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  Primal Fear 1996

  ★★½ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  profoundly mid as a courtroom drama and a psychothriller thing but also yay omg edward norton! he was fantastic ^_^ and laura linney and richard gere were both great as well. also kind of incoherent? now i'm curious about the book

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  Blade Runner 2049 2017

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  okay i like this movie more than i like the original. i wish they had either had a more singular focus on ryan gosling's character or on being a direct sequel because they're weaving two different stories that aren't terrible individually but together are kind of a mess. love the colors and the score! i think it has a lot of the same problems as the original where there are a lot of really good building blocks but they never seem to fit them together quite right. idk! maybe if i rewatch the original for the sixth time i'll finally feel satisfied

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  Up in the Air 2009

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 May 2022

  i love this movie.

  i will not try to claim this is one of the greats. it is a very dour movie, especially in the later half of it... the movie itself undergoes the same journey ryan does, and that is remarkable? it feels like you are coming with him to the point he arrives at, that kind of dazed discontent with the life he has made for himself.

  this has plenty of offbeat moments. parts of the script are…

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  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 1986

  ★★★ Watched 31 Oct 2024

  this film does a lot of the things the first movie does well and for that i have a lot of appreciation for it. it is very tonally different, imo, though it does go back to the same black comedy at its core, this film is just a lot more insistent on hammering that home. i would truthfully kind of call it more of a comedy with gore than a horror movie? but i have strange standards for horror. with…

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