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CODA 2021
Not sure if my thought process behind rating films is interesting or not, but I think this needs to be said: Choosing between 4 and 4-1/2 stars for CODA was difficult for me, and made me analyze how I am assigning a rating to movies. Part of me believes that I should analyze a film solely based on the actual experience of what I’m observing on screen. The other part factors in context of the film’s production, what came before,…
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The Room 2003
I have seen this film more than any other, because it touches a part of me that no other movie can. It violates so many basic film conventions that it truly feels surreal in a way that all other “bad” films do not. Those other pictures are usually complete slogs, where one cannot suspend disbelief because some element of it (like stilted acting or a cliched plot) is off, and the whole thing feels like a chore to get through.…
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