I went to Film School™. My favorite genre is John Carpenter.
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Stop Making Sense 1984
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
During "Take Me to the River," the camera pushes in on David Byrne removing his iconic giant suit jacket. It lingers on him, now in a form-fitting white button-down, for just long enough that you clock it and think, "Oh, I guess giant suit time is over!" And once you've accepted it, Demme cuts to a wide shot revealing Byrne is still sporting giant cartoon pants, the waist perfectly floating like a hula-hoop around his trim figure. It may just…
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The Player 1992
“I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we’ve got something here.”
Michael Tolkin wrote The Player 35 years ago. It's as if Hollywood has been dreaming of this moment or something?!? WOOOOOF!!!
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A Very Nutty Christmas 2018
This would've been five stars if they woulda made the nutcracker man crack the nuts with his mouth rather than his hands. Just imagine a guy chomp, chomp, chomping out nuts for the bakery to put into their cookies, these cowards couldn't even dare it.
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Bad Girls 1994
Mary Stuart Masterson tells someone to "Keep the change, you sawed-off fart!" and it's all I've been able to think about for two full days.
It was so bizarre that I rewound it, loudly querying "Did she just say 'Keep the change, you SAWED-OFF FART!'?!?!?!" Subtitles confirmed it: "Keep the change, you sawed-off fart."
I wondered, is that a legit phrase and I've just never heard it before? I mean, it makes zero sense, but neither do a lot of…
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