CountJohn

CountJohn

Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • The Godfather
  • The Graduate
  • Citizen Kane

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  • Going Highbrow

    ★★★½

  • Glengarry Glen Ross

    ★★★★

  • Blue Velvet

    ★★★★★

  • American Psycho

    ★★★★½

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  • The Apprentice

    The Apprentice

    ★★★★★

    The three principles (Stan, Strong, Bakalova) are all so strong here and I could get behind Oscar nods for all three. Not sure what anyone has to complain about here, obviously the writer wasn't there so scenes are dramatized but I don't see how anyone can say any of the character traits ascribed to Trump here don't fit. If anything he looks better here than in real life, smarter, more self awareness, little twinges of regret. If I had to…

  • The Boy Next Door

    The Boy Next Door

    ★★

    Jennifer Lopez is not a good enough actress to make me believe she's read The Odyssey

    No one is a good enough actress to make me believe a sparkly hardback is a "first edition" of The Odyssey.

    Also found it really bizarre that they stuck a whole scene in there of him banging the son's date but then completely drop that plot thread.

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  • Poor Things

    Poor Things

    Now here’s the twist, and there is a twist: We show it. We show all of it. Because what’s the one major thing missing from all Oscar bait movies these days guys? …Full penetration. Guys, we’re gonna show full penetration and we’re gonna show a lot of it! I mean, we’re talking, you know, graphic scenes of Emma Stone really going to town on this deformed guy in a French brothel. From behind, 69, anal, vaginal, cowgirl, reverse cowgirl, all…

  • Inside Out 2

    Inside Out 2

    ★★★½

    I'm just glad a bunch of 7 year olds are going to know what the word ennui means now

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