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Freddy Got Fingered 2001
Some very funny gags, will definitely make some friends watch it with me, but also parts that have such incredibly bad vibes which keeps me from being able to get fully on board with the revisionist praise--glad you all are having fun though.
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Napoleon 1927
Doesn't get to the juiciest parts of the story and rushes through the extremely modest section of his Rise to Glory it does manage to reach and in spite of this it's still a fucking masterpiece. Every set piece and performance is killer and the editing and cinematography is simply some of the greatest visual artistry ever put to screen. The finale is mostly filler and propaganda but Gance's triptych-montage experimental style is absolutely hypnotizing, a film that's so inventive that even its flaws become perverse strengths.
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Demonlover 2002
An unbelievably sleazy, feel-bad movie. Modernity in free fall: every interaction a transaction, uninhibited technological development embracing all of humanity's worst impulses, lust and violence have taken over the markeplace and it consumes all.
Assayas absolutely prophetic with his use of the nü-metal aesthetic--pure grime.