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The Naked City 1948
Movie a Week pick.
I really enjoyed this!!! Yeah, yeah, the plot is pretty basic/the mystery doesn't drive the story—but the narration and the location do! Watching this on a hot, *hot* day in NYC, I was really empathizing with how sweaty the characters were getting.
I really enjoyed the very meta narration—it set the scene really effectively, and then continues to pop up, both underlining and undercutting the narrative. I love that the narrator is giving advice to both…
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Godzilla Minus One 2023
Was inspired to re-watch after re-watching Jaws, and with that fresh in mind, it was great to see so many references!! No doubt in my mind that I’m missing more (to Jaws and to many other movies, including the whole Godzilla canon, which I’m very behind on).
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Jaws 1975
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Movie a Week pick.
Okay, on one hand, I think this movie has had a huge impact on people's fear of sharks and lack of concern at their being hunted/killed. This is bad, sharks have done nothing wrong.
On the other hand… it's the perfect summer movie.
It's the perfect monster movie!!
It's chockablock full of great lines ("Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women," "dead eyes, like doll's eyes," "Smile, you sonovabitch," etc.), action (I'm so tense the whole time…
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Unbreakable 2000
Movie a Week pick.
So this is only the second M Night Shyamalan movie I've seen—I saw The Sixth Sense relatively recently and really enjoyed it, but honestly none of his other movies have interested me.
The angles are pretty showy, mostly in a way I don't love, but I did like that the early scenes with "Mr. Glass" almost always start with him reflected in glass (the mirror at the birth scene, in the tv when he's a kid,…
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