joelbatham

joelbatham

Favorite films

  • Casino
  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • Unforgiven
  • Wings of Desire

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  • Blow

    ★★

  • Bringing Up Baby

    ★★★★★

  • My Favorite Wife

  • Mickey 17

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  • Blow

    Blow

    ★★

    Incredible that a 2 hour movie about large scale drug smuggling feels this bloody slow. The coked-up monologue about whether or not Diego was still George’s “brother” was pretty fucking annoying. Big fan of how George just drifts around like “I’m just trying to make a little bit of cash and everybody is being mean to me ☹️” — you are a cocaine trafficker brother!

  • Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

    Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

    A movie about a bit of light cuckolding and taking your black maid’s intellectual property to further your own career

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  • The Adventures of Robin Hood

    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    ★★★★★

    No wonder my grandma talks about Errol Flynn so much

  • Maestro

    Maestro

    ★★★

    I think it’s nice that he loved his wife 🙂

    The narrative is well constructed and the pacing is solid, you get a strong sense of moments in the lead characters’ lives without getting bogged down. Occasionally the writing is a bit on the nose (sitting next to Felicia during their courtship, Leonard says “I want a whole lotta things”. Cut to a sailor dancing as he leans in and stares). For better and worse every shot and flourish of…

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