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Serpent's Path 2024

Watched 02 Nov 2024

the original serpent's path is one of my favorite movies and imo a key kurosawa work. it's the sly toeing of the line between dark humor and psychological horror, where the crime caper setup of two men seeking revenge and constantly seeming to get misdirected to the "wrong" people (scarequotes, but i want to avoid spoiling the twist completely) is acknowledged as rather funny, even bordering on slapstick, while the sheer sadism the two display, between teruyuki kagawa as miyashita's…
The Shrouds 2024

Watched 11 Oct 2024

this is kinda baffling, genuinely hilarious, either not at all about what you think it's gonna be about or goes about that theme in the most circumspect and devilishly clever way possible, puts a lot on the table conceptually and never quite allows its characters, with all the film's verbosity, to even come close to spelling out for the audience what the philosophical and emotional implications of those concepts even are — in this way and more, it seems a…

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TRON: Legacy 2010

★★★★★ Rewatched 30 May 2019 1

yeah ngl i miss that phase in the early 2010s when disney made ambitious and totally earnest shit like this as opposed to whatever the fuck is going on rn. this is a kids movie, but it’s crafted specifically to be the most badass kids movie out there, and you gotta love it
My Own Private Idaho 1991

★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Jun 2017 3

the fact that this movie was made without a shot list is probably my favorite thing about it. because of this it has an aesthetic that's really unlike anything else; whereas for others that i deeply admire the look of and am able to write at great length about, this consistently defies verbal description, other than maybe a vague observation that it's in a state of constant drift. this is one of the most beautiful movies ever made, to me,…

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