![]() Searching for software to see what I shot, sort and pick out the winners for publication or submission in anticipation of Mac Catalina, Photo Mechanic clearly wins. iView Media Pro eventually became Phase One Media Pro, and as Mac operating systems developed, Media Pro didn't keep up, became buggier, was discontinued, and as of Mac Catalina won't even run. I tried it back at the beginning, and preferred iView Media Pro, which until 2019 I used all day, every day, to see what I had shot and pick the winners for publication. In the same way Hepburn/Grant defined the comedic style of the 1940s, or in the same way the Zucker-Abraham-Zucker team defined comedy of the 1980s ("Airplane!", "Top Secret!"), here another 40 years later we get a smart, stylish, characteristic brand of comedy that I think our generation can be proud to laugh hysterically to.Photo Mechanic by Camera Bits has been the world's standard for professional photo sorting software since it came out back in the late 1990s at the dawn of professional digital cameras for news and sports use. I don't know if witty, snappy, script-driven comedies like this will follow but I'd love to see. I see a reject from The Sound of Music.") So watch this movie while you can. From Melissa (obviousy) down to the bit part of the villain's blonde male henchman who has only 6 lines (and whom Melissa taunts: "I don't see a man. If it's possible, EVERY character steals the show. Something about spies and nukes and hot Bulgarian villains played by Rose Byrne who really channels her inner Cruella Deville only without the dog skin furs, instead opting to dress, as one character points out, "like a slutty dolphin trainer". In this case, the script is amped up the most of all with so many hilarious lines that you really have to check out the imdb quotes section afterwards to see what you missed, then watch it again. Written and directed by Paul Feig who brought us many episodes of The Office before his big screen breakthrough "Bridesmades" and worthy follow-up "The Heat", here in "Spy" we get the third of his brilliant comedies starring the incomparable Melissa McCarthy. I don't think I need to say much more in my review if you like that style of banter (not so much banter as jackhammer) comedy, don't miss "Spy". Not the car, *I* was on fire.! SUSAN: Jesus you're intense. and hit by another plane mid-air! I drove a car off a freeway on top of a train while it was on fire. FORD: I watched the woman I love get tossed from a plane. FORD: During the threat of an assassination attempt, I appeared convincingly in front of congress as Barack Obama.! SUSAN: In blackface? That's not appropriate. with THIS fing' arm.! SUSAN: I don't know that that's possible. This arm has been ripped off completely and re-attached. FORD: You really think you're ready for the field? I once used defibrillators on myself! I put shards of glass in my fn' eye! I've jumped from a high-rise building using only a raincoat as a parachute and broke both legs upon landing I still had to pretend I was in a fing Cirque du Soleil show! I've swallowed enough microchips and s*** them back out again to make a computer. The following exchange between "Ford" (Jason Statham) and "Susan" (Melissa McCarthy) is crammed into the space of probably 10 seconds at most, with Jason firing off his lines like a Chicago Gangster with a cockney accent and Melissa quietly interjecting, unnoticed, barely giving him time to reload before his next strafing. Here, nearly a century later, we revisit that style but ramped up on crack, to the point where, after seeing the movie, I had to google the script to see what I missed while laughing my arse off-and laughing it off all over again. To me, the pinnacle of this achievement was the pairing of Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant, both fast-talking sultans of sarcasm, in films like "Bringing Up Baby", "Holiday" and "The Philadelphia Story". ![]() In the late 1930s through early 1940s ('38-'40 to be precise), there was a barrage of slick comedies characterized by witty, cheeky, rapid-fire dialogues between characters without so much as a breath between jokes, let alone hold for audience reaction. ![]()
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