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  They Live 1988

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Jan 2022 1

  John Carpenter's Declassified Capitalism Survival Guide:
  1) Identify the capitalist bourgeoisie around you: You will see them in managerial positions and wearing a fancy gold Rolex.
  2) Identify the laboring proletariat: The bigger their muscles, the better. If they can rock a purple tank top, you've hit the jackpot.
  3) Hold educational meetings to counteract capitalist brainwashing: It helps if you have cool sunglasses to give away as swag.
  4) Arm yourselves.
  5) Chew bubblegum.
  6) Kick ass.

  [NOTE: THIS IS SATIRE. DO NOT CALL THE FBI ON ME]

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  Speed Racer 2008

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 10 Mar 2022

  “It doesn’t matter if racing never changes. What matters is if we let racing change us.”

  A potent line with a double meaning: On one hand, Racer X is warning Speed Racer that he has to protect his morality as he battles the corrupting influence of capitalism.

  On the other, he’s saying that if we let racing change us, we will be better people for it. The kind of people who use their love of racing to make the world a…

Recent reviews

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  Koyaanisqatsi 1982

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  I was surprised by how little nature photography is in this. What we see in the opening is honestly a little boring and then we dive head first into the overwhelming world of bullshit that we call humanity.

  This is much blunter than Baraka, which I appreciated. It’s antagonistic, and that lack of subtlety makes it even more bracing. The prophecies displayed at the end really rattled me, because it proves we’ve always known this rampant destruction of our planet…

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  The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  I knew this was going to be a banger as soon as I saw Daffy Duck was the star of the show and not the false king Bugs Bunny.

  Look, I love Bugs, but he’s too cool for a slapstick throwback to 50’s scifi. This thing is pure nonsense from beginning to end and never trying to be anything more than that. 

  Afterwards we went home and watched a bunch of Daffy Duck cartoons, both old and new on the…

Popular reviews

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  Fyre Fraud 2019

  ★★★ Watched 14 Jan 2019

  Best laugh of the year is when the disgraced gas exec killed himself in a car crash. Runner up is when a pig bites Billy's balls.

  Honorable mention for the influencer who says she "felt bad" for getting a villa while everyone else fought over FEMA tents.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  Nihilism is in vogue right now. The world’s literally on fire and all the worst people in the world are very, very happy about it, so it’s easy to lean into the terrible vibes and give up hope.

  Bong Joon-ho is well versed in plumbing these depths. All his films center on bad things happening to good people. Or good people doing bad things. Or horrible things happening for no good reason at all. What makes Bong more than just…