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One of the more persuasive arguments in cinematic history against an actor ever affecting a foreign accent.

Way better than it had any business being.

Whitney's a natural, a star and deserved to be in more movies. RIP.

Very boring and very bad!

Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 10, 2025.

Every time I was thinking of dozing off or going back to the bar I was in previously, something weird or gorgeous or dumb/funny happened and PULLED ME BACK IN. A surprising amount of people were in the theater for this, and seems like everyone had a good time. Can’t help but root for Francis!

Todd Phillips said Fuck DC. A great and ballsy artistic statement from someone I never for the life of me imagined as an artist. Alltimer Joaquin performance, way more deserving of praise than the showy first one. Excellent turns from Gleeson (looking like Sterling Hayden in The Godfather), Keener and Alan Partridge, and on point stunt casting of poor Lady Gaga. A feel-bad triumph!

Not scary enough to be horror and not dumb/fun enough to be something/anything else. Wasted weird Hartnett performance amidst straight up awful performances by everyone else. Pretty desperate times when, ahem, Crap like this is treated like some kinda hidden pop gem of the year. Sad!

Of course in the middle of watching this a draft sweeps through my apartment and the door to my living room swings open and slams shut.

As terrifying and effective today as it ever was. Billy Friedkin, fucking right.

A Frenchman, a Hispanic, a Palestinian and a guy from Jersey walk into hell…

Did Conor Mcgregor direct this? 

It’s glaringly obvious Mcgregor had some sort of clause in his contract making sure he doesn’t look like he got his ass beat in any of the fight scenes, which is some galaxy-level tiny dick shit (also explains why those nudity shots weren’t frontal).

Some fun stuff sprinkled in-between but otherwise what is this bullshit, Doug Liman?

Pretty mad that that Spider-Man 2 and Sam Raimi ever made me care about these garbage movies for dumb babies lol

Watched on Sunday July 9, 2023.

Watched on Thursday July 6, 2023.

Watched on Thursday July 6, 2023.

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Watched on Thursday July 6, 2023.

Watched on Thursday July 6, 2023.

Watched on Thursday July 6, 2023.

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Watched on Thursday July 6, 2023.

Watched on Thursday July 6, 2023.

Watched on Thursday July 6, 2023.

Watched on Thursday July 6, 2023.

Watched on Thursday July 6, 2023.

Watched on Thursday July 6, 2023.

Watched on Thursday July 6, 2023.

Watched on Thursday July 6, 2023.

Hell yeah, what an ending goddamn.

Watched on Tuesday April 12, 2022.

The Rock, Michael Caine and Vanessa Hudgens star in a (sequel?!) based on the collected works of Jules Verne. 2012 was a weird year! Notable at least for how vaguely human Rock still looked/acted like 10 years ago (except for his nipples which already looked super weird). Rips off Honey I Shrunk The Kids but that’s a good movie to rip off imho. This movie made 335 million dollars and I’d never even known it existed if I didn’t catch it dubbed on German TV and watched it in a sleepy, Wine-addled haze. Hotel TV rules. Saw like 10 minutes of Maze Runner afterwards and that sucked!

Not making the same mistake as with Elle and underrating this one. Lots of great, obvious Verhoeven moments - bird shitting in a dude's eye, nuns farting and giggling side by side, Sexy Slayer Jesus, the dialogue during the sex scenes ("I CAN'T STOP COMING"), etc. But also a real mastery of tone and pacing, and a preternatural understanding of "how to do" sex and violence, how to revel in both and not be a scumbag. Lots of artists become bumbling sex creeps in their old age, but put material like this in an expert pervert's hands, and it attains grace.

Yeah, I was way off, this absolutely rules. A miracle of perfectly controlled tone, horrific and funny, with Huppert its virtuoso lead never missing a step. The car crash scene alone - fantastic stuff. A Paul Verhoeven Christmas classic.

Movies are back, baby!

