Ryan Grove

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I have come here to eat pie and watch movies. And I’m all out of pie.

Portland, OR

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Favorite films

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Sorcerer 1977

★★★★½ Rewatched 21 May 2021

You’ll watch a truck inch across a bridge for 6 minutes and you’ll love every second of it. And then you’ll watch a second truck inch across the same bridge for 6 more minutes and you’ll love every second of that too.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters 2019

½ Watched 12 Feb 2021

One day, in kindergarten, I pooped my pants right before recess and was afraid to tell anyone, and I tried going on the slide but the poop in my pants made it so I couldn’t slide down, and the other kids behind me on the slide were confused and upset with me, and I was sad and embarrassed and had to scoot down the slide bit by bit while pretending there was a rational non-poop-related explanation for why my butt…

The Breakfast Club 1985

★★★ Watched 07 Jun 2023

I don’t identify with anyone in this movie. Which I guess makes it a pretty accurate reflection of my high school experience.
Putney Swope 1969

★★★ Watched 06 Jun 2023

“Boss, don’t fire me! I got a wife, three kids, and a Shetland pony!”

Busting 1974

★★★½ Watched 15 Nov 2022

"I dunno, maybe we should quit."
"Think you're right. We could be good bad guys, you know? Pay's better. Better hours. More cooperation from the police."
Honorary member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The camera work in this is sensational. Almost never not moving, but not a single movement wasted. Kinetic when the action calls for it, subtle when stillness is necessary. Peter Hyams was a natural right out of the gate.
Elliott Gould’s slack-jawed languid lope is the epitome of 70s whatever and I’m here for it man.
Lone Star 1996

★★★ Watched 24 May 2023

Still thinking about what a red flag Bunny’s mix of Aggies/Longhorns/Cowboys/Oilers gear was. Good God man RUN.