Marlon Blonk

Marlon Blonk

Favorite films

  • Jaws
  • Taxi Driver
  • Lost in Translation
  • Seven Samurai

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  • Akira
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Gone with the Wind
  • Top Gun

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  • Turning Red

    Turning Red

    ★★★

    So, before I start my, admittedly, unnecessarily tendentious rambling pertaining to the mother of all mixed bags (that is, within the gamut of Pixar's catalog), I would like to state that, I have a relatively high cringe tolerance.
    For one, I'm a 23 year old man who memorized the entire intro chant from Bring It On (not of my own volition, I swear), and yet this movie...
    It for once in my life made me relieved that the theatrical release…

  • Spirited Away

    Spirited Away

    Quick little tip: If you make the concious choice to churn out a high-style low-substance kiddy flick that purports to be some strait-laced coming of age story,
    at least have the goddamn common sense of not having the most vacuous third-grade shoal of trite, archetypal effluent this side of motherfuckin' Sharknado constitute the cast of characters.

    Especially if your plotline is so needlessly convoluted that conjuring up an ensemble of strong characters to convey the visceral coming-of-age undercurrent you attempt to cultivate is absolutely necessary.

    But for one reason or another, this movie doesn't even bother.

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