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Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.

Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.

oppressively blue

AMERICA AINT SHIT CAUSE THE WHITE MANS GOT A GOD COMPLEX

you know I love a juxtaposition of capitalist humanity against an alien species that values life

emotionally insistent & incredibly obnoxious

BLAOW!

Watched on Friday February 28, 2025.

what a bunch of dumb nonsense

In of showing the psychospiritual rot imposed on Senegal by the west, Hyenas did it better. But as arthouse films go this was pretty good :)

Viewing: Impossible: Awful Dreckoning

alright man

This is something mace would put on in lieu of a 10 hour Yule log video

This is the best one. Bombastic as hell

Zoey makes a good point that every mission impossible after the first one is increasingly bad because it gets further from Ethan Hunt as a character, but I think that 4 and 6 have a bombast to them that makes up for that

Other than the bit with the opera this is boring as hell

cute!

JJ Abrams is among the most destructive to film as a medium I hate you so much JJ

Watched on Thursday February 20, 2025.

Drag Adventure is one of the greatest movie genres I think

only a good guy with the flu can stop a bad guy with the flu

frankly it could have been way goopier

blockbuster movies have a sickness inside them that only James Cameron can cure

that’s how you finish a fuckin movie baby

Love seeing this fuckin guy run

DNF. Unwatchable. Hilariously bad in its best moments and torturously boring otherwise

NPR Liberal Emotionality

another American precariat death drive heater

horror is comedy

Fishburne is a true master. One of the best neo-noirs I’ve ever seen

Watched on Wednesday February 5, 2025.

Cute! Earnest!

Edge Til Tomorrow

this movie is farts

Unspeakable. The kind Vladimir Lenin would have shot every fan of this movie

man I wish I could have seen Chris Angel do Mindfreak

Not to be like “crazy noble savage racism aside,”….but crazy noble savage racism aside, the story here is solid, as coming-of-age, learn-a-valuable-lesson stories go. They could have just plugged all the story elements into something less racist though

Modern American Death Drive Exhibit A

It’s just really good

wooaaaaaooooaooaahhh

Criminally mid in execution, but pure in concept. Bruce Dern kills it. Something very compelling about an oasis of life and warmth drifting through the blackness of the universe…

look man I’m willing to be made fun of for watching it again but holy shit HOW DO ALL OF YOU PEOPLE NOT REALIZE THAT WE ARE THE ONES IN THE VORTEX? WE ARE THESE ETERNALLY BORED LOSERS LIVING FUNCTIONALLY POST-SCARCITY LIVES AT THE EXPENSE OF EVERY OTHER PERSON IN THE WORLD! WE HAVE EVERY PLEASURE AFFORDED TO US AND WE ARE SO SUPREMELY BORED OF IT. PLEASE, GOD, SEND THE DESTROYER!

Get laid, get paid, watch The Raid

look man I just don’t think found footage shit is for me

Watched on Thursday December 5, 2024.

one of the earliest conceptualizations of The Algorithm to really cohere in a way that’s intelligible to our time. This is the enemy, folks. This is The Judge. Death to videodrome.

some truly hilarious bits in here but I can’t make it through all these fucking loading screen-ass shots where she’s just driving around

eh. second time distinctly less interesting and fun. a couple good moments of characterization and the subtle distinctions between Jupe and OJ’s relationship to Jean Jacket are interesting. Whole concept fails to land and frankly we don’t get nearly enough of the good stuff to make the slog worth it

awful gaudy lipstick the movie

I think there is a reading of this as a fascist movie. However, I don’t get the impression that Boorman was a fascist and Zardoz also lacks critical elements of the fascist ethos that ordinarily would go along with the quintessential “decadent, effeminate elite must be destroyed by platonic masculinity” story. Fascism rejects the current capitalist elite because they want to replace them with their own elite. (Down with George Soros, Up with Donald Trump) Critically, Zed is not becoming a ruler. Zardoz doesn’t end with the Brutals seizing the decadent lifestyle of the Eternals, it ends with the destruction of the shackles the Eternals have placed upon humanity. Boorman seems to be examining the relationship between capitalism and desire, and how the infinite pleasure enjoyed by the bourgeoise is corrosive to their souls and cuts them off from god. They squeeze 99% of the human race into a pulp just so they can sit around in big rooms full of art that they don’t look at or care about and punishing each other for thought crimes, never sleeping, never making love or creating anything, only living out a hollow existence of pleasure that is rendered totally meaningless by the fact that there is no counterpoint, no looming death, no struggle to overcome or to understand or to care. The rich and powerful, in this world and in the world of Zardoz, are flailing and desperate to transcend the human condition by way of technologies of decadence and oppression. And getting what they want is plainly a curse! You cannot create the AI singularity that will make all your problems go away because you ARE ALREADY IN THE SINGULARITY BITCH! As a very rich man once said - there is only one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate system of systems. Your body, your consciousness, your humanity is part of a social organism that is greater than yourself. All attempts to remove yourself from God will only drive you insane with a powerful boredom and guilt which can only be cured by death or true love.

