Cinephile since I first saw the T. Rex eat a lawyer in Jurassic Park.
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Seven Samurai 1954
Akira Kurosawa once said that, in his entire career, he had made perhaps just ten minutes of pure cinema. I don't want to contradict the greatest director who ever lived, but actually Kurosawa made over three hours of pure cinema, and it was called Seven Samurai.
A prototype for modern action cinema, Kurosawa's film invented much of what we consider integral to the genre: introducing the main character through an unrelated vignette; getting a team together; slow motion intercut with…
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Galaxy Quest 1999
In early 2000, Hollywood was shaken by one of the most egregious scandals in film history. At that year's Academy Awards, Michael Caine, Tom Cruise, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jude Law, and Haley Joel Osment received nominations for Best Supporting Actor. But there was no nomination for Enrico Colantoni, despite giving a truly transformative performance as Mathesar, the leader of the Thermians in the sci fi comedy Galaxy Quest. With a puppet-like walk and off-kilter speech patterns, Colantoni turned what should…
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Cars 2 2011
The villain of Cars 2 complains that they don't "manufacture" cars like him anymore. But if cars in the world of Pixar's Cars franchise are manufactured, then who manufactured the first car? And when? We see that the world of Pixar's Cars contains centuries-old institutions like the British monarchy and the Catholic church. Were they founded by cars? Or maybe their precursors? Did the cars evolve from less sophisticated vehicles, like carriages or chariots? But then, what pulled the chariots?…
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Ashens and the Polybius Heist 2020
Stoked that Eli got to say "modular", though disappointed he wasn't afforded an opportunity to say "amplitude", "tranche", or "roff roff".
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