“The triangle is a very charged geometric shape.” There’s an impressive commitment here to showcasing Franz Rogowski’s self-involved dust devil of an anti-protagonist, and his questionable actions throughout the course of this movie, without ever scolding or judging him; it’s almost refreshing, in a wave of negative perception surrounding making art or movies about bad people doing pretty bad things, to see a main character so indelibly egoistical and militant in making the single worst choices a man can make.…
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I Know Who Killed Me 2007
Deadly serious question for the culture; what's the difference between this and, say... an Argento giallo a la Suspiria? How is this sedimentary dross and Suspiria a sublime masterwork? I love Suspiria, by the way, but Dario Argento's critical darling and Chris Sivertson's notorious flop are just two sides of the same trashy, melodramatic horror film. Why laud one and deride the other?
Don't get me wrong, I Know Who Killed Me certainly isn't good. It isn't unfairly maligned, it's…
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Foodfight! 2012
This may be a contender for the worst film of all time, but damn, this has some great references.
Nazism, Requiem for a Dream, penis size, Moulin Rouge, The Sims, Hitchcock, the fact that puns are the highest form of wit, 12 Angry Men, boob jobs, Barry Manilow's seminal 70's hit Copacabana, Casablanca, inter-species sex, 40's noirs, Toy Story, BDSM, its own title, Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, Margaret Hamilton and her army of flying monkeys, homosexuality, Mortal Kombat…