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Travis Knight recommended Flash Gordon (1980) in Movies (curated)

 
Flash Gordon (1980)
Flash Gordon (1980)
1980 | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

"A gloriously ludicrous slice of 1980s cinematic fromage. Between the infectious Queen soundtrack, eye-popping Technicolor special effects, super hot Italian space princess, outrageous production and costume design, a deranged Max von Sydow spitting eminently quotable lines, and a leading man whose principle qualification was being a Playgirl centerfold, this movie had it all. I must’ve watched it fifty times when I was a kid. It was on a near-constant loop in our living room Betamax. One of the great many things I love about being a father is sharing my beloved childhood experiences with my kids. I was so giddily excited to watch this movie with my children when they were old enough. I couldn’t wait. They turned it off halfway through. I spent the next twenty minutes trying to convince them how awesome it was. They weren’t having it. My kids have terrible taste."

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I was really liking this--it would have got 5 stars!--if not for the whole progression of the relationships with the guys. That sounds like I think it was a bad thing but it seemed rather unfair in my opinion that she didn't sleep with them all. But then that sounds bad to me, too.

It's a little complicated and maybe I'm biased because yeah, five hot guys, but only two have had the right connection/shown enough guilt over what they've done previously for me to want Marnye to get with them and that's the two Z's; Zach and Zayd.

I have no idea how she's going to pick which of these guys she wants. Tristan, I think, is still interested in Lizzie. Creed is trying his hardest to be worthy. Windsor (love the take on the name) is a hard one to figure out.
  
Hearts of Fire (Hearts, #2)
Hearts of Fire (Hearts, #2)
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8.0 (1 Ratings)
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I was entranced by the cover of this a long time before I realised it was part of the Hearts series. I'd not long since finished the first book which I loved, and I couldn't wait to read more books in this series, and it was only after I'd bought this that I realised it was Jack's story.

I did enjoy this, just not as much as the first. Jay just fascinated me with his magic and the whole back story and everything just blew my mind. This one, Jack seemed hot and sexy and the fire-breathing...but it didn't grab me as much. I wasn't as sucked into the story.

The description for the third book in the series has me intrigued as to what King's story will be about and I've already got it on my kindle to read but I'm not going to read it yet.
  
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Joseph Mount recommended I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen in Music (curated)

 
I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen
I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen
1988 | Pop
(0 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"Hearing this Leonard Cohen stuff, after listening to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers it was like ‘this sounds like bullshit!’, I didn’t understand the layers of intellect that had gone into making that record, and the large element of humour. My dad is into Leonard Cohen, I remember hearing the older stuff, then my sister was getting into it because she was becoming very literary. I was basically absorbing Leonard Cohen but I wasn’t crazy about it. I remember hearing ‘The Story Of Isaac’ as a child and thinking ‘god, this is fully intense, it’s so bare’. I remember hearing I’m Your Man it and at first finding it a really odd, unenjoyable experience, but now I realise that it’s a very curious idea, this industrial Leonard Cohen record, it’s really cool! ‘First We Take Manhattan’, imagine being a musician and being able to put a song like that out."

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Edgar Wright recommended Le samouraï (1967) in Movies (curated)

 
Le samouraï (1967)
Le samouraï (1967)
1967 | Crime, Film-Noir
8.8 (8 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"Le samouraï is a film I return to again and again. Like with any minimalist cinema, the less it states, the more you want to discover. Jean Pierre Melville’s film has been hugely influential, from Walter Hill’s The Driver through Luc Besson’s Leon: The Professional right up to this year’s Drive. Hell, even scenes from my own Hot Fuzz are ripped out of this. The iconic image of hit man Alain Delon lying on a bed in his bare apartment with just a canary for company is still echoed today. Melville took lone warrior mythology from Japanese culture, married it with the tough guy angles of ’40s gangster movies, and, along with John Boorman and Point Blank, ushered in a new age of neo noir. It’s a beguiling picture and one to stare at for a long time. Plus, it has so little dialogue that it is literally a must-watch."

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