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When I last rewatched dead reckoning I described the movie as "a franchise high on its own supply", in a good way.

I had no idea what I was in for because I should have saved that description for this movie.

matt damon gets to be the coolest he's ever been and wear the sweet trenchcoat from three days of the condor, what's not to like

kind of incredible how anti-american this franchise got to be, right after 9/11

look at this. look at what they make you give.

takes the crown of worst and most worthless voiceover i've ever seen in any movie

they said it was the land of milk and honey/now they say it’s the land of money

I suppose it never really could have stood up to the massive weight of two raid movies and some five years of expectation but this is by leaps and bounds one of the best action movies of the decade

We should really be thankful this was made at all because if it was adapted now there's no way it would be anything but a straight-to-netflix miniseries

it's funny just how much this is goldman completely adapting his own book basically 99% word for word. just william goldman reviewing his book from 14 years earlier and going "man, this shit is so fire it's all going in unaltered"

dammit, now i'm going to be desperately trying to work 'you gotta set your motherfucker to receive' into normal conversation

the bit where richard conte's cool, unflappable crime boss finally fucks up and makes his first mistake because someone messed with his girl: that's it. that's what it's all about.

perfect, movie-wise

most brilliant cold open I've seen to a movie in ages. Just as you're starting to get bored, the movie actually starts, and you're like whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa for the rest of the movie

you guys ever read philip k dick's UBIK? this is kind of like philip k dick's UBIK

in a perfect world we'd have 15 of these and two spinoffs centering around don cheadle

This review may contain spoilers.

the movie is literally called inside man because the man is inside the bank

five stars

the only adaptation of philip k dick's work that's actually brave enough to meet him on his level. harrowing stuff

Denzel gets introduced by the camera panning up his flawless white uniform, slowly and dramatically pulling up to his face, hidden behind sunglasses. This was the signal to planet earth that their new movie star had arrived.

why isn't every movie a red harvest pastiche

scathing indictment of goonerism

the ultimate conclusion to the vertigo homage: becoming so obsessed with the dead girl you travel back in time to be with her

professionalism will only get you so far

real candidate for hottest movie couple of all time

it's a movie about playing god, of course. hans zimmer's ridiculously operatic score complete with choir sure hammers that down. the submarine is the church. the crew are slaves to arcane rituals of beauracracy, endlessly repeating scripture. the captain is god. should any one man be allowed to have the burden of billions of lives on their shoulders? the movie keeps asking and reasking that question, as guy after guy gets their chance to play god. cameras zooming in on our best actors as they are wracked with indecision, their sweating faces glistening over the big screen in purest colors of red and green and blue. gandolfini. mortensen. radio guy. and of course, the great actors of our time, hackman (rip) and denzel.

punchline to the movie is the ending card where it says the president now has full control over our nukes. was funny when clinton was prez and it's funny now. good luck with that!

seems like an outlier for lynch at first but it's just the surreality of lynch's past work filtered through the reality of age. glimpses. the burning house from lost highway. the young runaways and random car accidents from wild at heart. the agony of raising your children from eraserhead. the desire for human connection that runs through all of his work. "you've come a long ways, haven't you?"

like five years ago I went with my gf to the grand canyon for a nice romantic getaway and we booked an airbnb 10 minutes away from the canyon to stay the night. somehow we fucked up and booked the airbnb on the WRONG SIDE OF THE CANYON. so we had to drive for five hours in darkness that was darker than black, seeing maybe three cars while we drove 400 miles of road, angrily simmering at each other while blaming each other but really ourselves for this happening.

good movie

if you think this is fucked wait until you check out her diary

feels like a movie from the 1930s and like, one of the 80s superman movies would have a scene where he sees the "people fear what they do not understand" scene and becomes reinspired to care for the people of planet earth

"very loud"

- wife

dune speedrun rain% jihad skip glitchless

so few movies out there that show you the very real trial of trying to bang while your baby is crying

very common to get an 'i should call my dad' movie. it takes a real heater to make a 'no actually my dad should call me' movie

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a christmas carol told through peter cushing's terrified black-and-white blue eyes

[drunk off my like seventh eggnog of the night] we should make steven e de souza our king

rocks so much that the first thing you hear in the first shane black movie is

Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock

truly our greatest devotee to the christmas spirit

proof that you don't need boring shit like plot if your characters and chemistry are strong enough

