![]() (He wasn’t in that.) Braveheart is streaming on Netflix, FYI also FYI, it’s fuckin’ long. No, for Mel, this was pretty much as good as it gets. (Also Martin Scorsese’s Casino, which only got one major nomination, for Sharon Stone, hmm, hmmmmmm.) Within Mel’s personal narrative, at this point he had three Lethal Weapon installments down and one to go, with Maverick the year before and Ransom the year after he didn’t direct again for nearly a decade. The bounty: five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, albeit in a down year, beating out such wan competition as Babe (George Miller tho!), Dead Man Walking, and Apollo 13. Braveheart (1995), which he directs and stars in as 13th-century Scottish folk hero William Wallace, was both (arguably) his cultural apex and (inarguably) Scotland’s. What Mel Gibson is smelling there are The Winds of Arbitrary Critical Reassessment. You know what all this reminds me of? All screengrabs from Paramount via Netflix A beloved character or two will die, and the prancing sadist chump will either not die or die in an unsatisfying way, probably offscreen, as see last episode’s breathtaking triple-anticlimax.The scamps will be losing badly until - doo doo-doo doo! - a triumphant horn or rumbling pack of horses or whatever announces the arrival of surprise reinforcements from Littlefinger or the Tullys or some obscure character who only appeared for 10 seconds in Season 2.There will be long swaths of prebattle silence with the two sides just staring each other down from a considerable distance, soundtracked only by flapping flags and cawing crows and cool ambient shit like that.For, like, the 8 billionth time, Ramsay will do something heartless and ultraviolent to remind the audience that he is a bad person.So this Sunday on Game of Thrones, Ramsay Bolton and Jon Snow will (finally, Christ, that took forever) face off in the so-called Battle of the Bastards, pitting a ragtag gang of outcast scamps led by a pouty, pure-hero type against a heavily fortified (and favored) death army led by a prancing sadist chump. ![]()
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