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Showgirls 1995
"Did you gamble? Did you win?"
All men are bastards and women need to take care of (and make out with) each other. Verhoeven stylishly shifts focus from shootouts and squibs to dance routines and bare breasts, from the police state and product-related consumerism to misogyny and boner-related consumerism.
Showgirls is a film ahead of its time in practically every way, unfairly admonished and derided and absolutely misunderstood to an almost hilarious extent - it would be hilarious, anyway, but…
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Deadbeat at Dawn 1988
"I hate people, man. I don't care. I don't give a shit. I don't give a shit about nothin'. Man, all my life people have fucked with me. Don't you fuck with me, man. I just fuckin' hate people. I hate people and I don't care. I just don't fuckin' care. I don't care. I'm the baddest motherfucker you ever saw, man."
Gritty, grimy, gross, brutal, cockroach infested, unrelentingly visceral, nihilistic doom splatterpunk guerrilla trash film-making at its fucking finest. This should have been with me my entire life, and now it is.
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The Brutalist 2024
a towering and soulful reminder that the "American Dream" will rape you
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Alien Resurrection 1997
I love that there are four entirely different films about Ellen Ripley. Each one of the core Alien films has its own style, pace, and themes; each one gives Weaver an opportunity to explore this character in an entirely different mode. As a result, Ripley becomes one of the most three dimensional, complete characters in all of science fiction. In all of fiction, really.
We can trace Ripley's journey through these films like the stages of grief - she runs,…
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