#the killer (1989)

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The Killer (1989).

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[maggiecheungs]

this is so funny... bro had a twenty-second gun standoff with professional hitman chow yun fat and now he cannot stop rhapsodising about his "passionate eyes" in the most homosexual manner possible in front of all his colleagues at the precinct

[augustheir]

The Killer (1989) dir. John Woo, cinematography by Peter Pau and Wing-Hang Wong

[carco5a]

the killer (1989) dir. john woo

[thedrillerkiller]

Some nice posters I would like to own someday 💕

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"The Killer" (1989)

Directed by John Woo

Cinematography by Peter Pau and Wing-Hang Wong

[r0seb100d]

He's my drugstore cowboy - Italian alloy, classical American

And I'm America's sweetheart - Chic, delicious, sweet tart

[fatmagic]

[moviesludge]

this means the piranhas have chosen a new pope

[brenninthetaylorverse]

was taking a quiz on buzzfeed and it was "which punisher and evermore song combo are you?"

and it did not have to call me out like this.

tolerate it is literally my favorite song ever and moon song?

"I will wait for you like a dog with a bird at your door?"

I'M SOBBING

[bandaidfingers]

my little inktober illustration series this year ✨SPARKLE SLASHERS✨

drawing various slasher villains every other day for the month of October on some sparkly card stock I got my hands on

I've been adding them (originals! not prints!) to my ✨ Ko-fi shop✨ as I draw them, all priced at $50 rn, but! on Halloween everything in my shop will be 15% off with the code SPOOKY23, so mark you calendars if you want to get one a little cheaper as a treat ^__^

v my full slasher lineup under the cut also v

Peeping Tom (1960) -Oct 1

Twisted Nerve (1968) -Oct 3

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) -Oct 5

Halloween (1978) -Oct 7

My Bloody Valentine (1981) -Oct 9

Prom Night (1980) -Oct 11

Friday the 13th (1980) -Oct 13

Slumber Party Massacre 2 (1987) -Oct 15

Sleep Away Camp (1983) -Oct 17

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1983) -Oct 19

Hellraiser (1987) -Oct 21

Maniac Cop (1988) -Oct 23

Child's Play (1988) -Oct 25

Alice Sweet Alice (1976) -Oct 27

Candyman (1992) -Oct 29

Scream (1996) -Oct 31

[maggiecheungs]

he made the police sketch artist draw over a dozen pictures of chow yun-fat’s face just so he could pin them all to his wall and stare at them like a 12-year-old girl in her bedroom full of harry styles posters 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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today's rewatch

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the killer (1989) dir john woo

[rolandrockover]

Eye of the Burning Hunter

Eric Carr's Eyes of Love (1989) is one of those fan favorites that unfortunately didn't make it onto a Kiss album. The indignation about this should be all the greater because in this case we are talking about the completely overloaded and somewhat indecisive Hot in the Shade (1989) of all things.

What the exact reasons may have been within a hopefully objectively functioning exclusion procedure is something everyone is welcome to think about for themselves, but hopefully not without at least taking a closer look at the music first. And why should you do something like this alone when it works just as well together and in the best of company?

So, Eyes of Love sounds admittedly less like Kiss in itself, or rather its somewhat unwieldy overall picture doesn't quite, but the individual parts it contains all the more. For the intro and main riff, for example, I can think of two reference sources that can both easily be assigned to Animalize (1984), the album that probably best musically manifests Gene's estrangement from the band at the time.

If you were now to hybridize Burn Bitch Burn (1) and Lonely is the Hunter's riffs, we'd almost have it, the point is just that Eyes of Love does somehow sound better than the other two both together (2), with a little more vibrant swing, which, once it gets going, gives it something quite nasty and monstrous. Unusual when something like this doesn't come from Gene, but certainly not unwelcome on my part.

But if you want to give it a little extra thought, you could ask yourself whether Eyes of Love isn't rather based on Killers' (1982) Down On Your Knees and tries to make something better out of its riff, which itself wasn't really able to do. A certain additional proximity to Down On Your Knees' middle part (3) would certainly speak in favor of this. But let's just leave it at that.

Apart from that, I can think of a few isolated bits and pieces that are reused here and there, serving as pads or whatever. Something that sounds like a higher swinging Plaster Caster (1977) riff, a certain The Elder (1981) touch as we know it from Only You, or a fill segment of When Your Walls Come Down (1987) and one of those rock n' roll standard licks that usually ends Rock and Roll All Nite (1975) live (4).

And although all the segments seem polished, the transitions flow smoothly and interlock like clockwork, it's still the not-so-simple song structure that, from my perspective, perhaps refuses to fit into Kiss' much smoother arrangement ratio of the time, thus naturally standing out quite a bit; and thus in some people's eyes, one looks in the direction of the two HITS, uhm… producers, might seem unfinished, or even useless. For their purposes. And not just to my regret.

Anyway, perhaps Eyes of Love only got in the way of Gene's and Bruce's not entirely dissimilar but much, muuuch more polished Prisoner of Love, but I prefer to continue to harbor my very own doubts about this idea. Basically, I'm only surprised that Gene didn't take it on and that it didn't fall into his clutches.

Probably because of the too many song credits. You know, less dough to share.

Wink emoji?

Side Notes:

(1) I mean even Eric's verse vocal sounds like the Burn Bitch Burn riff, with a slight biker rock and a AC/DC Highway to Hell feel.

(2) And I say that even though I like those Gene songs, especially Burn Bitch Burn. And I guess so did Eric Carr, because I happen to know that he loved to play Burn Bitch Burn live with its pumping drums and bass.

(3) Who remembers this part of Down On Your Knees, which bears an unmistakable resemblance to a song from Destroyer (1976)? You can refresh your memory of it right here, by the way.

(4) And no, I'm not going to highlight any of the links. That's too much fiddly work for me today. I'll probably cobble together some detailed Reprise entries out of this some day, or something.

I've limited the links to Eyes of Love, Burn Bitch Burn, Lonely is the Hunter and Down On Your Knees for the love of simplicity. Trust me, nobody loves too many links:

Eyes of Love (1989)

Lonely is the Hunter (1984)

Burn Bitch Burn (1984)

Down On Your Knees (1982)