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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 1972
I think I was about 50 minutes in when I realized that I was pretty sure the main character hadn't spoken a line of dialogue yet, and then only a couple minutes passed before I thereafter realized that I couldn't remember her really saying any lines in the first movie either. So yeah, near-silent protagnist for the win?
Visually and stylistically an evolution upon the first one in a way that I couldn't be happier to see. Kept the core…
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My Dinner with Andre 1981
Not having seen this movie before but having understood so much of its place in film history and the general cultural zeitgeist, I really expected to sort of exactly know what this was gonna be when I finally got around to watching it. I was surprised to find that while in a way I was technically right, I was also really wrong in another.
The philosophical musings among the rambling and the anecdotes and the story are often very meandering,…
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Love Lies Bleeding 2024
The more I think about it the more I like it. Another triumphant victory for the sex scenes in movies crowd. Fuck whatcha heard. Bloody, nasty, sweaty, RED. The best color for a movie to be
Sometimes a movie comes along and baffles you with how up your alley it is. Like, on the money, psychic in your bedroom, the ghostly ear, bugs in your walls type shit up your alley. Sometimes it's timely, like, man, I can't believe this…
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War of the Worlds 2005
Very solid. I think the chaos this captures comes across very effectively, very real in the Hollywood sort of way. I was also surprised by how unglamorous of a Tom Cruise role this is. It has its moments, especially towards the end, but broadly he's no action star in this- debatebly he's not even a hero.
I also mostly appreciated the sort of plotlessness and lack of heroic "saving the day" story here. It felt more random, more unpredictable, like…
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