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  Whiplash 2014

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Mar 2025

  This is an A rating. I gave this movie this high rating because it unintentionally became so f-ing funny, even though it wasn’t supposed to be. If you have no musical background and maybe therefor don’t see the absurdity of it, this movie would also work as A- drama

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  21 2008

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Mar 2025

  This is a B rating. Entertaining story of a genius nerd and his unlikely success with a crooked MIT math professor and a team of other nerds. Nothing especially deep in the plot, or unexpected. Two huge distractions: 1) Kevin Spacey cancelled and 2) I couldn’t help thinking throughout the movie about how economically vengeful monied nerds have become. Revenge of the Nerds is real!

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  1984 1985

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Jun 2023 4

  THIS REVIEW IS NOT FOR THIS FILM!!
  I watched the version of ‘1984’ a British film that was directed, coincidentally in 1984, by Michael Radford that I couldn’t find it Letterboxd’s data set.
  Gritty, depressing,graphic, VERY slow, continuously tense, shot in Black-and-White in bombed-out London (I didn’t even know London still had places that looked like that!)—perfect for reflecting Owell’s dystopian future. I wonder if other movie versions would require less working knowledge of the novel itself to help understand the plot. Since I read the novel I enjoyed this movie quite a bit

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  Roar 1981

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Apr 2024

  This is a B+ rating. This movie, and thus the rating, is very difficult to explain. For watching One Hundred Big Cats in real captivity-life, interacting with humans and each other uniquely authentically in violent-to-affectionate ways—it is crazy stupid and UNPARALLELED for sure. That alone is the real reason to watch this film. That part is an A+

  Secondarily to that, is the reality that ALL of the actors, big and small, in this film are playing quasi-autobiographical roles—and that…

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