Holy moly the end of this is violent and impressive
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Dream Scenario 2023
A remake of “Bart Gets Famous” that really understands fame in the social media age
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Altered States 1980
I love how this movie is just basically sequences of William Hurt running around Boston naked and covered in fur and then mysteriously winding up in the drunk tank still wearing a button-up shirt and dockers.
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Dune: Part Two 2024
So many thoughts I believed would translate to bullet point form in the week since I've seen this again but I guess I can just say: an entry in the history of Blockbuster cinema that will redirect the trajectory of mainstream cinema the same way TDK did in 2008, and a movie that is far smarter than it is given credit for.
My one idea that I haven't seen anywhere yet: one change from the book I find interesting is…
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Past Lives 2023
Realizing how important the long take is to Bazin now, the way this film’s sense of realism just wants to capture a bunch of Realism moments, like baseball cards, where the more Realisms you get the better, which is supposed to make you Have Feelings (because you are consuming the Realisms).
Some cool shots tho!
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Taxi Driver 1976
they put this on at a bar i was at and i literally had to stop everything and just watch it, for the n-th time, and it works just as well as the first time
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Ex Machina 2015
This movie is from the *exact* moment in time where we thought tech CEOs were misogynist, power-hungry assholes but also funny, interesting, capable of cost-benefit-analysis, generally intelligent...