Troy Looper

Troy Looper

Favorite films

  • Spirited Away
  • Phantom Thread
  • Dune
  • TÁR

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  • Conclave

    ★★★★

  • Queen of the Ring

    ★★½

  • Novocaine

    ★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

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  • Queen of the Ring

    Queen of the Ring

    ★★½

    Pretty awful biopic slop in what is actually a fairly interesting story that was done absolutely no favors by a terrible script. The kind of movie where if I was watching on my TV at home, I would be on my phone the whole time or would have just turned it off. Doesn’t get remotely interesting until late into the third act. Mildred Burke deserves better.

  • Novocaine

    Novocaine

    ★★

    Watched the early access screening and was ready for this one to end long before the credits rolled. It’s got some funny moments and I expected it to be silly fun, but when all character logic is thrown out the window to serve the poorly written plot, it wears on you. Eventually, I hit a wall where I was rolling my eyes more than I was laughing. It’s hard to turn my brain off when care wasn’t taken to even…

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  • Challengers

    Challengers

    ★★★★½

    Ya this fucks. The dramatic 90s house music score was an incredible choice. I was listening to it on repeat the rest of the night. The chemistry the three of them had, but especially the boys was crazy. With so many time jumps back and forth, the story could have easily been messy, but it worked really well. So much messy drama and humor in the best of ways. Shout out to Luca for going so hard on the tennis…

  • Top Gun

    Top Gun

    ★★½

    Much gayer than I remembered. It’s excellent as far as propaganda goes, but as an actual film, it’s narrative and writing are pretty bad, even for the 80s. Still, it’s a fun watch and fighter jets are cool as hell. 

    Long live Goose.

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