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  Chelsea Hotel 1981

  Watched 14 Feb 2025 5

  Torn a bit, innit. I love when a documentary swings for the fences when it comes to lighting and colors. Definitely some out-there choices here in that regard, and they mostly all work. I don't like how some parts of this almost feel like they could be part of an advertisement, though. That definitely rubbed me the wrong way. But again, it can be fun to watch a documentary in which the human subjects (or objects) within can be described…

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  This Is Me…Now 2024

  Watched 12 Feb 2025 2

  Literally one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen in my life, no exaggeration. I actually think about J-Lo kind of often, though maybe not for the reasons one might think. The subject of whether riches change a person fundamentally - their ideology, values, personality, etc. - is one that has crossed my mind so many times throughout my entire life, as I imagine is the case with many other Americans. After all, we are the country in which…

Popular reviews

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  Hell House 2001

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Dec 2021 2

  The guy in the Fear Factory t-shirt ardently defending gay people while also using the f slur is maybe the most early-2000s thing I've ever seen.

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  Elfen Lied 2004

  ½ Watched 22 Nov 2023 11

  I didn't watch this again, but I only just found out that this is on Letterboxd, so I gotta review it to tell about the time I was in college and a woman I barely even knew invited me to her house to watch TV (maybe she thought it was a first date, I really don't know) and what she put on to show someone who was almost a complete stranger to her was freakin Elfen Lied. I respect the audacity, but I was so disgusted by what I saw that I left after one episode and never spoke to her again.