Mark Armour

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Corvallis, OR

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Stop Making Sense 1984

★★★★★ Rewatched 30 Sep 2023

Still the greatest concert movie ever. Fantastic music, exciting visual artistry, and an absolute joy for 90 minutes.
Barbie 2023

★★★ Watched 25 Jul 2023

Barbie was gorgeous, and often funny. The humor was often a bit too on the nose for me, and the messaging was … not subtle. I loved Gerwig’s two previous perfect films and was predisposed to love this, but on first viewing it falls short of what I had hoped.

Downton Abbey 2019

★★★ Watched 20 Sep 2019

The movie rides with its characters, its music, and, most of all, its beautiful house. All of these are as fine as ever, actually finer on the larger screen.
The plot? Ridiculous, but so was the TV show and I couldn’t miss an episode.
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood 2019

★★★★★ Watched 07 Aug 2019

I loved it without condition -- it was beautifully shot and scored, the screenplay was tight, and (despite its 2:30 length) I did not want it to end. The "star" of the film was "Hollywood in 1969", a subject I am tremendously interested in, and most of Tarantino's efforts went into showing us what the city was like in the months (or hours) leading up to the Manson murders. I enjoyed the story very much, though I almost didn't need…