I love this film. I also love Nicholas Roeg. It’s more that the film influenced Bowie’s art than the other way around. Candy also played his alien wife. The cast was wonderful. I watched it when it came out. Good job.
I love this film. I also love Nicholas Roeg. It’s more that the film influenced Bowie’s art than the other way around. Candy also played his alien wife. The cast was wonderful. Good job.
You must be someone who believes the fairy tale that Man of Steel and Batman V Superman were good movies? They weren’t. I liked Snyder’s Justice League but only because it was his vision of what he wanted to do. He is still a bad director.
Awesome video man, glad I found your channel. I seriously wonder what Zack Snyder can contribute to a movie nowadays. Creative consultant? Assistant director? I think he can be useful as an "ideas guy" in sort of the same way George Lucas is, except much worse. But that would still be better than letting him write or direct tbh.
Yeah tend to agree. Maybe visual effects supervisor. His cinematography skills are mid and his ideas tend to be ripped from other better franchises (Warhammer 40K for Rebel Moon).
Rebel Moon was the literal worst story I've ever seen produced with a budget. It was almost a checklist of things not to do when writing a story. Every time you think it can't get worse, it absolutely does.
I love the Pusher movies but always found II weak, surprising you guys find it the strongest. Maybe I just didn't like Tommy as much as the other two. Have you seen Bleeder? Haven't checked it myself yet. Also as far as authenticity goes it feels very real, though extreme. I'm lucky to understand danish and having spent much time in copenhagen. Amazing movies though very anxiety inducing, the distorted audio as we descend into drugs and desperation. Maybe due for a rewatch, I've seen 1 and 3 maybe 4 times and 2 I think just once, but it must have been 10 years.
I think I just genuinely felt sorry for Tommy the most, so when s*** hits the fan for him, I felt like I was really dragged through the mud. But love the other two as well. No I claim i haven't seen Bleeder. Hard to track down these days sadly (same with Fear X)..
Good director knows his or hers limitations. Exampel take Villeneuve, he always adapt an existing great story or let his scripwriters do their work. He also let his concept artists and costume designers do their work. He never think himself like he is the hot shit that can magically create good stories or film universes
This is just innacurate. Dennis wrote the screenplays to lots of his movies including Dune. He also storyboards. He’s a better writer than Snyder, sure. Rebel Moon sucks, sure. But so does your take? Its like a doctor sees a sick patient but completely misdiagnosed him with the wrong disease. There’s no thinking youre the hot shit that magically creates good stories. Zack also wrote with two other guys and worked with costume desgoners and concept artists who absolutely were allowed to theit qork and speak very highly of Zack. Zack just worked with a terrible screenplay. Thats it.
@@insidiousfactory you cannot be more wrong. Dune - I get why he get parts credits for screenplay. but It is a story written by Frank Herbert and screenplay mostly by Sphaits Bladerunner - mostly Fancher and Green Sicario - written by Taylor Sheridan Prisoners - Screenplay by Guzikowski Incendies - adapting an existing story by Wajdi Mouawad Arrival - a story written by Ted Chiang with screenplay by Heissrer. Snyder did not only wrote a shitty script. he also thought he could spawn an cintematic universe for Netflix. He might be passionte but he is a shit writer and a storyteller
@@yan008 Dennis Villeuneve has way more movies than that. Hes got plenty that hes fully written? You notice how I say LOTS of his movies? Theres nothing wrong with trying to create a cinematic universe? Technically, most movies are their own “universe”. Snyder had a bad screenplay on Rebel Moon, thats it. Not all directors are scriptwriters, some of the GOATS arent. Zack tried and the result didnt play off. Im not even mad about your comment, it just seems like youre a bit confused about how movies work? Which is fine. It is really complicated. So yeah, Rebel Moon has a terrible screenplay. In terms of Zacks films with good storytelling, imo, Zack has 300, Dawn of the Dead, Watchmen, ZSJL. Theres a reason Christopher Nolan is a fan of the guy and bet on him. Funnily enough, most of those are adaptations. But its not arrogant to write a script. Rebel Moon is quite similar to the Heavy Metal magazines Zack based it off. I like the lore even tho its unoriginal (just like the Heavy Metal magazined). The script is just objectively bad. Btw, I agree with you on Rebel Moon its just like I said your diagnosis is misguided, which is fine. You keep harkening back to this universe point but it really doesnt mean what you think it means lol Hope you have a nice day
@@insidiousfactory I literally stated the fact that Villeneuve does not in fact write most of his movies. He adapt mostly existing stories and improve upone it in collaboration with his writer. Snyder in other hand, does not know his limits. The screen play you stated that Snyder ''wrote'' are most existing stories, like 300 is written by Miller and Watchmen is written by Alan Moore ( Which I infact do not hope that you literally think Snyder wrote the whole stories.) In other words; cope harder, Snyderfan
@@insidiousfactory Also Dawn of the Dead is written by Gunn and Man of Steel is written by Goyer. Nice try, giving Snyder credit. Looks like he can create good movies when he knows his limits (by not writing shitty screen play, which he has no talent for )
My exact experince. I lasted 25, maybe 30 mins then skipped through it, perodlly checking out 20 seonds of footage every 10 mins or so. Let's just say i;m glad I dindn't go past the 30 minute arkin real time.
