#j.c. Chandor

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Will the real Kraven please stand up?

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KRAVEN THE HUNTER

Dir: J.C. Chandor Star: Aaron Taylor-Johnson / Ariana DeBose / Fred Hechinger

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A Most Violent Year (2014) written & directed by J.C. Chandor

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So, i'm reweatching Daredevil season 2 because i'm a simp.

Anyhow, season 2 episode 3, Daredevil and Punisher flirting fighting on a rooftoop. When Police investigate the scene this poster shows up:

Well if it isn't Standard Heating Oil. And then I thought oh well I guess it some kind of those fake comapnies they use for movies, surly there is no wayy

Oh well, a short trip to google and I find this:

Same roof, same poster. I guess they filmed it in the same time frame.

So guess what, kids? From now on both Abel Morales *and* Santiago Garcia & Frankie Morales are canon to the MCU.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

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A most violent year, 2014

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Villains aren’t born. They’re made.

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Triple Frontier

Rewatch and Review

I did a deep dive in the making of this movie and it adds to the experience.

They worked will a real team of navy seals to really make the team feel more authentic outside of their preexisting relationships with one another. The guns they used were real and everything. They truly learned not only physical, but also the mental aspects of being a team of people in the military who operates at such a high level.

They all had a separate member of the team to go one on one with as well. It’s truly fascinating.

The director is JC Chandor, and he’s also directed and written A Most Violent Year.

I’m finding that his movies are mainly character driven. It’s more about complex characters in different situations or how they navigate a specific environment. There is a “story/plot”. The premise of the story can be interesting, but the complex nature of the characters is what really sells the movie.

This specific movie is about the special forces and how they navigate life once they “retire”. Which is the most obvious part, but it’s also about a group of guys who did it together and have a reunion.

I think what makes this movie special is how they all interact and how different and similar they are. It can be argued that Santiago starts the movie hungry for more. He just wants more. Out of his life, out of his job. He wants something to show for all the things he’s lost and missed out on while “fighting for his country”. He not only wants it for himself, but also for the people he served with.

They’ve all moved on with their lives. In whatever way that means. Santi wants so much more for them. Doing whatever he can to convince them to join him, isn’t selfishness, but a love to him. A vow to his loyalty and how much he cares about them.

They don’t see it that way, but he’s fine with that. Because he sees the end result.

He pushed and he pushed hard. It might not have been completely right. But it’s not completely wrong either.

You could also argue that Tom is the one that made the wrong move in every turn. One look at the money changed him completely. He went from ambivalent at best to, beyond all in. He was gone. It’s in the way he stopes following their plan. How he says they got time when the didn’t. How he put them in a situation to kill people they didn’t anticipate killing.

You see this change between both Tom and Santiago. They both start the film at completely different ends of a spectrum and swap places by the end.

As they keep going, Santiago , and the rest of them for that matter, care less and less about the money with them. They give up more and more as things get complicated. However, Tom argues more and more. Every time he opens his mouth, it’s about how much money they are leaving behind. It’s in that tension of his greed and the goal of getting home that gets Tom killed.

By that point, Toms loss is when there’s a change in everyone. It’s where now they have to get at least some of this money for Toms family. However, even that gets complicated. Lorea’s men have caught up with them, and are blocking their escape.

There’s a beautiful moment when Will calms Santi down when they have to figure out how to confront the rest of Lorrea’s men and how they are all teenagers. Santiago says they have to kill them all because he can’t grasp doing this all for nothing. He doesn’t want to go home, tell Tom’s family he’s dead, and have nothing to show for it.

He says “I thought we could do this.” And in that specific moment you can see how upset he is that every thing is falling apart. How he accepts that very fact in this moment that they failed and need to focus on getting Tom home. He’s made a complete assessment change on everything. The money and what he thought he wanted.

It’s an amazing arc for both of them. (Not Tom dying. But the processes of greed to his ultimate downfall, and Santi’s deliverance of sorts to accepting the simpler things of life. That he can’t beat the system even if he tries really hard. He just has to take the short end of the stick that has inevitably been offered to him, and find a way to be content with it.

I will never be able to shut up about this movie! Thank you for reading if you made it this far!

[ruleof3bobby]

KRAVEN THE HUNTER (2024) Grade: F+

Just watch the trailer. It's horrible. Even the acting. No direction, bad plot, bad idea, skip it. I'd love for Sony to stop making these movies. They have zero direction. 30 min too long easily. I love Aaron Taylor-Johnson, but he phone this in. He got paid to work out basically.

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Margin Call

Margin Call    [trailer]

Follows the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.

Essentially just dialogue and no real "action". But it continues to be a tense, gripping watch. And it has a great ensemble cast.

Possibly the best movie about Wall Street.

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Kraven the Hunter

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a certain resemblance

Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

Alessandro Nivola as Aleksei Sytsevich (aka Rhino) in Kraven the Hunter (2024) by J.C. Chandor

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Kraven the Hunter - preview

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Kraven the Hunter (2024)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Kraven the Hunter has scenes of visions that include intense flashes of bright light. Several scenes use rapid-firing firearms. One long scene has light shining through spinning fans, creating a moderate but near-constant strobe effect.

There are some high-speed chases, and there is some peril at extreme heights.

Flashing Lights: 7/10. Motion Sickness: 2/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: This film has excessive blood and gore, an instance of kidnapping, and a villain motivated by a chronic illness.

Video ID: Admin Brandon's review and evaluation of Kraven the Hunter

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Review: KRAVEN THE HUNTER — A Surprisingly Fun, But Mostly Stupid Superhero Story

The line between bad and really bad in the superhero movie world is thin. Even with projects that contain way too much studio meddling and lack any cohesion as a story, there’s usually a redemptive arc or two. Kraven the Hunter, which effectively ended Sony’s Marvel “Spider-Man Adjacent” Universe, has some of these aspects. Director J.C. Chandor (Triple Frontier, Margin Call) finds ways to make…

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Podcast: Director J.C. Chandor - On Kraven The Hunter

Listen to the FILMHOUNDS Podcast below or on Apple, Acast, Audible, Spotify, or your usual podcast provider. With Kraven the Hunter’s home entertainment release on January 28, Freddie Deighton sat down with director J.C. Chandor to dive into superhero filmmaking.

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Kraven the Hunter (2024)

4/10