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Favorite films

  • Out of Sight
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Alien
  • Palm Springs

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  • Spaceballs

    ★★★

  • The Big Lebowski

    ★★★★★

  • Out of Sight

    ★★★★★

  • Alien

    ★★★★★

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  • Spaceballs

    Spaceballs

    ★★★

    If you’re into obvious jokes, have I got a movie for you, friend

  • The Big Lebowski

    The Big Lebowski

    ★★★★★

    This movie somehow invents its own language that all the characters speak, and practically every line of it spoken is absolutely hilarious to me. There are so many things that I love about this movie, but the fact that the intro scenes for one-scene side characters are played the most dramatically out of anything might be my favorite thing this time watching.

    Also, you know The Dude is a good person because he not only attends his landlord’s interpretive dance cycle, but he brings friends.

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  • The Marine

    The Marine

    ★★★★

    Sometimes, you just want a cheeseburger. You don't even want a particularly good cheeseburger. You want a greasy, nasty one that your stomach will probably pay for later. The Marine is that cheeseburger. It's formulaic, predictable and dumb, but it wears those traits in all the best ways. Cena may have the charisma of a tree stump, but he's only supposed to look good running through swamps, punching dudes, firing machine guns and jumping out of exploding buildings. Also, I…

  • Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance

    Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance

    If there's one thing this movie did right, it's crystalize why I don't enjoy modern "bad" movies. It's too easy to make a competent, good looking movie now. You can get dozens of takes without worrying about running out of film. You can get cheap CG to cover up mistakes or take the place of practical effects. This has left modern bad movies either super-boring or super-ironic. Samurai Cop 2 decided to go the super-ironic route. On paper, that makes…