“We was beat when we was born.”
This movie goes hard. GENERAL STROOIIIKE!
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Blue Steel 1990
I feel dumb having watched this without having seen any of the Dirty Harry or Death Wish movies since it seems to be in direct conversation with them, but I still found this to be a mostly swift and confident vigilante cop subversion that targets weak, toxic masculinity more so than any real interrogation of police brutality or corruption.
That said, this does examine the sexual politics of power and the fetishization of violence. However, this — like the entirety of the…
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To Live and Die in L.A. 1985
This was a fun watch. Nice pacing. Awesome cast. Not only do we get baby Willem Dafoe as a queer-coded artist, counterfeiter, and all-time great gentleman criminal, we get baby John Turturro and baby Jane Leeves as a silent but simmering sexpot and secondary femme fatale — Niles would lose his shit! Also, this is technically a Christmas movie.
Although Friedkin does a masterful job of establishing mood and tone, this is played a bit too straight for me to…
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RoboCop 1987
I don’t usually log rewatches nor do I count them for my yearly tally, but somehow I don’t think I’ve rewatched this since watching it when I was too young to remember it. I remember the toys and a video game and astonishingly also a cartoon — all aimed at kids and based off this incredibly violent and pointed satire of privatization!
The cast is stellar and littered by great TV dads.
Lee Iacocca Elementary School is hilarious, and so…
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