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not great with this whole movie thing
using this now as my own journal, so spoilers and stuff
Feels like a swan song for Bo the comedian - not Bo the filmmaker - but the guy we grew up watching as kids and now are enjoying the sardonic horrors of millennial-hood and post 2012 United States together. Seeing him turn 30 wearing the miseries and comedic deflections of his 20's on his sleeve - him having gone to an all boys Catholic school ie a more traditional repressed childhood, being societally freakishly tall, filled with too many American…
Oof, baby's first gaslight, and this and Linda Linda Linda would make for galaxy brain-tier double feature. Feels like we're watching a bunch of Inside Out's core memories for Elsie in real time. Which is ofc what every movie aspires to do but this actually does it in its third act of bangers. And also
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the rick & morty bit sent this into 4.5 territory for me. I like how the camera is constantly doing Kubrick-esque zoom-outs on Kayla…
The hell is this. Experiencing Marty is to watch overly-talky old-school Hollywood screwball kitsch occasionally hijacked by Ingmar Bergman. It's Saturday Night Fever sans the dancing and music, with the existential torment cranked up to 11. A film portraying old Italian widows yapping about chicken in heavy accents shouldn't also feature a chubby Ernest Borgnine sharing depressing thoughts of suicide. A cast with wise-crackin' New Yorker youths in suits shouldn't also sport a female lead whose performance and demeanor are…
The Match Factory Girl is a perfect movie. Once in a blue moon, the cinema gods grants us a work such as this, a soul-crushing, stomach-churning, and head-spinning film. Is it for everyone? Hell no! But for those who care about its themes and can indulge in its Bressonesque restrained style, this is ecstasy. This was the first and still the best film that I've seen from Aki Kaurismaki. It is just staggering how in control he is of his…