caliopoly

caliopoly

Favorite films

  • Rear Window
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  • City Lights
  • Some Like It Hot

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  • Interstellar

    ★★★½

  • The Iron Giant

    ★★★

  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    ★★★½

  • Why Him?

    ★★★

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  • Interstellar

    Interstellar

    ★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • The Iron Giant

    The Iron Giant

    ★★★

    It was cute. 

    Five stars for the animation. Especially the flashlight sequences. It’s like an old comic book come to life. 

    It was a little preachy and not too subtle about the preachiness. 

    Also the bad guy was extra annoying to me. A very static, easy to read character with not much in the way of backstory or anything interesting. I think he might be my least favorite animated villain. Professor Hinkle from Frosty the Snowman is a better villain, and that’s saying something.

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  • Fiddler on the Roof

    Fiddler on the Roof

    ★★★★★

    So many wonderful memories with this movie. RIP Jewison, thank you for the surcease from sorrow. 

    Motel will always remind me of my lil brother. 🥰

  • A Haunting in Venice

    A Haunting in Venice

    ½

    I was willing to wait through long backstory explanations from multiple characters and then shadow puppets. 

    I was willing to wait through long Venice scenery thrown in there because it looked cool. 

    I was willing to try to feel sorry for this poor dead character whose backstory we were being hit over the head with like Punch in Punch and Judy. 

    But by the time the medium lady started saying “listening! …. Listeninnng!” in that sing songy voice, I had…

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