Video Essays

Not gonna lie, in your thumbnail you kinda resemble Guru Larry.

You're favorite directors are Kubrick, Kurosawa, Scorsese, Hitchcock and Paul Thomas Anderson.

Oh no, you aren't getting off that easy. You need to pick one. Alright, pick two. We'll let you pick two.

I think it's just the angle, the facial expression, and the hair.

PG Cooper SnoBorderZero

Here’s an idea for a video.

Barry Sonnenfeld is notoriously against panning. Men in Black (1997) is on Comedy Central right now. You know the scene in the morgue when the Bug kidnaps whats-her-face? This motherfucker panned like 3 or 4 times.

I think you should watch all the Coen Bros movies that Sonnenfeld was a DP on and then watch all the movies he directed and do a video montage of every time Sonnenfeld pans the camera. Then send a link to his agent/manager. Or just have Doomsday send it to Amblin and they’ll forward it to him.

I’ll pay you good money for it

www.patreon.com/eyebrowcinema

PG Cooper, I'll send you some nudes. That'll be my contribution this month.

Or an excuse to watch Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller’s Crossing, The Addams Family, Men in Black and that movie in which Kevin Spacey turns into a cat.

1godzillafan will watch Nine Lives for you. Give him a co-writer credit like you did with Dracula and post a link to his blog.

Looking forward to it.

Mostly really enjoyed this. Loved the quantitative consideration of Nolan's cinematography. That said, there are a couple of points that I disagree with, namely the criticism of action in Batman Begins being disorienting. The Waynes death is supposed to be chaotic and awkward. It makes the moment more viscerally upsetting for the audience and emphasizes Chill as awkward and desperate not a sadistic mastermind (as in the Zodiac comparison). Similarly, the whole point of the fight scenes is to emphasize Batman as a terrifying creature of the night. We feel the same confusion as the thugs Batman is preying on. Nolan compared his approach to filming Batman to the first Alien movie, where we don't really know what the alien does to his victims. You can argue that doesn't work when we're meant to identify with Batman as the hero, but I think its appropriate for a story establishing the fear Batman instills.

Also, like a lot of Patrick's stuff, there's too much skits for my test. I like Matt Whines just because Matt Torpey rules but the Charl stuff was never funny and has only gotten worse.

Yeah, that's the other disappointment, albeit a minor one with the video. It falls down a semi-common rabbithole. Not nearly as insufferable as, say, "Avatar is just blue Pocahontas/Ferngully/Dances with Wolves", but still.

This is an outrage.  Going forward I will be boycotting all new releases from The Weinstein Company. 

Following my placement of The Wolf of Wall Street as the best film of the decade, this video is part 2 in my effort to alienate PhantomKnight as a friend.




Fun fact: this video features a reference I think only Deexan will recognize.


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