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Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus 2009
i have a thing for terrible movies. this is perhaps the most terrible movie.
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Die Hard 1988
If Bruce Willis had stopped making movies after this magnum opus (with the exception of Pulp Fiction and Twelve Monkeys) he would have kept Demi, Ashton would be his rent boy and he'd have enough oscars to door stop his Hollywood mansion. I've seen this film more times than i've brushed my teeth and Rickman's turn as Hans Gruber gives you enough one liners to terrorize your neighbours kid for months.
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Gladiator 2000
My only regret is that I was in my 20s when this movie came out, and not in my early teens, when I would have surely gone outside with my friends and played Gladiator for a solid two months. Alas, I only got to shout 'ARE YOU NOT AMUSED' a few times in socially awkward situations, what a loss.
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Spaceballs 1987
This is quite possibly my favorite movie of all time. Mel Brooks is a genius. 80s comedy and satire at its absolute best.
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The Room 2003
This movie fascinates me. It’s bad on so many levels, and yet you can’t look away (except, somewhat ironically, during the soft-porn parts). It might be a great exercise to focus on some scenes and try to figure out what went wrong there. Just bad acting? Weird choices in the editing room? Some profound, but honest misunderstanding of the rules of cinema-making?
This is a movie that’s ultimately logic-agnostic, but maybe in some other universe where logic operates differently it’d be a masterpiece?
Great stuff. Again, watch with good friends or don’t watch at all.
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War Horse 2011
War Horse is a visually stunning film, the cinematography from Janusz Kamiński is gorgeous, shifting from the natural beauty of the rolling countryside to the devastation of war in a heartbeat, the use of distinct vibrant colours in one scene and muted dull tones of another really emphasise the duality of life and death.
John Williams returns to score the movie, once again creating a wonderful companion to Spielberg's visuals, setting the mood, driving the action and underpinning the emotion,…
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Like Crazy 2011
A really modern romance, one that takes on the topic of how making small decisions can have pretty big consequences in a new way (spoiler: not pregnancy)
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Troll Hunter 2011
A very disturbing documentary on one of nature's most fierce and unbelievable creatures.
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Jurassic Park 1993
What do you do once you create dinosaurs? Somehow that was what occupied my mind as I was re-watching this Spielberg classic – but I didn’t mean John Hammond, but the special effects industry.
Jurassic Park might have been the last true “holy shit, we can do this now!?” movie-going experience. Sure, in the years since Cameron created entire new worlds while Emmerich kept busy destroying ours, Fincher aged Brad Pitt and Nolan one-upped him with hideous Eckhart, and Wikipedia…