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Inland Empire is wacky. First of all, that shit-ass camera. The whole 3 hours looks like an HGTV program from the early 2000s, not a feature length movie released in theaters. It seems fitting for Lynch to cap off his feature-length filmography exactly how it started; weird as fuck. There’s a long, slow conversation at the start in which Polish Grace Zabriskie talks to Laura Dern very cryptically that is quite frankly uncomfortable to watch. It takes like an hour…
There are some movies that I like to leave reviews for, and some that I don’t. It tends to form a bell curve if you look at the length of some reviews I write, compared to my ratings of them. My favorite rating is the 8/10, which, in my mind, is just plain ol’ “good.” I’ve seen a lot of 8/10s, and most of those reviews are pretty substantial. Sometimes, I’ll watch a real stinker, and be blown away by…
Movie Missionthon, Part Ghost Protocol:
And so, M:I in the modern era. Not bad at all, and managed to retain some of the goofiness and humor, just enough for me to like the non-excessive comedic bits that can easily be attributed to legitimate points mentioned in the movie. Brad Bird managed to slip in a Room A113 at Caltech reference, though, which was pretty interesting considering this was his live-action directorial debut. I like the callbacks to previous movies, and…
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Lost Highway is a weird movie. Bill Pullman’s saxophone is pretty good, but I am confused as to why his jazz was very intense. One thing that sort of off-putting was how to whole story changed spontaneously, but it makes up for it by the second story also being very interesting (dare I say more interesting than the Pullman opener) and also still connected to the mystery set up with Pullman’s character. Balthazar Getty plays a confusing character, but he…