benph2002

benph2002

Design student looking for inspiration in 2.5⭐️ films

Top 4 are current favorites.

Favorite films

  • The Handmaiden
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Aftersun
  • Drive My Car

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  • Raging Bull

    ★★★★½

  • My Old Ass

    ★★★

  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall

    ★★★½

  • Forces of Nature

    ★★

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  • Raging Bull

    Raging Bull

    ★★★★½

    A brutally honest depiction of a deeply flawed man. Technically exceptional film, the fight scenes were so exaggerated and cartoonis, that completely contradicted the dark realism of the character driven story, it was dream like, LaMotta was two different characters, one in the ring and one at home and scorcese put on a masterpiece in capturing that. This isn’t sugarcoated, LaMotta was a bad man, and the film doesn’t pretend like he wasn’t, it’s raw and real. De Niro really is the greatest to do it isn’t he.

  • My Old Ass

    My Old Ass

    ★★★

    Needed more Aubrey Plaza.

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  • The Outrun

    The Outrun

    ★★★★

    A yearning for a place in which you no longer belong, a desperate grasp for a substance in which you can no longer consume. An illusive landscape of sobriety and trauma dealt with through a reconnection to one’s homeland, and their self. 

    Saiorse Ronan excelled in this role, in this lucid dream of a film, in which a woman battles herself and her past, fighting the trauma she faced as a child and the addiction she faces as an adult.…

  • Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

    Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

    ★★★★½

    GOD I LOVE THIS FILM.

    Easily one of the greatest final acts of all time, showing the battle on Mustafar and Sidious vs Yoda concurrently goes outrageously hard. Hayden Christensen NAILED his role as Anakin in this final film, the slow transition as he became more and more inquisitive into the powers of the dark side until finally he cracks and fulfills his role as Darth Vader, SO GOOD. That battle on Mustafar will never be topped, the choreography is…

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