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Forever classic. Love how it talks about PTSD and how we deal with the ego-fueled insecurities of losing the people we love versus insecurities of being someone great.

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I waited so long to finally watch this movie. I've been a massive fan of Coogler's for the longest time. I built up so much anticipation for this movie and yet somehow he managed to make something that sured my wildest dreams. Might simply be the greatest theater experience of my life. From the very first second I was on the edge of my seat. The opening quite literally had me so tense, my chest was tight but then the charisma and natural energy between all of the cast made me feel comfortable and I had so much fun then to rip it all away again and again. Masterclass in horror. Masterclass in blockbuster cinema. Coogler, you mad man. When the credits ended I was left shaking, pumping my fist up in the air.

When you slip on spaghetti and get a ladder through the skull:

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Zelda Williams, the filmmaker you are...I swear I'm never gonna stop loving this movie. Saw it two times in theaters and at least three times on streaming before this latest rewatch. So much to this movie. Janet is the perfect villainous mother both in how exaggerated and campy her evil is but also how real and relevant her specific brand of evil step-mother is. Janet is very from the same stock as the mother in Carrie and the Reagan era of America. She's extremely consumer-obsessed, she really loves her things but even more than things she loves herself. Trademark narcissist from berating Lisa and acting like she's been made a victim through Lisa, that Lisa is an "emotional vampire" as her self help audio book tells her. *one of the most 80s things in this movie, clearly ordered it off of a TV commercial* I also really love Taffy just in general, Liza Soberano just has the best presence throughout the movie, she's so endlessly funny and her energy of care and easy goingness is so infectious. I really just love the sibling bond between her and Lisa even if it ends the way it does. Cole Sprouse is also so good in this movie. He nails all of the physical comedy so well without even speaking a hard for the majority of the film. Give this guy more physical comedy please. Finally I just really love all of the juicy subtext around Lisa and The Creature played by Cole Sprouse, how both of them are going through transitions of their own into self actualization and at the same time, falling in love. Its just really beautiful man.

My kind of comic book movie.

Was feeling like watching this because of Mother's Day, still holds up so well. The score is godly, the visuals are insane, the through line of emotionally insecure weirdos learning to share their pain with each other...It's so good. What really stood out to me on rewatch was the visual language here. Really standout direction and I loved the choices they made aspect ratio wise, it always felt very fluid and I had to make a conscious effort to see that transition.

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Love how she articulates the editorializing of memories almost like you want to make these days you can't see in photographs real so you have to recreate it somehow. I also really love how her mom's perspective contrasts with that completely, she's so unshakingly present that she can never go back to Hawaii because she doesn't care about what it is now, to see her friends old and gray, she cares about what it is and doesn't need to recreate or reenact those memories.

I related to this film on a spiritual level 😭

First MCU movie I've watched in theaters since Guardians of the Galaxy 3, first new one I've watched period since Quantumania. Action sequences are SUPERB. One after another. Yelena and Bob are definitely the highlights. Whole third act is seriously really well developed and hits hard in all the right ways. Exactly what I loved about a lot of Phase Four while doing its own thing in a lot of ways.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

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Man. This movie. I relate to it a lot for many reasons. I've had multiple people in my life in recent years to illnesses out of my or their control. I am a filmmaker. And I think this is one of those movies through quirky, indie flair and deepened connections. It perfectly communicates how horribly hard it is to live through an illness like cancer and how hard it is to be the person that walks alongside them as they deteriorate and die. I've had to do that more times than I wish I could count. I wish I could say it gets easier. Another thing that this film masterfully communicates is what true love is, to me. Deep love for friends that transcends ego, responsibility, and sometimes...sanity. To love and care for your friend and them you when you're terrified you might lose them, well that's the hardest thing there is and the best love that exists. I just love those shors in the hospital room as you see their eyes juxtaposed against each other as "the dying girl" dies, she looks on the art, the pieces of her in him and the art he made for her. The electronica hums and the love never dies.

Buncha crazy white people in a mansion

What is this some country for old men?

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

This film which I have seen way too many times struck me this time with the made up phrase I made up, verbal iconography. Man, what a movie.

ALL I CAN SAY IS PEAK

"the tire's been reincarnated as a tricycle."

Watched on Saturday March 22, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday March 18, 2025.

Yeah. I'm never recovering.

Love the claustrophobic framing, the music that makes you feel so tense, the long holding shots that make you feel uncomfortable. Ralph Fiennes is a phenomenal lead, providing a stern confidence in what is right and a melancholic sadness at the depravity of certain cardinals and the loss of a great friend. Gripping from beginning to end. Articulates so well what true faith is, the uncertainty of it all.

"Is your war finally over?"

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

Man. Really heavy movie but really good.

"So long and thanks for all the fish."

Man. It's still so endlessly perfect.

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

It's not about getting what you want. It's about our trials leading us to become better people. Man, I love this movie.

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

No words. Absolutely insane at 2 in the morning.

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

"Life's like a movie, write your own ending
Keep believing, keep pretending
We've done just what we set out to do.
Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers, and you."

I miss background painters...

"I'm in Lesbians with You."

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

Still gotta be one of the craziest third acts ever. Love it.

"Burn off my feelers and watch me squirm."

"Pizza-time!"

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

Ooga booga

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

You know you're cooked when the Limping Aussie is rocking you HARD.

"I'm going to go home and sleep with my wife"

"Mystery is my mistress"

Watched on Friday March 7, 2025.

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