Dan Giles

Dan Giles

Favorite films

  • Death Wish
  • Death Wish II
  • Death Wish 3
  • The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

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  • Savages

    ★½

  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

  • Just Friends

    ★★

  • The Fifth Element

    ★★

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  • Savages

    Savages

    ★½

    I like how in Oliver Stone's good liberal world order, Mexicans aren't just yard workers or cartel members: 👏 they 👏 can 👏 be 👏 both 👏

  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

    "Are We Dating The Same Guy?" FB ladies woulda nailed his ass.

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  • I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

    I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

    ½

    This film about a self-absorbed pick-up artist was written by a self-absorbed pick-up artist about his life as a self-absorbed pick-up artist, so watching it is a bit like staring into a mirror pointed at another mirror. The film is an echo chamber of the writers' sophomoric sense of humor, with each "character" serving as a mouthpiece for the writer. The characters lack any distinguishing characteristics, much less any redeeming qualities. It's not even clear who these dim shadows of…

  • La La Land

    La La Land

    ★★

    Warning: I'm about to bash a film most people can't stop fapping to.

    This film struck me as a hodgepodge of half-baked ideas, but I was most disappointed that a film ostensibly about the struggle of a jazz pianist and an actress to find themselves as artists managed to illustrate so little about their personal identities or the creative process. If art expresses human emotion and experience, what were the emotions or experiences either of these characters were trying to…