lisa_la_vegas

lisa_la_vegas

I’ve been watching movies since I was 2 years old so yeah, I’d say I know what I’m talking about.

Favorite films

  • Magnolia
  • Interstellar
  • What We Do in the Shadows
  • Blade Runner 2049

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  • The Twister: Caught in the Storm

    ★★★★★

  • Total Recall

    ★★★★★

  • Coherence

    ★★★★

  • They Live

    ★★★★

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  • The Twister: Caught in the Storm

    The Twister: Caught in the Storm

    ★★★★★

    Incredible documentary. 

    If you are from the Midwest, you grew up with an engrained fear of tornadoes. Everyone has a couple big storm stories under their belts, but it’s rare to have actually encountered a twister.

    This documentary does an excellent job of building suspense and then doing almost the impossible: showing how terrifying being caught in a massive tornado would be without actual footage. I mean, it’s CHILLING the way everything comes together.

    The movie follows a few key…

  • Total Recall

    Total Recall

    ★★★★★

    My OG favorite movie. My dad got in trouble to showing me this when I was a kid, but I’m glad he did because it started my love of sci-fi.

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  • It's What's Inside

    It's What's Inside

    ★★★★★

    Wow, what a thrill of a movie! Incredibly unique and inventive, increasingly high stakes and juicy twists I never saw coming. 

    I love the premise and the idea of switching into different bodies as a game - there’s an underlying anxiety that begins to build during the first switch but really picks up by the second twist. The confusion that ensues is really fun to be swept up into and I think the filmmakers do a nice job of making…

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★½

    I am really not a fan of the flick. Completely unnecessarily too long and so much dullness. We spend hours working on a single project while our main character shows us nothing of his process, his inspiration or background. He just arrives as an architect. 

    He is very unlikeable as well. Angry, arrogant, rude. There’s so little reflection on the war and its impacts on him which I would have appreciated since my grandfather escaped a similar situation to America.…