John Kling

John Kling

Favorite films

  • Napoleon Dynamite
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • Heat
  • Paper Moon

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  • Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue

    ★★½

  • Brooklyn Bridge

    ★★★★

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

    ★★★

  • Eephus

    ★★★★★

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  • Brooklyn Bridge

    Brooklyn Bridge

    ★★★★

    Laundry folding ASMR; so good

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

    The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★

    Not quite sure why a Looney Tunes movie needs 10 writers, but the chunks of this feel like a result of that.  I’m a bit of a purist with this kind of stuff, so I just don’t need to see Daffy Duck give himself a BBL for TikTok.  The bits are fairly good when they arrive, but there doesn’t need to be an emotional arc here. I understand wanting to narrativize this to justify making a full movie, but I personally…

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  • Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure

    Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure

    My devotion to the Willem Watch bit is going too far

  • Eephus

    Eephus

    ★★★★★

    But we’ll always have hot dogs, and that’s good

    Essentially a greatest hits list of things I would like in a movie of this ilk.

    Lund really captures the arbitrary and childish nature of baseball to crank up the hollow tragedy and comedy in the pastime simultaneously.  For as locked in as some try to be in the last game, half of it is spent sitting or daydreaming in the outfield with the mitt on your head.  In a world…

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