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spencebens

Favorite films

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Men in Black
  • Paris, Texas
  • Midnight Run

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • Crimson Tide

    ★★★½

  • The Birdcage

    ★★★½

  • The French Connection

    ★★★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    A lot of good and enjoyable parts to this movie! Pattinson is a delight! But there’s a lot of this film that just feels overstuffed— ungapatchka, if you will. I think the fault lies in the editing, both the movie as a whole but also in how a lot of the comedy just…doesn’t time out right. Probably could have cut a few scenes and a side character or two and had a tighter film. Still, a good time at the movies, and I would die for those aliens because they made me think of my cat.

  • Crimson Tide

    Crimson Tide

    ★★★½

    This one’s for the boys for sure! Lots of great dudes in here, lots of great procedures I know nothing about but was nevertheless very keyed into. Hackman and Denzel are electric, packing a lot of star power into two pretty restrained performances. The silver surfer reference caught me so off guard, as well as the (now extremely chilling) final message that, as of 1996, power to arm nuclear submarine missiles lies solely with…the PRESIDENT??

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  • The Thing

    The Thing

    ★★★★★

    Beyond this film’s special effects wizardry, the sense of unease and paranoia builds perfectly in all the scenes between the gore and viscera. One of my faves, a movie I’ve come back to so many times!

    “You’ve gotta be fucking kidding.”

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    ★★★★★

    What can I really say about a movie I’ve seen over 50 times since my childhood?  Picking a favorite LotR film is like picking your favorite child, but when it gets down to it, I believe Fellowship really is my number one.  There’s a tremendous sense of loss in this movie— friends die, the fellowship is broken, and the beauty and comfort of the Shire continues to recede into the distance the further the journey goes along.  But there’s something…