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Rumble in the Bronx 1995
This movie is batshit insane. I love the comically expositional dialogue at the beginning (“You are my uncle!”) and the constant overdubs. This is clearly a Hong Kong/Canadian perspective on early 1990’s NYC culture. Street violence is portrayed as cartoonishly akin to a Ninja Turtles-style interpretation of gangs (real ‘let me attem, boss!’ energy.)
You start this experience thinking it’s accessible in a family friendly way, but it quickly becomes gory and violent. When a 3rd entity enters (the suit-clad,…
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Bound 1996
It’s the age old dilemma: you want to watch a lesbian movie with intentionally campy, iconic dialogue but also want to watch a dude get interrogated by the mafia slamming his head into a toilet a few times. Now you don’t have to choose. A stylistically near-perfect and masterfully nuanced 90’s noir, Bound is a wonderful blend of queer humor and lots of mob-centric violent crime. Unsurprisingly, I love Bound and generally can’t wait to watch it again (which I inevitably…
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Death Proof 2007
This is my other favorite Tarantino flick behind the KB volumes and is inexplicably one he does not much like himself. I think it’s an almost perfect film, with some flops in the way women are portrayed in a movie exclusively about women and why most men are bad (all men are bad in this movie lol.)
The whole cast is incredible, with Kurt Russell being the best evil, charismatic loner dude that you can imagine.
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