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two incredible stunt sequences encased in leaden, convoluted, textureless dreck. really miss when these things were about spycraft and when every scene wasn’t an endless explanation of literally everything that was happening. we’re reminded of the astronomically high stakes every ten minutes to the point of exhaustion. 

I find it very telling that a big, heavy plot point hinges on the US potentially bombing one of its own major cities, then making a point that they’d have to choose one, then stating they chose one….and they never specify it for us. Just “a major city”. Just a bunch of empty gestures at stakes, with no specificity, no texture, no choices! THAT’S my issue with the back half of this franchise, and especially with these last two. 

Milchick innocent

if this came out when I was in high school I would have watched it 6 times and would have every single joke memorized and locked and loaded to unleash at school the next day 

had me CACKLING in the theater

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

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deus ex gentrifier

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nothing’s changed, huh

They’ll love it in Pomona

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

the version of the movie in my own deepest darkest dreams involves less gorgeous women and mobsters and more me crying yelling at my high school football coach

Watched on Wednesday March 26, 2025.

I love my redhead wife

🤷🏼‍♂️

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I’m upset!!

"What terrorists gain, novelists lose. The degree to which they influence mass consciousness is the extent of our decline as shapers of sensibility and thought...and the more clearly we see terror, the less impact we feel from art."
- Don DeLillo, Mao II (1992)

"Strange not getting any reaction, huh?" - Byron Orlok, Targets (1968)

- SWAT Cassavetes
- my favorite football team is BALTIMORE
- geographically accurate commute to the Colosseum
- oldest quarterback I’ve ever seen (and we never return to him after the first ten minutes)
- factually inaccurate representation of the logistics of getting into a Los Angeles sporting event 
- lots of guys with loose raw meat in their pockets
- they say “BUTTSTROKED” like 8 times 
- Beau Bridges straight up slapping his kid
- football fan Gena Rowlands
- the crowd chanting “DEFENSE” after the home team just blocked a field goal!! They have the ball!!!
- lots of guys making pulleys
- truly insane and frustrating script. literally could have cut an hour out of this movie and nothing would have changed….kinda started to get invested in the football game in the meantime

Watched on Saturday February 15, 2025.

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late soderbergh continues to hit like a fresh summer breeze

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it’s been ten years since I first saw this and I don’t think I realized how much I’ve been carrying the feeling of watching it ever since

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No real particular order past the first few.

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• The Final Rose
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Narratives confined to 24 hours or less; the natural arc of a day provides the arc of the film.

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7. Django Unchained
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9. Death Proof

My top 10 films from AFI's 100 Best Films of All Time

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• Taxi Driver
• Jaws
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• The Apartment
• Do the Right Thing
• The Graduate
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Movies that share titles with Paul Simon/Simon and Garfunkel songs.

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9. Long Day's Journey into Night
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