Phildavis17

Favorite films

  • Primer
  • In the Loop
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Alone in the Wilderness

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  • The Beekeeper

    ★½

  • Dick Tracy

  • Poor Things

  • Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

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The Beekeeper

2024

★½ Watched

David Ayer opens up a bold new frontier in negative-IQ film

Dick Tracy

1990

Watched

The message of this movie is that phrenology is real.

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Bathtubs Over Broadway

2018

★★★ Watched

In part, this film wants to tell the audience that talented people are out there, laboring away in obscure or unexpected fields, and their work is not only worth appreciating, but worth actively seeking out. This is a powerful idea. However, the amount of time this film spends looking at Steve Young's involvement in collecting and enjoying industrial musicals transforms it from a celebration of these artists and craftspeople into more of a celebration of one person's perceived eccentricity.

While a given hobby may be interesting and worth examining, the notion that someone has a hobby is not.

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

1965

★★★★★ Liked Watched

On one hand, I now have a much better sense of what Tarantino is going for. On the other hand, I now know he's a pale imitation.

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