Verbinski on his very first movie proving himself to be the thing that would come to define him: the modern master of the chaotic setpiece, seemingly chaotic but always carefully and thrillingly portrayed.

it was the tiiiiiiiiiiiime of the preeeeeacher

should rightfully be the most famous christmas horror movie in the biz. every second i'm like holy shit holy shit holy shit did you see that? destined to be in heavy rotation in my christmas future

kinda crazy how easily this wipes the floor with the first movie. it's not even CLOSE

alex garland described his adaptation process as skimming the book just once and then adapting it from memory to give it a dreamlike quality which is a funny way of saying 'i found it hard to adapt so i made up my own fucking plot'

love story between two of the biggest assholes you'll ever see

kind of poorly edited, annoyingly lib, and MY NAME IS MAXIMUS DECIMUS MERIDIUS COMMANDER OF THE ARMIES OF THE NORTH GENERAL OF THE FELIX LEGIONS AND LOYAL SERVANT TO THE TRUE EMPEROR MARCUS AURELIUS FATHER TO A MURDERED SON HUSBAND TO A MURDERED WIFE AND I WILL HAVE MY VENGEANCE IN THIS LIFE OR THE NEXT

wait who was the fifth guy

1. Blood Simple
2. Bound
3. Raising Arizona
4. Menace II Society
5. Miller's Crossing
6. Good Time
7. Barton Fink
8. The Matrix
9. Fargo
10. Dead Presidents

...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Bronco Billy
• A Fistful of Dollars
• For a Few Dollars More
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Hang 'em High
• Coogan's Bluff
• Where Eagles Dare
• Paint Your Wagon
• Two Mules for Sister Sara
• Kelly's Heroes

...plus 53 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
2. Mission: Impossible II
3. Mission: Impossible III
4. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
5. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
6. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
7. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
8. Mission: Impossible

1. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 3
2. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2
3. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
4. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 4

• How to Steal a Million
• The First Great Train Robbery
• Gambit
• Topkapi

• Inside Man
• Mississippi Burning
• Daybreakers
• The Florida Project

1. Snowpiercer
2. The Host
3. Parasite
4. Mickey 17
5. Barking Dogs Never Bite

1. Lost Highway
2. Wild at Heart
3. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
4. Mulholland Drive
5. Blue Velvet
6. The Straight Story
7. Eraserhead
8. Inland Empire
9. Dune
10. The Elephant Man

• Yojimbo
• A Fistful of Dollars
• Brick
• Last Man Standing
• Django
• Fresh
• Omega Doom

1. Deadly Illusion
2. I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
3. The First Deadly Sin
4. Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
5. 3 Godfathers
6. A Pistol for Ringo
7. Bad Santa
8. Blast of Silence
9. Cash on Demand
10. Catch Me If You Can

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. My Left Eye Sees Ghosts
2. Exiled
3. The Mission
4. Election
5. PTU

1. Out of Sight
2. Get Shorty
3. 3:10 to Yuma
4. Jackie Brown
5. Hombre
6. Life of Crime
7. Valdez Is Coming

1. Psycho
2. North by Northwest
3. Suspicion
4. Notorious
5. To Catch a Thief

• Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
• Blow Out
• Scream 4
• Michael Jackson's Thriller

1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
2. Slap Shot
3. The Verdict
4. Hud
5. Nobody's Fool
6. Cool Hand Luke
7. The Sting
8. Harper
9. The Color of Money
10. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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

1. Bringing Up Baby
2. His Girl Friday
3. Only Angels Have Wings
4. Charade
5. The Awful Truth
6. Gunga Din
7. Arsenic and Old Lace
8. The Philadelphia Story
9. Suspicion
10. I Was a Male War Bride

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Skinamarink
2. Messiah of Evil
3. Phantom of the Paradise
4. The Hitcher
5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
6. Bram Stoker's Dracula
7. The Exorcist III
8. Knock at the Cabin
9. The Blob
10. Eaten Alive

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Jerry Maguire
2. War of the Worlds
3. Eyes Wide Shut
4. Magnolia
5. Interview with the Vampire
6. Mission: Impossible
7. Rain Man
8. Collateral
9. The Last Samurai
10. Top Gun: Maverick

1. Jerry Maguire
2. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
3. Magnolia
4. Collateral
5. Far and Away
6. Risky Business
7. Mission: Impossible
8. Minority Report
9. Edge of Tomorrow
10. War of the Worlds

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Blood of Heroes
• Death Race 2000
• Rollerball
• Alita: Battle Angel
• Deathsport
• Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
• The Running Man
• Solarbabies

1. The Outsiders
2. Blonde Venus
3. Risky Business
4. Sylvia Scarlett
5. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
6. All the Right Moves
7. Big Brown Eyes
8. Legend
9. The Awful Truth
10. The Hustler

...plus 62 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Fall Guy
2. Atomic Blonde
3. John Wick
4. Bullet Train
5. Deadpool 2
6. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
• The Rocketeer
• Gunga Din
• The Good, the Bad, the Weird
• The Three Musketeers
• Freaks Out
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies that did the Die Hard formula or a variation on it before Die Hard was released in 1988.

