Almost feels futile rating these films. Godzilla movies are like pizza . . . even when it’s bad, it’s pretty good.
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Watched on Monday January 20, 2025.
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1970s filmmakers were raised by movies. 2020s filmmakers were raised by Adult Swim. You get what you fucking deserve!
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Watched on Sunday January 19, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday January 19, 2025.
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Paddleton for the girls and gays.
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Watched on Sunday January 19, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday February 20, 2024.
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Watched on Saturday January 18, 2025.
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Watched on Friday January 17, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday January 16, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday January 16, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday January 15, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday January 15, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday January 14, 2025.
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Say what you will, this probably has a larger imprint on the cultural consciousness than 2023’s Disney-sanctioned Peter Pan & Wendy.
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For those who question my commitment to Seagalogy, where else could I hear such poetry as “Well, I'm sorry to hear that. 'Cause now? I will snatch every motherfucker birthday.”
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Was losing sleep wondering how Leatherface got his leatherface. Thank God we have a (second) canonical film explaining this.
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Watched on Monday January 13, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday January 12, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday January 12, 2025.
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It took 9 Fast & Furious films to get to space. I think Gerard and O’Shea can get it done in 4.
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Watched on Sunday January 12, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday January 11, 2025.
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Hope this is a paradigm shift for the music biopic and not a one-off. Let’s get an orangutan Meat Loaf. Bonobo Billy Joel. Robert Pollard in a cheap gorilla suit.
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Feels wrong watching this without my father.
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Watched this stone-cold sober just as Charles Band intended.
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Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.
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And the 2024 Hardest Working Man in Show Business Oscar goes to . . . Jason Schwartzman.
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New reigning champ in what I call “not just late, but deceased-style.”
Hard to rate objectively but I can say one thing for certain: this would get a one-star bump if I was a non-native English speaker.
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Watched on Wednesday January 8, 2025.
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“I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.” - Morrissey
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Watched on Tuesday January 7, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday January 7, 2025.
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Wondering what Clint Eastwood’s policy is on watching films his children star in. Has he seen any Scott Eastwood performances that he has not been personally involved with? I really just want to entertain the idea that Clint has sat down in a theater, put on 3D glasses, and watched Leatherface chainsaw the screen out of parental obligation.
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While hard to fathom something like this happening then, even more difficult to picture this happening now. Imagine Kim Jong Un kidnapping Hong Sang-soo and Kim Min-hee to make films for North Korea.
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Can’t wait for the Mank 30th anniversary re-release in 2050.
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Watched on Sunday January 5, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday January 5, 2025.
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The ultimate nepo baby.
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Watched on Saturday January 4, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday January 4, 2025.
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Watched on Friday January 3, 2025.
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Watched on Friday January 3, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday January 2, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday January 1, 2025.
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Incredible takedown of Night at the Museum.
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Watched on Tuesday December 31, 2024.
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Watched on Tuesday December 31, 2024.
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Watched on Monday December 30, 2024.
]]>- Imprint
- Dreams in the Witch House
- Cigarette Burns
- Sick Girl
- Jenifer
- Haeckel's Tale
- The Fair Haired Child
- Dance of the Dead
- Incident On and Off a Mountain Road
- Chocolate
...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Platoon
- Natural Born Killers
- U Turn
- The Doors
- W.
- Any Given Sunday
- Savages
- Wall Street
- Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
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- The Ladies Man
- Smorgasbord
- The Nutty Professor
- The Bellboy
- The Patsy
- Which Way to the Front?
- The Errand Boy
- The Family Jewels
- The Big Mouth
- Three on a Couch
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]]>The best kind of movies. Also, some movies do it better (or at least more memorably) than others; those are what I include here. For example, someone saying “Ghostbusters” in Ghostbusters is not as entertaining as Jack Nicholson saying “What if this is as good as it gets?” In As Good As It Gets. Will add as I think of them/see them. Note: If the title is a song, it doesn’t count i.e. Yellow Submarine, Blue Velvet, etc.
- Knives Out
- Brokeback Mountain
- Face/Off
- First Blood
- Vision Quest
- Ratatouille
- Gran Torino
- As Good as It Gets
- Back to the Future
- Any Given Sunday
...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Wavelength
Parker
- China Girl
Ben
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Cody
- To Live and Die in L.A.
Collin
- The Happiness of the Katakuris
Nathan
- Love Streams
Reagan
- Eating Raoul
Chris
Watching in order of submission. Recommender in notes.
- Escape from Alcatraz
Cody Workman
- Zorns Lemma
Parker Myers
- The People vs. Larry Flynt
Chris Borg
- Jesus Christ Superstar
Miranda Diaz
- Cruising
Ben Noble
- Nathan for You: Finding Frances
Grant Sublette-Urry
- Only Angels Have Wings
Reagan Jones
- Brain Damage
Nathan Alligood
In which I give movies I deem appropriate for re-evaluation (have to be a 3.5 or lower) a fair shake. Most of these I’ll have seen only once and/or I’m better equipped to appreciate them now. List is in no particular order and will post a review for each film upon their completion. Also open to suggestions.
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]]>At the soul of each of these films is an innate horniness from which their narrative & visual content is inextricable. These are my personal picks; as such a subjective metric, horniness is in the eye of the beholder. Note: unfortunately Antichrist & Dogtooth do not qualify as they are from 2009. Also, Honorable Mentions placed for films with same director, actor, or theme.
- The Skin I Live In
Almodóvar's films have never been noted for their chasteness, The Skin I Live In, being no exception. A perverse riff on Eyes Without a Face, the film takes no prisoners on its road to transgression.
Honorable Mention: Pain & Glory
- High Life
The "Fuckbox" is only the most extreme example of High Life's sexual obsessions.
Honorable Mention: The Lighthouse
- Shame
Not since In the Realm of the Senses has horniness been so linked to existential despair.
- Call Me by Your Name
The cinematic equivalent of swooning. Just peachy.
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Armpit as erogenous zone.
- Tom at the Farm
Horniness and homophobia do not make good bedmates.
Honorable Mentions: Heartbeats, Mommy, Matthias & Maxime
- Raw
Food porn.
- Climax
The title speaks for itself.
- Clouds of Sils Maria
Can't add All About Eve so here's the next best thing.
Honorable Mention: The Favourite
- The Paperboy
Zac Efron! Nicole Kidman! Matthew McConaughey! And . . . John Cusack? All sweaty, trashy, and horny as hell. Peak Florida.