I had a fun time with this. It’s at least 30 minutes too long and The JLH and JL romance doesn’t work at all, but the rest of the cast delivered entertaining performances.
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Pale Rider 1985
Too schmaltzy at times and the central girl never worked for me as either an actor or as a character, but Clint as a gunslinging ghost destined to wander is a premise that just works.
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The Night of the Hunter 1955
I didn’t think this was the masterpiece it’s often hailed as today, but it’s hardly the failure it was dubbed as by contemporary critics. The expressionist-inspired look is so cool.
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Killer's Kiss 1955
It's a nothing script with poor pacing, but the visuals were fantastic and the performances were decent enough.
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Hardcore 1979
There’s a lot to like in this Paul Schrader neo-noir. The visual contrast between the Christmas card midwest and the seedy underbelly of California was great. George C. Scott sells the character and watching his descent was interesting, but the ending from a worse movie and odd pacing at times undercut a lot of the emotional weight.
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The Osterman Weekend 1983
An incoherent film with an overqualified cast that kind of manages to pull itself together in the last third. John Hurt really was a compelling screen presence.
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Boy 2010
A lot of weird Discourse™️ - both pro and con - about Taika lately. I’m sure the man deserves plenty of praise and criticism but as someone who doesn’t care about Thor 4, it’s really weird how hyperbolic people online have gotten about him lately. I understand why potential Star Wars movies get talked about more than this wonderful film, I just don’t like it.
Yeah, this is a beautiful film. It is perhaps Waititi’s best from behind the camera and it has probably his best acting performance as Alamein.
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Double Indemnity 1944
The countless imitations and rip-offs might stop this from hitting quite as hard these days, but countless people have pulled from this for a reason. From the cast to the lighting to the script, Wilder nails it.
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992
- Definitely liked this more this time around. Watching without the baggage of being in the middle of a binge of the whole series and having seen most of Lynch’s work helped a lot.
- The Inverted Twin Peaks is some good levity up top, especially the always welcome, Harry Dean Stanton.
- I prefer the version of the Bowie scene from The Missing Pieces, but Phillip Jeffries time traveling in and literally breaking the movie is a good bit.…