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  It's a Wonderful Life 1946

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 24 Dec 2024

  Not only is It's a Wonderful Life a moving and deeply engaging, motivating and inspiring classic, but it's an inimitable achievement of its time and a beautiful representation of the strength of character and community. Though I feel other films of its era are often more impressive in ingenuity, or written with more overt brilliance and wit, or have greater and more impressive feats to their credit, no other has prompted such an enduring impression over countless revisits over the…

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  ME 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Dec 2024

  I've seen this about five times now. I'm still not sure what to think of it. But it's extremely thought-provoking... there's something about it. It packs more ideas into twenty minutes than most movies seem capable of addressing in the course of two hours.

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  The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer 1947

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Apr 2014

  "You remind of a man."
  "What man?"
  "Man with the power."
  "What power?"
  "Power of hoodoo."
  "Hoodoo?"
  "You do."
  "Do what?"
  "Remind me of a man..."

  I watched this film because of the quote above.
  While it's certainly not one of the early greats, nor is it especially memorable, it's still rather entertaining. To be honest I've never been fond of Cary Grant and always found him to be very monotone, and in this film he was still monotone. But aside from that, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is a clever, decent film.

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  The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Apr 2014 5

  "...Did you just throw my cat out the window?"

  STORY 5/5
  WRITING 5/5
  ACTING 5/5
  MUSIC 5/5
  CINEMATOGRAPHY 5/5

  Wes Anderson still has a perfect track record. This did not disappoint in the slightest. It exceeded all my expectations. Seriously. Wow.
  My gosh.
  WOW.
  Dem aspect ratios, man. Dat lighting. Dat awesomeness.
  Dat quirkiness.
  Dat beauty.
  The story is easily Wes Anderson's darkest, most violent, and probably the film with the most moving parts. Tons of characters with great development.…