"I fired a warning shot and I hit you"
And with that, the Wright Stuff 2 ends. Tonight was Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) Miami Blues (1990). I had seen neither and was expecting both to be cop movies, but in fact neither of them was really. Both were a interesting blend of comedy and violence.
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a buddy/heist movie starring Clint Eastwood and a young Jeff Bridges. In fact, I'd probably go so far as to call this a bromance. As Morgan mentioned, it ends very much like a Fiasco game, with a particularly brutal ending and only one of the main characters in a better position than he started the movie.
Miami Blues is a twisted love story between a none-too-bright Floridian (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and a psychopathic con man (Alex Baldwin) who impersonates a cop (Fred Ward). Alex Baldwin in brilliant in the role both in terms of his comic timing and his cold violence.
I was quite pleased that the evening ended earlier than most. I enjoyed all the double features in the series that I attended, but it's been a long couple of weeks and I'll be glad to restore my sleeping patterns to some form of regularity. This may have contributed to my relative lack of enthusiasm for the speakers tonight: Geoffrey Lewis (Goody in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot), Edward Saxon (executive producer with a cameo as a Hari Krishna in Miami Blues), D. V. DeVincentis (co-writer of Grosse Point Blank and High Fidelity) and an odd and brief appearance by June Fairchild (a bit part in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot). The best guest, who I almost forgot, was Patton Olwalt who was very entertaining, even if his appearance was based on a misunderstanding between him and Wright. I'll be keeping an eye out for Oswalt's residency at the New Bev in October.
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a buddy/heist movie starring Clint Eastwood and a young Jeff Bridges. In fact, I'd probably go so far as to call this a bromance. As Morgan mentioned, it ends very much like a Fiasco game, with a particularly brutal ending and only one of the main characters in a better position than he started the movie.
Miami Blues is a twisted love story between a none-too-bright Floridian (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and a psychopathic con man (Alex Baldwin) who impersonates a cop (Fred Ward). Alex Baldwin in brilliant in the role both in terms of his comic timing and his cold violence.
I was quite pleased that the evening ended earlier than most. I enjoyed all the double features in the series that I attended, but it's been a long couple of weeks and I'll be glad to restore my sleeping patterns to some form of regularity. This may have contributed to my relative lack of enthusiasm for the speakers tonight: Geoffrey Lewis (Goody in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot), Edward Saxon (executive producer with a cameo as a Hari Krishna in Miami Blues), D. V. DeVincentis (co-writer of Grosse Point Blank and High Fidelity) and an odd and brief appearance by June Fairchild (a bit part in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot). The best guest, who I almost forgot, was Patton Olwalt who was very entertaining, even if his appearance was based on a misunderstanding between him and Wright. I'll be keeping an eye out for Oswalt's residency at the New Bev in October.
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