Favorite films

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  Yojimbo 1961

  ★★½ Watched 29 Mar 2025

  STRONG 5.

  in light of the apparent comparisons between Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars, i am more appreciative of akira kurosawa's influence, but less forgiving of how dated kurosawa's films look (and, more importantly, sound).

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  Memories of Murder 2003

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Mar 2025

  DECENT 7.

  the gray skies work well with capturing the atmosphere of Memories of Murder. its indicative of rural asia. 

  given the incompleteness of the hwaseong serial murders (on which this film was based on), the movie gives a tragic yet not wholly satisfactory ending to the film. still, even with the case's inherent incompleteness, there could've been more to flesh out what happens to some of these characters. but i guess bong joon ho just really didn't have much to work off of here.

Popular reviews

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  Black Hawk Down 2001

  ★★½ Watched 26 Mar 2025 1

  STRONG 5.

  at its essence Black Hawk Down (black cock down? black hawk tuah?) is dull. it's exemplary of how to poor execution — the cast, the real-life story, the action, the music, the director. 

  but dull does not mean boring. the movie works better when it whittles down near the final third act — you get a chance to experience the soldiers beyond the clunky cs:go dust two action (which looks grainy as shit on netflix desktop, but great…

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  Tangled 2010

  ★★★★ Rewatched 11 Aug 2024 8

  LIGHT 8.

  Tangled (and maybe a Frozen or a The Lego Movie) had a GRASP on my upbringing. i used to watch the first forty-ish minutes of this movie OVER and OVER AGAIN whenever i went out for a family dinner because my dad had it downloaded on his work tablet.

  and it’s kind of jarring to see how this movie has probably (?) affected some deep-rooted tendencies in me. i mean, of course there are ideologies here that MIRROR…