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Paul Costello
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Film watcher, podcaster (Fatal Attractions and The Yearbook Committee), D&Der, very occasional maker of pie. He/Him. boxd.it/6ann
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“Whatta we got here, doc?” “Vic is a quarter pounder with cheese, but quarter pounder in name only. Be lucky if it was half that. Heavy charring on the tissue, deep discolouration of the lettuce, and I’ve seen firmer tomato in salsa. No sign of flavour.” “Poor sonofabitch.”

Scene from Good Burger (1997), in which a group of fast food burger restaurant employees huddle around a burger from a competitor’s restaurant with looks of shock and concern on their faces.
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William Sadler. That was a pretty neat.

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my big letterboxd thought-dump on Jean-Claude Van Damme

screenshot text reads: "Decided to dump some of my unpolished JCVD thoughts here, even though they aren’t exclusively Bloodsport-inspired. I’ve been trying to suss out why Jean-Claude Van Damme feels like such a singular action star of his era, and I think one of the reasons is that there’s a softness and a sweetness to JCVD. He’s the himbo Platonic ideal, vulnerable and pretty, paving the way for softer action stars like Keanu Reeves. A lot of his characters are surprisingly polite: in Bloodsport, when he’s fleeing from Rawlins and Helmer, he bumps into a young couple and says ‘excuse me.’ Or in Double Team, when he’s fighting a guy on a plane, he asks him if he has a parachute before tossing him out. He (mostly) avoids playing invulnerable superheroes, and his battles are often small stakes, emotional rather than grandiose country- or world-saving plots (Cyborg is a notable exception). He fights for a brother, a father figure, a woman, a family, a friend. Maybe he’s trying to pay off his brother’s widow’s medical debt (Lionheart) or fighting to get back to a pregnant wife (Double Team, Timecop). More often than not, he’s not fighting on..."
screenshot reads: "...behalf of the military or a government agency, they’re usually corrupt and/or in his way. And he actively cultivated and catered to a female audience, making choices to please them specifically. Two great examples of this: he decided to do more love stories because women expressly asked him to in their fan letters, and he had the bodybuilder Corinna "Cory" Everson cast as a villain in Double Impact because he thought women would like to see another woman get to do stuff onscreen typically reserved for macho heroes. That scene in Double Impact where he’s in blue spandex doing the splits and showing off his body for an aerobics class full of women really feels like JCVD’s persona in sum."
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Read this earlier and think you’re absolutely right. Even in something like Cyborg, he still wears that kind of vulnerability on his sleeve, making him come off less stoically macho than other films of that ilk and more, well, human.

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Man, that “vampire stuff” one is a pin badge waiting to happen.

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And of The Lion in Winter. I can certainly thank him for putting that on my list.

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Guess it kinda sits in the “When the fall is all that’s left, it matters” category.

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Still image from Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in which Henry (Michael Rooker) stares grimly at his reflection in the mirror, with a subtitle reading “I’m Mary Poppins, y’all!”
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New episode alert! Episode 102: Quills (2000) - featuring special guest writer/culture critic @ceilidhann.bsky.socialfatalattractions.libsyn.com/episode-102-...#Quills#FatalAttractions#eroticthrillers

Poster for the 2000 film Quills.
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Friends, we need help! Hopefully, for the very last time since I've found a 2nd job. Our electricity is about to be disconnected. I've been working w/ the City and I was on a payment arrangement. An auto-draft was returned & they want $840 now or disconnection is set for Monday.

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Paul Costello
@paulcinephile.bsky.social
Film watcher, podcaster (Fatal Attractions and The Yearbook Committee), D&Der, very occasional maker of pie. He/Him. boxd.it/6ann
149 followers350 following127 posts