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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  this was weirdly tiresome. if you're gonna be that heavy-handed (expected of course) with both cheesiness and political satire/commentary, you gotta dial up the FUN or/and the FUUUCKKK. this thing was only like, half fun and basically zero fuuuckk, so you know. like that dialogue between mickey 17 and the creeper with the translator ex machina was a thing that happened sort of en passant, it was the first time we were hearing it talk and did anyone care? i…

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  It's a Wonderful Life 1946

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Dec 2024

  rewatched it a couple days before christmas, surrounded by a sobbing audience - as god intended.
  starting the new year with one resolution: reminding myself daily that man, it really IS such a wonderful life.

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  Rocks 2019

  ★★★★ Added

  A complete surprise, and such a welcome one given the topic - really that factor alone almost automatically translated into an extra half star, no sweat.
  I'm usually wary in terms of coming of age stories, let alone when there's a tricky prominent component such as race in the mix; I normally either find the efforts commendable but ultimately disappointing and mostly unrelatable (Eight Grade, Lady Bird, Booksmart, Mid90s to name a few of the most recent ones, though to…

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  The Fly 1986

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 17 May 2020 1

  ending my second week of sci-fi spree with a bang.
  can't wait to go to bed and let my subconscious feast on all the horror and aberration, further deforming and fusing the already deformed and fused - but first, two heartwarming thoughts.
  one: it never ever crossed my mind when i saw it the first time, as a kid, and then later as a teenager, that there could be anything gross about Veronica hugging Brundlefly and holding him close. it…