Ironic that I just finally watched Godfather: Coda before knowing the news.
I thought it was great and don't get what all the "meh" is about. Maybe it left a fleeting aftertaste of frustration but I guess that's intentional. We're left to assume and imagine the next wave of retribution sparked by the closing tragedy (or not) as we marinate in the shame of discovering the complicity we've developed, in lock–step with Michael throughout the course of the trilogy, by being denied that retribution we're understandably left craving.
In retrospect I guess a certain someone was wearing a giant "sacrificial lamb" placard all along.

When I described a parallel earlier this year of D'Angelo to Donny Hathaway, I didn't mean it to become so apt.

Both artists felled at too-young an age, D'Angelo at 51 from pancreatic cancer, and both each with three brilliant solo albums to their name.  For D'Angelo, with his albums coming per decade over a thirty year span, despite each one's greatness, there's still a sense of failed potential due to his wrestling with various mental health and substance abuse issues which prevented him from being more productive during this period.

How fitting is it that movieforums immediately has a memorial page for John Lodge from the Moody Blues, and not a peep about D'Angelo.

Well, at least they don't care about Ace Frehley either. Maybe it was the makeup.

Jinnistan wrote:

One of my apprehensions at creating an obituary thread, when I initially started the board, was that I didn't want to be in the position of having to defend whenever I overlook someone, for whatever reason.  I am, generally, of the mind that "if you can't say something nice...", and I don't like pissing at funerals.

What I mean is that I don't really care for Kiss, never really have, once I actually heard their music and realized that it was less "heavy metal" than costumed frat-rock.  That's fine.  And it's fine for those who wish to eulogize Ace Frehley in my place.  I appreciate his influence.

I like the Moody Blues a little better than that, but "Ride My See-Saw" is not the hill I'll die on.  I'll give it up when Justin Hayward passes.

Also recently, we lost Chris Dreja, otherwise known as the Yardbird guitarist who did not launch into a more successful career afterward.  It's nothing personal, guys.

I'm specifically talking about how people at movieforums doesn't eulogize black people, unless they were the voice of Darth Vader, but make eulogy threads about literally every other D List celebrity.

It's almost like they aren't aware of, or don't want to be aware of, any black contributions to society. A bit of a running theme there.
 

"Teach the youth."



 

"Nobody did night photography like Adam." - James Cameron

Cinematographer Adam Greenberg charged the 80s/90s action game with classics like Big Red One,Terminator, Near Dark, Alien Nation, Terminator 2, Rush Hour.  Somewhat ubiquitous, he also would helm a number of familiar standards of the time: Iron Eagle, Wisdom, La Bamba, Three Men and a Baby, Ghost, Toys, and a whole bunch of the kinds of mid-grade fodder filling the used VHS bins at Blockbuster.