Watched it in a Hamburg theater all by myself. It was fine! Some decently lit shots to go with that Rahsaan Roland Kirk track. Plemons is reliably great & Dominique Thorne also stood out to me, both Kaluuya and Stanfield were doing too much imo (completely opposite styles/schools of acting though, kinda interesting to see them clash here, perhaps purposefully), Lil Rel Howery is in everything these days, but his turn here is a highlight. Not a single cop in this is up to any good, no nice guy jailers or conscience-ridden stand-up Federales or any of that bullshit, which is mostly just a relief. The poetry stuff was... not for me, but other than this obviously only skimmed Hampton's politics (he was 21, twenty-fucking-one when he died) and drags here and there, it was a surprisingly OK time at the movies!

More than any performance ever, puffy-cheeked Kate Winslet here reminded me so much of my great-grandma, Valentina, a die-hard communist soldier, lover and fighter practically from birth (as a 10 year-old, she convinced Krupskaya personally to release her mother from jail, as a 16 year-old she learned to assemble PPSh blindfolded while working at a remodeled gun factory during WW2). Like Marianne, she also married a very sweet man, much older than her, when she was still so young and throughout her life remained a stubborn irer and incessant reciter of poetry and over-the-top dime store romance novels. Some of my fondest childhood memories involve watching Mexican telenovelas (dubbed in Russian) with her, squatting on the carpet of her 11th floor 90s Moscow apartment, as she covered my eyes every time "the bad guys" kissed (so that I wouldn't get any ideas). May her heart and soul live on through the most unexpected and surprising vessels, such as this lovely movie. Земля тебе пухом, бабуля валя.

Creed is good

Cameron‘s best-looking movie by a mile. He must have watched The Driver a ton. That police station shootout is antifa canon, or should be. Brad Fiedel‘s propulsive, clangy beats, really an iconic score. Very fun to see people trying to pick apart the time signature in the theme even though it’s clearly out of sync, who cares! Stan Winston‘s FX really put this into 5-star territory, though: that T-100 machine skeleton, rid of Arnold‘s catatonic charm, all shiny and chrome, just emanates pure evil.

As much as this entire movie, especially the Odessa steps sequence has been canonized to the point of ahistorical neutering, I am happy to report it is still breathtaking and relentless and deeply affecting. Not all of it works equally well for me, but what does REALLY does. Watching this in 2020, the brutal force directed at the poor and the weak by a coward army can’t help but evoke imagery from the last few years from the US, , Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, Turkey. And as justly as it calls on righteous anger, it is just as generously a hymn to the indestructible beat of the people’s revolution.

Watched on Thursday October 22, 2020.

Watched on Thursday October 22, 2020.

there must be more, please stop it everyone

• The Godfather

  i believe in america

• Reservoir Dogs

  let me tell you what like a virgin is about

• The Founder

  i know what you're thinking

As done by Reuben, Basil, etc.

• Aliens
• Predator
• Top Gun
• Total Recall
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch
• The 'Burbs
• Stalker
• Mirror
• Andrei Rublev

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Based on the old LJ moments list - here are 50 of the most memorable movie moments from movies I watched last year! These can be whole scenes, individual images, lines of dialogue, music cues, etc.etc.etc.

Most of these are first-time watches with a couple exceptions. Bye 2014! You were a good year movie-wise, at least!

1. Rosemary's Baby

   Rosemary cuts her hair

2. Speed Racer

   Speed, the audience and the whole world all climax at the final finish line

3. Blonde Venus

   Shortest vacation in movie history

4. Edge of Tomorrow

   The first drop

5. Nothing But a Man

   "They don't sound human, do they?"

6. The Guest

   David lifts some kegs

7. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

   "Tighter! Tighter!"

8. Down with Love

   Barbara dances under the moon

9. Stranger by the Lake

   Post-blowjob handshake

10. Rise of the Planet of the Apes

    Caesar sees the leash in Will's hand and slides his door shut

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.