Jake Parkin

Jake Parkin

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Favorite films

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Chinatown
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • Rear Window

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • The Boondock Saints

    ★★

  • Fargo

    ★★★½

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★

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  • The Boondock Saints

    The Boondock Saints

    ★★

    Film was bad but Willem Dafoe’s hair in this is my dream

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★

    Honestly,
    It wasn't long enough.

    The Brutalist at its core is a film about art, the struggle of creating art and the pain & experiences that goes into art told in a post WWII America at the height of promotion for the "American Dream" where the first half sells it to you as a story of an immigrant coming into a country of prosperity and hope in the face of struggle & the second half brings it all crashing down.

    This film…

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  • Joker: Folie à Deux

    Joker: Folie à Deux

    ★★

    Got the 4DX experience because the guy next to me just randomly burst out laughing about half way through

  • Poor Things

    Poor Things

    ★★½

    I will start this review by saying I am not a fan of Yorgos Lanthimos. I find his films to be incredibly self indulgent and messy.

    Poor Things is no different, the film portrays itself as a powerful feminist film but instead of actually exploring said feminism in a interesting or nuanced way Lanthimos says fuck that and throws in 20 sex scenes.

    I understand the point of them is to show men taking advantage of a woman who doesn’t…

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