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If she died normally on the escalator I would’ve given five stars

Writing mid watch so I don’t forget
That tanning bed coffin scene transition, they ate

Anyway
Wack she didn’t get to stop the end she just sees it then lives it unless something happens in 4 idk

Nothing super crazy, as fun as the last one. I love the shots where the camera seemingly becomes Death and we are guided through the little things Death does to get the kill.

Also just a big PSA to not run into a construction zone, or drive behind logs, or leave your friends in a parked car perpendicular to the direction of travel along a highway, or drop your phone while standing in front of man with hook hands.

You see kids, even if you don’t have sex, you’re still gonna die

I tried looking it up but couldn’t find anything about how this movie is about Columbine and survivors guilt

Anyway

It’s also kind of about just, idk, not putting a mug on top of a computer, or not leaving a rag on top of knives at the end of the counter, or not flying, or not parking on a train.

That ending was kinda fire

I hate to it it but he’s kinda rubbing off on me idk. 
All the shots of the construction
The new communities created in the 70s in . 
Suburban middle class “the end” feelings

All the brands at the end

I know it means something

I couldn’t tell you EXACTLY what happened, but I could tell you I enjoyed it overall. Great editing. Meditative. Slow cinema? That TikTok scene. The transition shot into the Walmart

Bro was a loser

Great shots and conversations though

I’m starting to gather ugly people don’t exist to Godard

When that parachute burnt up I jumped out my seat I’m not gonna lie

I said it once and I’ll say it again

Tom Cruise is a modern Chaplin and Keaton

He said something like “women should not grow old” or “get ugly after 30” or something

That’s some of y’all’s goat.

Anyway
I fuck with how he shot the tortured scenes

Barely any sound

Felt very detached but still with him idk

Maybe like a memory

Idk

No way dude. What’d I just watch? Why is the pipeline failed actress to prostitute. At least try to work at a bakery or coffee shop first. 

Godard would love Westside Gunn

DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO

Can’t believe how great this film is and that I got to see it in a theatre. 
If you think about it
The Goodfellas Harakiri double feature would go pretty well together. It’s narrated in the past tense from the future perspective. It’s about the changing of the times. It’s about respect and your social groups moral code and how it is either adhered or not adhered to. It’s got a wedding. I could go on. The narrator gets got in the end.

Bro was blind
And made a film with the most beautiful colors. How do you call action and cut when the camera is on one mountain and the subjects are on another mountain. 
Such great tragedy
Revenge
Familiar bonds
“This samurai film is so good”
“Lemme guess, he is brought down by the very code he has sworn to live his life by”

I’ve never seen so many horses
I love you Kurosawa. Thank you

Shaw Brother’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

That shit was nuts

Gonna need Tony Rayns to explain the cultural significance of that one

Great acting. I love films like this. I mean this in the most respectful way possible. This is a perfect after school special. I would show this like how a teacher in health class showed me Cyberbu//y in middle school. Glad I caught the theatrical restoration re-release. Shoutout JBFC

James 🥺
Been rewatching Seinfeld and started watching Veep. 
On a JLD kick. 
Holofcener makes this wonderful films about these memoiric periods in middle to upper middle class white mothers lives. Kinda fire.

They actually talk the entire hour fifty three minutes. I don’t think there’s a moment of silence.

He used two actors like 9 times for different roles
Dude makes films

Mewes is ed out drunk the whole commentary. Amazing

I read my friend’s review and thought it would have loads of sex.

Anyway, sick film. Cronenberg inspires me. I wish I had ambitious and fearless ideas like he does. I love the “armpeengina”

Happened to me in 5th grade

“I’m gonna leave you with this: We never should have left Afghanistan.”

Genuinely have been trying to think of a review all day but I can’t stop thinking of how absolutely fantastic Uma Thurman looks. 

“It’s 10,000 beats overdue”

I’d fall in love and have a kid too.

Imagine fighting a whole gang in the mall, and the s of the gang, and the dudes pledging for the gang, then in the end, you betray your squad who you fought the mall gang with for the girl who hired the mall gang.

