not 100% onboard with a complete reclamation of this BUT everyone at some point MUST see this in a movie theater and get shushed by a dick in front of you twice AND have someone yell “she IS a girl!” at the screen (gifting me with perhaps the worst case of secondhand embarrassment perhaps of all time… thank u for that fellow patron of the cinema…) anyways yes it’s true i think everyone should be legally required to watch the…
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Blue Velvet 1986
forever holds such a special place in my heart, to me the best example of lynch’s special way of making certain scenes 100 years long
tbh i think most discussion of lynch’s “conservatism” is vastly overstated/oversimplified, sound off in the comments!
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016
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kinda NUTS how some of the most revered comic books/comic book-adjacent media is centered around a real hatred of comic books? and I mean, fair enough I guess, but most of that stuff kinda sucks! I think what’s central in this failure is that the antagonism these works have for their source material leaves them feeling a bit hollow. like, stripped of its novelty, the book of watchmen is an anti-establishment piece that doesn’t elaborate on…
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Trap 2024
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a bleak update on split’s thesis that shouldn’t be confused for a simple reprise. the raw nerve shyamalan hit on with mcavoy in 2015 has now calcified, and similarly, hartnett’s more understated (though i might say equally brilliant) cooper is fractured not by circumstance but by choice. this is a man who has to work very hard (blue collar legend that he is) to maintain a psychological splintering within himself and he is a “good dad” because this is what you have…
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