And I thought I was smarter than Stanley Kubrick...

I did notice the helicopter's shadow in the opening credits of his 80's movie, 'The Shining', starring Jack Nicholson. I thought, "Hehehe, the man screwed up." Apparently, some muthafucka is telling me nothing in Kubrick's film is ever misplaced. Crap... And I though I had a one-up...


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I did study this film in school but I missed the ending during the screening as I had to rush off to catch another show... which I can't remember. Anyways, my lecturere was saying that Kubrick basically explores the same themes every movie and just used different vehicles to drive them home. What could be scarier than your own family members trying to kill you? What would push them over to start kill people, especially their own family? I think any movie that dishes out something that is not insulting to its audience.

Well, Jessica, I didn't get you anything for your birthday. Hope the link above can help you write a better script or something.

Which kinda reminds me of watching Michael Mann's movie poem to Los Angeles, "Collateral". It's actually a tribute to the city itself, disguised as an urban thriller (whatever that means). The plot was pretty straightfoward as you guys would have known by now. Vincent (Tom Cruise going out on a limb; I like the guy... I really do but I just agree with many of his career moves) goes out and do 5 hits on a contract, hiring cab driver Max (Jamie Foxx) to chauffeur him around.

It's decidedly slow-paced and picks up steam towards the end. The acting was solid throughout. Foxx pulling off a protangonist which was as flawed as any one of us. Cruise's peppered-hair hitman was amoral, not a maniacal pyschotic killer, "just doing (his) job". No over-the-top action sequences to sink it down and a solid script with lush cinematography to anchor the whole project down. Comes highly recommended from me.