Dead Calm, Phillip Noyce (1989)
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Movie #21 of 2024: Waterworld
Truly one of the silliest sci fi epics of all time.
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Waterworld
Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo continuato a parlare di commedie horror, ma facendo un salto negli anni ’80 per discutere di un piccolo cult, Dimensione Terrore. La storia inizia negli anni ’50 quando una giovane coppia vede precipitare vicino loro uno strano oggetto. Vanno a controllare ma la donna viene uccisa da un maniaco assassino mentre l’uomo viene…
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The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)
The Coca-Cola Kid by #DusanMakavejev starring #EricRoberts and #GretaScacchi, "Whatever this means to say about Makavejev’s ideas of American corporate practices is lost by the time you reach the film’s weak conclusion",
DUSAN MAKAVEJEV
Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5
Australia, 1985. Cinema Enterprises, The Australian Film Commission, Grand Bay Films International Pty.. Screenplay by Frank Moorhouse, additional dialogue by Denny Lawrence, based on the short stories The Americans, Baby, and The Electrical Experience by Frank Moorhouse. Cinematography by Dean Semler. Produced by David Roe. Music by William Motzing.…
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Waterworld (1995)
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up and coming artists that make me so excited about new music: tessa violet, chappell roan, semler, shauna dean cokeland, rachel reale
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Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen in Appaloosa (2008), photographed by Dean Semler. Dean was born in Renmark, Australia, and has 83 cinematography credits. This is his third entry among my best 1,001 movies, after The Road Warrior and Dances with Wolves, his Oscar winner. His honorable mention is The Lighthorsemen.
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The Patriot (Dean Semler, 1998)
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god don't tell anyone by semler is SUCH a dean song it's physically painful to listen to
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fav derangement(honorary)?
fav derangement(derogatory)?
(by which i do not mean psychiatric derangement. sorry)
favourite derangement character(affectionate): i don’t think another character has made me feel as absolutely insane and compelled as i have felt about dean winchester.
favourite derangement not a character(affectionate): um the thing that makes me feel insane right now is 1. the beast by odie leigh 2. love like ghosts by lord huron 3. ceilings by lizzy mcalpine and 4. tobymac by semler
favourite derangement (derogatory): thinking about friends and relationships and how time changes everything and how– anyways. i just overthink it all but it’s also so interesting?!?!? but also oh God the future….
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Mad Max 2 (dir. George Miller)
-Jere Pilapil- 10/10
Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior is really where the legend of Mad Max as we imagine it begins. The movie starts with a montage of destruction that resulted in the world becoming a desert wasteland. Civilization is basically brought down to gangs and factions fighting over oil as currency. My wife is young enough that she thought it was ironic that they were “fighting over oil but driving all these gas guzzlers”, but in 1981 there was no other type of engine.
There’s not much plot to Mad Max 2, but there is a whole lot of cool shit. The desert as photographed by Dean Semler is hot and vicious for as long as the film runs. The set design and costuming is legendary, influencing depictions of a post apocalypse for generations afterwards. Mel Gibson, that IRL piece of shit, is captivating as the mostly silence titular character (My wife said his Australian accent was bad, I told her that was his real voice because I thought he was Australian literally until writing this, so score 1 for her!). Finally, the action: it fuckin rips
The plot is basically that Max happens upon a gyrocopter pilot (Bruce Spence), who leads him to an oil refinery/town being harassed by a massive gang called the Marauders. Here, Max is truly a mercenary: he bargains with the lone survivor of an assault on the outskirts of the refinery for a safe return and fuel, then later bargains with the head of the refinery for more fuel if Max can bring them a truck to transport the oil. Then, afterwards, of course, someone has to drive the truck while they transport the oil. Max is resistant to every step of the way, but plays along for his own benefit.
This wafer-thin plot is all you need to set up a bunch of absurd vehicular action scenes that we’ll probably never see in film again. Every frame of this movie seems dangerous, never moreso when people are jumping from car to car or driving these monstrous modified cars with sharpened edges and armor. The stunts are wild, and every character is designed with a unique look that lets you keep track of who’s doing what. There’s so much clarity among this chaos of this movie. There’s so much invention here that it’s still intoxicating, four decades and countless imitators later.
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The Last Witch Hunter (2015)
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