Absolutely killer drama where it seems like each shot and line of dialogue exposes a character attempting to not expose themselves. Every secret and decision seems to simmer just below the surface and Yang reveals them in ways that make every emotion jump. Yang Yang is the anchor we all need in our lives!
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The Brutalist 2024
I was waffling between 4 and 4.5, but Corbet sets up such an ambitious scale and topic then nails it, so I have to go with the latter.
This has the amazing effect of showing history happen to the characters and it compresses the personal choices, personal and community politics, the relationship of people to art, and the issues with giving historical narrative to the material world in all these powerful scenes. For example, I feel like it’s easy to…
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The Thing 1982
John Carpenter is the king of the 80s imo. He’s able to infuse the cheese of the decade with legitimately great work. This one also frames rooms in an awesome way.
Not important but always fun to remember that the kids in Halloween are watching the 1950s version of this a few years before Carpenter does the remake.
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Road House 1989
The action movie of action movies. Nothing has captured and embraced the insanity of the American action movie like Road House.
Perhaps it’s combo of men in bars getting mad at each other leading to violence, amoral businessmen, and a hero with a vague troubling background but everyone wants to fuck him anyway. Not to mention lines like “the only thing missing from my trophy room is your ass”.
American action cinema has been chasing this high for 50 years and will be chasing it for at least 50 more!
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