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  Sons of Steel 1989

  ★★★½ Watched 30 Mar 2025

  There's lots of good (or at least interesting) stuff in this. The main guy Rob Hartley is also so fucking ugly and his music is so bad it's intriguing in a Tommy Wiseau kind of way. It's honestly incredible just how 180-degree wrong Hartley's and the film as a whole's instincts are regarding what makes for "cool" dialogue, line delivery, and performance. 

  Very curious about who this fucking Rob Hartley guy is and how this film came to be produced

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  Hundreds of Beavers 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Mar 2025

  crowdpleaser

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  Alice 1988

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  I had some serious anxiety about Alice getting tetanus watching this. ALICE is filled to the brim with stuff: old stuff, worn stuff, rusty stuff. It's an aesthetic I can't recall ever seeing exactly like this before. The film's fascination with decrepit objects produces a nightmarish effect when juxtaposed with a child wandering through its world. For instance, the white rabbit of Lewis Carroll's original text is in ALICE a ripped taxidermied rabbit, spilling and eating his sawdust guts wherever…

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  Faust 1926

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  I was amazed by the scale of this film. The special effects are crazy good-- I was unsure how several of the shots were created. The film is bookended by conversations between God and Satan, and it doesn't resort to abstraction. The pacing's a little wonky, and the film could benefit from a tighter running time, but when it's firing on all cylinders FAUST (1926) is like few films I've seen. The summoning of Mephisto scene is especially dope.