As usual in the genre of the Tarrantino, Django is based upon the excellent characterisation of quirky characters and their snappy, ultra-cool dialogue — and the massive film geek doesn't disappoint.
Not exact matches
How could he leave out the wonderful Alec Guinness
film The Man in the White Suit (about a chemist who invents a fabric that never gets dirty, never needs ironing, never wears out — and nearly causes a revolution because it is too perfect) Fortunately, Perkowitz
does include The Day the Earth Stood Still (the
film in which Patricia Neal delivers one of cinema's most famous
geek catchphrases: «Gort!
Watch these
films or don't call yourself a movie
geek!
I know I am making a generalization, but why
do «
film geeks»
do this?
It's
done with such music
geek passion that the
film comes alive, and you wish this is where «Elizabethtown» had started.
It's a teaser poster, and it doesn't even feature the
film's title but any
film geek will know what's going on and it's certain to get people talking when it appears in cinema lobbies.
«Murder on the Orient Express» is geared more towards technical
film geeks who enjoy richness in their production design, more than they
do in the script or the acting.
I don't pretend to be the biggest Star Wars
geek in the galaxy, but I
do know a good Star Wars
film when I see one, and «Rogue One» is exactly that.
Describing the
film already seems like it's
doing a disservice to those who are not ready to
geek out on history lessons and fancy costume dramas.
«It may not have
done well at the box office but it broke the all - time record for the number of
film geeks insisting it's genius.»
It's always fun to chat with him about almost anything, from making
films to seeing
films to the amusing life of a British
geek, but that's why we all love Edgar as much as we
do.
Notably absent the kind of condescension that can occur when an experienced filmmaker takes on a high school story, here Famuyiwa doesn't just reorient the high school
film around the experience of a young black self - confessed
geek, but riffs on social and class issues, and the riddles of perception versus reality during those difficult teenage years too.
It's hard to imagine a
film geek whose pulse doesn't quicken after reading the list of names in the credits.
Directing duo John Francis Daley (you know him from Freaks and
Geeks and Bones) and Jonathan Goldstein made their feature
film directing debut with the thoroughly mediocre Vacation, and Game Night is a significant step up but I'm not sure that has a lot to
do with them.
You don't have to be a student of sci - fi to get all the jokes, but Pegg and Frost script with a
geek POV, creating a passion that helps to elevate the
film when it tires of dick and fart jokes.
DreamWorks and Relativity don't have any real comic - book type movies on their slate, particularly after Spielberg's «Robopocalypse» got delayed an entire year, and DreamWorks Animation have never courted the
geek crowd in a big way — why would they need to, when the
films will make major coin regardless?
Not only
does this set include a great deal of bonus features pertaining to the
film, but there is enough history about Fosse and the original stage play to please any theatre
geek.