alakasam9

alakasam9

Favorite films

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Pearl
  • The Thing
  • Mean Girls

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  • Mickey 17

    ½

  • The Skin I Live In

    ★★½

  • Requiem for a Dream

    ★½

  • The Shawshank Redemption

    ★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ½

    This is a movie for people who find SNL funny and think a John Oliver rant about climate change is fucking profound cinema. The same tech bros who post "This is important" under Adam McKay tweets and think Black Mirror is the height of philosophical discourse. The kind of people who'd call a Ted Lasso quote "life-changing" and think putting Sriracha on everything makes them cultured.

    It’s like if you got ChatGPT to write a Bong Joon-ho movie but it…

  • The Skin I Live In

    The Skin I Live In

    ★★½

    Idk this movie was pretty underwhelming and poorly written. The twist would've been nice in a movie that was written better but this wasn't lol. I do not understand why the skin was necessary. The gratuitous rape scenes just made me very uncomfortable. It's shot like a BBC or PBS straight-to-DVD movie, there is nothing redeeming about the cinematography. And just about every chance the movie has at horror is just... squandered. Like there's so much more body horror that…

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  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★

    Boring. Says nothing. As a queer, gender-confused person I found part of it vaguely relatable. Otherwise it just... doesn't do anything. I felt like that meme of the dude with the stick poking a rock telling it to do something.

    Utterly laughable to think this is scary lol.

    At least there was a Phoebe Bridgers music video in the middle of it like it was fucking Shrek

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