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Wonder Woman 1984 2020
Steve Trevor, born in 1915, upon seeing an escalator: 😍🤪😩🤪🤩😖🤯🤯🤯
Invention of the escalator: 1892
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Broadcast News 1987
Everyone sucks and has awful hair. Maybe if I was a media type (or wanted to be) I'd dig this, but it screams of journalistic self-importance. Just because the setting is the news doesn't mean all the office drama is automatically interesting or important.
While the plot circled a point about flash and entertainment super-ceding the actual story when it comes to broadcast news, the examples chosen to illustrate their case fell flat.
How dare this faux rom com take over 2 hours of my time.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2000
Nothing like rewatching a movie you saw once when you were 7.
I'm not a fan of Jim Carey or this performance but even I felt for The Grinch-- The Whos are a horrible people and Whoville is a terrifying dystopian nightmare. Not a single right angle in sight! I'd torture them too.
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 1992
In my opinion even better than the original for three simple reasons:
1) bigger and better booby traps
2) really leans into the child-alone-on-vaction fantasy. #1 gave us ice cream sundaes and going through your brother's room; this gave us pizza in a limousine, shopping at an enormous toy store, and ordering $1000 worth of room service to your suite at the PLAZA HOTEL! Even Eloise never lived so large
3) Pigeon Lady > Shovel Man
Makes me miss NY. I'M WALKIN' HERE!!!!
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Trading Places 1983
While some of the choices made have not aged well, overall this movie holds up. Still very funny, still very entertaining, and I choose to believe that's still exactly how commodities trading works.
Where it lost me was some of the over-the-top cartoonish elements of the last act. I guess that's the 80s for ya.
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The Handmaiden 2016
The only way women can have an ounce of power in this cruel, patriarchal world is to be gay; do crimes
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Dick Johnson Is Dead 2020
One family's tender, fantastical, sick, and well-funded creative experiment to commemorate a kind man, as he looks his oncoming decline in the eye and grapples with that reality.
I appreciate how both Johnsons make us face the "big" questions, but I wish there were more of a thesis here.
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Safety Not Guaranteed 2012
This movie had no right to make me feel so much.
I picked something that looked easy to watch and was free on Netflix to play in the background while I folded laundry, but by the end of the 1:25 runtime, I found myself sitting on my living room floor, clutching my laptop, allowing myself care deeply about a Mark Duplass character.
It's not that this movie is exceptional or beautifully shot or even all that consequential, but it does…
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Home Alone 1990
Bravissimo!!! Un chef-d'oeuvre!! I hope to only have daughters, but if I have a son I can only pray he's like Kevin McCallister.
That was so much pizza for $120!
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