❝Tell you somethin', man. The fans are like women. When you're hitting, they love you. When you're not, they'd just as soon spit on you as look at you.❞
❝I mean, come on. Let's be real here, you know. What are we doin'? We're not curing cancer, you know? We're playin' a game. That's all it is. It's just a game.❞
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For the last Benicio film for today, I chose to watch The Fan, a psychological sports drama with a pretty good cast. It's very similar to The King of Comedy, which is also helmed by Robert De Niro, but a bit less compelling in its narrative until the last half an hour or so. The main cast are excellent, especially De Niro and Wesley Snipes, but the pacing of the story was kinda bad, to the point where I considered turning the film off around forty minutes in; thankfully it started getting a lot more interesting a bit further on. The cinematography was decent, but what really threw me off was the soundtrack; never in a million years did I think 'Closer' and 'The Art Of Self Destruction, Part One' by Nine Inch Nails (two of my favourite songs) would feature in this film, and in my opinion they didn't quite work; aside from that, though, the score overall by Hans Zimmer was brilliant all-round. With that being said, I don't think I'd watch this again, but I'm glad I gave it a go.
❝Tell you somethin', man. The fans are like women. When you're hitting, they love you. When you're not, they'd just as soon spit on you as look at you.❞
❝I mean, come on. Let's be real here, you know. What are we doin'? We're not curing cancer, you know? We're playin' a game. That's all it is. It's just a game.❞
⊱ ──── . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁. ──── ⊰
For the last Benicio film for today, I chose to watch The Fan, a psychological sports drama with a pretty good cast. It's very similar to The King of Comedy, which is also helmed by Robert De Niro, but a bit less compelling in its narrative until the last half an hour or so. The main cast are excellent, especially De Niro and Wesley Snipes, but the pacing of the story was kinda bad, to the point where I considered turning the film off around forty minutes in; thankfully it started getting a lot more interesting a bit further on. The cinematography was decent, but what really threw me off was the soundtrack; never in a million years did I think 'Closer' and 'The Art Of Self Destruction, Part One' by Nine Inch Nails (two of my favourite songs) would feature in this film, and in my opinion they didn't quite work; aside from that, though, the score overall by Hans Zimmer was brilliant all-round. With that being said, I don't think I'd watch this again, but I'm glad I gave it a go.
