shawncain

shawncain

Favorite films

  • Thelma & Louise
  • Heathers
  • No Country for Old Men
  • Paddington 2

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

    ★★★★½

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★½

  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    ½

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    so fresh and quick paced and a compatible blend of film noir with modern life. you would think itd be hard to capture the sleekness of the style of the diologue when forced to introduce technology but i feel like it played together beautifully. movies lately have been so clever about pace, this is something ive been appreciating. i like when it doesnt lag or force the viewer to be led to feel something by hesitancy on a scene, with…

  • Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

    Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

    ★★★★½

    this was so cool and new for me bc i’ve rarely seen a movie that doesnt try to convey a grand message but also isn’t intentionally confusing like in certain indie movies, like i feel like i thought more because i wasnt led to think a certain thing and that was so fun

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  • Dinner in America

    Dinner in America

    ½

    terrible!!!!!! had to stop after 15 minutes. offensive to the brain, a cerebral eye sore

  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    ½

    the FUCK?!? okay first i was super down for it, i found the collar grading really impressive, the cinematography was fun, and stylistically great. the murders at the beginning left me like.. okay what is there next? i didn’t find the face skin very convincing and felt like it was the least cerebral horror film i’ve seen. the villains motives were not complex, the victims were not dimensional in any aspect, and i didn’t sense any overarching religious or political analogies or homages. just men being violent, what’s surprising there?

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