PooPooPirate

PooPooPirate

Favorite films

  • Spider-Man 2
  • Stop Making Sense
  • Blue Velvet
  • Twin Peaks

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  • Blue Velvet

    ★★★★★

  • Adolescence

    ★★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • The Elephant Man

    ★★★★★

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  • Blue Velvet

    Blue Velvet

    ★★★★★

    In my opinion, Lynch’s most essential film. Dissects the idyllic imagery of Americana in such shocking and unsettling ways, prying open and laying bare the dark sides of people that we choose to suppress and ignore. It’s characters are nuanced, as opposed to black and white caricatures of good and bad. Yet despite its shocking nature, it still finds room for hope and naive innocence to tie it all together. 

    The In Dreams sequence is probably my favourite scene of all time. 

    Just beautiful and truly original 💙

  • Adolescence

    Adolescence

    ★★★★★

    This was absolutely phenomenal. 

    Sat down for the first episode and ended up sitting up til 2 in the morning watching the whole thing. 

    I think it’s incredibly rare to find something that approaches subject matter like this in such a nuanced way. Instead of pandering and talking down on the subject it instead chooses to simply present it, without trying to provide answers. It doesn’t point the blame at any one person because the current climate we live in,…

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  • Shrek 2

    Shrek 2

    ★★★★★

    After watching The Last Wish and thoroughly enjoying it, I felt the urge to revisit Shrek 2 as I’d always considered it to be my favourite animated film so wanted to see if it held up. 

    Shrek 2 is a masterpiece. 

    In a time where most family films focus primarily on pleasing young children with potty humour and simple characters, Shrek 2 makes me yearn for the time when studios took older audiences into consideration. Having a young niece and nephew,…

  • The Devil Wears Prada

    The Devil Wears Prada

    ★★★★

    Stanley Cuntti

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