Can I holla at yall about the fight scenes in Atomic Blonde ???
Like Keanu has the fluidity, Koji has swag, You know what Theron had...the rage. Every single hit even while missing some of that smooth fluidity is filled with personal rage that informs the character and gives the fight personality...
In a piece I wrote about Tom Cruise I talked about natural ability to show Taking hits just as well as he gives, it's an important aspect that I noticed a lot of action folk whom I actually love aren't very good at...
The best these new post George iterations had to offer. Despite the story being referential to the past, it felt refreshing still. . The acting was the best, by far, the action was top flight, and when it bowed to the old it mostly got it right by just having a good time
One thing I've been working on and frankly failing at is trying not to understand why ( therapy already helped with that ) but how to stop obsessing over people I like seeming not to really fuck with me...
This is the spot where losing my therapist ( she had a familail situation and I could no longer afford it- came at exactly the wrong time ...
Because she was already talking about the difference between understanding something and internalizing it, and then boom gone...
I feel like I can always tell even from a trailer when a movie looks like it was actually well thought out and from a desire to continue the strory or just pushed out because they are aware of its legacy and big $ is on the table. Whether it's good or not I can tell it's organic
Since the first Matrix Lana and Lilly always impressed me with their inclusiveness in a world where science fiction in general has NOT...Hell even with BR 2049 poc were so restricted to the background it was hellacious to me
@mattzollerseitz is right, I mean right down to the socks no one is casted right, they even miscast Kennedy IF you're focused on looks because I've only been watching a few minutes and I've already settled into the characters
Wish I knew more about the outlier characters because they seem important to the lore but I don't know enough about it to recognize