This was probably one of the best theater experiences I ever had, except for when I was running from the bathroom and tripped up the stairs.

This was probably one of the best theater experiences I ever had, except for when I was running from the bathroom and tripped up the stairs.

Watched this in a packed theater in glorious 4K resolution and yeah… this was one of those full circle cinephile moments for ya boy.

I remember being 13/14, first time watching Reservoir Dogs, feeling like I had just cracked the Da Vinci Code of cinema. Thought I was HIM. Walking around like I personally invented violence, dialogue, and dudes in suits bleeding out on church floors.

Then resident Dragon Ball Z button up wearing Black kid in the neighborhood (shoutout my guy RJ) hits me with:

“Do you even know who John Woo is?”

Next day he slides me two of the most bootleg, war crime level VHS tapes I’ve ever seen. Subtitles off-sync, audio sounding like it was recorded through a fish tank.

The Killer and Hard Boiled.

NWTS

Mexican standoffs out the wazoo. Doves flying indoors for no reason. Loyalty, regret, brotherhood, and a homoerotic cop & robber cat/mouse tension, two men with a code circling each other like fate with guns. Pure Hollywood masculine melodrama, chopped into lines and sent straight up the sniffer.

Shoutout my guy RJ. You really changed my y trajectory with two dusty tapes and a little bit of judgment.

Watched this in a packed theater in glorious 4K resolution and yeah… this was one of those full circle cinephile moments for ya boy.

I remember being 13/14, first time watching Reservoir Dogs, feeling like I had just cracked the Da Vinci Code of cinema. Thought I was HIM. Walking around like I personally invented violence, dialogue, and dudes in suits bleeding out on church floors.

Then resident Dragon Ball Z button up wearing Black kid in the neighborhood (shoutout my guy RJ) hits me with:

“Do you even know who John Woo is?”

Next day he slides me two of the most bootleg, war crime level VHS tapes I’ve ever seen. Subtitles off-sync, audio sounding like it was recorded through a fish tank.

The Killer and Hard Boiled.

NWTS

Mexican standoffs out the wazoo. Doves flying indoors for no reason. Loyalty, regret, brotherhood, and a homoerotic cop & robber cat/mouse tension, two men with a code circling each other like fate with guns. Pure Hollywood masculine melodrama, chopped into lines and sent straight up the sniffer.

Shoutout my guy RJ. You really changed my y trajectory with two dusty tapes and a little bit of judgment.

Super melodramatic, some funny sequences but was just kinda meh

Super melodramatic, some funny sequences but was just kinda meh

Very awesome and cool. Very gay. Hilarious; should be tagged as a rom-com. This is cinema.

The theatre for some reason was intent on blowing my eardrums out which only made this all the more overstimulating but I really did have a lot of fun and I did really like the hyper-stylization. Really good at making you laugh at the just absolutely ridiculous shots and framing. The action gimmicks are really, really fun too.

Not really super compelled by anything it seemed to be saying but I'm also still pretty tired right now so analysis is definitely not at the max. So kind of take this with a grain of salt.

Very awesome and cool. Very gay. Hilarious; should be tagged as a rom-com. This is cinema.

The theatre for some reason was intent on blowing my eardrums out which only made this all the more overstimulating but I really did have a lot of fun and I did really like the hyper-stylization. Really good at making you laugh at the just absolutely ridiculous shots and framing. The action gimmicks are really, really fun too.

Not really super compelled by anything it seemed to be saying but I'm also still pretty tired right now so analysis is definitely not at the max. So kind of take this with a grain of salt.

A very enjoyable theatrical watch aside from the speakers being so loud, but that kind of made it more comical. 

Everything was so over the top and I loved that, the slow pauses on their faces, the slo mo gun fights, the duel pistols. On top of this I doubt there is anything I can offer analytically that the film does not tell us. 

I loved the cigarette cauterization, just the idea of it and how intimate it was.

3.1/5

A very enjoyable theatrical watch aside from the speakers being so loud, but that kind of made it more comical. 

Everything was so over the top and I loved that, the slow pauses on their faces, the slo mo gun fights, the duel pistols. On top of this I doubt there is anything I can offer analytically that the film does not tell us. 

I loved the cigarette cauterization, just the idea of it and how intimate it was.

3.1/5