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  Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Three 2014

  Watched by Austin 28 Jun 2022

  Here we learn that Marcel's best friend lives far away 😔 A trilogy of clever observations and adorableness. Wholesome, wholesome, wholesome.

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  Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Two 2011

  Watched by Austin 28 Jun 2022

  Marcel looking out the window and listening to wind chimes is very peaceful. This is cuter and kind of sad too, but I'm most thankful for the idea of a caterpillar throwing up which I've never considered before and which I'm not sure is possible?

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  Glass 2019

  Watched by Austin 18 Jan 2019 6

  A pure synthesis of Shyamalan's formal, thematic, and emotional style—a trilogy bow and a career crescendo; anger and compassion in a perfect helix, crisscrossed into jagged catharsis. Shyamalan is an auteur of overflowing empathy and immaculate craft, and Glass is a heart beating with the passion of destined purpose. This film is reflexive and revolutionary—a self-affirmation and a rallying beacon for we the discarded.

  Uses comic mythology as confirmation that superhumanity exists in kindness and community, that the broken are…

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  Spider-Man 3 2007

  Rewatched by Austin 27 Jan 2019 6

  Unlike the previous films, this opens without a humble love-declaration for MJ, but rather an injection into Peter's toxic ego. Unlike Mary Jane, Peter becomes absorbed in a widely embraced love, sacrificing value for popularity. Obviously, the symbiote is not a poison-creator, but a nourisher; it feeds the id and magnifies already present negativity. Which is why the film's "infamous" montage is the perfect counterpoint to Spider-Man 2's "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" sequence—one is faux-joy: a Peter without…