Woah, this one gets a sequel?

Nice.

The whole history of how The Blues Brothers came to be is fascinating to me. Apparently, prior to that movie, there had been an informal ban on movie productions filming in (downtown) Chicago for decades under the Richard J. Daley administration, due to Daley hating a film produced there in the ‘50s that portrayed Chicago as a hive of mob activity. But by 1979, Daley was gone (“No, sir, Mayor Daley no longer dines here…he’s dead, sir.”) and The Blues Brothers was able to actually film on location with the cooperation of then-Mayor Jane Byrne, along with a few favors called in to Cook County Board of Commissioners President George Dunne, who was the father of Murphy Dunne (aka Murph of Murph & the Magic Tones).

Yeah it's a really good movie (with a few story twists that I thought were pretty stupid, like Crowe somehow surviving his shooting), but I never cared much for Basinger's performance either. She's completely fine, but nothing Oscar-worthy for me. Just another member of a good ensemble.

Moreso, I think it’s a lot of horror films would be over in 5 minutes if the characters weren’t stupid.

That was a lot of effort to say nothing. Go outside and touch some grass.

Very strongly disagree. Shawshank has some great acting, but nothing beats Hanks that year. If he wasn't as good as he was, that performance would have easily seemed fake or offensive.

Another great cool-under-pressure scene in The Godfather is when Michael has to bluff away the hitmen at the hospital with only Enzo standing next to him. Enzo is shaking so bad that he can't even light a cigarette, and has to be reminded to keep his hands in his pockets. Michael notices in the middle of lighting his cigarette that he isn't shaking one bit.

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The worst to me is the cliche of “OH! I just heard something right behind me! I better freeze first and then do a dramatic slow turn to gradually reveal what’s behind me while building up the tension!”

Bullshit. Every human being jumps and turns around faster than a scared cat when hearing something behind them, especially if they were already scared.

Three Days of the Condor captures NYC pretty well. As does Serpico and a lot of films shot there in the 70s and 80s.

I'm sure the house that a movie like this buys him is pretty nice.

Mmm most of it was shot in Toronto.

A city is so multi-faceted it would be impossible to show it all and feel authentic. There are movies that show you slices of it and do a good job.

‘Kids’ was one that came to mind, as it effectively shows what it is like to grow up white, poor and in an urban center.

‘Lady bird’ I thought was effective, because while it was centered around Sacramento, it could’ve been 100 other small cities in America. The architecture, how class was often divided by neighborhoods you lived in, the private schools that were declining, the adults that felt stuck there and their kids that wanted to get out.

My wife, who grew up in a large city, says that Eight Mile is incredibly accurate for people from larger cities and the “wrong side of the tracks”.

I’ve never really lived in a big city so I wouldn’t know.

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Pretty sure no actor can support themselves entirely in the indie/art house realm. How has he not backed up what he said? He’s chosen to work with a ton of interesting directors and takes interesting roles, why does he exclusively have to do that to earn some made up credit?

Saw 1&2 are actually good movies with kinda good plots and not just full torture porn

C’mon C’mon

Ahhhh the male paramedic. There ya go! He’s a side character and does interact with the bear..briefly.

He’s in it for a few minutes but probably in the best part of the movie.

Acting dumb in life-or-death situations is normal.

Dave Bautista was hilarious in a ton of things in the early 2000s?

He’s one of the paramedics.

Moonlight did a great job capturing the real Miami

William Friedkin's To Live and Die in L.A. does a great job of capturing the look and feel of Los Angeles.