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Oppenheimer 2023
Hundreds if not thousands of dorks that were under the age of 16 (myself included) when The Dark Knight came out are vindicated in their obsession.
Incredible movie, Ludwig Göransson is a god among men.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011
This is a Christmas movie because the Christmas party scenes are a downright genuis stroke of screenwriting ingenuity that tethered this story together.
And it gave us a JLC cameo and a scene of a cafeteria full of british spies singing the Russian national anthem to Stalin Claus.
Great movie. Maybe the greatest movie idk.
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The Irishman 2019
I’ve been eager to revisit this after Killers of the Flower Moon. Being only a few minutes longer, it’s interesting to see how Marty utilizes each film’s length and to what purpose.
Killers spends every available minute immersing you into a time and place that’s been both overlooked and underserved before now, using its final minutes to reckon with its own role in the tragedy-to-entertainment cycle. Irishman puts a character’s glory days and shopping of their own casket 50 years later…
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The Dark Knight 2008
Does anyone else work themselves into a blind rage thinking about how Heath Ledger isn’t with us anymore, but Henry Kissinger is like 100 and still hanging around?
Anyways, banger movie this is. Looks great on 35mm. Happy Batman Day!
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Oppenheimer 2023
Two 70MM IMAX viewings and one 70mm wraps up Oppie Summer 2023 for me.
This doesn’t move me emotionally like Interstellar or awaken my childhood wonder like The Dark Knight, but at the end of the day, Oppenheimer is clearly Nolan’s best overall film.
Anywhere less than 7 total Academy Awards for this beast will be a travesty.
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Oppenheimer 2023
Masterpiece.
"It's a door closing."
I haven't been able to get that small, throwaway line from Florence Pugh's character out of my head, because the brilliance of this film is in that inversion.
Perhaps the thing I love most about Oppenheimer is how Nolan spends so much of the film opening doors.
Doors that lead into and out of Oppenheimer's mind, forcing the audience to reckon with what he reckons with, compartmentalize what he has to compartmentalize, and due to…
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The Godfather Part II 1974
Bigger, longer, deeper, meaner. As all sequels should be. Every time I watch this I’m blown away at how perfect it is, and how every choice made was the right one.
After watching this, part of me always wants to immediately run it back for round two.
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The Godfather 1972
I think the key moment to this story is when Michael lights Enzo’s cigarette for him outside of the hospital, and he looks down at his hands to see that they’re steady.
Fucking amazing.
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Interstellar 2014
Two tears, 15 seconds apart and one from each eye ran down my face in the final meeting between Coop and Murphy.
Let the record show I’ve been on this movie’s corner the minute I stepped out of the theater after seeing it for the first time. I’m registered to vote and everything.
Nolan: what a guy. What a dude.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 1979
At an appropriate time, I would very much be into another limited series adaptation, preferably on HBO. If it’s on Netflix I will commit arson.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017
Rian Johnson went so hard and made so many awesome decisions with this that he broke the American psyche and made just about every franchise property (please save us, Spider-Verse) since at least 10% worse than it would have been had social media not existed.
If the night Force Awakens came out was the last time where being online was somewhat fun, the night The Last Jedi came out proved Newton’s Third Law applied to online as well as physics.…