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Favorite films

  • High Fidelity
  • What's Up, Doc?
  • Barry Lyndon
  • Boogie Nights

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  • Eephus

    ★★★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★★

  • The Notebook

    ★★★★

  • Leap Year

    ★★½

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  • Eephus

    Eephus

    ★★★½

    I'm very happy that this movie got made. I think you could've cut 30% of this, but I also think that if you surveyed people they would agree but want to cut my favorite 30%. That's a good thing. Ultimately wants it all to mean more than it possibly can, and go on a little longer than it should, just like baseball.

    Cried a little bit when Joe Castiglione showed up. Bill Lee absolutely owns his inning. The kid smoking…

  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★★

    "oh the last 3 slices of cake? That you bought for me and then I had all but 3 slices of it and then you explicitly asked me to save just 1 slice for you? Sorry honey that's black bag"

    A certified 10 bagger. Sodie my all time fav and he shows why (again) here. No other director with the pull to make a movie like this makes a movie like this. Nobody else has the confidence to make something…

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  • Mrs. Chatterjee Vs Norway

    Mrs. Chatterjee Vs Norway

    ★★★★

    1. Me, inside the courtroom, throwing down a folder of photos of Rani Mukerji at various stages of her career*: "your honor, as you can see, the defendant is simply too smoking hot to be guilty of this crime"
    2. George Bonner would be putting up Wilt Chamberlain
    numbers as a lawyer in Indian court.
    3. This movie really nailed the inherent evilness of Scandinavians.
    4. Love that the evil lawyer shows up in INDIAN COURT and goes with "She's…

  • Dune

    Dune

    ½

    Do you know how bad a movie has to be to have a scene where Josh Brolin charges into battle in his PJ's while bagpipes wail and still get half a star?

    A 2.5 hour trailer. Aside from aforementioned Brolin moment, the most engaged I was in the theatre was rewatching the Batman trailer, learning that Rasputin is the villain of the new Kingsman movie, and rewatching the Roland Emmerich "I am going to smash the moon into earth which will surely create a large wave" movie

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