Achilles_Neil

Achilles_Neil

Favorite films

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • The Thing
  • Alien
  • The Lighthouse

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  • Heretic

    ★★★

  • The Irishman

    ★★★★★

  • Paris, Texas

    ★★★★★

  • In the Mood for Love

    ★★★★★

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  • Heretic

    Heretic

    ★★★

    good watch even if it kinda putters out by the end. hugh grant is excellent. he really seemed to like this role

  • The Irishman

    The Irishman

    ★★★★★

    As stomach-churning and haunting as The Irishman is, it has the audacity to make time for a lot of fun on the way to its downright bleak terminus.

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  • Green Room

    Green Room

    ★★★★★

    Love this movie even more upon rewatch but what a nasty stomach-churning feeling it gives me. Nails the fight-or-flight indecisiveness of unwilling participants in violence. Can’t think of any other film that I would say feels more realistic in its portrayal of violence either. 

    RIP Anton Yelchin. Some folks are just too cool to live long </3

  • All Quiet on the Western Front

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    ★★★★★

    There is a scene in AQOTWF early on, wherein our virgin protagonists — literally in the sexual sense and figuratively as witnesses to and participants in violence — look on screaming in abject terror as their childhood best friend’s liquified body is splattered across their faces after an artillery shell turns him into a cloud of flesh. Like many killings in war, there’s an obscene element of embarrassment and slapstick infused with this brief undignified death. It might make you…

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