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Apocalypse Now 1979
So funny rewatching this now that almost every scene in it has been satirized in some other format. It's not fair, but it has lost a lot of its impact over the years. The mashup of stylistic approaches that struck me as altering the course of film history now feels...quirky, even awkward. I guess 'war is hell' became such a cliché this movie almost seems guilty of trivializing the trauma now. Even though it's not! Sorry Frank.
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Losing Ground 1982
This is one of those films that reminds us how cloying and manipulative most films are, how one-dimensional most characters are. Within the most economical of scripts, every character in this picture gets to show multiple sides, to develop, to make their case. If we're watching this movie, we've probably already spent plenty of time pondering the value of art itself, relative to this or that; here we get to look at the question from so many angles and are…
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2024
It's just complete trash. They all knew it before it all magically came together as a project, oh gawd we're all still alive, that MEANS something, but it clearly means nothing. My stupid generation me included sits through it and we're sedated and occasionally tickled by it and as soon as it's over we're scrambling to consume something else, forget that ever happened.
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A Foreign Affair 1948
It didn't bowl me over in real time, I think because it was Hollywoodish in comedic pacing and actually funny yet constantly reminding me of the dire subtext, so it felt tonally uneven until almost the end. But once that actual end became apparent with five minutes or so to go, I was already reprocessing the whole thing and marveling at the emotions it had put me through. You'd think that for plenty of viewers the moral dichotomies were lost…
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