jpar76

jpar76

I hope the Documentary Blog isn't dead

Favorite films

  • The Thin Blue Line
  • Life Itself
  • The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
  • Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

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  • Harmontown

    ★★★★

  • The Bounty

    ★★★½

  • Life Itself

    ★★★★★

  • Inherent Vice

    ★★★★

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  • Harmontown

    Harmontown

    ★★★★

    Harmontown is a funny, candid and self-reflexive documentary.

  • The Bounty

    The Bounty

    ★★★½

    The Bounty is a picturesque film with wonderful, naked, Polynesian breasts aplenty, but I wish they had spent more time playing up how badass Lieutenant Bligh was for successfully navigating 2700 miles to Australia in a fucking rowboat from the middle of the fucking Pacific Ocean with most of his crew intact. The mutineers killed each other off within a few years, but Lt. Bligh became Admiral of the Blue or some shit. Fletcher Christian and the rest of those disloyal cunts can eat a dick.

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  • Reality Bites

    Reality Bites

    ★★

    This film has been on my to-do list for years. I love The Ben Stiller Show and I love what I know about American culture in the early 90s, but this largely humorless romantic comedy makes me glad I was stuck in a rural town playing with Ninja Turtle action figures and watching The Power Rangers in 1994.

    If this film is the epitome of Generation-X, as it's purported to be, then I am fucking glad I missed out. Everyone…

  • Scanners

    Scanners

    ★★★★★

    It may be a commentary on the power of the downtrodden members of our society, or an attack on the ever expanding pharmaceutical industry, but I really don't give two fucks about either of those two options. David Cronenberg blows up some shitty Canadian actor's head within the first 15 minutes of the movie, and somehow doesn't manage to blow his load. From this shocking, awe inspiring scene, Cronenberg does not even fucking tap the brakes. Continually expanding upon the…