Sam Sykes
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after brutally murdering a dozen gangsters, Denzel Washington celebrates a football match with the locals and dances with them in the very streets he just watched a man die screaming on and that's how the movie ends
He drugs a dude with a fatal overdose of pills and then wordlessly follows him through the streets as he begs for help in increasingly breathless wails
set against this is a local festival where they watch fireworks go off in the bay
my god
my god, man
He tortures a man to death while singing the blues to him softly. What the fuck, man. How was this movie pitched.
The last twenty minutes become a high-intensity horror film as Denzel Washington stalks increasingly-terrified men through a darkened manor, soundlessly assassinating them before dropping a corpse through a stained glass window to terrorize the survivors.
There is no way to describe this movie.
There's a brutal public execution scene followed immediately by the mafia cooking spaghetti together and having a nice snack followed immediately by a guy getting knifed to death in a garden.
This movie has it all. This movie wants it all.
And he's legitimately acting his ass off in this movie. He has all these charming little interactions with the locals--chats about fish and food that go nowhere. And they're a joy to watch.
And then, next scene, he's stabbing a guy to death and watching the light in his eyes go dark. Incredible.
Over 75% of this movie is Denzel Washington, playing a hardened assassin, absorbing the local culture, sipping tea at cafes, sampling fish and pasta dishes on a life-changing vacation and then there's 15 minutes of foiling a terrorist plot woven in there. There is nothing else like this movie.
There's a scene of a brutal arson of a local shop. Locals are holding the owner back as he sobs uncontrollably, his wife on her knees begging god to save them, absolute terror.
Smash cut to a beautiful harbor lit up at night followed by an extended sequence of Denzel Washington shopping at a market.
@crobertcargill.bsky.social the world is ready for a comedy reboot of IT.
It really is surreal. There are these endless shots of Italian townscapes--beautiful coastal views, quiet atmospheric cafés, charming local interactions--punctuated by moments of explosive violence where the mafia hangs a granddad out a window or something.
This is such a peculiar movie. It's been one scene of explosive violence and then several scenes of Denzel Washington ambling through a scenic Italian town, absorbing the local culture. Like a travel channel show that occasionally breaks out into a John Wick sequel.
But then he unloads a shotgun into the rectum of a mafia don, so this movie has layers, see, it's complex, Scorsesian
Watching The Equalizer 3 today.
Within seven minutes of the movie opening, Denzel Washington jams a revolver through a guy's eye socket and shoots through his skull, using the carcass as a shield.
Then he acts real sad about it, like he promised himself he wasn't going to do that.
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so you hate medium films??!
Hades 2 is a great game. The acting, writing and characters are all as strong as they were.
But I confess, I miss the smaller, intimate stakes of the first game. I just finished a run on the sequel and, while it was great, it didn't have quite the same emotional punch as beating Hades in the first.
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Udon Delivery🛵🍜
The local spirits gotta eat!
bagel bites are fusion cuisine
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WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you
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