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- 1999 - American Movie (documentary)
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- landscapes don't look that great (compared to kurosawa)
- the written dialog feels unnatural
- the performances don't feel natural (eg as a british actor would play it). The accents are bad.
- kurt russell hasn't cuffed the woman he's leading to hang?? he just cuffs her to him, but he doesn't tie her hands otherwise. She should be tied up.
- they throw around the term "nigger" in a highlighted way; it's like tickling the audience, going "oohhh, we're doing something naughty now!"
- sam jackson takes out his most-prized possession right in front of a woman who has shown that she's totally unpredictable.
- sam jackson throws snow in the woman's face after she spits on his most-prized possession. It just doesn't feel in-character.
- when they get out of the carriage after punching the woman, and the driver calls to kurt russell, both their voices have echoes. If you've ever been in the woods when it's snowing, you know that the environment just eats up your voice. There would be no echo at all.
- how did the hangman hear that someone in their party had a letter from lincoln?
- why does the sheriff refer to sam jackson's character as "the nigger in the stable" when he already knows who he is?
- Why does kurt russell's character tell the guy to dump the guns down the outhouse? Wouldn't people be fairly attached to the guns that they have purchased? It'd be like having someone's car crushed.
- The OB guy makes such a big deal of going to the outhouse to dump out the guns...but even the worst blizzard shouldn't really be that bad, right? Unless you're trying to make your way through four feet of snow, which he wasn't. And how are these guys gonna take shits if not in the outhouse?
- Everyone has really fancy coats / clothes.
- The general is going from (presumably) Georgia to Wyoming just to help design a ceremonial gravestone for his son's unfound body?? That's a very long journey.
- Sam Jackson immediately admits that the letter is fake?? A deus ex machina...
- and then he goes over to the general and says "I shared a battlefield with this man", *immediately* after his credibility has been destroyed.
- and the general goes from foaming-at-the-mouth racist to allowing sam jackson to sit with him because they shared a battlefield?? And they're having an intimate conversation??
- The Sam Jackson murder of the general is totally unbelievable; Jackson is apparently operating from some sense of what is "legal", but the way the law worked back then was totally different from nowadays. There wasn't social media enforcement of the Constitution / federal law in isolated towns / cities.
- And then the rebel / sheriff seems unfazed by what has just happened.
- The "Woah! Woah! Woah!" response of the woman to having the guitar smashed seemed out of character.
- Smashing the guitar seemed unrealistic (instruments are expensive), but I guess for a stylized movie like this it's par for the course.
- Kurt's "Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah--shut up!" response seemed out of character.
- Daisy taunting Kurt as he's realizing he's poisoned seems totally unbelievable, as he has a gun right in front of him.
- Why doesn't Sam Jackson immediately shoot Daisy?
- Sam Jackson gives a gun to a Confederate??? Minutes after shooting someone the guy admires greatly???
- Sam Jackson's comment about the stew tasting like Minnie's stew sounds hard-to-believe.
- Shooting everyone *inside* the cabin was a stupid thing to do, it could make such a mess of the cabin that it'd be impossible to clean it up in time.
- There's a lot of people asking other people, "You know why?"
- The Confederate general doesn't act very genteel.
- The movie pulls a pseudo-pulp fiction with showing what happened earlier in the day, and having events overlap.
- The movie keeps having more and more goop explode onto the woman.
- When Daisy is taunting the confederate, how does she know Minnie is black?
- Sam says "Who you be?"
- Daisy says the rest of the 15 of her gang are going to the cabin once the snow melts, but that doesn't make any sense if the plan was for them to wait in Red Rock for Daisy to arrive.
- It's not clear to me why Sam Jackson is allowing these gang members to live.
- The confederate is talking to Daisy about making a deal, but it's clear he'll lose all bargaining power once her gang arrives. It's a situation where a deal can't be reached because there's no way to ensure it'll be enforced.
- The confederate brings up the fact that Daisy watched him about to take a sip of the coffee, but it's obvious that she was just acting in her self-interest. The fact that she's acting in her self-interested doesn't make a deal impossible.
- The Confederate does this little head twist like an urban black chick that's kind of annoying, but I guess it kind of builds a character.
- Sam Jackson not immediately crawling for a gun after Maddox collapses feels unbelievable. At that point it's life-or-death.
- Having them hang Daisy felt cartoonish.
- The Lincoln letter isn't very profound, but I guess that makes sense since it's supposed to be a fake.
- Finished the movie feeling like, "What was the point of that?" It wasn't exciting like Pulp Fiction
Star Wars
- Fans Vs Disney Star Wars: The Current State Of Things
- 4:53 - The characters felt too much like they were from Earth with their mannerisms.
- 7:30 - Pumping out lots of movies is something new to Star Wars that it might not be suited for.
- 8:00 - Star Wars had a single vision, whereas now it feels like a "clusterfuck"
- 8:20 - Star Wars has gotten too political. He says a problem is that the new movies try to do it as one-liners or one-sceners instead of weaving the message throughout the plot.
- 11:00 - The social justice stuff is too heavy handed. You have to trick the audience, get it under their radar.
- 11:40 - Interesting point: Disney needs to figure out who they're trying to reach with the social justice stuff: is it preaching to the choir, or an attempt to reach people who would otherwise not be reached?
- 13:00 - The way Disney is doing the social justice stuff is making each movie very tied to the time the movie came out. That will make the movies age less gracefully.
- The moment that broke Star Wars forever
- he says the hyperspace attack calls into question all of the tactics used
- that reminded me that the fundamental problem with Star Wars is that it is based on a WW2 mindset of warfare, because the space battles are based on WW2 war movies. But now we are in the 21st century and warfare has evolved, and so a viewer will ask why these seemingly-advanced cultures can't use tactics and technology that we know can exist, like drone warfare.
- Prequel idea
- Shows Anakin's turn to the dark side, with only the original trilogy as canon.
- The first movie follows Anakin and is similar to the original Godfather.
- The second movie maybe follows Leia / Luke's mother. Or some new character. We want to continue seeing Anakin's shift but don't need a lot of screen time to show it.
- The original film is about the formation of the friendship between Luke, Han, Leia, Chewy, R2, and C-3PO.