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★★★★★ Rewatched 23 May 2020
It says ‘stay.’
In prep for daddy’s eventual 11th film, as well as a farewell to my beloved apartment in Manhattan, I came into this watch ready to cry. I did.
I’m not going to argue that this is Nolan’s tightest film, or even his best, but I will die on the hill that to date, it is the movie that best encompasses his skills as a storyteller. And it’s just great to see him make a movie as good…
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★★★★ Rewatched 16 Apr 2020
NOTES REVIEW:
- Clint’s sons put mayo on their hot dogs. They got what they deserved.
- Really dig this low key opening of Tony and what’s her face hanging out, waiting to die.
- “I dream about you. Cuz it’s always you.” Killer line delivery. Downey needs to get some serious dramatic roles now that he’s done with the MCU. Dude’s got chops.
- “I lost the kid.” Jesus Christ, Downey.
- I love how emaciated they made Stark.…
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★★★★½ Rewatched 04 Oct 2024
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★★★ Rewatched 26 Aug 2022
This proved once and for all that adapting Watchmen was possible, and perhaps necessary, no matter what that grump Alan Moore says.
It also proved that the person tasked with adapting it needed to understand the story better than Snyder seems to here.
Maybe one day.
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★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Aug 2020
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★★★★★ Watched 11 Jul 2021
One of the many dumb rules I give myself when it comes to my Letterboxd is that I have to watch a film twice before giving it all five stars.
Today I am breaking that rule, because Fail Safe is flat out one of the greatest pieces of storytelling I have ever beared witness to. Holy fucking shit.
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★★★★½ Rewatched 10 Nov 2024
Yeah, cat people are the weird ones.
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★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Jun 2023
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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★★★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2021
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Spent the week watching this in pieces and boy did it impress.
A movie and a show are very different things, so there’s no real reason to compare them. I love them both for different reasons.
Given the gift of time, the TV show is the truer adaptation of the book (which is my favorite book of all time, as if it needed to be said) but not the better one in my opinion.
The film tweaks some things, combines…
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★★★★★ Rewatched 13 May 2021
Almost nothing more fun movie-wise than showing this to people who haven’t seen it.
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★★★★½ Rewatched 03 Feb 2021
An endlessly moving portrait of grief. It’s ridiculous that Portman lost the Oscar to Emma Stone, as great as she is.
Probably the biggest snub or whatever of the last decade.
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★★★½ Rewatched 31 Dec 2020
The Death of Michael Corleone
New cut, same problems. Sofia isn’t great and it needed Tom Hagen in the story. Fix those things and the coda likely would have been a bigger success. As is, it works fine.
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