SamBrumbaugh

SamBrumbaugh

Favorite films

  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • Spirited Away
  • City of God

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  • A Quiet Place: Day One

    ★★★½

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

    ★★★½

  • The King of Comedy

    ★★★★½

  • Legends of the Fall

    ★★

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

    The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★½

    I really don’t want to nit pick anything because it is pretty magical to see a movie like this in a theatre and I really hope 2D animation comes back to the big screen. The movie is funny and creative not to mention gorgeously animated but, my only real gripe is a trend that’s plagued the new Looney Tunes cartoons is general which is way too much happening all at once. The movie holds the same hyper energetic tone the…

  • The King of Comedy

    The King of Comedy

    ★★★★½

    This movie seems to have aged to perfection because we’re currently living in the boom-time for par-asocial relationships and infamous memes turned into lucrative cash grabs. I read that Martin Scorcese regretted making this movie but, Martin could never have stopped the entitled wave of narcissistic ego-maniacs that would be produced in the millennial and  Gen-Z eras and the King of Comedy may ring even more true than it did 40 some years ago.

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★★★

    Holy fuck Holy Fuck HOLY FUCCKKKK YESSSSS

  • Ponyo

    Ponyo

    ★★★★

    A charming little storybook film with great music and background illustration. As with all Miyazaki films the care and attention paid to the little moments of humanity in the animation are all beautiful and add to the warmth of the characters. However, for a film with very little development in the plot and in its characters, I found the hour and 40 minute run time dragging during certain sequences. Miyazaki loves small moments of intimacy in film as much if…

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