Doomsday
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Post by Doomsday on Apr 14, 2024 20:32:02 GMT -5
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PG Cooper
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And those who tasted the bite of his sword named him...The DOOM Slayer
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Post by PG Cooper on Apr 16, 2024 10:27:17 GMT -5
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Post by PG Cooper on Apr 24, 2024 15:58:23 GMT -5
Street Smart
The only thing crazier than the good people at Canon Films making a Superman movie is that, in order to make it, they also had to make a character-based drama about pimps, sex work, and journalistic ethics for star Christopher Reeve. It's not surprising Reeve would be attracted to the material as a chance to do something gritty and play a journalist a bit more morally dubious than Clark Kent. Unfortunately, Street Smart's portrait of urban crime does not feel the least bit authentic, visually or in context. This feels a lot more like a paranoid yuppie fantasy of dangerous inner cities than anything insightful about "the streets" and the contrived ending does not help. It's all the more disappointing given how convincing Jerry Schatzberg's 1971 film The Panic in Needle Park is. What Street Smart does have going for it is an excellent Morgan Freeman performance. Freeman really turns Leo into a terrifying villain and is also captivating to watch. I wish he was in a better movie.
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Post by Neverending on Apr 24, 2024 17:38:21 GMT -5
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Post by Doomsday on Apr 24, 2024 19:02:30 GMT -5
We both whiffed with Coop the past couple rounds.
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