• Touki Bouki
• Pixote
• Joyland

• Léon: The Professional
• Lady Ballers
• Man on Fire

There’s a fucking idea coming together here man

• Enter the Dragon
• Zardoz
• Pulse
• Dersu Uzala
• Ikiru

• Ikiru
• High and Low
• Dersu Uzala
• Rashomon
• Seven Samurai
• Throne of Blood
• The Hidden Fortress

Racially Insane Movies

• Crank
• Pitch Perfect 2
• 300
• Bāhubali 2: The Conclusion
• Tropic Thunder
• The Aristocats
• Sorry to Bother You
• White Chicks
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
• Rush Hour

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Sunset Boulevard
• The Apartment
• Witness for the Prosecution
• Some Like It Hot
• Double Indemnity

Not a good year for movies

• Evil Does Not Exist

  Letterboxd says 2023. USA release in may 2024. Im counting it

• I Saw the TV Glow
• Monkey Man
• Alien: Romulus
• Dune: Part Two
• Heretic
• Stress Positions
• Challengers
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Megalopolis

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

some movies are regular bad but these movies are movies where if you like them I will think less of you or be wary of you in some way

• The Love Witch
• Thor: Love and Thunder
• Road House
• Under the Silver Lake
• The Breaker Upperers
• Wonder Woman 1984
• Bones and All
• Talk to Me
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• The Holy Mountain

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Unranked

• High and Low
• Children of Men
• Southland Tales
• The Raid
• RRR
• Cure
• Hyenas
• A Serious Man
• Crank: High Voltage
• Harakiri

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films that demonstrate what it looks like when film technique is perfectly executed

• High and Low

  Blocking and composition of actors in shots is perfect 

• The Apartment

  Mike put it best
  https://boxd.it/AeX07

• Children of Men

  For rapid introduction to the film’s universe. Conveys in 5 minutes everything one needs to know about the central macguffin of the dystopia, the unrest & conflict that drives the plot, sets up the characters and makes you feel for them. 

• The Thing
• They Live
• In the Mouth of Madness
• Escape from New York
• Prince of Darkness
• Big Trouble in Little China
• Assault on Precinct 13
• Escape from L.A.

movies that make you feel as though you’ve been accosted on the street by someone who’s soiled themselves or is maybe a regular terror at the local emergency department

• Tangerine
• Barfly
• Crank
• Crank: High Voltage
• The Holy Mountain

• 300
• Iron Man
• American Sniper
• Richard Jewell
• Reagan
• Olympus Has Fallen
• Sound of Freedom
• Top Gun: Maverick
• The Purge
• The Conjuring

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Master
• Inherent Vice
• Phantom Thread
• Magnolia
• Boogie Nights
• There Will Be Blood
• Hard Eight

• Harakiri
• The Seventh Seal
• Through a Glass Darkly
• Ikiru
• Dersu Uzala
• Hyenas
• Sunset Boulevard
• Rashomon
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• Princess Mononoke

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

imo

• A Serious Man
• Fargo
• Miller's Crossing
• Burn After Reading
• No Country for Old Men
• Barton Fink
• The Big Lebowski
• Hail, Caesar!
• The Man Who Wasn't There
• Blood Simple

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

high octane shit. gasoline in the eyes

• Crank
• The Raid
• John Wick
• Crank: High Voltage
• The Matrix
• The Raid 2
• Blade II
• Fast Five
• Speed Racer

world’s greatest

• The Master
• Angel Heart
• Being There
• RRR
• Grave of the Fireflies
• A Serious Man
• Barton Fink
• The Man Who Wasn't There
• Army of Shadows
• Bad Lieutenant

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• RRR
• Burn After Reading
• The Day of the Beast
• A Serious Man
• The Big Lebowski
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Raid
• Network
• Crank
• Crank: High Voltage

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

watch these movies instead of being a political science major

• Network
• Inherent Vice
• Hyenas
• Bad Lieutenant
• Army of Shadows
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• Sorry to Bother You
• Princess Mononoke
• Children of Men
• WALL·E

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I really don’t like any of these very much

• After Hours
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• The Departed
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• Shutter Island
• Bringing Out the Dead
• The Color of Money
• The Last Temptation of Christ
• Hugo

• Phantom Thread
• Whiplash
• Secretary
• The Master
• The Last Seduction
• Sunset Boulevard
• Challengers

• Mother
• Real Life
• Not a Pretty Picture
• The Long Farewell
• Brief Encounters
• Farewell My Concubine
• Risky Business
• Perfect Days
• Black God, White Devil
• Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

...plus 1580 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Anora
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Triangle of Sadness
• Titane
• Parasite
• Shoplifters
• The Square
• I, Daniel Blake
• Dheepan
• Winter Sleep

...plus 91 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Princess Mononoke
• Grave of the Fireflies
• Castle in the Sky
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Spirited Away
• When Marnie Was There
• Porco Rosso
• My Neighbor Totoro

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

movies that capture the American spirit

• Bad Lieutenant
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• Starship Troopers
• American Psycho
• The Man Who Wasn't There
• Apocalypse Now
• Southland Tales
• Southern Comfort
• Sunset Boulevard