thewhyteboar

The Academy hates Marty.

I rewatched Rio Bravo last night and am now convinced it’s one of the greatest films of all time.

He looks like he represents the Lollipop Guild.

To pay an extension for a QB who's not on the team anymore.

I've been dying without my Newt Gingrich pics.

6 hours of a Zack Snyder movie is illegal under the Geneva Convention.

I think he will be a Steeler.

Someone needs to pull off an Operation Snow White and break in and steal the movie.

I watched Heaven's Gate, Michael Cimino's epic fiasco/disaster/failure/secret masterpiece. It was the 3 hour and 37 minute restored Criterion version. I loved it. It is not perfect. It has a lot of issues--the pacing is off, some scenes tend to linger uncomfortably long. Poor John Hurt's character seems to just wander in and out of the movie for no real reason. But it is gorgeous. Just obscenely beautiful. Those scenes that tend to drift? They will end with a shot of snow-capped mountains that will just take your breath away. The soundtrack is also perfect. The roller-skating scene--7 or 8 minutes of the characters roller skating around a rink while a band plays--has such good music that I actually rewound it and watched it again as soon as it ended. Like I said, not all of it works. But it is really worth watching. I would love if someday Cimino's 5 hour version ever resurfaced.

There’s simply no benefits to gun ownership. If you put one in your house, you haven’t made anyone safer—all you’ve done is increase the chances of someone in your family getting shot. Look at what has happened to public life in America—schools are targets, malls are targets, theaters are targets, concerts are targets, houses of worship are targets. Guns are a plague that have destroyed our way of life. The lie is that a gun brings you freedom, the truth is that a gun has destroyed our freedom. It keeps us afraid and locked up in our homes. It has destroyed any sense of community that we can have. There are two sides in this debate—the side of life and freedom, and the side of sacrificing blood and children simply so an illusion of safety can penetrate your dim and paranoid mind.

I haven’t started the show yet but I just also wanted to chime in and say Silence is maybe Scorsese’s best. Garfield has never been better. And that guy who played the Japanese inquisitor was astonishing.

My “not involved in whale harassment” shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.

Larry David's statement:

Ah man this is sad. I haven't seen the most recent season of Curb, but he and Larry David had such wonderful chemistry.

I support stars using their star power to make a personal project. This seems like something that has been wanting to make since the 90s. It should certainly be watchable, especially with that cast.

The sequel has already bene filmed and will be released a few months after I guess. Parts 3 and 4 might be coming out later as well. I've never been the biggest Costner fan, but if he single-handedly revitalizes the western genre...

It’s real, and spectacular:

The pants holy shit.

Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost.

So when the Texas electrical grid inevitably fails again, and all those IVF refrigerators conk out, we can charge Abbott with mass murder?

It’s always kids who suffer from the stupidity of their parents.

This seems to be at least 10 years past the zeitgeist.

I was at my in-laws so I ripped through Grendel by John Gardner. The philosophical nature of it blended well with the wine I was drinking all weekend. The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout is up there with my favorite westerns. I think the best westerns are the ones that attempt to reckon with the violence of American history. From the brutal, visceral descriptions of what a bullet does to a body, to the way our culture celebrates violence, this is a great one.

I watched too many things since my update so I’ll just post a few. I finally watched Infernal Affairs and it rips. I’m not sure if I like it more than The Departed, but I definitely prefer the ending to the original. I’ll be watching the rest of the trilogy, though I heard they aren’t as good as the first. I also watched Peeping Tom, a great thriller from the early 60s. If you want something that breeds the creepy voyeurism of Rear Window and the psychosexual vibes of Psycho, Peeping Tom is your movie.

They were on sale so I bought Ys 8 and have been playing it all weekend. It freaking rocks. I love it so far.