What you doing tonight? Fancy watching a film? No, don't worry. I'm not asking you out...yet. Now as good as it is to have all the film's you want at the swipe of a Tinder finger, it's time to get out the house and chill. Besides neither of these movies are on Netflix right now. The smartphone screen may have replaced the big one, but when it comes to two of the biggest blockbusters of cinema game changing time celebrating their twentieth and 44th anniversary (that's like your parents wedding date) they deserve a bigger projection. Besides face it like face off, unless you find that golden era, 90's John Travolta and Nic Cage classic you're just going to be spending all night scrolling through the list of recommendations and continue watching half-assed give ups (you really should binge finish that show) before you settle into a night following the YouTube white rabbit hole anyway.
Sure in a scorching Summer blockbuster season that's even beaten the blue man group of 'Titanic' big movie terminating director James Cameron's 'Avatar', you have plenty of new releases to choose from like Netflix originals. Even if most of them come from Mickey Mouse's Disney Kingdom. Whether it be the live action pride of 'The Lion King' and amazing 'Aladdin' remakes that are pulling the magic carpets out from under everyone. Or Stan Lee's Marvel of one, from the 'Endgame' of the record breaking Avengers as we know them (should have kept kneeling like Kaepernick in a fitting deleted scene tribute to Tony Stark) and Spider-Man's 'Far From Home' Summer vacation with Jake Gyllenhaal in Rome, Prague, Berlin and London. Not to mention the 'Rocketman' or Beatles 'Yesterday' musicals. Or the mid-90's classic sequels in the new 'Men In Black' and 'Toy Story' out of Disney's Scrooge McDuck chest again. But in a season that is more throwback then an old Basketball jersey on a Thursday, its time to take it back to the original and outstanding best like cinemas showing Quentin Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction' to go alongside the release of the bad mother#####s 'Once Upon A Time In...Hollywood' with icons like Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Luke Perry, Kurt Russell and Al Pacino and the femme fatale Margot Robbie taking it back to theatrical traditions.
Pulp isn't the only film fiction from classic cinematic history making its return to curtain open theatres this month. Because there's something in the water too. Do you dare tip a toe? Because, we can't resist..."we're going to need a bigger boat!" Just weeks after this writer was too close for comfort to Martha's Vineyard on vacation in the U.S. coastal getaway of Cape Cod, he ventured to Amity Island like he only listened to the mayor who took suited and booted fashion advice off his anchor sinking town. Steven Spielberg's absolute thrilling classic with that Dun, Dun, DUN iconic scored John Williams theme changed the animalistic face of mainstream movies before his 'Jurassic Park' sequel and showed dynamite directors of today how to direct a dynamic mix of thrills, spills, suspense and tense action...all with heart and soul. Sure we remember the first pull under the sea from the beautiful blonde who dared us to skinny dip with her and the first time we really turned around and bolted upright to see the shark in all its fish eating glory, in a lesson even many of Spielberg's directing friends (*insert cough here* Michael Bay) could still learn from today. Show don't tell young pretenders. And although no one in compelling, eloquent memorial could quite tell it like the 'Cinemaps' visual aid book you should all add to your coffee tables shelf, we were so glad to get our proverbial teeth into 'Jaws' again. Seeing families make their way back to the beach with kids in tow like it was still safe to go back into the water, even though there's something in there still like Prince said. Their youngest seeing this legendary shark for the first time we hope on the big screen too...now isn't that something? 'Jaws' doesn't just remain one of Speilberg's best. From heart to heart, anchored down boat brotherhood moments with all the scars, to iconic frames in the cells of cinematic chapters, it remains one of the greatest films of all-time. It changed the world. But what came next changed all reality as we know it. Even if the friend I swam with sharks with took the blue pill on my second date invite for this following film (I told you I had one more dig left Ben).
Now would you please remove any metallic items you are carrying. Keys...loose change. Because here it is. Keanu...lots of Keanu. It really has been Reeves' breathtaking Summer. So much so you'd almost forget there was a new and best yet, 'John Wick' chapter. He stole the show with a classic cameo as a meta, madder version of himself in the Netflix Ali Wong and Randall Park comedy, 'Always Be My Maybe', before jumping through flaming hoops as a classic Canadian stunt man in Evil Kenevil tribute as Duke Caboom in 'Toy Story 4'. And if that wasn't enough maple syrup for your pancakes, from the Ted to your Bill back for another excellent adventure next Summer, no bogus, he also appeared in video game, 'Cyberpunk' form. Even in a world of Jeff Goldblum and Bill Murray, right now in this moment there is no one more legendary then Reeves. Don't at me. So what better way to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his neo, sci-fi spectacular classic then taking it back to the time he really was the one? When he prepared for 'Parabellum' with his John Wick director and then stunt double. Knowing Kung-Fu, how to give the finger and also which pill to tell you to shove up your ass. Yep if you were a teenager of the new millennium, listened to Rage on the regular and thought Nokia bricks that flipped open were the phones of the future (looks like Spielberg and Tom Cruise's swiping 'Minority Report' had more foresight), then you'll be experiencing déjà vu right now. No this isn't a glitch in 'The Matrix' like there is more Mr. Smith's in the sequels than there is the phone book. It's truly a modern movie that changed everything. Even the way we look at the world. Even if some things like that 'Crouching Tiger' slow-mo Nokia advert look dated now. Everything else in this beautiful bullet time holds up from the 'Terminator' shades and score homage to the Neo Western like duels (and isn't that the sound off 'Wayne's World' everytime he see the naked Indian in his dreams? Excellent!). Just like that Kung Fu flick invite that saw Reeves and Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus reload reunite for 'John Wick 2'. This revolution needs to be more than televised. It was made for IMAX even if not literally. And those who only know the great Carrie-Anne Moss from her Netflix, Marvel street-level lawyer then you can't dodge this once 'The Matrix' has you. Just remember if you are watching this with a tub of Ben & Jerry's, there is no spoon. What if I told you this movie was more than just the product of a meme or the girl in the red dress? Look again. Ignorance in this case is not bliss. I can't show you 'The Matrix'. You have to see it for yourself. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
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