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"That's right. You're a left-brain word fetishist."
The Adventure Time episode "Mystery Train" is a bizarre riff on Agatha Christie (natch) and this movie. The episode even has the same ending as The Game... Except Adventure Time's ending is darker than Fincher's ending.
Which, y'know, tracks.
(James Rebhorn, just one of the all-time greats.)
(It really sucks that this movie feels so quaint now. No soul-sucking billionaire would take the correct lesson from this experience.)
Almost my kind of exhausting, but I simply stopped finding it interesting after a bit. For me, it's sort of summed up by the fact that Felicity has to go get the water?
Mann and Roth do Mann's patented "how stuff works" except instead of doing a heist and being a criminal, it's vested business interests protecting their assets from whistleblowers and journalists at the expense of all of us. I would also say at the expense of their ethics, but they don't have any, soooooo.
I love every super-tight, beautifully focused close-up in this movie, especially the ones positioned at the edge of the frame.…
See, this is my kind of exhausting. Great, expansive, ridiculous, and wholesome (aside from the racial aspect, which just doesn't achieve what the movie wants it to). And, unsurprisingly, my favorite thing is that everyone on screen is committed and on the same wavelength during the whole movie.
(I love that Tom Hanks loves this movie. And of course he does: He gets to do a lot of Stuff, and Tom loves to do Stuff.)
The gender panic here, specifically the trans concerns, is frustrating and not uncommon to the franchise, sadly. It definitely detracts from the movie, especially for me as I grooved heavily on the androgynous design for Emi and the more-androgynous-than-usual character design and clothing for Kaori (her black suit!).
Goodbye My Sweetheart is standard City Hunter fare in that vein, but also from a character perspective (beautiful lady client, threat from their past, a little bit of tragedy, etc). But I…
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