Spencer Parker
Spencer Parker

Spencer Parker

  • Eugene, Oregon
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  • The Vicious Kind 2009

    ★★★★ Watched 03 Jul, 2012

    A small, relentlessly bitter story about the gigantic confusions abounding from troubled childhoods and miserable relationships. The script is poignant and darkly hilarious. All of the performances are miraculous, especially Adam Scott's, who is perfect at playing vulnerable assholes. Contains one of the best sex scenes ever filmed.

  • Battle Royale 2001

    ★★★ Watched 30 Jun, 2012

    Basically just a live-action manga, complete with syrupy melodrama within a loophole-ridden narrative exclusively about people killing each other. The argument that this is a more realistic, socially critical version of The Hunger Games is invalid, it's just more soapy and violent.

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  • Happiness 1965

    ★★★★★ Watched 14 May, 2012

    Graceful and unsettling. Pure, tensionless joy with a single moment of shocking tragedy. Probably one the most beautiful and quietly subversive films of the 60s.

  • The Raid: Redemption 2012

    ★★★★ Watched 31 May, 2012

    A masterpiece of absurdly violent action choreography, though the narrative feels more than a little shaky from time to time.