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Joker 2019
Hauling ass back to the year of our lord 2020, I probably would've told you that Joker was the greatest movie ever. Maybe it was something about the pandemic that thrust the male loneliness epidemic back into the limelight, and Joker seemed almost prophetic in it's focus on exactly that. I was, of course, completely fine - I was 13 - but nonetheless as a burgeoning movie lover I just found something about it so compelling.
I now do not…
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The Crow 1994
Been in a slump something fierce tonight and feared only The Crow would do. That is, something cheesy, pulpy, and overwhelmingly sincere in the belief that some things are just worth fighting for.
There's something real vindicating about revenge being taken in the fashion that it is in The Crow, I think chiefly because from the very first shot you know that the world it takes place in is so deeply chaotic and brooding. It's a world where the only…
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Big Take 2024
Not a bad little joint, I've gotta say. Has an old-school cool feel to it which I dig, and chooses its length pretty perfectly. The start is ripped straight from Steve Buscemi's escape in Reservoir Dogs, and the rest feels like a broadened imagining of that scene. Neat.
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Once Upon a Time in the West 1968
So you found out you're not a businessman after all.
Just a man.
An ancient race.
The opening scene. A windmill creaks and groans. Rotten floorboards choke out hollow thuds under the weight of rotten men. The Old West is rendered a dying world, and white-hat-vs.-black-hat morality is dying with it. The first hints of modernity are marching even into the film's score, Charles Bronson's harmonica crying out over the stinging electric guitar.Dare I call it the greatest Spaghetti Western ever?
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