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Started Brockmire on Hulu. If you're a fan of Hank Azaria check it out. Airs on ifc but first season is on hulu

it is. I don't even know what country he's from but I think it's Hong Kong distrubuted. This is two different movies cobbled togeather with no cohesion at all. The vampires also hop... like bunnies. It's so bizarre.

I didn’t enjoy this one as much as the first two....

"The most beautiful thing in the world is smoking pot and fucking on a waterbed, at the same time."

What the hell is going on in this movie? Angelina Jolie is Brittish. Daniel Craig is American. Now they're playing Wipe Out?

Also, remember when Angelina Jolie was in a lot of movies?

Also weird that the movie prominently features a remix of Elevation by U2, as well as Deep, a Nine Inch Nails song that was only ever available on the film's soundtrack.

Elevation, which most likely would have been a major hit without the movie tie-in, has a truly ridiculous video involving Lara Croft and clips from the movie (where Bono and Lara Croft have to save the Edge from kidnappers, or something):



And Deep, which is not even available on an actual Nine Inch Nails release, has a somewhat high-concept, narrative-driven music video that has literally nothing to do with the movie:



This bizarre marketing strategy worked super well on eleven year-old me, though. Elevation was my favorite U2 song for the longest time, until I actually started getting into them. And the fact that there was an unreleased NIN song meant I basically had to see it in theaters.

Yeah, it was huge. I should have said "even without the movie tie-in". Didn't mean to imply the movie held it back in any way. And yeah, it's still a live staple, and I still enjoy it. There are just a lot of U2 songs that I know now that I like better.

Closest thing I've seen to what you're describing is the way NIN started their shows on the Hesitation Marks tour. It was clearly them, but they sort of non-chalantly came out one-by-one with synths and drum machines while the acoustic drums and larger set-up was being erected behind screens during the first few songs.

Watching Budd Boetticher's "Ranown Cicle" of films that he made with Scott near the end of his career. They tend to have short running times and operate with the bare essentials of genre conventions..  What sticks out is the gorgeous cinematography and tight character work. Boetticher's said he was more interested in how people defend their beliefs over what those beliefs actually are, which is a good angle for horse operas.

Also, the old posters for Comanche Station tend to be hilariously misleading. It was a movie I stayed away from just because the title made me think it was some dumb racist crap. While it's not perfect in that regard it's fairly tame for the time period and the focus is certainly elsewhere.