steven_yates

steven_yates

Favorite films

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • 12 Angry Men
  • The Prince of Egypt
  • Inception

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  • Miss Congeniality

    ★★★

  • Chicago

    ★★★½

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★

  • Doubt

    ★★★★

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  • Miss Congeniality

    Miss Congeniality

    ★★★

    There’s a delicatessen not far from where I grew up, called “Victor’s Delicatessen” that I am convinced was run by the Russian mafia. I have no real proof of that and I don’t know what they would have been getting up to in suburban Houston, but I’ve always had a gut feeling.

    After frequenting “Victor’s Delicatessen” a couple of times (lowkey hoping to witness some mafia shenanigans), I came up with the idea for an aggressively-Soviet themed restaurant that serves…

  • Chicago

    Chicago

    ★★★½

    Being from Chicago, I always try to defend the City of Chicago when people go on and on about how dangerous it is. I say that a lot of that is overblown in the media and an easy stereotype people like to run with.

    But after watching Chicago, where everyone and their brother is gettin capped, it’s a stay strapped or get clapped kind of city. 

    Also, I know that this a Moulin Rouge are different movies, but I was…

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  • The Hobbit

    The Hobbit

    ★★★½

    Actually a really good adaptation of Tolkien’s The Hobbit. You could watch this version 6.19 times in the same time that it would take to watch the nasty bloated Warner Bros trilogy. Do yourself a favor and instead of watching those watch this one 6.19 times.

  • Oppenheimer

    Oppenheimer

    ★★★

    Oppenheimer suffers big time from me having unreasonably high expectations for what it would be. Came in thinking I might see my new favorite movie ever and ended up being one of my least (if not my very least) favorite Nolan film (which is to say still an incredible achievement, just not one that I enjoyed all that much). 

    There are some extended scenes and sections of Oppenheimer that are mesmerizing and haunting but there are just as many scenes…

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