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  West Side Story 2021

  Watched 11 Dec 2021

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  “[‘Top Gun: Maverick’] and Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story.’ Both provided a true cinematic spectacle, the kind that I’d almost thought that I wasn’t going to see anymore. It was fantastic.”

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  Nightmare Alley 1947

  Watched 31 Aug 1979

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  “While ‘Nightmare Alley’ is rightly considered a classic, I still think it’s underrated. To me, ‘Nightmare Alley’ is as good as studio filmmaking ever gets. Tyrone Power (who I’ve never been fond of) is fucking sensational in the movie. And the script adaptation by Jules Furthman (one of my handful of nomineess for greatest Hollywood screenwriter of all time) is excellent.”

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  The Thing 1982

  Watched 27 Jun 1982

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  “One of the reasons that ‘The Thing’ holds a special place in my heart is that I love horror movies — I’m a big horror movie fan — but I don’t get scared in horror movies. I respond to suspense. I respond to that. ‘Oh, what’s going to happen next?’ I can jump by a boo scare. But that’s not really terror… ‘The Thing’ I got scared in.”

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  The Matrix 1999

  Watched 31 Mar 1999

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  “I saw the evening show [of The Matrix] at the Chinese theatre on the Friday that it opened… I remember the place was jam-packed and there was a real electricity in the air. It was really, really exciting and part of the reason we were there wasn’t because we read reviews. It was because of the TV spots and it was more [about] the TV spots than the theatrical trailer.”

  “I was like, ‘God, can you imagine of turning…

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