Someone is watching Matt for the very first time thru this video and for the first 3 minutes they are wondering "wtf is happening I was told this was important?.!?.?"
Matt sounds like an atheist, which is okay with me. He also is so great at zooming in on the unhappy realities, like the real contours of say, Russian society at the turn of the 20th century and how totally alien it would be for present day Americans…
all Americans have been bourgouisified…in a nutshell this is it
If your down with the left g podcast theory of film aesthetics, check out Patrick willems' video on Warren Beatty's wacky yet gorgeous Dick Tracy adaptation. Best looking asphalt in cinema history.
As far Thirty Years' War in cinema goes, I think the Michael Caine one is from the late 60s/early 70s called The Last Valley. Kinda corny in parts but worth watching.
Another that I can think of off the top of my head is Alatriste, which is newer. Has Viggo Mortensen as a 17th century Spanish adventurer who gets involved in some weird intrigues involving Olivares or some shit. Way less gritty than The Last Valley, way overlong, has a totally superfluous romantic subplot and one suspects the film and the books its based on are partially motivated as modern-day pushback against the Black Legend, with dubious patriotic undertones resulting. Has a couple good setpieces with the tercios and shit though.
It really is an underexplored time period in film. But you also need a filmmaker who has the vision and the sensibility to do the subject justice, to say nothing of the studio/producers willing to take on the financial risk of such a project. Given the general cultural climate and industry trends in film/TV, likely isn't going to happen anytime soon.
The Thirty Years War movie is probably "The Last Valley", available for free on youtube last time I checked. It's worth watching, it's got Omar Shariff and MIchael Caine in it and it's about morality within the context of war.
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Someone is watching Matt for the very first time thru this video and for the first 3 minutes they are wondering "wtf is happening I was told this was important?.!?.?"
Bro, you should collaborate with Tom MacDonald
I disagree. I would have been a Gay Ukrainian who forged a forbidden love with a Kronstadt sailor
Damn. This is just … sad.
"There's no winter palace to storm". 7:55
Matt looking like an East Village gallery owner circa 1983.
Penois
Where is the recent video game episode
Ok, Matt is absolutely wrong about Wild Wild West. It's a pure camp classic.
Papa Christman blessed us with another Cushvlog
Loving the beard!
Matt sounds like an atheist, which is okay with me. He also is so great at zooming in on the unhappy realities, like the real contours of say, Russian society at the turn of the 20th century and how totally alien it would be for present day Americans…
all Americans have been bourgouisified…in a nutshell this is it
He stops singing at 3:00
To the point about american conception of freedom… the obsession with apocalyptic scenarios, not as horror but as a chance to reinvent and reconquer.
Commenting for that algo hit
matt's beard is looking healthier these days
All i know is if I were in 1917 I would be throwin' some ass lol
Please give the F-word a rest, you owe it to your self and your listeners.
If your down with the left g podcast theory of film aesthetics, check out Patrick willems' video on Warren Beatty's wacky yet gorgeous Dick Tracy adaptation. Best looking asphalt in cinema history.
As far Thirty Years' War in cinema goes, I think the Michael Caine one is from the late 60s/early 70s called The Last Valley. Kinda corny in parts but worth watching.
and holy shit it's all up on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZqy0qSzr-o
Another that I can think of off the top of my head is Alatriste, which is newer. Has Viggo Mortensen as a 17th century Spanish adventurer who gets involved in some weird intrigues involving Olivares or some shit. Way less gritty than The Last Valley, way overlong, has a totally superfluous romantic subplot and one suspects the film and the books its based on are partially motivated as modern-day pushback against the Black Legend, with dubious patriotic undertones resulting. Has a couple good setpieces with the tercios and shit though.
It really is an underexplored time period in film. But you also need a filmmaker who has the vision and the sensibility to do the subject justice, to say nothing of the studio/producers willing to take on the financial risk of such a project. Given the general cultural climate and industry trends in film/TV, likely isn't going to happen anytime soon.
Packers suck dude
I keep looking at my phone every time I hear Matt's phone vibrate.
I would’ve probably driven a shit-wagon
The Thirty Years War movie is probably "The Last Valley", available for free on youtube last time I checked. It's worth watching, it's got Omar Shariff and MIchael Caine in it and it's about morality within the context of war.