MallyPie

MallyPie

Favorite films

  • The Deer Hunter
  • Jaws
  • Psycho
  • Slumdog Millionaire

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  • Blood Diamond

    ★★★

  • The Imposter

    ★★

  • Uncut Gems

    ★½

  • Butcher's Crossing

    ★★½

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  • Butcher's Crossing

    Butcher's Crossing

    ★★½

    Decent acting, although at times I thought the characters were a little too animated to be believable. I thought the craziness and hallucinations of the main character sort of just came out of nowhere. I like a slow build up usually and it seemed like the insanity started purely out of getting thirsty? There just lacked a punch there and it seemed a lil silly.
    The concept of the movie was cool and I appreciated the timeless message of the…

  • Death at a Funeral

    Death at a Funeral

    Were not comedies meant to be funny?

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  • A Fish Called Wanda

    A Fish Called Wanda

    ★★

    For a comedy, the laughs were few and far between. John Cleese was a saving grace, other than him, no characters were likeable, the sub stories got too clunky and there were too many weirdly awkward ill-placed sequences that didn't add to the movie. For example, Otto torturing Ken was not funny and dragged on to long, the sexy scenes were not needed and quite immoral and Wanda's weird reactions to foreign speech???
    This was just an awkward movie with poor pacing, but with some funny bits. I don't know where the acclaim for this movie was magically conjured up from...

  • Mondo Cane

    Mondo Cane

    ½

    I only watched this because I heard it had such critical acclaim for birthing the shockumentary genre and I wanted to see what could possibly be the big whoop about it. I was only shocked by one thing and one thing only. How far we have come in terms of “shocking” material. This documentary was a bore fest from start to finish with the only slightly shocking thing being some animals being killed. Like as if animals don’t routinely get…

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