"Well that my friend, is the magic of the movies."
I went into this expecting it to be a hit piece on Welles, Hearst, Hollywood in general, and on the moguls and men in power who take down the dreams of every idealist.
Yes, it is all those things. It is filled with anger, frustration, and sometimes even betrayal - feelings Fincher is all too familiar with as an artist.
But it's more than just hate, Kane wasn't made because…
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Spirited Away 2001
I was ten years old, and very clearly remember still recovering from Hurricane Katrina the previous summer. As a result of the storm’s destruction, there still wasn’t much to do in my town on the weekends and a lot of time was spent at Blockbuster. My mom asked if we wanted to go out for a movie and I told her we didn’t have to, Cartoon Network had been running ads all week for this anime guy called Miyazaki. March…
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Scorpio Rising 1963
Started pride month with a Judy Garland musical, ended it with a short art film comparing gay Nazi bikers to Jesus and his disciples.
A hypnotic look at sensuality through delusion. Men who seek to become the ultimate in masculinity and in the end just look like children playing with toys. They make themselves their own gods and desire sacrifice so much that it is they who end up dead in the end.
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Animal Farm 1954
Reading the 1/2 star reviews of this movie is hilarious.
This is a unique movie for the time. Obviously, it was a shock to any kid who thought it'd be like a Disney film and then saw Stalin pig send a horse to the glue factory.
Hate that the ending was changed so that this would be even "better" anti-communism propaganda. It's a movie that gives off the vibes of something you'd watch in 7th-grade social studies but... that was…
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Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero 1998
The absolute fucking drip on Mr. Freeze walking into the club with two polar bears by his side.