But why would you expect any different? That’s the most pertinent question? The companies producing this kind of material consistently put out terrible brain dead work…. Although you’ve definitely smarter than most people that generally watch these films
Thanks man. I certainly agree but Rebel Moon genuinely broke me. Like there's bad Netflix content and then there was this. Didn't expect much but it excelled to new levels of bad.
Panos also directed "The Viewing", an episode of Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities. Check it out if you haven't! It's filled with more surreal energy....and drugs lol
One can only hope cinema resets to quality stories rather than endless tiresome fetishist propaganda. TV or streaming etc these days is almost like a monolithic shit struggling to ease it's turtle head out. We all await the final release so we can go back to real entertainment and art.
That would mean a halt to the 'content' machine approach of filmmaking which unfortunately is not something they are willing to give up anytime soon for lucrative reasons. That being said, I think there are some really fascinating filmmakers and movies on the come-up that I'm not too worried about original, quality cinema being lost.
It's great to see this trilogy get more attention in recent times (I'm guessing as Imprint in Australia recently released it on Blu Ray). I think this is the second video I've seen someone covering it in the last year. Nicolas Winding Refn probably hasn't done anything as good as this since. Although Drive and Bronson are both fantastic as well. I think Pusher 2 set around Mads Mikkelsen's Tonny is masterpiece of the trilogy. I think it helps it has the legend that is Mads Mikkelsen front and center of it. But it's wonderfully shot and more tragic then anything else in the trilogy. Probably along with Drive, Refn's best film imo. Pusher 1 is still a strong watch with a great central performance from Kim Bodnia. And it's a lot more grounded and grimy then the following films in trilogy. Pusher 3 is massively underrated and I love the most dangerous character of the first two films Milo (played brilliantly by Zlatko Buric, who also did English remake of the film and was also great in Triangle of Sadness) is put in a vulnerable position as a recovering addict also fighting agaisnt another gang trying to take over his business, while also trying to sort out his Daughters wedding.It's the bleakest film of the three. Another film I would recommend is Nicolas Winding Refn's follow up to Pusher 1 called Bleeder, it's kind of Refn's love letter to cinema. Also has almost the same cast he had in Pusher 1. I love Mikkelsen's loner video store clerk plotline (Buric plays his boss in it) who falls in love with the girl who works in a cafe (played by Refn's real life wife Liv Corfixen). You don't really see Mikkelsen play this type of character. It's a nice counterbalances the bleakness of Bodnia's character's storyline. It's a great film but barely anyone talks about it.
Yeah definitely want to check out Bleeder and Fear X. I agree on your assessment on Pusher 2 being the best. Though Pusher 3 is very close second. Very melancholic film.
@@thecurtaincall7693Bleeder definitely deserves a Blu-Ray release. I'd love a massive boxset of Refn's films and TV work. Or very least his Danish work. Pusher 3 gets overlooked compared to the first two. But I love how slower paced and just bleak it is. It's great seen someone who was seen as this dangerous force in the first two films in a vulnerable position.
This film's mise en scene is juicy. I watched an Argento movie at midnight in a beautiful old theater. If they were still showing movies, this would be one of them. The Argento film had similar pacing, soundtrack and acid trip ambiance.
A truly beautiful,etheric film featuring a most enigmatic performance by Bowie. If you enjoy it another film by Nick Roeg, loosely based on a novel by Daphne Du Mauriiere Don’t Look Now. I most highly recommend.
A truly deep film that stands the tests of time and cynicism. I have watched it ten times at least since that day in 2003 where I sang shaking that ass while L complained. Its a joy to be touched by film so profoundly. I even salivated at the gross out eating scenes in the town. Ay-freaking-mazing story.
I would totally love this film if the cinematography felt less like a slideshow of still images. I honestly don't think much is lost if you listen to this film instead of watching it because the images on screen don't really relate to what's being said most of the time.
Not starting until early March here in Perth (we live in a previous decade in WA, I'm quite sure). Great review. Can't wait to see and hear this, though I'll probably be shattered afterwards.
Don't worry. Most of Australia is with you on the late release. Thankfully, its not the type of film to be spoiled too much in the mainstream so you can definitely avoid spoilers.
