“You have to look with better eyes than that.”
sometimes as a man you become so divorced you end up forever revolutionizing digital vfx
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The Boy and the Heron 2023
“I’ll be so lucky to have you.”
Hayao Miyazaki’s Blackstar. maybe there’s no such thing as passing down your legacy and maybe that’s okay. your children are going to grow beyond you. is this a movie about Goro?
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Godzilla Minus One 2023
last dream of a dead man. even more of an astonishing achievement on rewatch, how this combines its genuinely imposing Godzilla destruction with its masterfully laced melodrama is nothing short of an absolute triumph of the genre, recalling the original’s WWII ties in such gorgeous, emotional ways without ever losing its strikingly modern identity. a masterpiece, and easily the best Godzilla since the original. makes the American films look like Teletubbies. just because the fighting stopped doesn’t mean the war is over
“Live.”
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Little Women 2019
perfect movie perfect movie perfect movie. an absolutely staggering difference in quality between this and Barbie. i know it’s like a meme or whatever when Bob Odenkirk shows up and says “my little women” but even after seeing that clip a million times on twitter it still makes me fucking sob in context lol
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Godzilla Minus One 2023
on the surface an absolutely chaotic, gorgeous, imposing monster flick obviously, the sequence in Ginza particularly stands out as an absolute feat of on-screen destruction, but what this gets right goes so far beyond that. maybe the first Godzilla film since the original to well and truly contextualize the beast and his consequences in the mindset of Japan’s psychic fallout in the wake of WWII, creating deeply personal, soulfully felt character drama out of guilt, shame, trauma, and ultimately the…
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May December 2023
“I don’t think we have enough hot dogs.”
HARD CUT TO: Joe grilling like 40 hot dogs lolmethod acting as a fetish at the expense of everybody in the vicinity. a major, heartbreaking work filled to the brim with impossibly hard to watch realities: Joe slowly but surely having to face his innately stunted emotional growth in the face of the woman who caused it, Elizabeth trying and failing at any cost to find neat solutions to people and…
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Kingdom of Heaven 2005
“There is so much done in Christendom of which Christ would be incapable.”
director’s cut, obviously. an outstanding, sweeping traditionally-made epic of the variety which doesn’t get made anymore, of the variety which even Ridley isn’t making anymore. no clue how bad and rushed the theatrical cut must be when this is already moving along quite fast at three hours. Orlando Bloom is just the fucking worst in it lol
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Saltburn 2023
most insecure movie of the year, never in my life have i seen a film so desperate to be perceived as transgressive and crazy without putting in the work to actually be transgressive or crazy (the period scene will blow your mind if you’ve never had sex before). occasionally funny but loses any goodwill by the time it hits the remarkably smug, self-satisfied, idiotic ending. worse than a dumb movie is a dumb movie that’s convinced it’s smarter than you. criminally terrible use of MGMT too. Elordi, Grant, Pike all innocent
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The Holdovers 2023
See ya.
my father is a teacher who hates his students with a passion so i’m excited to announce that this movie has received his full stamp of approval, constantly laughing at everything Giamatti said. most rewatchable movie of the year
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Marie Antoinette 2006
BAAAAABBBEEE PLEASE HAVE SEX WITH ME I NEED TO PRODUCE AN HEIR TO THE THRONNNEEEEEE
did you know that the first mechanical locks were made of wood :)