StridePiano

StridePiano

Favorite films

  • Fireworks
  • My Dinner with Andre

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  • High Fidelity

    ★★★½

  • Taxi Driver

    ★★★★

  • The Graduate

    ★★★★

  • Boiling Point

    ★★★½

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  • High Fidelity

    High Fidelity

    ★★★½

    Great soundtrack:) As Donald Fagen from Steely Dan would say, this movie is "dumb but effective." Its nothing too deep, it's just a cushy watch. This movie has all your Gen X troupes and stereotypes represented in all their cartoons glory. The only place that seems grounded in some sense of reality is the main characters record store; the discourse and music banter is hella fun. Just a fun watch.

  • Taxi Driver

    Taxi Driver

    ★★★★

    This is as close as you could get to a Doestyevki novel on film; the main character is a walking contradiction. Mr Travis Bickle, the dillusional insomniac that he is, lives like a hermit. This is not exactly a character you root for: he betrays you right when you start to like him, but as inarticulate as he is, he still has an, albeit skewed, moral compass. In the florescent glow of New York you see the seedy underbelly of…

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  • Hard Boiled

    Hard Boiled

    ★★★★

    The question must be asked: is this movie deep? No, no it is not. Is it a fun as hell action movie: yes it most certainly is. All the John Woo Movies I've seen are fun as hell. You got guys shooting guns while doing kick flips; guys duel weilding pistols while frigging jumping in the mother ducking air in slow mo; frigging guys; AHHHH. Is there anything else that needs to be said? It's funnn

  • Léon Morin, Priest

    Léon Morin, Priest

    ★★★

    Therapy with a priest makes for a decent watch. I watched this cuz i liked Le Samouraï, and hey, it wasn't bad

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