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Lost in Translation 2003
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Beautiful and heartbreaking. The loneliness and alienation are palpable. The cool hues and busy setting provide a perfect backdrop for Murray and Johansson's taboo and ultimately doomed pseudo-romance to blossom and fade away.
As with any Sofia Coppala film, the music selection is world class. The entire film is effortlessly hip, but has a genuine earnesty and vulnerability that break down any sort of pretentiousness that could otherwise be conveyed.
I find the open-ended final scene to be the most…
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Scream 1996
Upon seeing this a few years ago, I began to question why Scary Movie even got made. This is a funny take down of the genre, but also meaningfully and lovingly contributes to the cannon of horror and slasher films. It's like they made "Psycho" into an enduring teen movie classic. It is in deep conversation with both the medium of film and the genre of horror and manages to contain layers of subtext while delivering a blockbuster-style Movie Movie.
There is a reason there are like 5 sequels to this, a number of which hold up to the original.
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High Fidelity 2000
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I watched this movie obsessively as a teenager. The self-righteous hipster record story owner was for some fucking insane reason somebody I identified with. What I didn't realize at the time is how much of a loser he was and how much growing up i had to do.
I still love this movie. Its cast/soundtrack are basically unrivaled for a romantic comedy aimed at men, and Jack Black knocks his roll as a snobby record store clerk out of the…
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Hackers 1995
The plot of this movie is atrocious – childish and paper thin. The acting is extremely one-note. There are a lot of things this movies does poorly.
That being said, the vibe is immaculate, the casting is perfect, the soundtrack rips, and the wardrobe, dear god, the wardrobe, is so fucking good. This film has a lot of shortcomings, but I still find it to be enjoyable on multiple levels. Once you get past the utter stupidity of its screenplay, you can enjoy the retro futuristic portrayal of the coming millennium.
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