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  The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  an absolute fucking miracle. laugh out loud funny, uses 2D animation as an art rather than purely a medium (every single farmer jim moment made me laugh harder than the last) and manages to make the most looney tunes-feeling movie since what’s up doc? while only needing to use two characters rather than the entire stable. and neither of those characters are bugs bunny. kinda like how there are full muppet movies anchored by gonzo and rizzo instead of kermit.

  anyway if…

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  Amadeus 1984

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  4k restoration of the original theatrical cut at the aero and you know what? i think i might like the director’s cut a little more. it’s a long movie as-is, and maybe there’s a “definitive cut” out there that includes more of the character development and fleshed-out subplots but still maybe shaves 5-10 off the director’s cut runtime?

  i mostly missed salieri being more of a dick — in this he’s still tortured by jealousy, but we don’t see him…

Popular reviews

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  The Beach Boys 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 21 May 2024 3

  it’s a near-impossible task to tell the story of any legendary band in under two hours, let alone one with as complex a history as the beach boys.

  the pros? for one, the film does not shy away from controversy, be it murry wilson’s physical and emotional abuse (even playing clips from the fabled “help me rhonda” session tape) or the band’s association with charles manson, going so far as to call explicit attention to the manson song they released…

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  ¡Three Amigos! 1986

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 25 Sep 2021

  this isn’t the funniest movie of all time, and yet, there isn’t a funnier movie in existence.