-My favorite Carpenter movie...ok, maybe tied with Escape From New York. You know how people try to sell you on a movie by saying it has everything? In Big Trouble In Little China's case: it's true! Carpenter has a real tongue-in-cheek "kitchen sink" approach that feels like an immense amount of exposition to place us in the setting, but it's done in such precise, pinpoint explosions of humor and action, it doesn't feel like an endless character dump for the…
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Starman 1984
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
-This was a hole in my Carpenter filmography. It's a sweet enough movie. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with it. It feels like Carpenter doing his damndest to pull-off a Spielberg, but simply forgetting he's a dark, degenerate, chain-smoking fuck. It was never going to be a schmultz factory, and honestly: that's what I appreciate about it.
-Carpenter's got an everyman's philosophy on grief. The moments where Karen Allen is expressing those sentiments best are without dialogue. The…
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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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