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#101: Miami Connection
Miami Connection is a movie where the plot does not matter. There are drugs and motorcycles and taekwondo artists and orphans and a love story and ninjas and a band made up of the taekwondo artists and songs about friendship, but at the very heart of it is a guy who wanted to make a martial arts picture without the gimmicks of wires or other technological innovations. A picture with a lot of heart. It is so clearly made by people on every level who probably just did not know how a movie comes together, but that’s okay, because it’s one of the most entertaining messes you’ll ever see.
Total Movie Count: 101
In-Theater: 29 (25 at the Alamo Drafthouse)
At Home: 72
Everything about this.
“Maybe I’m Amazed” - Faces
#100: The Ambassador
Continuing through the Drafthouse Films catalog, I watched the Ambassador the other day. I can’t say that I found it particularly informative or entertaining. I feel like the bulk of the film just detailed mistakes that the filmmaker made in planning his rouse. It didn’t help that there really wasn’t a clear exposition aligning what was happening in the film to this one guy, and how it functions outside of that.
Total Movie Count: 100
In-Theater: 29 (25 at the Alamo Drafthouse)
At Home: 71
“Year Zero” - Ghost BC
I’m not normally into the metal thing, but I do sort of enjoy this band. Sure, it’s sort of gimmicky, but the music is actually kind of dancy and fun in it’s own blasphemous way.
Listened to all of the albums on the list at work today, and I enjoyed them all. Great.
I think that this new Daft Punk album is not 100% great. I’M SORRY IF MY OPINIONS OFFEND YOU, INTERNET, bUt I hAvE tO sPeAk My MiNd. )c ;
“Holy Roller” - Thao & the Get Down Stay Down
#99: Bullhead
Writer/Director Michael R. Roskam chose to set Bullhead in an altogether foreign world of cattle hormone smugglers. Despite the strange premise, Bullhead has a very human and, at least to some degree, relatable main character. Matthias Schoenaerts plays a cattle farmer who is caught up in the illegal and sometimes deadly world of hormone smuggling. His character, Jacky, is on a constant stream of steroids which make him into a hulking, domineering guy. He is constantly churning, uneasy, and seems to have the weight of the world on his hunched shoulders. Matthias plays this masterfully. Jackie encounters a childhood friend who brings extremely painful memories back to Jacky which causes him to go into a tailspin.
The movie is photographed beautifully, but its plot occasionally pushes the audience into very slow-moving tangents. It’s worth a watch for Schoenaerts’s performance alone.
Total Movie Count: 99
In-Theater: 29 (25 at the Alamo Drafthouse)
At Home: 70
He doesn’t look laid back, he looks genuinely concerned.
