This didn't really grab me, but I always love seeing David Hyde Pierce, and the set and costume design were great. I appreciate what it's trying to do; what a winking, knowing send-up it is. A fun, horny pastiche, but maybe a little lifeless in the end.
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Black Christmas 1974
I'll just echo every other post on here and say that the final shots are some of the most chilling I've ever seen.
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Blade Runner 2049 2017
When we've beaten down the earth till there's nothing but limial wastes; and eroded human dignity beneath the consumptive churn of expansion and construction and disposal; and subsumed feeling and pleasure and connection into the alienating rot of property and lack, all our senses over-modulated and entropic droning filling our days…what will it matter who is human? Who would want the name? What good is the corpse-inheritance? Who keeps a dead tree?
Sometimes I think Villeneuve is just a touch…
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It's a Wonderful Life 1946
This time around I really appreciated just how much of the movie's power is in the unspoken anguish and pain and longing in Stewart's face. He's so brilliant in this. There's so little score too, so you're left with these moments of silence - no music or dialogue, just raw emotion. Incredible.
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