When both sides are irredeemably evil it’s fun to watch them decimate one another. Rooting for maximum destruction like toy soldiers.
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The Blues Brothers 1980
Pretty much a film made because it knew it would be a classic. It was created specifically to be iconic and despite having a pretty thin premise to begin with, it completely succeeds.
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Emilia Pérez 2024
Need to see the Spotify stats of who listens to this soundtrack. Just devoid of anything resembling humanity, creativity, or talent. There is not a single person who can sing in this movie. 2024 was the iconic year of turning bad movies into worse musicals
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A Complete Unknown 2024
There is something absolutely spectacular about seeing a crowded theater cry and cheer for your idol on Christmas Day. I can set all the inconsistencies aside to appreciate how impeccably Timothee embodied Dylan. The whole runtime breezed by and I kept painstakingly anticipating what event in his life would be depicted next. Monica Barbaro absolutely stunned me as Joan (who knew a voice like hers could even be paralleled?)
My only complaint is how the sobered Dylan. Have we not…
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Sea of Love 1989
Watched a few weeks ago but forgot to log. Not much to say about this tho. Pretty predictable horny thriller that the 80s were full of. Tom Waits song goes hard tho.
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Miracle on 34th Street 1947
It’s genuinely not a very good movie but Edmund Gwenn is so charming. That’s the whole appeal of this.
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Queer 2024
A tale of eternal longing. Also the year’s best drunk film.
Lee captures that perfect feeling of possessiveness over someone just barely out of reach. A yearning for what you cannot have, which also manifests in the environment around the characters. The sets are all dreamlike and ethereal, and the editing is far from sober. This style is captivating but confounding, until the finale bridges it all together into a colorful catharsis of psychedelia.
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They Live by Night 1948
Nicholas Ray’s debut feature, and it shows us all his talents right out the gate. It’s a fairly lean adaptation of a cliche story, but nevertheless he shoots the hell out of this and pulls a spectacle from it.
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