-My first exposure to The Thing is sort've a strange story. My brother and his friends all worked at the local GameStop and/or Game Crazy. Around 2002, The Thing was getting a strategy survival horror hybrid game on the tail of the film's 30th anniversary. With the collector's edition came an extra disc: the original film on DvD. My brother's friend was kind enough to gift me the disc, after having admitted I'd never seen it. Perhaps more fitting, he…
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Escape from New York 1981
-Flawless. One of those creations that's a goddamn lightning bolt of badassery that could never be improved or replicated. Really interesting to know that Carpenter had the script in his back pocket since his college days. Nick Castle was brought in to punch the script up and add some really wonderful bits, like the musical or the final Plissken prank. According to him, the film's a thinly veiled response to the Watergate situation. Even more interesting is how Carpenter frames…
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The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda 1933
-Watched the only 2 minutes still in existence (thanks, Nazi's). They said this was animated through "traditional means", but I'm not completely sure what "traditional means" are when it looks like it burst from the seventh layer of Hell. Trippy and undeniably original in the grand scheme of the early years of animation.
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Joker 2019
And I thought Midsommar was the feel-good movie of the year...
-Feels a little more pertinent than reviewers are giving it credit for. It stands as a huge "fuck you" to Trump while highlighting the importance of mental health (and how we TOTALLY disregard it in the US).
-I feel like I don't need to say anything about Phoenix. He's a genius. A true artist.
-Yes, there's a LOT of Scorsese "stuff", but it doesn't use his visual language. I…
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