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Heat 1995
I watched The Searchers for the first time recently. I don’t know how closely related the two pictures are, but Ethan’s inability to change and toxic masculinity made me want to rewatch Heat, my favorite film.
Heat is set in modern-day Los Angeles and the police are heavily militarized, but Hanna and McCauley are really just playing cops and robbers. They are archetypes. The world has moved on without them but they refuse to adapt because they are defined by their…
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Conclave 2024
Content-wise this was straight up my alley and I absolutely gobbled it up. Fiennes is COOKING in this one and the whole cast did a great job. I felt like each character was complex and richly realized. That's why I was a little bummed out by the dialogue, which squanders the morally and intellectually rich subject matter. It's all thesis-antithesis, broad strokes of liberal vs. conservative, idealist vs. pragmatist, etc., and ya boi needed some synthesis. I suppose that would've fundamentally changed its audience appeal. In any case, I had a great time and wish I could've caught this in a theater with a crowd.
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Crimson Tide 1995
Denzel and Hackman are cooking and the Zimmer score rips. Tony Scott doing interesting things as usual, but it's all a bit too conservative and stuffed with military jargon for me to fully get on board.
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Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas 2022
Oh you own a music store? Name every song.
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Jackass Number Two 2006
a bunch of quirked up white boys, with a little bit of swag, busting it down sexual style.
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