James

James Patron

Favorite films

  • Sherlock Jr.
  • The General
  • Le Bonheur
  • Notorious

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  • Take Out

    ★★★½

  • The Grapes of Wrath

    ★★★★

  • Crossing Delancey

    ★★★★½

  • Desperate Living

    ★★★★

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  • The Grapes of Wrath

    The Grapes of Wrath

    ★★★★

    Basically John Ford remade Stagecoach, but instead of Native Americans the passengers are trying to outrun capitalism.

  • Alien³

    Alien³

    ★★½

    Props to Fincher for going hard on the darkness and nihilism. Makes sense when Ripley is basically going through all this for a third time and if the movie was better it would have made a nice ending to the trilogy of the first three.

    The messiness behind production though spills out in almost every scene. A religious angle that goes nowhere, a sexual assault scene that adds nothing, CGI Aliens that look horrible, and an end "showdown" scene that…

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  • Point Blank

    Point Blank

    ★★★★★

    A noir that has a Tati obsession with people trapped in a cold architectural landscape. Hell one of the pivotal scenes at the end is at what’s basically a corporate retreat center.

  • The Doom Generation

    The Doom Generation

    ★★★½

    I feel like I never have to watch another 90s movie again.