{"id":39046,"date":"2025-06-05T16:52:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39046"},"modified":"2025-06-05T16:52:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:52:22","slug":"strange-days-1995-directed-by-kathryn-bigelow-starring-ralph-fiennes-angela-bassett-juliette-lewis-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39046","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Strange Days&#8221; (1995) directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett &amp; Juliette Lewis \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z060525zview_strangedays.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"773\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Strange Days <\/strong><\/em>(1995)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Kathryn Bigelow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>James Cameron, Jay Cocks<\/strong>; story\u00a0by <strong>James Cameron<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett<\/strong><strong>, Juliette Lewis, Tomas Milian, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Vincent D&#8217;Onofrio, Glenn Plummer, Richard Edson, Josef Sommer, Nicky Katt, Michael Jace, Jim Ishida, Todd Graff <\/strong>and <strong>William Fichtner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>you know you want it<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1999 is almost over.\u00a0 The New Year is almost here.\u00a0 Civil unrest rules.\u00a0 The streets of LA are full of soldiers and cops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lenny Nero, an ex-cop, makes his living selling illegal SQUID recordings.\u00a0 Using a small machine that plays the SQUID recordings and with the proper headset, a user is able to watch and experience whatever was recorded.\u00a0 Think virtual reality on steroids.\u00a0 The user sees and <em>feels<\/em> all of the sensations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lenny is still reeling. The love of his life (or so he thought), Faith Justin left him.\u00a0 Or so he thought. Faith dreams of being a singer.\u00a0 She&#8217;s now hooked up with music promoter, Philo Grant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s been a bad couple of days.\u00a0 Now Lenny has discovered that cops are looking for him.\u00a0 He has no idea why.\u00a0 It can&#8217;t be because of the recordings he sells.\u00a0 He&#8217;s too careful.\u00a0 Maybe Philo Grant is behind his problems.\u00a0 That would make sense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What Lenny doesn&#8217;t know is he has the key to a murder conspiracy.\u00a0 And it isn&#8217;t just the cops he can&#8217;t trust.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Strange Days<\/em> is a sci-fi murder mystery love story.\u00a0 And it works on all levels.<\/p>\n<p>When Faith Justin is singing, it&#8217;s Juliette Lewis&#8217; voice we hear.<\/p>\n<p>James Cameron did uncredited editing on the film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Loretta &#8220;Mace&#8221; Mason, played by Angela Bassett, is an awesome character.\u00a0 She could have carried her own spin-off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Strange Days (1995) <\/strong><\/em>rates 5 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z060525zview_strangedays2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strange Days (1995) Director:\u00a0 Kathryn Bigelow Screenplay: James Cameron, Jay Cocks; story\u00a0by James Cameron Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39047,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39046\/revisions\/39047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}