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pad95

watchin bad films and writing worse reviews

Favorite films

  • Being John Malkovich
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

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  • The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

    ★★★★½

  • Fantastic Planet

    ★★★★½

  • Hard Truths

    ★★★★

  • But I'm a Cheerleader

    ★★★★

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  • The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

    The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

    ★★★★½

    Nice to see Elrond before the exertions of the second and third ages wore down his whimsy

  • Fantastic Planet

    Fantastic Planet

    ★★★★½

    Perfect balance between whimsical and nightmarishly haunting 🫶

    Also some fun new concepts for us :
    Subjugating others = bad
    Two-state solutions can work

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  • Saltburn

    Saltburn

    ★★½

    New year, new letterboxd motivation.

    Saltburn was okay, don't love the gimmick where the protagonist/ antagonist explains the opening using a current voiceover to refer to events in the past, but at least this one was done with a bit of a twist.

    Thought the script was genuinely funny (is this a dark comedy?) and obviously if you're setting a film in a location like Saltburn you have ample opportunity to have beautiful shots and boy did they have fun…

  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

    Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

    ★★★★★

    I can't take it anymore, this is the best film I've seen in so long and I need the world to know!

    Original, witty, endearing, dramatic, clever, simple and moving this movie has it all and there are so few moments I didn't enjoy it has to be a 5/5.

    Marcel is one of the most human characters I've seen in cinema and within seconds the fact he's a shell with an eye and two shoes stuck on it is…

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