Eric D. Snider

Provo, UT

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Hobo with a Shotgun 2011

★★★½ Rewatched 29 May 2023

I'd forgotten how over-the-top comic-nasty the violence is in this one. The hobo doesn't get the shotgun till pretty late in the movie, so the title is a spoiler.
Predestination 2014

★★★★ Watched 30 May 2023

Loved it. Granted that it's almost impossible to make a movie about time paradoxes that I won't like, this one is a trip (probably less so if you've read the story it's based on).

Better Luck Tomorrow 2002

★★★★ Rewatched 29 Mar 2021

I hadn't seen this since Sundance 2002, where it was a big hit, and where Roger Ebert famously shouted down an audience member who, during the Q&A, scolded Lin for making a movie about Asian-Americans that didn't show them in a wholly positive light. Ebert was NOT HAVING IT. I wish I had been at that screening (and then for some reason ignored common sense and stayed for the Q&A).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSzP9YV3jbc
It's a very confident debut film (solo debut; Justin…
Scream 4 2011

★★★½ Rewatched 01 Nov 2021

I like how Gale Weathers keeps insisting she's an "expert" on the Ghostface killer. It's a different person every time! She is an expert in the very niche field of People Trying and Failing to Kill Sidney Prescott for Varying Reasons.