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  Review by karsten ★★★½ 18

  One giant Oompa Loompa segment but that is by no means a bad thing

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  Review by kaitlyn ★★★ 2

  the father: david byrne big suit
  the son: kevin smith huge jorts
  the holy spirit: elton john giant boots

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  Review by feat. dante from the dmc series ★★★★ 2

  my mom was watching this the other day and i kinda spaced out and thought she said it was tommy boy (1995) so i just stood there in confused silence for about six minutes wondering where the hell david spade was

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  Review by feat. dante from the dmc series ★★★★

  AND TOMMY DOESN'T KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS
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  HE DOESN'T KNOW WHO JESUS WAS, WHAT PRAYING IS
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  Review by feat. dante from the dmc series ★★★★

  i can't believe this movie about roger daltrey becoming a pinball master is the only thing that makes me feel slightly less suicidal

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★ 2

  ken russell to my surprise takes the who's goofy idea about a “deaf, dumb and blind” pinball messiah kind of thematically seriously and stylizes it into one of the biggest, most bombastic, tonally insane glam rock surfaces you've ever seen as a means of genuinely exploring through opera how real experiences and suffering are exploited and commercialized by cults.

  full discussion on ep 189 of my podcast SLEAZOIDS.

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  Review by feat. dante from the dmc series ★★★★

  ann-margret: *rolls around in foam and baked beans and chocolate*

  me: god, mood

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  Review by Josh Gillam ★★★★ 1

  After witnessing a traumatic incident as a child, Tommy (Roger Daltrey), becomes deaf, dumb and blind, later discovering an ability for pinball that makes him gather a large following, in Ken Russell’s rock opera adaptation of the Who’s concept album, with Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Keith Moon, Elton John, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton and Jack Nicholson in supporting roles.

  The fusion of Russell’s visuals and the Who’s epic songs is electric, producing a powerful, beguiling and truly original work that I found really absorbing to watch. Russell gives the film a wonderfully surreal edge that matches the experimental sound of the music, with the mindbending and striking Acid Queen sequence a particular highlight, a truly imaginative translation of the song to…

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  Review by feat. dante from the dmc series ★★★★

  jack nicholson: *starts singing*

  me:

  me: *opens legs*

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  Review by Cormac 👑 ★★★★½ 12

  If the words ‘10 Foot Pinball Wizard Elton John’ don’t immediately give you a cinematic boner, then I’m sorry but you’re almost certainly a lost cause. I don’t make the rules. Oliver Reeds face is a walking pinball machine, so in a roundabout way, it all makes perfect sense.

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  Review by TheCultureShocker/Aleister ★★★★★ 2

  Coked out of its mind with no fucking chain.

  A new all-time fav.

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  Review by Jack Saint ★★★★½ 2

  this happened to a friend of mine