Star Wars holds a place in my heart mainly for nostalgia reasons. Seeing those original films for the first time was formative back in the day when I was a wee cunt. But yeah, they're pretty indefensible from a film criticism standpoint.
My takes:
Goodfellas is fine. It's a'ight. It's about 900% more beloved than it deserves. Casino was better, even though it was the same damn movie.
On Goodfellas: Ray Liotta is fucking awful in it. He gives me second-hand embarrassment watching him. He's been great in other roles, but he just seemed so out of his depth trying to hold his own in amongst the De Niros and Pescis of the world. I also think the actor playing Big Paulie was fucking awful, but he doesn't have much screen time so it's easy to forget how shit he was.
Also - and lastly, I swear - on Goodfellas: the editing is less "fractured and frenetic like the rapidly-imploding mind of the main character" and more like "fractured and frenetic like the coked up Parkinson's-suffering editor during a violent bowel movement". Unnecessarily janky and rough around every single edge, to put it mildly.
Nic Cage should not be allowed to be in films, full stop. Not even a documentary about Nic Cage in which he agrees with me, personally, through the camera that he's terrible.
The Godfather III was good. Yeah, not as good as I and II, and the downright offensively-bad acting from Andy Garcia (you thought I was about to complain about Sofia Coppola, didn't ya? Andy was an order of magnitude worse) definitely knocks a few stars off my IMDb rating, but the film was fine.
I've posted about this in Unpopular Opinion before, but I think remakes and reboots are great, as long as the film-makers are trying to do their best and make an honest go of it. I especially love when a film is transported from one culture into another. For example, Unforgiven - the Clint Eastwood modern classic - was remade in Japan, except instead of the gunslinging Wild West it was the samurai-sword-swingin' Meiji period. How cool is that shit? I love it. Now I have two awesome movies where before there was only one.
Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle is an interesting one. He's pretty fucking despicable, but when I first watched the movie as a freshly-pubescent teen, I bought into his sick view of the world and took the film at face value. That is, I thought it was a story about a weird-but-well-meaning dude who decides to take on some baddies.
It's from 1976, but if it were made today, Travis would 100% be a violent misogynist incel posting his manifesto to 4chan instead of writing it in his diary.
Homophobia was the norm where I grew up in the '80s and '90s. Took me until the late '90s to start questioning that, and probably a year or two more to become completely cleansed of it.
When I was a kid, there was a period during which I was convinced my dad was planning to kill me (or have me killed). I'd have regular nightmares about it.
I have one [non-dream] memory in particular where we were walking through Belfast on a sunny Sunday afternoon, it was pretty much empty except for us. We were walking along a path holding hands (I was like 6 or 7), and an alleyway opened to the right of me, and I thought "this is it..." and was expecting a masked gunman to come out, and for my dad to let go of my hand and step aside, his job now complete. Genuinely thought that was about to happen and almost had a panic attack. No idea why I thought that, or why I eventually stopped thinking it.
I was later diagnosed with all sorts of neuro/psych shenanigans, so I guess it was probably that. I still have intrusive thoughts, but I've had therapy so I'm a bit better able to manage them. CBT might do you some good if you have access to a shrink. You can even do most of it on your own, or with a bit of guidance from someone else who's already done it.
How a PTSD-tormented vet hasn't plugged this cunt yet is beyond me. He's said at least a dozen things in the last 10 years that would justify it. I mean he let the fact that there were Russian bounties on US service members go completely unanswered. Nevermind the repugnant things he says about them, he lets them be the target of headhunting sociopaths because he's too much of a fucking pussy to say a single word against Putin.
Signing up for military service under Trump is insane in the membrane.
If saving 5 bucks on your grocery bill is the thing that keeps your head above water... you're probably already deep enough to meet the ghost of that OceanGate CEO.
A genuinely, thoroughly reprehensible piece of human effluent. If she has kids they almost certainly hate her. Her lonely aged years will probably be the only consequence she faces for her despicable behaviour, but I guess it's better than nothing.
Michael Wolff seems like the kinda guy who'd ask to borrow your pen, use it, and then place it in his pocket. "Can I have my pen back?" you'd ask. He'd respond with "what pen?" and walk away.
I need action. I need constant chaos in my life to feel content.
This is the sound of deep, deep, profound, deep insecurity chasing a man down a never-ending alleyway peppered with neon signs that say "Unattractive to Women?", "Easily Bullied By Other Men?", "GAY???"
I hope he does serious prison time for his crimes, because it will be extra enjoyable knowing that it's literally the worst place he could ever find himself. No escaping one's own mind in that place.
Is there some way we can make this more likely to occur? Maybe some AI videos of clergy calling him a shitty-pantsed child molester with small hands and short skyscrapers?
Seriously. Look, the piece of shit is in the oval office already, that ship has sailed. But we might actually have a good use for the cunt in this case. Let's make the most of it!
Donald Trump is unworthy of the gift of human life.