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Galaxy Quest 1999
A very funny movie that still gives you the thrill of feeling like you are actually in space. The same compliment cannot even be given to most actual Star Trek films, which is why I’ve heard more than a few times that this is “the best Star Trek movie.” I don’t know if that is fair to say, but I’d personally much rather watch this over most any actual Trek-lore.
Good parody is pretty impossible to find in feature length…
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The Master 2012
So incredibly *funny* and ~tender~. Maybe one of my favorites!
At the very least, if the A.F.I. was the G.A.B.E., “pig fuck!” would be #7 on the top 100 movie quotes of all time
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Jaws 1975
We should always be weary of when a passion for a movie/art/skincare brand borders on unfounded obsession and becomes performative, I.E. that one summer in Chicago I had a Jaws themed bathroom. That being said, this movie really is as good as that shark-themed bathroom was sexless.
When people hear how old Spielberg was when he made this movie, their reaction is something along the lines of, “25!? Christ, when I was 25, I barely had a well aestheticized bathroom!” —…
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Dog Day Afternoon 1975
Only watched the second hour after coming home and it was on in living room love this movie best Al Pacino feels like a true amalgam of the fade of a hopeful mid 60’s and America’s general agreement on the dystopic level of corruption within our government. Feels prescient! I don’t know if this is the true encapsulation of post Vietnam but in my simple mind this movie is what I think post Vietnam USA must have felt like. I took…
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A Serious Man 2009
So nice that they finally get rid of the middle man and just play wrathful God here. I guess I understand how this movie is a downer, but the terror is too ludic and distanced to ever feel sad. Yes! I will use the word ludic. Sy Ableman is one of the best movie names of all time. Dutch-angled man muttering "Jesus Christ" when he picks up the torah, forget it!
It's sad that there is already an a capella…
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All That Jazz 1979
Greatest, largest most personal movie spectacle ever made. An inimitable epic lauded below other cinema only because of our culture’s deep misunderstanding of movie musicals.
Movies should really be musicals most of the time. We’re just so campy about them as a culture that it’s almost always embarrassing. How is there no other movie musical that even approaches this sort of existential grief? Why aren’t musicals allowed to be 2001? Why did our timeline lead to Frozen 2’s only? If things…