klezmer electro-thug beats
klezmer electro-thug beats
- Visits
- 103
- Last Active
- Roles
- Member, Real Head
- Points
- 546
- Badges
- 0
- Posts
- 1,385
Joined
-
TAKE THAT SHIT TO THE-BRITS.COM
fourth prime minister since the last "election". fucked system. I don't care which awful slug is PM at any given time or anything but it's hard to imagine the population not seeing the seams in this pretend democracy
-
Old movies you've only seen recently...
I had watched The French Connection as a young car-chase-obsessed man, kinda just for the chase scene, but I just revisited it and watched its sequel for the first time. Really good, but it doesn't feel like a pair of movies that could be made today - not just cause Popeye Doyle drops an n-word early on in the first one. In fact that kinda feeds into why I feel you can't make this.
When you watch them, you feel partly the traditional cop-show propaganda motivation of wanting him to "get his man", catch the bad guys, stop the shipment of heroin to NYC and so on, mixed with marveling at him being dumb as shit, insanely reckless to the point of shooting another cop to death on accident and losing the big bad smuggler in the climax of the first movie, and getting loads more cops killed in the second too.
Like, he is not just an antihero, he's not even likable as an antihero. He sucks. I'd venture to say it's more successful than most movies in making an antihero you genuinely don't like or identify with - see the legions of idiots who think Wolf of Wall Street and Goodfellas were about a bunch of cool guys being cool. No one would make that mistake with Popeye Doyle.
His "loose cannon" moment in the sequel is burning down a flophouse, loads of innocent people narrowly escaping death. Like, not a "crazy but gets results" guy but just "crazy and fucks things up". They make an actual honest, non-corrupt cop character still seem like Nic Cage Bad Lieutenant.
Also in the second one there's like 45 minutes of him getting kidnapped, cuffed to a bed and forced into heroin addiction and then locked up in a jail cell in withdrawal when he's given back to police. It's bananas, like sticking Panic in Needle Park into this cop movie.
It's just an interesting mix of "will he or won't he catch this definitely bad man" and "Jesus, the bosses are all right about him, he is a terrible cop and should not be one", which I can't think of a good parallel in movies. I guess maybe McNutty from the Wire?
Anyway Gene Hackman rules in this and most everything he did.
-
TAKE THAT SHIT TO THE-BRITS.COM
It's like close but not accurate (no sponsor logos which i prefer anyway). I never really followed football but back then, based on nothing, I swore Senegal would beat France to my friend, who then got me the jersey when I was proven right.
-
TAKE THAT SHIT TO THE-BRITS.COM
i have a completely thrashed and gross offbrand diouf 2002-3 senegal home jersey I'll trade for a rinked copy of "dry spell/little old money maker" -
SoundCloud Mixes
I'll always have time for Cosmo Baker, thanks for the heads up.
