emcleese

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Favorite films

  • Back to the Future
  • Groundhog Day
  • The Princess Bride
  • Stand by Me

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  • The Sugarland Express

    ★★★★

  • Duel

    ★★★★★

  • The Velvet Vampire

    ★★★

  • The Student Nurses

    ★★½

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  • November

    November

    ★★★★★

    If you are reading this because we follow each other, than there's a pretty good chance you're into wild shit. If that is the case, I implore you to watch this film. You may not like it as much as I did, as I find what flavor of weirdness you enjoy to be extremely personal an unpredictable, but I would be shocked if you weren't happy to see it. If there were a crazy movie hall of fame, which there…

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  • The Sugarland Express

    The Sugarland Express

    ★★★★

    Spielberg was clearly a great filmmaker right out of the chute. This is a ton fun. 70s road movies rule.

  • Duel

    Duel

    ★★★★★

    This blew me away. It has to be the greatest made for TV movie ever made right? At the very least, the one most dedicated to visual storytelling and immaculate shot selection. In the 80s and 90s I know that TV movies did not look like this and they certainly didn't give a fuck about filmmaking. Was this a thing in the 70s? LIke "IT" was pretty good. But it was clearly a made for TV movie and there was…

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  • Death Race 2000

    Death Race 2000

    ★★★★

    Super watchable. When I was a kid my mom and I would often play Death Race while driving around. We'd be like, "little old lady crossing the street, that's 100 points!"

  • Bram Stoker's Dracula

    Bram Stoker's Dracula

    ★★★★

    Wow. This was surprisingly great. I first saw this in the theater when I was 12 years old. While I loved seeing all the boobs I mostly just thought the movie was really weird. I remember it being much maligned at the time and didn't give it much thought going forward. But now I know this is really weird and that's totally fucking awesome. It's visually spectacular. It also has amazing practical effects that I didn't appreciate enough at the…