RIP Tony Scott (the director)

most of his movies are straight garbage though

I suppose it means something to be a step up from Michael Bay's pay grade

the only one I straight up HATED was Deja Vu. that was some timey-wimey bullshit

His best IMO.

I can't even

why

sorry this happened to him.

As for the films: __________.

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, August 20, 2012 9:14 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

ladies and gentlemen, the classiest Dr Morbius post you will ever see on an RIP thread

xpost http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/reverses-2-love-folds-space-and-time

forgot this existed even though I still have the DVD with all the short films on it -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qQvXawnmjk

Clive Owen, James Brown, Gary Oldman at his most Oldmany, Danny Trejo and a Marilyn Manson cameo.

Now that I've time to (literally) sleep on all this, I almost wonder a bit if there was...not a manic/depressive split per se, but definitely complementary halves between a gregarious workaholic and something only the close family ever saw, if they ever did. Maybe he always had a black dog that just finally caught him.

I think the cancer diagnosis was probably enough tbh

Last Boy Scout is a big noisy shambles, but if I see the start on TV I'll always wait for Damon Wayans' using "yeea, I'll bitchslap 'em" as a sweet making of woo, before switching off

The cancer news came after I posted that, but now there's a report going around that he wasn't suffering from that so who knows. Wait on the autopsy I guess.

ah, I'd read about the cancer yesterday

it's not a tumor

The family is now denying the cancer report. So hm.

From Mahnola Dargis's remembrance:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/08/21/arts/DARGIS-jp3/DARGIS-jp3-popup.jpg

Nice handwriting.

Top Gun notwithstanding, handwriting analysis confirms his heterosexuality.

Maybe it's time I finally watched Top Gun.

It's really not as salacious as its reputation suggests. It's like watching a Sunkist commercial scored by Kenny Loggins.

Well I've always been a fan of good action movies so am not against it in theory. Just kind of never got round to it, and I feel I've learned the plot by osmosis. Also I am a massive Tom Cruise hater.

tbh they use Cruise's hatability very well in Top Gun

and Val Kilmer's likability

some parts of it are very dated; victim of the processes it unleashed maybe. (or cnn in gulf war 1) (SAME THING lol morbs)

military pseudo-realism is well advanced in movies now; some of the missile-tracking shots etc in TG are hilariously simple looking to see them again

has Armond White written an obit yet

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/smearing-the-senses-tony-scott-action-painter

He wasn't a stealth intellectual. He wasn't subversive. No amount of minute subtextual analysis is going to turn him into Paul Verhoeven. Scott's work took every macho cliche about professionalism and danger at face value; this includes the tried-and-trued chestnut about death being the ultimate test of man's character.

Hey Eric, you're a climber aren't you? I didn't know about this side to him...

http://www.rockandice.com/news/2179-tnb-epitaph-and-cenotaph-tony-scott-was-a-fighter-and-a-climber

I heard he was a climber. Didn't know he was a spider!

nice mubi arty

enemy of the state and unbreakable were enjoyable trash. days of thunder was just garbage. haven't seen any of his other movies.

unstoppable, i mean!

M. Night Scott. Twist at the end of Top Gun = Iceman is Maverick twenty years from the future.

Sad to hear about this.

I never saw Top Gun. It seemed worse than decadent to make that movie in the shadow of what the U.S. was doing in Central America, and it's alienating now to read people talk about '80s jingoism as something quaint and harmless. But that Tarantino speech in Sleep with Me was cultural progress of a kind, and I always wondered if it helped talk him into an association with Tony Scott.

Either way, I love Crimson Tide, many corny notches above The Caine Mutiny, and wonder if the Tarantino doctoring extended into that great exchange about the real enemy in nuclear war. Enemy of the State is great fun too, one of the best Will Smith vehicles, with a jokey nod to The Conversation. And I love Deja Vu as well, in part for putting eyes on New Orleans after Katrina. I think there's a lot more mystery to the "enjoyable" half of "enjoyable trash" than usually gets credit, especially when most movies are trash, most art is bad, and most of both aren't that enjoyable.

excellent post, especially the last sentence

The Pelham 1-2-3 remake was a good Netflix stream. Clearly Scott put a lot of work into thinking through a plausible 21st-century subway hostage situation, and Denzel is interestingly frumpy.

Hmmm:

http://gawker.com/5937685/no-motive-found-in-tony-scotts-suicide-note

looks I need to watch Deja Vu.

don't you mean... re-screen it

i think its just screen, the first time u watch it

no because deja vu

Deja view it

this guy gets it

Initial coroner's report sheds no light:

The L.A. County coroner's report said Scott appeared to have had no major health problems, and coroner's officials said interviews with family members and friends did not reveal a possible motive.

The coroner's office determined that the 68-year-old died of multiple blunt-force injuries after leaping from the Vincent Thomas Bridge on Aug. 19. The director had therapeutic levels of the sleep aid Lunestra and the anti-depressant Mirtazipine, also known as Remeron, in his system, toxicology tests showed.

Chief coroner's investigator Craig Harvey said there was no indication of pre-existing conditions in Scott, based on both the autopsy and medical records.

"There was no evidence of neoplasia — cancer — identified," Harvey said.

After Scott's death, some media reports quoted an anonymous source suggesting that Scott had a brain tumor. His family vehemently denied those reports.

Several of Scott's associates told The Times that the director had mentioned back or hip problems in the months before his death, but many said they had no indication it was anything other than business as normal for the director-producer.

Revenge is some kind of masterpiece; unbelievably brutal and completely gorgeous. The fact that it never quite gets to where it’s meant to be going and seems to be pulling in 2 or 3 different directions, somehow makes me love it all the more. It was in Rolling Stone’s 10 Worst list of that year, which is reason enough to watch it at all speed.