Personal Letterboxd account of a cult film enthusiast/ the king of cinematic bad takes.
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The Street Fighter 1974
A Martial Arts flick that plays more like an ultra-violent Japanese gangster movie. The filmmaking at hand is genuinely good, but two things really elevate "The Streetfighter" and turn it into a Grindhouse classic: (1) it’s gory (and impressively disgusting) moments of extreme X-Rated combat and (2) it’s spectacularly vicious protagonist. Sonny Chiba plays a man who’s too ferociously villainous to be called an anti-hero.
The rain-heavy finale is perfect for this kind of enjoyably disreputable genre exercise.Translated from by -
Dirty Harry 1971
Liked it a lot more than during my first viewing. Dark, potently crafted by Don Siegel and pretty damn thrilling. It’s pulpy genre fiction at its most gritty, uncompromising and perversely endearing.
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The Passion of the Christ 2004
This is hard to describe but there are few movies that are both as grotesquely violent and as stunningly beautiful as this. A gritty yet heartfelt depiction of the Passion of Jesus Christ.
For reasons that are deeply personal , I can quite honestly say that I loved this.Translated from by -
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 1982
Warning: This is going to be yet another unreasonably long Letterboxd review of a movie I like. It’s probably going to be both dry and extremely incoherent.
I was first introduced to Star Trek 2-The Wrath of Khan when I was ten years old. By that point, I had seen 1 Episode from the 2nd Season of TOS and I had watched "Star Trek-The Motion Picture" (sometimes also referred to as "Star Trek-The Slow-Motion Picture"). I appreciated the emphasis on…
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