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  Blow Out 1981

  Rewatched 28 Mar 2025

  History is a series of unintended consequences resulting from confused actions, some of which are committed by people who may think they're taking part in a conspiracy, but it never works out the way they intended.

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  RoboCop 1987

  Watched 25 Mar 2025

  Is history primarily a history of conspiracy? Or is it just a series of blunders, one after the other? Confusions, self-deceptions, idiocies of one kind or another? 

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  The Monkey 2025

  Watched 23 Feb 2025

  The makers felt superior to the material. To be funny, even [slop] has to believe in itself.

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  Almost Famous 2000

  Watched 07 Feb 2025

  I have to go home.
  You are home.

  Contrary to the popular interpretation of the above exchange, the kid is clearly not home. In fact, he has never been farther from it. Kate Hudson’s character is delusional, as are all the other “band-aids” and members of Stillwater. What’s more, I think Crowe knows this. As McDormand remarks, “Look at this: an entire generation of Cinderellas and there's no glass slipper.” Not only has the clock struck midnight for these rock-and-rollers,…

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