Mattyj612

Mattyj612

Favorite films

  • Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
  • The Big Short
  • The Social Network

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  • Spotlight

    ★★★½

  • Killers of the Flower Moon

  • Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

  • Women Talking

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  • Killers of the Flower Moon

    Killers of the Flower Moon

    With each passing day it becomes more miraculous to me that Martin Scorcese had the opportunity to make a movie where Leonardo DiCaprio is the hard-hitting FBI agent who investigates these murders but instead chose to make this far more complex and affecting and haunting story. I've thought about it almost every day. Lily Gladstone is incredible.

  • Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

    Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

    Things this film made me think about:

    1) What could I possibly be doing on a phone or laptop that is more valuable than what Robert Caro does with a pencil and a typewriter?

    2) It is deeply worthwhile to find the thing you, and only you, can do, then devote yourself completely to it.

    3) My job as a writer is to show how things really work. To strip back abstraction, metaphor, and hyperbole, and to remain grounded in…

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  • Kill Bill: Vol. 2

    Kill Bill: Vol. 2

    ★★★★

    Kung Fu master with whispy beard was good, but it can't stack up to the hour-long Japanese restaurant massacre scene from the first film.

  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    ★★★★½

    This movie drew my attention to an under-discussed social phenomenon: the assassin gender gap.

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