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ok so what city did they decide to sacrifice? i think it depends on how believable of a false flag op you think the m:i gov is capable of pulling off. ive only seen 3 of these so i defer to mission heads, but here's my ranking from least to most believable:

houston
chicago (immediately apparent false flag)
la (sweet spot)
sf
new york
dc (not happening)

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

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forgot to log. bizarre

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

not gonna get us!

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

another entry in the laundry list of casualties of strangerthingsified 80s period pieces

romantic in every sense of the word. i love you vincent!!

this is a season 1 of alone survival showing

Watched on Tuesday April 8, 2025.

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my eyes were opened on this rewatch. i always thought this was an example of a real 90s movie, but i was blinded by surtees beautiful california photography. the desperate precision of the performances, the imioned editing and framing, the emotional is exactly golden era hollywood.

Watched on Tuesday April 1, 2025.

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thought it was interesting that this is a hostage movie where the time pressure is not because there’s some big response brewing, but because of practical bureaucratic challenges like counting money and communicating between departments

Watched on Monday March 24, 2025.

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Matt’s birthday movie!!

Watched on Wednesday March 19, 2025.

the conversation cate and michael have on the bed is incredible but it feels like the frisson between them ends up lost in service of an adequate spy thriller. like soderbergh can’t pat his head and rub his belly at the same time

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

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found this too mired in metaphor to access and not experimental enough to be rewarding

Watched on Tuesday March 4, 2025.

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“we set out to save the shire. and it has been saved - but not for me”

Watched on Thursday February 27, 2025.

cast it into the fire! destroy it!!!

no

isildur!!!!!

isildur kept da ring. it should of ended dat day.....

Watched on Wednesday February 26, 2025.

"i have to keep my real self separate from my gamer self" whom among us

Watched on Monday February 17, 2025.

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Watched on Wednesday February 12, 2025.

this maybe got me back on corbet's side, despite being silly. i can never get over this hump with corbet. in many ways he and eggers read the same to me: guys preoccupied with detail, and in a world where movies live and die by catchy hook plots, eggers and corbet are a cut above the rest, in that they delve a layer past the pinterest board phase of development. but both their outputs still feel like a collection of facts and fail to evoke anything emotionally honest and theyre unlucky enough to live in the “in: authenticity; out: irony” era.

as an aside, i feel that’s the unifying trait of millennial directors. you’re either a concept director, or a facts director, though they’re basically the same thing.

but i rank corbet above eggers anyway, despite his movies feeling less intellectually rigorous (if that sort of thing matters to you) and despite some embarrassing imagery, because i have a soft spot for what he’s attempting to pull off, and because his work feels exploratory. it starts at a question and reliably fails to arrive at a satisfying answer, but it’s still blind groping towards something.

• Naked
• The Irishman
• Perceval
• The Long Day Closes
• Werckmeister Harmonies
• Excalibur
• Mouchette
• The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
• Duelle
• Three Crowns of the Sailor

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based on suggestions—i do not vouch for validity. input welcome

• Vertigo
• The Story of Adele H.
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
• Uncut Gems
• Christine
• Some Came Running
• Angel Face
• 7 Women
• Birth
• The Third Man

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