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His Girl Friday 1940
The pace of the dialogue is apparently 1.5x the speed at which the average American speaks. Conversation is absolutely asphyxiating, but slackens enough for the audience to gasp a delirious come-to every so often (just as the rope doesn’t ever cinch for the framed outlaw on the run), so the movie’s other elements have a moment to sing: carefully composed shots (apparently popularly cited example of shot-reverse shot), claustrophobic office spaces, and a fairly radical critique on all oppressive power…
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Michael Jackson's Thriller 1983
Michael COMMITTED: choreo, practical effects, and an 80s scream queen coalesce!! Very fun to watch even though Mike treats his date like a snack, metaphorically and then literally. Michael was such a cutie and it’s wild that my entire impression of him is built around him being predatory and surgically maimed in the 2000s. Did a deep dive into his high-pitched speaking voice after watching this— he revealed his real one like 20 years later and it’s totally different. Also…
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Police Story 1985
Jackie Chan laughs in the face of every action hero that takes himself too seriously. He (moon)walks the line of sincerity, and while every single stunt is like wtf jackieee (because he goes zero grav on a bus, torpedos a car down a mountain and then parks it, mopeds through 5 glass display cases, fireman slides the length of an Americanized mall on a pole wrapped in xmas lights, which allegedly almost killed him?, somersaults through the open window of…
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GoodFellas 1990
I get how influential this movie is. Pulp Fiction for sure wouldn’t exist without this movie, and I understand that the mosaic of techniques— like the pause thing, the timestamps, and breaking the fourth wall— were radical in their specific aggregation, which then lots of other filmmakers mimicked. And, when I saw this as a kid I thought it was the apex of mob movies, but despite all of that, it rings hollow, and feels shapeless now.
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