• Key Largo
• The Light at the Edge of the World
• Slayground
• And God Said to Cain
• Game of Death
• The Day of the Wolves
• A Pistol for Ringo

In the search for the id, the ego is eliminated. Reality is a tool and subject to the whims of greater people than you.

• In the Mouth of Madness
• Identity
• Shutter Island
• The Empty Man

1. Skinamarink
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. John Wick: Chapter 4
4. Oppenheimer
5. Godzilla Minus One
6. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
7. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
8. Asteroid City
9. When Evil Lurks
10. Evil Dead Rise

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. To Have and Have Not
2. Rio Bravo
3. Bringing Up Baby
4. Red River
5. Only Angels Have Wings
6. Red Line 7000
7. Hatari!
8. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
9. His Girl Friday
10. Twentieth Century

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. GoodFellas
2. The Irishman
3. Silence
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
5. Kundun
6. The Wolf of Wall Street
7. After Hours
8. Raging Bull
9. Bringing Out the Dead
10. Casino

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Bones
• Barbarian
• The People Under the Stairs
• They Live
• Poltergeist
• The Tripper
• Society
• Hellraiser
• Us
• Child's Play

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• My Darling Clementine
• Twentieth Century
• Bringing Up Baby
• Only Angels Have Wings
• His Girl Friday
• To Have and Have Not
• Red River
• Bicycle Thieves
• 12 Angry Men
• Rio Bravo

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
3. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
4. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
5. Mission: Impossible
6. Mission: Impossible II
7. Mission: Impossible III

1. Punch-Drunk Love
2. Rushmore
3. Licorice Pizza
4. Magnolia
5. There Will Be Blood
6. The Royal Tenenbaums
7. Asteroid City
8. Fantastic Mr. Fox
9. The Darjeeling Limited
10. The Master

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• High Plains Drifter
• Needful Things
• Satantango
• Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Let Us Prey
• Storm of the Century
• Dead Man's Shoes

A doomed crew comes across a seemingly empty ship

• Triangle
• Deep Rising
• Ghost Ship
• Blood Vessel
• Death Ship
• Dead Calm
• Virus
• Event Horizon

• Beowulf
• Skinamarink
• The Hitcher
• Across the Universe
• DOA: Dead or Alive
• Kundun

1. Skinamarink
2. Mad God
3. Elvis
4. Avatar: The Way of Water
5. Crimes of the Future
6. Barbarian
7. Glass Onion
8. Nope
9. The Banshees of Inisherin
10. Ambulance

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. The Banshees of Inisherin
3. In Bruges
4. Seven Psychopaths

• Boxcar Bertha
• The Last Temptation of Christ

1. Star Wars
2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
3. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
6. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
7. Solo: A Star Wars Story
8. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
9. Return of the Jedi
10. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

Ninth Hooptober, my very first!

There must be 31 films
6 countries
8 decades
2 insect centered films
1 horror film set in space or the future (relative to when it was released)
2 animated films
1 bloodthirsty old person/people film
2 1970s regional US films (Thanks Sean Young)
The worst horror sequel from the 1990s that you haven't seen and can access. (I realize that this will take a little work)
1 German Silent
5 Films from David Cronenberg, Ti West, Bill Rebane, Charles B. Pierce, William Grefe and/or Joy N. Houck Jr.
2 Christopher Lee films
1 film with a musician or band in it (A real life musician or band)
1 Stephen King adaptation that is not the first go around.
1 Lon Chaney film. (NOT JR)

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)

1. House on Haunted Hill
2. Poltergeist
3. Slaxx
4. Mad God
5. Lake Mungo
6. Dracula
7. The Mist
8. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
9. The Fly
10. The House of the Devil

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

How do you mess this up?

• Daybreakers
• Nine Miles Down
• Reign of Fire
• The Deep House