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★★★★★ Rewatched 23 Dec 2024
Dad loved it, mom and sister hated it. Sometimes the holiday vibes are worth sacrificing for the sake of true cinema.
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★★★★★ Rewatched 21 Sep 2024
A masterclass of economy in storytelling.
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★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Jun 2024
Kind of struck me on this watch how much this feels like a Scorsese joint.
The power of montage!
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★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Feb 2024
The serial killer genre probably ended with this because there was simply nothing more that could be said or done.
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★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Nov 2023
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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★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Nov 2023
When Chuck came back, someone had to explain Bill Clinton and the cigar to him. That would have been a funny scene.
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★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Apr 2023
I still don’t care for the final “so you’d say this is….. faith???” closer, which just feels like its there to appeal to the “God spoke to me in the shower and I will not be questioning it, thank you” crowd but the rest of this still whips incredibly hard.
I should watch Alien next.
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★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Feb 2023
As powerful as the first time I saw it many years ago on a dark and stormy night.
As X said, we can pick apart the who and the what all we like, but 60 years on now, the argument really can’t be made that the “why” that Oliver Stone ended up at wasn’t dead on.
The Presidency is a transitory role, acquiesced completely to military might, and sadly every President since Jack has fully bought into the mania. And…
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★★★★★ Rewatched 21 Feb 2023
Fincher makes this shit look easy.
From the North to the South, Ebudæ unto Khartoum
From the deep Sea of Clouds to the Island of the Moon
Carry me on the waves to the lands I've never been
Carry me on the waves to the lands I've never seen
We can sail, we can sail with the Orinoco Flow
We can sail, we can sail
(Sail away, sail away, sail away)
We can steer, we can near
With Rob Dickins at the wheel
We can sigh, say goodbye Ross and his dependency
We can sail, we can sail
(Sail away, sail away, sail away)
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★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Dec 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I guess every Spielberg movie I watch, new or old after this will be spent understanding it in the context of The Fabelmans.
Divorced parents, a kid running off to live a fantastical life in a bunch of different worlds, all in the pursuit of making what’s broken whole again. There’s something there.
Oh and John Williams cranking out his best score of all time. Legend.
Good shit. The best shit. I hope Spielberg buries us all.
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★★★★★ Rewatched 10 Oct 2022
Despite his reputation for darkening the Batman films, I think this is Nolan at his most grim.
There’s no heroes to be found, just two dudes who despise each other and will stop at nothing to crush the other, no matter who’s soul is annihilated in the process.
In short: this movie is fucking sick. Read that emphasis however you choose.
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★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Jul 2022
That cat is so fucking cute
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