r_c_stacey

r_c_stacey

Favorite films

  • As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  • Napoleon
  • The Painted Bird
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour

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  • The Monkey

    ★½

  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    ★★★

  • Blue Velvet

    ★★★★

  • Twin Peaks

    ★★★★★

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  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★½

    To paraphrase Herzog - use practical effects you fucking cowards

    Naff, boring, 3 hilarious jokes and far too much CGI.

  • Twin Peaks

    Twin Peaks

    ★★★★★

    Finished S1 and S2 in a fortnight and it's just the best

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  • Alien: Romulus

    Alien: Romulus

    ★★★

    Better than most of them. Genuinely referenced every instalment in the franchise (even AVP2, wild) and great to look at (except for one CGI character that looks like a fucking Thunderbird puppet throughout).

    Not enough splatter, though the splatter we did get was pretty great.

  • Joker: Folie à Deux

    Joker: Folie à Deux

    ★½

    Bad but not for the reasons the incels are crying about

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    40 minutes of story stretched over a nearly 2.5 hour, 200 million Law and Order episode

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    There's a semi-interesting 'Rise and Fall of a despicable icon' here if someone wants to cut the first and second films together and turn the duology into a single 3-hour film.

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    Spoiler (and SA trigger warning):

    If your main character's change of heart that ultimately leads to his downfall is…

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