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A perfectly tolerable Tuesday night prison movie

It’s much funnier than I’d remembered. 

I think I know why I like boxing movies: the intimate violence, two men in each other’s stink, bludgeoning until their brains sag, hungrier than they’ve ever been outside the ring—and here is the crowd, whooping and whining like dogs, regarding the whole display less as sport than as tragic comedy. It’s grotesque, and it fascinates me. There’s something thrilling about the incorrectness. These men will die young and stupid, and we cheer.

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I appreciate my brain conjuring up this impossible movie that absolutely does not exist

Everybody was peeing on my head and telling me it was rain

Something possessed me to buy a German release of a 4k master without English subtitles but whatever. I’ve always loved it for its visuals and sound anyway. It holds up, mostly. It has that brash young visionary thing, he clearly was out to build momentum for himself while also creating something singularly weird, horrific, beautiful, and funny. Its humor doesn’t get much shrift but “Sympathy for Mr Vengeance” is purely absurdist and humor is its heart.

Don’t fuck with Russians. Don’t fuck with Ukrainians. Don’t fuck with Chechens. Don’t fuck with Serbians. Don’t fuck with Croatians. Don’t fu

So, everybody fucked up and we need to go back to 1992 and respond correctly to this

Effervescent. I was weightless during the entirety of its centerpiece. One of the most breathtaking portrayals of new love I’ve ever seen.

I saw this in the theater and I thought it sucked and I’m sticking to my guns. I was 6

Do I hate men because I hate myself, or is it that I hate myself because men hate me

The most on-the-nose AND THEN COMES ANGER movie about grieving ever made