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  Pretty Woman 1990

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  To have Gere's character reading Shakespeare's quotes, his Oxfords slipped off, on the green grass of a corporate plaza, like today's Product Managers listening to alternative music in their AirPods while eating Sweetgreen, accompanied by a beautiful woman, a down-on-her-luck streetwalker for whom life is utterly opened up by wealth --- "Stores don't like people. They like credit cards," --- his concession to the "creamy pleasure of not-working" (from a New Yorker poem I read) fuels a breathless fetishization of…

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  Queer 2024

  Watched 01 Feb 2025

  Postmodern

Popular reviews

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  Inglourious Basterds 2009

  ★★ Watched 31 Jul 2019 2

  **fist pump** yessss we killed hitler we killed HITLER

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  The Karate Kid 2010

  ★½ Watched 28 Apr 2016 1

  I know! Let's make a movie about kids beating each other up who learn from an alcoholic, unassuming mentor. The main kid will be a fish out of water kind of guy and be in a land who he'd never been in before to start fighting. Let's call it the Hunger Games.
  Or, even better! That land will be China, where "everyone knows Kung-Fu". And then...how about let's have the event be televised and played in dramatic slow-motion, and not…