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  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  Sheryl Lee gives one of the best performances ever in this, as far as I’m concerned. (And the under-discussed Chet Desmond section has some S-tier hard boiled dialogue.)

  Much more to say about this, so I’ll likely write something more detailed soon. But my overall thoughts are that, after many many watches of Fire Walk With Me, this movie I already knew was phenomenal has opened up to me in a way that it hasn’t on my previous, like, five or six watches. Absolutely love this and came close to crying several times.

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  Blue Velvet 1986

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Lesser David Lynch, imho, and a bit overrated. Every constituent part is great - great performances, tense and dark atmosphere, wild tonal shifts, etc. - but all of the trauma and weirdness the movie puts you through isn’t in service of very much, imho. 

  The women in this movie, in stark contrast to every David Lynch film after this, exist in service of the film’s pretty fraught and emotionally immature exploration of masculinity. Jeffrey is depicted as a fusion of…

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  King Crimson: The Noise (Live at Frejus) 1984

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 Dec 2023

  Robert Fripp’s vibes in this are kinda fucked. Everyone else is clearly having fun.

  But he’s just sitting on a stool while wearing a three-piece suit and jamming away without expression. He’s also frequently engulfed in shadow. It’s pretty awesome. 

  This is probably the best lineup of King Crimson, even at its cheesiest.

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  Terrifier 2 2022

  ★★ Watched 19 Oct 2024 5

  Pretty boring, ngl, but I like the guy who plays Art the Clown and giving your slasher movie villain a gun is a pretty good bit, even if it only happens twice. This needed to be like 80 minutes *at most*, and everything that isn’t just Art looking at the camera + good effects sucks.

  As someone else said, this is basically a meme movie.