Piers Rae

Piers Rae

Tired of keeping my watchlist in the notes app.

Favorite films

  • Blade Runner
  • The Shining
  • Millennium Actress
  • Yojimbo

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  • Perfect Days

    ★★★★½

  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

    ★★★

  • Sanjuro

    ★★★★

  • The Breakfast Club

    ★★★★½

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  • Perfect Days

    Perfect Days

    ★★★★½

    今は今

    Ima wa ima, baby! Love me a live in the moment movie. Beautiful slow burn low stakes movie about just living life and appreciating every facet of it. Every choice he makes is his own and that’s beautiful.

  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

    ★★★

    Giving these another shot because SIR Peter Jackson has earned it. Better than I remembered, though still weirdly flawed.

    These are my notes on the trilogy as a whole.

    PROS
    - Casting, esp. Martin Freeman as Bilbo and Ken Stott as Balin. Bonus points for Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug, why not.
    - Giving the dwarves better motivation of restoring their homeland as opposed to just wanting the gold.
    - Echoing the themes of home/a place to belong throughout the trilogy.…

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  • Ingrid Goes West

    Ingrid Goes West

    ★★★½

    Deepy tragic, deeply sad, and deeply uncomfortable viewing of a mentally ill person in self-destructive freefall. Shades of Observe and Report, though more empathy for the protagonist.

  • The Breakfast Club

    The Breakfast Club

    ★★★★½

    That Ally Sheedy makeover cost you half a star Mr Hughes.

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