Film analysis

[Can't think of one]

Darth Razor?

yeah that was rubbish ¬_¬

[Animalmother]

Smooth Muff Tarkin?
Not much better...

[Wrathbone]

Jesus.

I guess that's why he was so bristly on the Death Star.

[Alan]

And his sister, Non-Muffma.

[Animalmother]

I can't remember what any of this has to do with Indiana Jones jacket.

[ManBearSquid]

Qui-Shorn Quim...

Am I too late?

[Snowy]

Qui-Shorn Quim...

Am I too late?

[Snowy]

I am a regular wearer of leather jackets. I love them.

Just to share the leather jacket love, I also own one and wear it every winter. It's a Schott jacket in a style made for the NYC police - although not with any markings to illustrate it as such of course, I am not a complete flute. It is the length of a standard denim jacket but really warm, with a detachable hood that you can unzip from the jacket. The hood zips up from the bottom of the jacket, up around the neck and back down the other side to the bottom, and provides a nice little extension so it looks like you are wearing a zip hoodie under the jacket. I have had it for probably 20 years or so and it is all faded and patinated from the original black, which just makes me love it more.

[Maturin]

Yeah, I've got a dark brown leather jacket I use in the winter/early spring - although it's a thicker, more modern looking one compared to those old-fashioned leather jackets.

I couldn't care less whether it's in fashion or not. Besides, it still looks a million times better than all those anoraks and puffy jackets most people wear when I'm out regardless.

[Mantis]

I feel like I should rename the forum to Leather World or something.

I also have a leather jacket which I bring out for the autumn and winter months. Love that thing, think it's at least 12 years old now.

[Stormbringer]

We might get all sorts of weirdos show up if it becomes Leather World.

[Hatredsheart]

Warfare

Woah, that was intense. Felt like I was there.GJ Alex Garland.

[Lenny Solidus]

This movie is a masterpiece (to me at least) and recently I've been reading around trying to discern as to just exactly why a movie of this calibre was so outright rejected by the movie going audiences back in 1995, and I now also read so many references online directly tying the movie experience to that of playing Cyberpunk 2077 which is about as real as it gets given the subject matter...some thirty years on. This movie is my Blade Runner in many regards, the tone of it the warning signs/fear of the future the sheer relevance of it all in today's society...that tech advancements intended for one thing can breed pure depravity like an underground virus because no matter what it was originally created for someone somewhere will wish to do nothing more than to completely abuse it.

https://www.cbr.com/strange-days-change ... e-forever/

The above doesn't really hold water as the very first Cyberpunk table top rpg released in 1988 years before the movie. Though, the overlapping similarities are easy to see if indeed I'm reading things right, perhaps not.

Trailer:



Review:

Bigelow and Cameron have been responsible for films that were critically popular, commercial successes, or both. Look at Point Break, Terminator 2, Near Dark and Titanic. However, Strange Days was neither.

It couldn’t have been the script, which was inventive and perceptive. Nor the performances which, while not particularly sympathetic, are generally excellent. Ralph Fiennes is great as the corrupt clip pusher who still has a spark of decency. His facial expressions as he “jacks in”, experiencing his lost love, are captivating. Tom Sizemore is manically watchable. Angela Bassett is the only character that could be considered sympathetic and her affection for Nero, even as she loathes what he is doing to himself, is palpable. Even the usually annoying Juliette Lewis puts in a fine performance. (Fuck this part...she actually performed the iconic stage performance in the movie herself, and since when has she not been anything but great in everything?)

It couldn’t have been Bigelow’s bravura direction. Nor any technical deficiency – there aren’t any.

I guess it must have been the subject matter. In 1995, we didn’t really want to think of the Millennium in the context of society’s end. We didn’t want a film that projected a realistically dark version of a future. This was a nihilistically bleak future that just possibly could have come to pass – it wasn’t outrageous or too far-fetched. It was plausible, and the movie going public didn’t really want to see it.

Looking at Strange Days from the other side of the Millennium, it may be time for a reassessment.

source: myreviewer.com

And yet for all the above he still gives it a 7. For me, obviously, it's one of the most criminally overlooked movies ever released, both rarely discussed and extremely difficult to track down (or at least was for far too long)...and it's a stark altogether uncompromising look at the future (we all know how things were leading up to Y2k) and our very own sometimes misguided and unrealised places within it.

Also, if you ever wondered (not that anyone did) where the Lenny name I took on originated from, well...look no further.

[Stormbringer]

I watched this at the recommendation of a colleague (I think?), many years ago...I can't exactly remember when.

I gotta admit, it didn't really impress me. In fact, when watching the trailer just now, I barely remembered a single scene, so it didn't leave a big impression.

Fun trivia, though: the famous "Right here, right now!" sample that is used on Fatboy Slim's track of the same name, comes from one of Angela Bassett's lines in that film.