"My view, and it's essentially Hegelian, is that the whole of History operates on the 'Fuck! What? Cool!' principle..."

An enraging farce for our times ; the delusion of Wealth ; the Power of imebicility ; the selfishness of Being are on display less for our amusement and more as an nod to a familiar madness ever more on display all around us.
This takes a bit to get where it is going but then it discards the assumed air…

I hate to say it but this probably would have been a better movie divorced from the John Wick franchise completely? The scenes Reeves are in seem forced and his motivation for his own actions here make no sense (maybe that's for the sequel?). Ana de Armas is great, as always, even when it's obvious she used a stunt double (for dancing and fighting) more often....
What really drags this down is trying to be both an origin story and…

Hooptober 6.0 #22:
I had the chance to see the new restoration last night at the local AMC (not in 4K though), so it's going on the list. I've seen this 3-4 times previous, but it's been awhile. Here are some random, not-so-organized thoughts on it this time around:
In trying to recall my initial thoughts about this, I can being overly annoyed with Shelley Duvall's performance here. Boy, was I wrong. She is amazingly good here (check out…

I guess I'm in the minority on this one? Sure, it meanders without a plot and the characterization is shit, but what do you expect from a movie about an '80s band-that-hasn't-quite-made-it touring around with it's hangers-on across the deserted landscape of America. There is craft here, however misguided in places. It's a mostly impressionistic edit until it turns into something else entirely (though hinted at throughout) near the end. A lot of the acting is non-verbal (or might as…