Dan Scully

Favorite films

  • Mulholland Drive
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • The Straight Story
  • Lost Highway

All
  • Captain America

  • The House in Between

    ★★★

  • The Alphabet

  • Hulk

    ★★★★½

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Captain America

1990

Liked Watched

***director’s cut***

Pretty ridiculous and cheap, but respectably melancholy and earnest. Super fun, stacked cast. Sparks, miniatures, and even a touch of claymation. 

The highlight, hands down, are the ears on Cap’s mask. For some reason, instead of there being ear holes, there are just rubber human ears attached to the outside of the mask. My guess is the holes irritated the actor. I couldn’t tell what I was looking at at first, but when I realized what it was it became the most fascinating thing. 

And that says it all. This movie is not a movie so much as it’s a fascination. 

RIP Albert Pyun.

The House in Between

2020

★★★ Watched

Compelling stuff. Not sure where I stand, but I want to believe. These things tend to suck and this one didn’t suck, which is nice. The filmmakers/ghost hunters take it all seriously and investigate in earnest. They consult science experts as well as more Fortean types, which I respect and find genuinely interesting and entertaining. 

The kicker? The ghost hunters are polite and pleasant. TAKE THAT, DILDO BAGANS!

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Making a Murderer

2015

★★★★½ 1

Great season of true crime tv. Attorney Krantz fucks babies, I just know it.

The Intruder

2019

★★★★ 2

A new trash classic. Piles of terrible, bizarre choices on every level of production. The thing is, these choices are made in earnest by EXTREMELY committed people. Dumb as hell, but lightning paced and a fuck of a lot of fun. Super duper trashy in all the best ways. If this were shot on film and released in the 1970s, we’d all have a wonderful reverence for it. 

The best kind of crap. 

Dennis Quaid has 8-pack abs. 

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