johnodrake

johnodrake

Favorite films

  • It's Such a Beautiful Day
  • Howl's Moving Castle
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • The Truman Show

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  • Malignant

    ★★★

  • Fight Club

    ★★★★

  • The Wind Rises

    ★★★★

  • Dune

    ★★★★

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  • Malignant

    Malignant

    ★★★

    Now that’s malignant

  • Fight Club

    Fight Club

    ★★★★

    The casting director really said, “the hottest person we can find is Brad Pitt and the lamest person we can find is Edward Norton let’s make a movie”

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  • The Wind Rises

    The Wind Rises

    ★★★★

    Studio ghibli reigning it in with a genuine banger of a love story. The visuals are as gorgeous as the story, and as one of ghibli’s simpler endeavors it just does everything so well.

  • tick, tick... BOOM!

    tick, tick... BOOM!

    ★★★★

    Jonathan Larson was a real bohemian and this film takes you through every sacrifice, compromise, and concession that someone devoted to this lifestyle has to go through. Larson goes through situations so dramatic it’s hard to believe that his tragic tale of resilience and his unrelenting strive towards art, came from a real person. The integration of Larson’s music into the biographical story of his life had a profoundly relatable effect that most any writer, artist, or person could grasp…

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