madcap989

madcap989

A very opinionated person in search of an outlet

Favorite films

  • American Beauty
  • 8½
  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

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  • Memoir of a Snail

    ★★★★

  • The Wild Robot

    ★★★★

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    ★★★★½

  • Hoodwinked!

    ★★½

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  • Memoir of a Snail

    Memoir of a Snail

    ★★★★

    Quirky and dark and sweet and hopeful and Australian (re: alcoholism)

  • The Wild Robot

    The Wild Robot

    ★★★★

    (If anyone actually reads this please just remember I’m annoying)

    I can not say I particularly enjoyed that Roz’s journey to sentience was reached through motherhood. Forced motherhood, at that… I know I’m reading into it but given the political climate it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I keep trying to tell myself that it’s not “motherhood” per say, but rather the discovery of found family and community that give Roz her heart, and while that does…

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  • Babylon

    Babylon

    ★★★★★

    Rewatched. This movie starts with an elephant shitting and somehow manages to consistently oneup itself, building upon the chaos until crescendoing into a grandiose, bombastic climax. And yet the climax seems to be the thing people have the most gripe with. How else could this movie have ended??????? Where else could it have gone??????????? The whole point of the movie is that these people go through hell just to put their teeny tiny finger print on an ever-changing, never-ending industry…

  • The Iron Claw

    The Iron Claw

    ★★★★

    “Why are you sad?”

    “I think it’s because I used to be a brother, and now I’m not.” 

    I’m not a brother or a wrestler but I am a sister with a athlete father who pushed my brother and me to be the best at our athletic endeavors as we could possibly be (albeit never to this extent.) Our siblings really are our longest and truest friends.

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