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Jingle All the Way 1996
Just a bit of a lighthearted christmas domestic terrorism.
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Metropolis 1927
I honestly cannot get over how ludicrously unsafe everything looked in this film. Swarms of barefoot children in waist-high water, your lead actor and actress climbing on very precarious support beams, and your extras just swinging and jumping on any loosely attached metal railing.
It's been almost 100 years, so there's not much left to say. The film is a technical marvel; the mere fact they did what they did was incredible—the sheer amount of extras on screen, the practical…
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Alien 1979
Not exactly difficult to see why this film is considered not only one of the greatest horrors but also one of the greatest sci-fi; if it were released tomorrow, it would still feel fresh off the rack. It does slightly suffer from a little 70s goofiness though—really just the xenomorph very clearly being a man in a suit, but what can you do?
Couldn't imagine what audiences in 1979 must have felt like seeing this, Ridley Scott's use of minatures, special effects and set design—that he'd later use to make Blade Runner feel so immersive and massive—are just utterly fantastic.
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