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  Happy Gilmore 1996

  Rewatched 22 Jun 2022

  still perfect

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  Snake Eyes 1998

  Watched 15 May 2022

  trust the openly sleazy blue collar guy, otherwise you're stuck with the squeaky clean ambitious secret psycho. Presumably a Jimmy Hoffa parable

Popular reviews

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  sex, lies, and videotape 1989

  Watched 13 Aug 2021

  a movie about sex without sex, absence of sex as pornography, pornography that still functions as pornography after it's been stripped of its excesses (Graham's apartment is "kind of a minimalist vibe").

  also a movie about being stuck in a moment in time and the illusion that this moment can ever be revisited (facilitated by technology) and how this robs you of vitality, leaving you incapable of real connection.

  cliff martinez did the score for this and years later worked with soderbergh on the Knick, together they have remarkable audio visual compatibility.

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  Broadcast News 1987

  Watched 28 Jun 2021

  after they established that William Hurt's character was dumb, and he was eating that egg at the party and he dropped it I said: that's me, I'm that guy, I want to be the other guy, but I'm not, I'm him.

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