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White Sands 1992
I wouldn't say the plot makes NO sense, but it makes sense in a ... stupid way? Rourke and Dafoe should have switched parts. Love the way this looks though!
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One 2023
Is it fair to have issues with the way this movie treats its women? (And, you know, all the M:I women?) Yes. Did I also really enjoy it? Yes! Some nonsense dialogue, as you should expect from any M:I movie, but the action here is so smart and fun and reverential and fresh. That last train sequence could have gone on for another hour and I would not have complained.
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Jerry Maguire 1996
I had a superior attitude towards this movie because despite never seeing it I felt like I'd heard every quote from it and didn't need to watch it but hey turns out I was wrong and it is pretty fantastic? Either that or I was in the exact right existential place to cry for the whole last 20 minutes and somehow not find it emotionally manipulative. Extra points to Regina King's emotional range, tiny Lipnicki's smile, Cuba Gooding Jr.'s laugh, the masterful pacing that made a very long movie feel compact, and Tom Cruise's thighs.
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