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Reviewing "Sicario" Border Scene:
| fantasy-prone metal market french chef | 04/10/25 |
| Vigorous stain location | 04/10/25 |
| marvelous offensive potus marketing idea | 10/03/25 |
| french theater | 10/03/25 |
| fantasy-prone metal market french chef | 10/03/25 |
| Twisted space travel guidebook | 10/03/25 |
| 180 mentally impaired set | 10/03/25 |
| Twisted space travel guidebook | 10/03/25 |
| fantasy-prone metal market french chef | 10/03/25 |
| Bright filthpig fanboi | 10/03/25 |
| Honey-headed crackhouse | 10/03/25 |
| mint rough-skinned hall | 10/03/25 |
| electric water buffalo | 10/03/25 |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 9:56 AM Author: fantasy-prone metal market french chef https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBJbqV3IROM
Really a masterpiece
Scene opens with cuts between dashcam and helicopter cam, and walkie-talkie voice. The traffic jam at the border creates the perfect circumstances for tension. The characters have already talked about how if anything goes wrong, it will go wrong at the border
Viewer gets brief, real-time glimpses into passing motorists. Anyone can be a threat. Quick view of the tatted up cholos. "Get your service weapon out."
The female character is a stand-in for the viewer. She's not trained for this shit.
Within a minute you have multiple cars identified as threats. There are a few blunders here. Benicio swings his rifle right past the head of Emily Blunt, and the Michael Weston guy's bolt is open and empty, lol.
But the tension is fully escalated and "WHAT ARE THE RULES HERE?" cuts directly to the movie's main themes: how do you take on cartels if you have to follow one-sided codes of ethics and legality?
Great cut to the dog barking as the ominous synth music begins
Close-ups of the bad guys
"It's coming, it's coming now"
And still another 20 or 30 seconds of tension, nothing happening.
Tension peaks with a stand-off and then the shoot-out.
Josh Brolin chewing gum and smirking the whole time.
What's most impressive is that, in most movies, something would go terribly wrong. Here, the team performs perfectly. The threats get resolved directly. Apart from the gunman who jumps out at Emily Blunt, everything remains under total control.
Amazing filmmaking to squeeze that amount of tension out of a situation firmly in hand. |
Date: April 10th, 2025 9:58 AM Author: Vigorous stain location 180 scene. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708586&forum_id=2Ã#48834249) |
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Date: October 3rd, 2025 10:38 AM Author: marvelous offensive potus marketing idea (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708586&forum_id=2Ã#49321945) |
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Date: October 3rd, 2025 11:22 AM Author: french theater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708586&forum_id=2Ã#49322043) |
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Date: October 3rd, 2025 10:23 AM Author: fantasy-prone metal market french chef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708586&forum_id=2Ã#49321923) |
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Date: October 3rd, 2025 10:36 AM Author: Twisted space travel guidebook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708586&forum_id=2Ã#49321940) |
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Date: October 3rd, 2025 11:29 AM Author: 180 mentally impaired set higher def version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz0IOW8fV64 |
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Date: October 3rd, 2025 12:19 PM Author: Twisted space travel guidebook fantastic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708586&forum_id=2Ã#49322171) |
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Date: October 3rd, 2025 1:31 PM Author: fantasy-prone metal market french chef Brolin's 2 second glance at the kingpin is great acting (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708586&forum_id=2Ã#49322397) |
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Date: October 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM Author: Bright filthpig fanboi This won’t even make the papers in Juarez.
You should review the opening scene in Donnie Darko. |
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Date: October 3rd, 2025 11:46 AM Author: Honey-headed crackhouse didn’t even know about this movie. Will watch soon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708586&forum_id=2Ã#49322086) |
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Date: October 3rd, 2025 1:36 PM Author: mint rough-skinned hall Wow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708586&forum_id=2Ã#49322408) |
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Date: October 3rd, 2025 1:38 PM Author: electric water buffalo I am jealous of you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708586&forum_id=2Ã#49322412) |
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Date: October 3rd, 2025 1:38 PM Author: electric water buffalo Sicario is one of the best films of the past two decades. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708586&forum_id=2Ã#49322411) |