Blue Magazine August 1999 - Ryan Philippe
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Antitrust (2001)
While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...
Antitrust is a story you’ve seen before, but with a different coat of paint. Often broad and ludicrous, it’s the kind of film that throws in twist after twist in the hopes that you leave the film surprised and confuse "unexpected" with "good". Too bad the premise is so overdone you can practically set your watch to these story beats.
Idealistic computer programmer Milo Hoffman (Ryan Phillippe) takes a high-paying position at NURV (Never Underestimate Radical Vision) to help its CEO Gary Winston (Tim Robbins, doing his best Bill Gates impersonation) finish a global communication system that will revolutionize the world. When the death of one of Milo’s programmer friends coincides with a batch of new coding at his desk, he begins suspecting something nefarious at NURV.
I’m not spoiling anything by telling you that indeed, NURV is up to some shady business. They’ll do anything to make sure they make their deadline, from installing secret cameras and recording equipment to theft and even murder. You’ve seen this sort of thing before, like in The Firm with Tom Cruise back in 1993, for example. While it isn’t an automatic fail to make a film of this kind, you have to bring something new to the equation to be worth people's time. Antitrust does nothing original.
The foreshadowing is so obvious it’s distracting. Some of it doesn’t even make sense. We’re told NURV set a date for its Synapse global communication program's launch. Should they fail to meet it, the company will go under. Immediately, you know what will need to be done. When Milo almost eats a bun at a fancy restaurant and his girlfriend Alice (Claire Forlani) shrieks because he’s allergic to sesame seeds, you know those will come up again. Not only that, but you know EXACTLY how that’ll come up again, and you know how Milo will prevent himself from dying from the allergens being snuck in his food.
Antitrust attempts to keep you on your toes by throwing all of these twists and crazy revelations about characters and technology in the mix. Milo doesn’t trust his attractive co-worker Lisa (Rachel Leigh Cook), then he does, then he wonders if he shouldn’t again. Once the dust is settled and we know who was on which side, take a step back. Every character's actions now seem needlessly complicated.
Antitrust is not a particularly good movie, nor is it. Even now, I’m struggling to find things to say about it. (On DVD, February 14, 2018)
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I had a purple-pilled classmate who hated 54, the film, which I saw in 1998. Usually it's pretty obvious what they're feeling threatened by and what's naughty to them. Seriously a bunch of weaklings -- as I found a lot to like about the film and it got me quite curious about disco when I hadn't been much at all before:
These days, the red-pilled and the purple-pilled are a reverse indicator for what I should be doing with my life. They're so confused and so caught up in their parents' relatively Puritan-aggro apron strings.
Sex is naughty to them, threats of murder are good... the usual typical American weakling coward attitude towards life, which holds them back from accomplishing anything and then they blame some black or fag out there for all their problems.
It's a clockwork universe for simple automatons and it should be disrupted until the minds, bodies, nicenesses and sex improve.
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Be careful what you wish for!!
Movie Name: Wish Upon
(The released date on July 07, 2017) 🎬🎥🍿
This movie is all about the girl who grant on her seven wishes using the old music box in which that Ancient Chinese Language details have. In every granted on her wishes the music box initiate to open in which is something happens. Unfortunately , the girl and the boy discovered something frightened and you will be regret it if you watched this kind of movie.
Lesson: Whatever happened if you are angry from someone and also the one that you'd been fall in love but he/she ignore you, "Be careful of what you wish for" . It could be probably danger to your love ones and you'd been regret it in the end of the day...
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A24 has released a Talk to Me 24x36 matte print designed by Matt Ryan Tobin. Priced at $50, it's limited to 1,000.
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