fishngritz

fishngritz

Favorite films

  • Barry Lyndon
  • Beau Travail
  • Sorcerer
  • Day of Wrath

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  • Melancholia

    ★★★★★

  • Senritsu Kaiki File Super Kowa Too! Dark Mystery: Snake Woman

    ★★★★½

  • Senritsu Kaiki File Super Kowa Too! Fear Adventure: Kokkuri-san

    ★★★

  • Violence Voyager

    ★★★½

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  • Melancholia

    Melancholia

    ★★★★★

    there's only been about eight legitimate masterpieces made in the last twenty years and this is one of them

  • Bodies Bodies Bodies

    Bodies Bodies Bodies

    ★½

    Here's my pitch as a screenwriter for the sequel, just spitballing some fresh topical dialogue here for my fellow youths:
    - Maybe before shooting someone a character could say "trigger warning"
    - after killing someone "you got cancelled"
    - on seeing a dead body "same"

    This is just a taste of my satirical prowess and it's pretty "lit" if I don't say so myself. Hollywood please hire me I'm the voice of a generation

    (flip flopping between one and a half stars or two stars because Rachel Sennot gives a strong comedic performance despite the screenplay)

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★½

    A beat for beat remake of Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula which is drained of all vigor and voluptuousness, with all the colour sapped out and replaced with a dreary blue-filter, the handcrafted horror-vacuii cinematography subbed out for an production line of flat sterile symmetrical compositions so you know this is a Very Serious Capital-F Film made in the year 2024. Where Coppola understood the goofiness and embraced it lovingly this Film is desperately po-faced, devoid of any humor, seemingly afraid…

  • Spring Breakers

    Spring Breakers

    ★★★★★

    How does this have such a low rating?? 2.8 stars out of 5?! Are you serious? What the hell happened to us? What happened to the American dream??

    That such a profoundly prescient movie about the nascent Trump era, of American one dimensionality in the Obama years, should get so little respect is appalling. I recall when this came out a common complaint I heard was that it was too "zeitgeisty", too of its time. Well watch it again now,…