A huge step down from The Thick of It. Doing a Dodgy Dossier story six years after the invasion of Iraq feels off somehow, and Ianucci et al don’t really grasp American politics. Feels a bit “English indie movie,” which it is, but being an English indie movie is an inherent flaw. Helps to have lines like “you speak entirely in parables; you’re like a crap Jesus” or “you know me, Malc. Kid gloves, but made from real kids.”
Also Peter Capaldi and James Gandolfini going to war is glorious.
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Watched on Wednesday January 1, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday December 29, 2024.
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I started howling when I realized this was a remake of Cape Fear, and then I never stopped.
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I wish Terry Gilliam wasn’t such a dickhead.
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“Perhaps in the future you will hold your tongue, until you have discovered what the surplus population is, and where it is. It may be that in the sight of heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than MILLIONS like this poor man’s child.”
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My girlfriend’s running commentary was a nice touch.
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We do be living in a society.
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I CHEERED
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Sorry, y’all.
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During the last fight, my girlfriend was muttering “this prick better fucking die.”
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Sorry, this rocks. Fucked up men fighting for control of a culture where violence is a language. Badass fights. Genuinely distressing moments of horror. Joaquin Phoenix being a weak ass scrub. I’ll take melodrama in sandals over snark in spandex any day.
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Christ.
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Watched on Friday November 22, 2024.
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A tremendous, unparalleled feat of cinema that I don’t actually like very much. Too many tedious scenes of flowers dancing. It ties together well, but man, this would watch better as a series of short films than as one long ass demo reel.
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An orgy of meanness. It works, but fuck Walt for this one.
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Smart to frame this around the supporting characters. Gives a pretty thin fairy tale room to breathe, and allows for a surprisingly compelling story about shitty guardians. Plus this is probably Disney’s best animation. Never saw this as a kid, but I enjoyed seeing it for the first time as an adult.
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Watched on Saturday November 16, 2024.
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Watched on Thursday November 14, 2024.
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Watched on Thursday November 14, 2024.
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Probably the first movie I ever saw. Making Jiminy the protagonist for the first two acts is pretty smart. Lets Pinocchio become more proactive in the climax; he becomes less passive as he grows up. Also the boys on Pleasure Island getting sold into slavery only when they’ve lost their voices is horrifying.
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Watched on Wednesday November 13, 2024.
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Wait a minute, this is just a ripoff of the Monty Python cartoons.
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Watched on Tuesday November 12, 2024.
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Healing.
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Hear me out. It’s
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Runs out of steam, but man, that first half hour still bangs.
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Best thing they ever made.
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Still the GOAT.
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Watched on Wednesday October 30, 2024.
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Has the pacing of an Adderall overdose.
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I liked the part when Al Pacino said “hoo-hah.”
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Watched on Sunday October 27, 2024.
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😰😰😰
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This is considered his good movie? Jesus.
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Watched on Tuesday October 15, 2024.
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Watched on Monday October 14, 2024.
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Watched on Saturday October 12, 2024.
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Watched on Thursday October 10, 2024.
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The intricacies of one maniac’s mind just aren’t that interesting, especially when your perspective on mental health is incredibly ableist. The talk show sequence still bangs though.
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Watched on Monday October 7, 2024.
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Pretty good slasher, but the Santeria stuff is baaaaad.
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Watched on Wednesday October 2, 2024.
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We’ve all had boyfriends like this.
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Zoomers would deliberately put themselves to sleep so Freddy could kill them.
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OK, the third act is crap and the score doesn’t even denying being a Bernard Herrmann ripoff. But this is a well-directed mashup that uses its camera POV gimmick well. Not hard to see why this movie has stuck around.
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Watched on Friday September 20, 2024.
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This happened to my buddy Eric
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“I will get to the bottom of this if it takes me the rest of my life, which may end at any minute!”
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The hammer might be the single funniest joke of Parker and Stone’s careers.
]]>- Leave the World Behind
- The Holdovers
- Before Sunrise
- Before Sunset
- Before Midnight
- Society of the Snow
- Only Angels Have Wings
- First Reformed
- Death on the Nile
- To Have and Have Not
...plus 138 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Trying to do one movie per director. Rounding to 75. Not in any particular order (except The Shining, which is solidly #1).
The Fellowship of the Ring stands in for the entire LOTR trilogy. Extended Editions preferred. Before Midnight also stands for its entire trilogy.
- The Shining
- The Godfather Part II
- A Fish Called Wanda
- Titus
- His Girl Friday
- The Handmaiden
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Daisies
- Once Upon a Time in the West
...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Journey to the Beginning of Time
- A Fistful of Dollars
- Plane
- Heathers
- Alive
- Three Wishes for Cinderella
- Blaze
- Swiss Army Man
- Cocaine Bear
- The Breakfast Club
...plus 189 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Shirkers
- Jason and the Argonauts
- Doctor Sleep
- Return to Oz
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
- The Last Unicorn
- The Princess Bride
- Wild at Heart
- Tangerine
...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Chronological order. 100 samples of my taste in movies. Representative of the moment I assembled it rather than my evolving taste. Locked in May 31 2023.
- The Wizard of Oz
- Citizen Kane
- Casablanca
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Singin' in the Rain
- Godzilla
- Eyes Without a Face
- Yojimbo
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Jason and the Argonauts
...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Blazing Saddles
- In the Heat of the Night
- Carrie
- The Power of the Dog
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
- Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
- Black Narcissus
- Turning Red
- The Director and the Jedi
- Bill & Ted Face the Music
...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Excalibur
- Shine a Light
- Fight Club
- The Great Train Robbery
- Spectre
- Forrest Gump
- The Elephant Man
- Roger Waters: The Wall
- Pink Floyd: The Wall
- Modern Times
...plus 56 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Ex Machina
- Princess Mononoke
- The Imitation Game
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Interstellar
- The Plague Dogs
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- The U.S. vs. John Lennon
- Selma
- Brick
...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Ed Wood
- Blade Runner
- Flushed Away
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
- Akira
- Titanic
- American Sniper
- The Godfather Part III
- The Terminator
- Avatar
...plus 68 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- First Blood
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Sherlock Holmes
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
- Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
- Frozen
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
- Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
- The Spider Woman
...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Magnolia
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
- Band of Outsiders
- Patti Smith: Dream of Life
- Shoot the Piano Player
- Wild Strawberries
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller
- I Am Not Your Negro
- Get Out
- Rashomon
...plus 69 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Little Women
- Black Orpheus
- Knives Out
- The Innocents
- Shattered Glass
- The Gospel According to Matthew
- Terminator: Dark Fate
- Monster
- Edward II
- A Zed & Two Noughts
...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Excalibur
- The Favourite
- Downfall
- Eyes Without a Face
- Tideland
- A Few Good Men
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Sorry to Bother You
- The Matrix Reloaded
- The Matrix Revolutions
...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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