Absolutely fucking superb. Perfect. Sweet. Sad. Like a dream or a memory. Simple idea that is expanded upon perfectly. A fun exercise in conveying the act of translating the emotions and feel of a scene into an actual piece of media. Death and Memory and the idea that living a life prepares you for dying. Just great. I'd want to work here. This shit was made for me.
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I have a weird fondness for movies where they put people inside horrible cramped metal contraptions and then make them go fight. It's why I like submarine movies, and it's partially why I like this movie. I didn't know exactly what I was expecting, I guess a dinky little independent movie from an era before independent movies, but this one really blew me away. Its beautifully shot, wonderfully acted and written, and has a great, tight story. It does a…
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Predator 1987
A movie near and dear to my heart, I fear too many people think of Predator as just another 1980s action film and miss everything else this movie doing. Built on solid filmmaking and an understanding of contemporary action movies of the day, Predator is an action movie being stalked by a horror movie. It takes 80s action movie archetypes and drops them into a kind of slasher film, slowly stripping away all the hyper-masculine bravado and machismo until the…
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