Point Break is the best good/bad movie of all time, nothing even comes close.
Point Break, underrated.
Heat, extremely overrated.
Like Heat suffers from all the scenery chewing that Pacino and DeNiro bring to most roles of the last 3 decades, and not even Michael Mann's action chops can rectify.
Still better than The Irishman though. That movie truly blows.
So the thing about the chase scene in PB is that it comes a few years AFTER the parody chase scene in Raising Arizona and still makes it work and then having exhausted car/foot chases...takes it to motherfucking sky diving!
Clearing out my dad’s house and I now have a ton of photos by which to prod various generations of @Harpers editors and interns, starting with my own intern cohort
This was when novelty Chia Pets first took “off”
Sure, now he’s a fancy pants political editor at NBC but back then @mmurraypolitics was just East Village dart board Jesus
My dad save an entire, substantial, file folder of letters written to him and @NatGeo protesting the inclusion of photos of nudes that ran with his article on…the Sistine Chapel
Having spent an unpaid summer internship working in the @NatGeo Research Correspondent department, I can confirm that most correspondence was about cranky letters from old people and school kids asking about banana slug penises. But this paper CC trail!
Ask your healthcare provider and/or workers themselves if they are vaccinated.
You have the right to know if they're putting you in danger.
If you go on a healthcare provider/hospital/HMO site and they list COVID precautions and it's all about testing and temp checks and cleaning surfaces, chances are very high they're not requiring staff to be vaccinated.
The FDA fully approving the vaccines would speed this along. After a BILLION people have been vaccinated, those who are in health care but refuse them are in the wrong industry. nytimes.com/2021/07/21/hea…
IRL, "Sonny" did end up paying for "Leon's" sex reassignment surgery, out of the life rights he got from film/article.
She then marries someone else, but continued to visit him in prison.
My film club has watched a lot of 70s classics that are pretty cringey (or worse) with hindsight, but on the three big themes of this movie—LGBTQ visibility, class struggles despair, police violence and overreach—it feels pretty damn fresh.