Baalzamon

Baalzamon

Four Favs = last 4.5 or 5-star watches.

Favorite films

  • Sweet Smell of Success
  • Collateral
  • Superbad
  • The Social Network

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  • Magazine Dreams

    ★★½

  • Call Me by Your Name

    ★★★★

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai

    ★★★★

  • Novocaine

    ★★★½

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  • Magazine Dreams

    Magazine Dreams

    ★★½

    A character study about a man that makes no sense.  Majors is so talented, so jacked, and so believable it nearly works. I think this is a fundamentally flawed movie that rocked me to the core. Some story beats linger to boredom and others are skipped entirely.

    Saw this with subtitles in the theater. Weird experience all around.

  • Call Me by Your Name

    Call Me by Your Name

    ★★★★

    Micheal Stuhlbarg’s monologue is incredible. Like top tier Pulp Fiction “He give me da watch…” and The 400 Blows “Antione’s Questioning” scene type shit. I would rewatch this just to watch his character and bask in it again while watching Timmy cry. That last 20 minutes makes the film.

    I don’t really buy Timmy’s dialogue throughout, I think if he was 22-24 and really up his ass about literature it would have fit better (or maybe people just aged in…

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  • Civil War

    Civil War

    ★★★★

    “Remember when Bin Laden got killed,
    In a hotel lobby after a show, was noticin'
    These white ladies watchin' CNN, coverin' the action
    They read the headline and then they all started clappin'
    As if LeBron had just scored a basket at the buzzer
    I stood there for a second
    Watched them high-five each other”
    -J. Cole

    People calling this empty or spineless are heartless self-aggrandizing losers who don’t realize that they are craving more explanation or political lines that…

  • Kinds of Kindness

    Kinds of Kindness

    ★½

    Idk if it’s me or Lanthimos that’s changed but I see people comparing this to Dogtooth I have never felt more different than the consensus. Shit tier nonsense. I felt so seen watching Dogtooth and I felt like its message was so sincere. wtf is this movie trying to say. 

    Jesse Plemons is cooking but this movie is ass.

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