studio cut is available. My impression has been that the majority of the time, studio cuts are worse than the director's version. I got the impression that a meaningful scene was missing.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
It was better than the first movie adaptation of another one of his novels (I don't remember the name of it, it had Alec Baldwin), but still not as good as desired. Then again, James Lee Burke's writing is closer to literature than regular police procedurals and a silver screen translation will always be lacking.
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"The Night Comes for Us" on Netflix. If you liked the ultraviolence and insane choreography of The Raid this is worth checking out. Characters were hard to tell who was who, story seemed hard to follow but I was also drunk so, eh. Still cool.
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My phone apparently is allergic to the name “Zahler.”
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He also did Brawl in Cell Block 99, which was kinda awesome.
Just started WestWorld.
Not sure I'm gonna be able to make it to the end.
I'm at S1E2. Just not that into it.
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