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Network 1976
Ended up throwing this on bc it was leaving HBO Max but honestly think this might get brought up in the upcoming thesis (dropping next fall). I haven’t seen this since I was about 14. When you’re 14 and going through the IMDb top 250 and end up watching this your main takeaway is: “how so true tv really IS bad”. I think it would be pretty easy to watch this and not really distinguish it from some Sorkin bullshit…
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Gimme Shelter 1970
Sort of has the “when do they get to the fireworks factory” symptom in relation to Altamont but the last 40 minutes you’re basically seeing the culmination of the last 2 years of tension and banal love bullshit coalesce into apocalypse. As someone who just “likes” the Stones, I do have to say it helps that this is pretty much stripped right from their best era (68-72) and the stuff with the band is certainly cool but something like hearing…
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Licorice Pizza 2021
I’ve always been a guy who likes PTA quite a bit but not as much as other people. He’s responsible for some truly great films, and having seen every single one besides Magnolia I really don’t think there’s a single bad one. But i get where his detractors, some of my friends, are coming from: especially since his early films, he’s had a tendency to make his films seem very middlebrow self-serious affairs that are excercises in pessimism, I like…
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The Batman 2022
I guess the way to make a good superhero movie is to make Batman a down bad goth who is as down bad of a loner freak as a Paul Schrader character. A good portion of the riddler stuff is basically just like Q-anon Patriot generation Dark Knight joker and the climax felt like pretty generic after a basically perfect 2ish hours of brooding crime syndicate neo-noir stuff but the actual ending after that is beautiful and like 80% of…
