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Maximum Overdrive 1986
King trivia #9.
3 minutes of carnage doesn’t make up for the other 94 minutes of boring dreck.
This movie needed way, way more hilarious violence for it to be watchable. Cocaine couldn’t save Stevie for his directorial debut, I hate to say it. What a wretched waste of Repo Man era Emilio Estevez.
Also, AC/DC sucks ass
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The Shining 1980
King Trivia #8, watched my 4K disc.
Not a lot to be said about such an immortal classic that hasn’t already been said, but I’ll go ahead and do it anyway. I think outside of The Thing, Halloween and Scream, it’s probably the horror film I’ve seen the most.
I’m noticing how often I start out by reflecting on my early memories with a lot of these movies when doing these stupid Letterboxd reviews. Probably an exercise in nostalgia, it’s…
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
Watched with Bella on my Bday!!
I’ve seen Dr. Strangelove a handful of times, I’ve always loved it and consider it my favorite of Kubrick’s while maybe not being his “best”.
It wasn’t until a rewatch a few years ago where it all clicked into place that this entire movie is about all these men’s dicks. Even the intro is a big dick joke of a sight gag.
Seems so obvious in retrospect, the absurdity of it always made me…
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Cure 1997
Saw a 4K restoration as a part of a double feature at The Brattle Theatre.
Have been meaning to see this for years and am so glad I waited until I got the chance at the cinema. Chilling and haunting horror film, not at all what I expected.
The film has been lingering with me, the creepy and unsettling atmosphere gets at you in very subtle ways. This movie has very few shots, plays out in a series of mostly…
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