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vernonappleby t1_iu468e3 wrote
Reply to comment by chichris in Pearl is a remarkably well-made and acted thriller/character study that deserves all the praise it's received and then some by ChrisMichaelWinn
That isn't a compelling character study, and none of those things are explored in any depth in the film.
vernonappleby t1_iu3qfiy wrote
Reply to comment by im_on-the_can in Pearl is a remarkably well-made and acted thriller/character study that deserves all the praise it's received and then some by ChrisMichaelWinn
From a Star is Born to Seabiscuit to Field of Dreams... I can think of hundreds of films where a character goes on to achieve public acclaim after an initial disappointment.
Not one of these films suggests that being rejected at an audition just once is a good reason to become a hypersexual serial killer.
That's what I mean by lack of exploration. Nothing Peral how's through warrants what she does. Not even close.
Now if you want to sell it as "just a horror film" like X thats fine, but selling it as a character study means you've got to be open to challenge on the character.
vernonappleby t1_iu3n2mz wrote
Reply to Pearl is a remarkably well-made and acted thriller/character study that deserves all the praise it's received and then some by ChrisMichaelWinn
I disagree respectfully.
IIRC the 2nd or third scene has Peral imagining herself courting and then having sex with a scarecrow she sees in a field. That's when the audience will decide the film is or isn't for them.
The film doesn't really do anything to explain the origin of pearls apparent hypersexuality, which was another problem I had with X as well. At the start of the film pearls just as fucked up as she was in X, and she acts naive 2/3 of the time and nuts 1/3 of the time. There's no attempt to explain or explore this, it just is.
I'd read about this amazing shot where goth states at the camera I'm an unbroken gaze and goes through a whole range of emotion.... >!it's the end titles of the film, with the crew names projected on top of her face!< What a waste.
vernonappleby t1_iu3jq3e wrote
Reply to comment by ze11ez in Best weapon(s) tactics, room clearing tactics movie by ze11ez
Id be surprised if there weren't videos on it. There's a very similar one handed chamber check he does that there are a load of YouTube videos telling you how to do it.
vernonappleby t1_iu3ci86 wrote
I've seen a few different "operators" on you tube say that the first Sicario is very accurate.
BTW The tactical gun style you're describing from John Wick and which Is so popular now is called Center Axis Relock and was developed by a British police officer called Paul Castle.
The idea is to ha e your gun close enough to your face so you can use it with both eyes open (the sights at the same distance that you'd hold a book you were reading) and to "maximise weapons retention" which is effectively saying make it as hard as possible to take my weapon from me.. Apparently most gunfights are at less than 8ft distance from the other person, so the idea was to develop a gun use style than worked in that scenario.
https://www.ammoman.com/blog/center-axis-relock-a-star-is-born/.
vernonappleby t1_iu4dekp wrote
Reply to Was anyone else pretty into ‘don’t worry darling’ until the reveal? by [deleted]
Absolutely.
I wanted Black Swan 2 not Serenity 2 (the 2019 Matthew McConaughey film where the whole film turns out to be a >!computer game played by the protagonists son!<)