millydev

millydev

Favorite films

  • The Departed
  • The Master
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Django Unchained

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  • Evil Dead II

    ★★★★

  • The Departed

    ★★★★★

  • The Wind That Shakes the Barley

    ★★★★★

  • Behind the Curve

    ★★★

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  • Evil Dead II

    Evil Dead II

    ★★★★

    Still fun!
    I think a lot about how, like John Wick (and Ellen Ripley, at least from her perspective), Ash’s experience in these movies takes course over, at most, a week or two. That’s gotta suck

  • The Departed

    The Departed

    ★★★★★

    “Business is bad? You opened a store in an Irish neighborhood. These are dirty, dirty people. Sell potatoes, I don’t know what you’re gonna do.”

    Rewatching this today because at its core, St. Patrick’s Day is a holiday not for the Irish, but for Irish-Americans. Where do you think all the snakes went?

    Movie about irrational violence and racism, police corruption, and lying. In other words, the Irish-American experience.

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  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★½

    Cut out my favorite storyline but proves Villeneuve understands the meaning of Dune: converting to Islam and doing drugs with your mom

  • Godzilla vs. Kong

    Godzilla vs. Kong

    ★★★½

    One of the better films in the MonsterVerse, Godzilla vs Kong delivers on the premise of its title. It gives a definitive winner, but falls into the trap that all these matchup movies fall into by needing a greater evil for the heroes to ultimately defeat. Whereas in a movie like Batman v. Superman, the human heroes act irrationally up until the last minute to fight the threat, this “twist” is less effective in a kaiju movie where there should…