Toby

Toby

Favorite films

  • Dune
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth
  • Rear Window
  • The Muppet Movie

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  • Logan

    ★★★★★

  • Flow

    ★★★★

  • I'm Still Here

    ★★★★½

  • X-Men: Apocalypse

    ★★

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  • Mysterious Skin

    Mysterious Skin

    Last day before a childhood friend went off to college four of us decided to watch a movie. We had just got back in from a walk in heavy rain and had to watch this movie at like 2% volume at 11:30 pm in the basement. Our collegebound friend had heard it was an alien horror movie and we were all prepared to freak out and laugh. That's pretty much what we did until the cereal scene and then the…

  • The Last Showgirl

    The Last Showgirl

    This movie got so wrapped up in being miserable it forgot to do anything else and instead went in circles. Poor Dave Bautista he didn't deserve to be in this. Maybe this is Jamie Lee Curtis's penance for that Oscar because lowk shes putting in work in this movie.

  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★★★★

    This movie is a stellar adaptation of the book. People always talk about how hard it is to like a movie based on a book because you go in with your own pictured reality and then see the incongruities. For Dune I was happy to let both co-exist because this world is equally as enthralling. The last thing I'll say on it in relation to the novel (because I know many people and have watched this movie with many people…

  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★½

    When I heard that they were making this movie I of course jumped for joy and sobbed but I immediately wondered how would they do what was essentially the last two-thirds of this movie. I think I've settled on the fact that it is something that will forever be best in text but this movie does the absolute best anyone could feasibly do it. The only reason this isn't as good as the first one is because adapting the source material is just such a herculean task.

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