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  Blackjack 1998

  ★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

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  21/52

  Complete misfire from John Woo, in every sense. Felt like a cheap ass TV movie and after doing some digging- it was a TV movie! Blackjack lacks the finesse, intensity, and emotional weight that defines Woo's best work. Dolph Lundgren is scared of a color... that's the plot. The color white just terrifies and shuts down the badass.

  Blackjack is ultimately a dull, lifeless, disappointment. It’s a far cry from Woo's Hong Kong masterpieces and even his Hollywood blockbusters, feeling more like a rough draft than a fully realized film.

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  Off Limits 1988

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

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  20/52

  Mean ass Vietnam-set crime thriller. Off Limits doesn't bother with much battlefield action opting instead for the moral rot beneath the surface of the U.S. military presence in Saigon. An early and forgotten role from Willem Dafoe where he's less unhinged. Him and Gregory Hines set a sort of buddy cop/detective style balancing cynical humor with growing frustration as their investigation gets messier and messier.

  Under them is a remarkable supporting cast of classic bad dudes to set the world of a war-torn city where justice is nearly impossible and survival is never guaranteed.

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Sep 2024 4

  This is it- possibly the DEFINITIVE body horror film. At least the best since Cronenberg's remake of The Fly. I haven't been rocked by a film like this in an extremely long time.

  The Substance is suffocating, anxiety-inducing, disgusting, just a whole long list of a confused state of emotions. I promise you have never experienced a film like this and it's going to be landing in horror history for decades. Here you'll find one of the most vile lifeforms…

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  Phenomena 1985

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Jan 2019

  Hearing Iron Maiden's "Flash of the Blade" while seeing a flash of a blade was greatly satisfying.

  Standard Argento fanfare to be found here. His incredible scores, beautiful lighting, and that climax was something else. Absolutely wild.