The first 90 seconds of this video piece by Matt Zoller Seitz, Aaron Aradillas and Steven Santos doesn’t work. It feels too jingo-militaristic, too Starship Troopers. The first good bit is the rabbit getting blown up in Raising Arizona. It should start with the selling of the handguns sequence in Taxi Driver. Or nutty Mel Gibson talking about six-shooters and old-timers. Sorry — my opinion.
Lock & Load from Steven Santos on Vimeo.
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