jadesg1

jadesg1

mostly iphone notes and highly subjective bad takes

Favorite films

  • Amélie
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Slumdog Millionaire
  • My Cousin Vinny

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  • Y2K

    ★★★★½

  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    ★★★

  • Nosferatu

    ★★★

  • Conclave

    ★★★★

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★

    If you like this movie there’s no reason you shouldn’t like Van Helsing (2004).

  • Y2K

    Y2K

    ★★★★½

    “Without Limp, I’m nothing.”

    notes from my iphone while watching: 
    - So many people in my hometown had Y2K shelters 
    - I love Julian Dennison, he’s so funny
    - Eduardo Franco is also hilarious 
    - No shot a charismatic Māori Kiwi exchange student who knows the Thong Song is considered a loser at any American high school - he would rule that place, handily 
    - That Bill Clinton video would not load that fast and in its entirety on AOL…

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  • Conclave

    Conclave

    ★★★★

    My husband and I accidentally watched this with absolutely zero subtitles. None. For Latin, Italian, or Spanish. I have intermediate Spanish and self-study of Latin roots. My partner has high school Italian. And we sorted it. Liked this movie a lot but also elevated because it was a very engaging mental exercise.

  • Sweet Home Alabama

    Sweet Home Alabama

    ★★★★

    “Oh go back to your double-wide and fry something!”

    This movie, hypothetically, would be really triggering if you grew up in double-wide in a podunk American town with a bar that served $3 tallboys and had budweiser tins all over the wood-paneled walls and your high school was the biggest building in the whole town and the most fun thing to do on the weekends was take your lifted trucks muddin’, and then later you moved to the city and…

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