Faye Hopper

Faye Hopper

Favorite films

  • Millennium Actress
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
  • Stalker

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  • Face/Off

    ★★★★½

  • The Electric State

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Spider-Man 2

    ★★★★

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  • Face/Off

    Face/Off

    ★★★★½

    ohmigod it fucks so hard this is the best remedy for the Electric State affliction.

    So gonzo, so campy, such intensity of focus in its reification of itself it bores straight through the wall of fuck-this-is-so-geniusly-dumb into the without of genuine-article sublimity, into psychoanalytic resonances that are so indelible and unmistakeable you almost wonder if they were intentional—almost. Everything you’ve heard about Cage and Travolta (or Cage-as-Travolta and Travolta-as-Cage) is true to levels you might not think possible until you…

  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    Everything bad about streaming movie slop, everything bad about the tropes and corporate expectations that are the formal models for modern blockbuster filmmaking; so much bad improv, I think a synapse snapped when the piano robot started playing an epic orchestral version of Don’t Stop Believin. Would that the movie had done a Sopranos and just cut to black mid-shot.

    I can’t anymore with Pavlovian “remember past decades that aren’t now” crap and Spielberg style pantomimes that are such not-trying cheap-seat pandering they seem almost the zeitgeist id puke of generative AI.

    Everything bad about fucking everything that’s bad rn, this sucks.

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  • Click

    Click

    ½

    “It’s a Wonderful Life” for assholes.

  • Spider-Man

    Spider-Man

    ★★★★

    Haven’t seen this since I was a kid. It really holds up, it’s a panacea for the maladies of modern comic-book blockbusters. The romance between MJ and Peter is actually really sweet, tender, believable in its po-faced romcom way—I was surprised by that, I assume instinctively that romances from this type of movie at this time will have a creep or compulsory factor, probably just to protect myself. It’s nice when the comic book movie hets are cute, sweet comic…

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