Dividing my time between a 2008 Buster Keaton web forum, a semi-annual James Stewart support group, and a mail-in Clint Eastwood fan club.
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The General 1926
In addition to all of Buster Keaton’s crazy stunts throughout his body of work, I’m so continuously impressed by how this dude can start and stop a train on a fucking dime. And the way he so effortlessly climbs up and over all the train cars time and time again. What an athlete man, generational talent.
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Mickey 17 2025
Joins the likes of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Starship Troopers as a cinematic vessel that uses an ill-intentioned and misguided war on bugs to communicate the doomed and ironic nature of our current political landscape. Right down to the red hats (and a sequence that was eerily similar to one particular assassination attempt this past summer), Bong Joon-ho brings his signature critiques of the aristocracy and sympathy for those being exploited. Which is all supported by a…
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Straight Up 2019
The audacity to complain about a character never saying “We need to talk about Kevin” in We Need to Talk About Kevin and then never have a character say “Straight up.”
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