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Movies are kinda neat I guess.

“I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.”

Favorite films

  • Mulholland Drive
  • Fallen Angels
  • Cure
  • The Sacrifice

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  • Naked Killer

    ★★★½

  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    ★★★½

  • My Darling Clementine

    ★★★★½

  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

    ★★★★

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  • Paris, Texas

    Paris, Texas

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Cure

    Cure

    ★★★★★

    "The water will make you calm. It will make you happy, empty. You will be born again, just like me."

    A lighter 

    An X on the wall

    A gramophone 

    One thing among many that strikes me with this film is the incredible use of sound. In the films opening alone, we get a brutal, no nonsense killing conducted by a calm man with whimsical music playing. A haunting juxtaposition between the audio and visual. Many bits of audio are used…

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  • Naked Killer

    Naked Killer

    ★★★½

    “Are you training me to be a killer or a prostitute?”

    “The tricks of the trade are the same.”

    An incredibly over the top, really well shot erotic thriller with some fun action and really great squibs, love the ending here as well. 

    There’s also a scene in this where a police officer accidentally eats a victims severed penis…

  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    ★★★½

    "And the Lord spake, saying, ''First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards…

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  • Barry Lyndon

    Barry Lyndon

    ★★★★★

    I know I’m a bit of a Kubrick fanboy as evident by all of my profile, but god every out of this film is done BEAUTIFULLY. Every frame looks like a painting and the story is so engrossing that the 3 hour runtime feels more like an hour and a half.

  • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

    The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

    ★★★★

    “Jane, since I've met you, I've noticed things that I never knew were there before... birds singing, dew glistening on a newly formed leaf, stoplights.”

    Absolutely wonderful, chock full of so many jokes I feel like missed some while laughing, the scenes where Frank came back to the police station are such a good reoccurring bit. 

    OJ Simpsons second best showcase of his acting ability behind the trial