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needed more… something. chemistry? not really sure. the romance didn’t do much for me, to be honest. should’ve been fun but didn’t hold my attention super well.

incredibly charming! very funny and gnarly. really appreciated that they are clear that nathan’s condition is a disability and he’d need to take measures to protect himself.

truly? boring. anything it has to say has been said better, more clearly, and more engagingly by the several movies it had pinned to its pinterest vision board.

still a banger, even if i wasn’t as whole-body vibrating with thrill like i was my first viewing. 

one thing i thought about this viewing was how funny this is. reactions and deliveries and the writing. but then there are moments like: “my boy is dead. i just wanted you to know.” 

what a fucking flick. that shark is a uniquely hateful creature. 

[whispers] anybody else think quint and hooper were kinda……well. anyway

suspected it would be uncomfortable but this felt like being gently skinned alive with a vegetable peeler

absolute banger. love to go to the movies and have a blast for two hours

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

just a stunner top to bottom. i love the camerawork and how it captures the feel of crowd scenes and overheard conversations… i love the scenery… i love the score… sighs. they are in LOVE.

very sweet with surprising depth. i did cry a couple times because i am a sucker for stories about gay people and family. han gi-chan stole my attention immediately, i thought min was so charming, but i enjoyed everyone really! just wish the audio had been working for the first 10 minutes, i feel like i missed some of the context with angela’s mother.

theoretically a slam-dunk for me so kind of bummed it just didn’t hit for me the way i expected it to. slow in parts, takes a while to warm up. some really good lines though.

Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

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“but don’t ever fuck with my marriage again.”

gay perry forever

that drone camera footage was doing too much and cutting away from the maestro footwork should’ve gotten someone fired 

but i love my best friends seventeen :) when they mentioned jeonghan and jun 😭😭

Watched on Tuesday April 1, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 1, 2025.

really wanted to like this much more than i did.

i had fun!

Watched on Tuesday February 18, 2025.

a letdown given the fun premise. mess of a script (for one, why are there two people doing a voiceover? and why are the goons so hapless?) and the “romantic interest” gave me nothing. i don’t think rose even liked marvin lol. 

but ke huy quan should be an absolute superstar, let’s get him into something good again next.

fucks severely. one of the most menacing uses of a hymn i’ve ever experienced and i grew up in the bible belt. insane use of contrast and mitchum has one of the voices of all time??

Watched on Friday January 31, 2025.

Watched on Thursday January 30, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday January 29, 2025.

shoutout to the person at the texas tonight who followed up megan’s “i’m a HOMOSEXUAL!!!” with “me too”

Watched on Friday January 24, 2025.

so beautiful to look at that, at least in the first half, i experienced some strange sense of utter calm. still mulling over the story itself. not sure how i ultimately feel about it. felt much shorter than its runtime, at least.

it’s the citizen kane of movies.

anderson’s performance was very earnest and sweet, but the script and even some of the visuals overall felt underbaked. a lot of montage, somehow!

took me a minute to get on board with the vibe, but once i did? an absolute fucking blast. like kung fu looney tunes. the bad cgi Adds To It, it's like a cartoon. what a fucking flick!!! and FUNNY. and stephen chow are you free on thursday when i am free on thursday stephen chow.

i mean, jesus christ. rants is right, it’s just. this specific subset of toxic isolated resentful violent american masculinity that we still have today and it just keeps happening

great ending. sometimes felt too messy/slow to keep me focused but had a good time. really sexy!

fascinating. love and control.

kidman is great, but so much of this just didn’t come together for me, and i don’t think i liked it overall. the first third to a half of the movie feels like a hundred 45-second segments happening almost dizzyingly quickly. there are also a couple of moments (the discussion of consent and “that’s an outdated look at sexuality/bdsm”) that felt very… hmm. it just took me out of it the way those types of somewhat teachable moments do in certain fanfictions. you know what i mean? 

also, i know it’s about The Dynamic for her, but girl. antonio banderas is antonio banderas.

visually stunning (the things eggers does with light! and the lack thereof!) but i wasn’t totally enthralled with it the way i hoped to be. depp did an amazing job especially with her physicality, hoult should be frightened in movies forever, i’m never gonna say no to ralph inerson or dafoe ing in, and skarsgaard really disappeared into this for me. i do think taylor-johnson was a real weak point — he felt very high school theatre compared to the rest.

just a lot of fun!

a weird al needle drop? for me? aw, you shouldn’t have

i think this was very good technically, but it didn’t quite capture me the way i hoped it would. still, a beautifully lonely film. craig really capturing a depth of loneliness that makes you want to climb into someone else’s skin just to feel close to something and warm.

edit: upping my score a half star after thinking about it more and talking to a friend who really loved it

Watched on Tuesday December 24, 2024.

Watched on Tuesday December 24, 2024.

thought a lot about how someone on you’re wrong about said celebrity is abuse

Watched on Friday December 20, 2024.

it’s like…this isn’t good across the board…but it’s christmas and at christmas you tell the truth* and the truth is i still find this structurally interesting and some of these are very charming still 

*no you don’t

what’s better than this, some christmas melancholy

justin long gnawing away at the scenery like a beaver. very fun, surprisingly sweet and gay

rewatched out of curiosity and also so i could access an emotion during this depressive bout. the emotion was 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 this guy sucks

oh you can’t invoke when harry met sally in a movie this mid, dude, i’m sorry. i’d just rather be watching that. 

the ending was unexpected but i mean, i guess it’s refreshing, kind of? 

anyway caleb hearon steals it. and joel kim booster!!!

Watched on Tuesday December 10, 2024.

i am so grateful to exist at the same time as an artist like kim namjoon. he is so thoughtful, brilliant, creative, and silly. i love him so much and this album is such a gift, i’m glad we got to go behind the scenes.

note: our theatre accidentally started the unsubtitled version first so i watched for four or five minutes like, “damn, namjoon, bold choice, but you’re so fucking right i do need to learn korean”

Watched on Thursday December 5, 2024.

• Sinners
• The Monkey
• The Wedding Banquet
• Novocaine
• Mickey 17
• Companion
• One of Them Days
• Black Bag
• Friendship
• Heart Eyes

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• When Harry Met Sally...
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Casablanca
• Lady Bird
• Past Lives
• Theater Camp
• The Iron Claw
• The Princess Bride
• Muppet Treasure Island
• Pig

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inflicting psychological damage upon one another

• The Woman Chaser
• It Chapter Two
• Sherlock Holmes
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

• Ring
• The Night House
• 10 Cloverfield Lane
• Saint Maud
• Train to Busan
• The People Under the Stairs
• The Ritual
• The Endless
• Jacob's Ladder
• The Devil's Candy

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

for when i am in a spooky scary mood

• Suspiria
• Night of the Living Dead
• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
• Werewolves Within
• Let the Right One In
• They Live
• Train to Busan
• Bubba Ho-tep
• Censor
• Thir13en Ghosts

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

we love to see it <3 (list in progress)

• The Prestige
• Fight Club
• Murder by Numbers
• X-Men: First Class
• Sherlock Holmes
• Logan
• The Emperor's New Groove
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• RocknRolla

i started this list bc i thought i had multiple ideas but i ran out of ideas two movies in

• Akira
• Drive
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

• Drive
• The Skeleton Twins
• Muppet Treasure Island
• Little Shop of Horrors
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• When Harry Met Sally...
• You've Got Mail
• A Christmas Story
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

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