An Unconventional Film Nerd Patron

Favorite films

  • The Son
  • About Schmidt
  • Roma
  • Dancer in the Dark

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  • A Working Man

    ★★½

  • Mountainhead

    ★★★½

  • John Wick: Chapter 4

    ★★★½

  • John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum

    ★★★½

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Taxi Driver

1976

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Travis Bickle's problems in order of severity are:
mental unstability, purposelessness, ignorance.
These are the defining traits of toxicity of a character, toxic masculinity in Travis's case.
A go-to template of a spectrum for disturbed male characters that starts from Michael Scott on one end and ends with Patrick Bateman on the other end.
Probably the greatest character study of all time.
***
Joker, American Psycho, even American Beauty all borrow (steal?) a lot from this movie and they are still amazing movies on their own.

God, 70s was really the decade for masterpieces, wasn't it?

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A Working Man

2025

★★½ Watched

I have no idea why Jason Statham keeps doing the same movie over and over again.

It's a knock off of both John Wick and Taken series so the only reason you should watch this if you have access to Amazon prime but somehow can't find the four glorious John Wick movies on there.

Still, I can't hate this movie as it gave me some unintentional laughters I wasn't expecting.

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Mountainhead

2025

★★★½ Liked Watched

I actually get why this wasn't well received - it's like watching a random hour of Succession in isolation from the rest of the show, but guess what, you've been living in the same hellscape molded into reality by unelected tech oligarchs and their designated presidents that the smartest show on TV already familiarized you with.

To me, Succession and The Boys were the two shows that captured the zeitgeist to perfection. I adored Jesse Armstrong's eerily prescient writing on…

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Death by Numbers

2024

★★½ Watched

The documentary filmmaking could have been better, but what drove me crazy was there was not a word of mention of America's insane gun culture that is the cause of all of the pain and suffering on the screen.

School shootings aren't natural disasters people. We don't have them in rest of the world.

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Haulout

2022

★★★½ Liked Watched

A bit too static, but still fascinating to watch these majestic animals. Very saddening too unfortunately.