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Favorite films

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • tick, tick... BOOM!
  • Jurassic Park
  • Mad Max: Fury Road

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  • The Matrix Resurrections

    ★★

  • Cloud Atlas

    ★★★★★

  • Lake Michigan Monster

    ★★★★½

  • Bound

    ★★★½

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  • The Matrix Resurrections

    The Matrix Resurrections

    ★★

    I don't know


    This film is one I am extremely confused on. Many of the films narrative and thematic choices generally baffle and confuse me to the point where I can't tell what is intentional and what was just bad. So to start off I want to stay away from this film om those fronts and criticize this film on a technical front and why I can't get behind it there.


    First I feel the film just looses the sauce…

  • Cloud Atlas

    Cloud Atlas

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    This was the biggest surprise of this marathon easily


    Cloud atlas is a film that going In I was not looking forward to, given it's about 3 hour run time and it's said to be six plots Spanning hundreds of years. That on top of the things I heard about it from some of my favorite critics on here made me a very disinterested in the film. So I watched it and if you asked me what I thought of…

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  • Harold and the Purple Crayon

    Harold and the Purple Crayon

    I was downing pixie sticks as we where watching this and forgotten everything about it within half a hour

  • It's Such a Beautiful Day

    It's Such a Beautiful Day

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    ( Warning: suicide is mentioned and discussed)


    Yesterday something happened and I want to dedicate this review to it


    Lilly and I did not get along all the time but much of the time we remained respectful and nice to each other. We had many debates on film and what it means to all and it was always nice to see her. I always respected her as a critic and a person because she always had a love for film.…

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