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  Can't Stop the Music 1980

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  What do the stars even mean on these Letterboxd reviews? I mean, if you're reading this you either know me or you're thinking I'm being facetious or ironic or are some kind of Village People fanatic, or a combination of all of those. Honestly, I think rating movies with stars makes little sense. At least here, I'm not being ironic (and I'm certainly no VP superfan, though after this movie that seems like fun) because the five stars reflects the…

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  Sunset Boulevard 1950

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 24 Mar 2025

  Probably my favorite work fantasy comes from Billy Wilder's "Sunset Blvd." It would be to have a little office with a big window on the Paramount lot during the golden days of the studio system, plugging away at screenplays with collaborators. I wouldn't need an Oscar, wouldn't at all desire fame, would need just enough money to get a little house in LA, and I'd probably have a few pulpy mysteries under my belt that I'd published with Ace or…

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  Boogie Nights 1997

  ★ Watched 03 Mar 2025 6

  BOOGIE NIGHTS IS AWFUL!!!! THIS MOVIE IS SO GOOD IT SELLS OUT EVERY TIME THE TRYLON SHOWS IT AND SO I CAN'T SEE IT SO I HATE IT! TO HELL WITH YOU PTA!!!

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  Blue Velvet 1986

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2025 2

  Saw this at the Heights Theater with three people in their 20s and a man in his 50s who had never seen it, and they all freaked out. One thought it was "evil", and one had to get up and pace in the back of the theater until Frank was done whipping Jeffrey's ass. Incredible.

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