Crazy

“My seatbelt was on”

Every scene Tarantino goes “this is probably the most autobiographical scene I’ve written… it never actually happened to me but it’s how I feel and it might as well have happened” and the scene is Christian Slater killing a Rastafarian Gary Oldman and his henchmen in a brothel drug den then going home and having sex with his wife Patricia Arquette who he met yesterday on their 10 million kilos of cocaine.

And he had a stoner roommate like Brad Pitt

Absolutely unhinged and hilarious until it condemns you for thinking so and it’s genius and horrible and I too would feel indignant about the urban planning in the city and how it affects my hobbies.

Bro wanted to make step-mom stuff soooooo bad.

Great action, as always. Great story too! Hilarious.

During the three nipple psychic scene the entire commentary table shuts up. You can hear a pin drop. Great insights. Kevin Smith is a huge inspiration to me. He constantly preaches about how broke he was and how he still found a way to make movies and they became successful.

Genius comedy. 

He gets the two tickets, and sells them.

Pfft, that’s all it takes to get a woman in bed?

Imagine feeling vindicated enough to tell this story to a bunch of strangers on a train. 

Also, that ending, either the mall was bombed or something else more philosophical happened and I don’t get it but, gas.

I heard this was about the 2008 financial crisis and since nobody understood that McKay felt he had to make The Big Short and I can confirm this is all true. 

“The sound of your piss hitting the urinal? It sounds feminine”

I hope my color would be red

Will review in the morning

Steve McQueen is so bad at staying escaped. 

I watch movies like this and understand more why it’s impossible for veterans and prisoners to reintegrate into society.

Five years in solitary after two years in solitary I woulda ended it

Ugh, the thrill of the kitchen

Holy shit. RZA was right that weapon and that score wtf. So awesome.

I don’t think I’m the first one to say this, and I feel like a lot of you are not ready to hear this, but this is the modern day Taxi Driver. I could not be more serious.

That final fight holy shit was beautiful

One of the best movies of all time

THIRTY-SEVEN???

Fucking amazing

Rates way too low
So horny
So cronenberg

I’d go back and get a gold split once I learned the route on god

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

Fuck it five stars no notes

Gosling's eyes

So the town sheriff is a drunk who blinds Golden Arm by spitting in his eyes. Then Iron Leg jumps out of a trunk he was hiding in to kill the sheriff, a guy who wanted Golden Arm’s money or something, and Golden Arm. So he slashes the Sheriff and kills the greedy guy. Now Iron Leg challenges a blind Golden Arm to battle. Iron Leg has the upper hand but before he delivers a fatal blow to a blind Golden Arm, the drunk sheriff jumps behind and reveals the blood from the slash that Iron Leg gave him was from his wine container he keeps at his side. So the sheriff and Golden Arm fight and kill Iron Leg. Then the blind Golden Arm announces his retirement and that he won’t cause any more trouble, then Leng stabs him from behind who I guess was hiding this whole time and kills him.

Keep in mind I have not mentioned Silver Spear, Brass Head, Short Axe, Long Axe, Iron Robe, Sand Palm Fighter, the 17 swordsmen gang, or the 18 swords gang.

Omg Vera Farminga omg

Shoutout Clooney

This… this was a tragedy

Honestly very interesting seeing how these “studio” films churned out by Shaw Brothers have individuality in editing camera work directing cinematography and choreography and being able to notice certain habits and changes among different people working on these Shaw Btothers films in each field. Run on sentence for Run Run Shaw

An old comment about being a Dune copy and comment about the dialogue had for the faintest of seconds made me believe I had looked upon these films with rose tinted glasses. But once Mace Windu pulls up with Kit Fisto, Saeesee Tiin, and Agen Kolar and they start scrapping omfg this is the best movie of all time it’s so fucking good and cool and I only wish everyone could love things the way I love Star Wars. 

YOU TURNED HER AGAINST MEEEEEEE

YOU WILL NOT TAKE HER FROM MEEEEEE

YOU WERE MY BROTHER ANAKAIN… i loved you

Still holds up

Maybe I forgot but my idiot brain didn’t realize the yellow hoodie is what he wore when he beat him up

🔥

Review in the am

P.M. Edit: Honestly a great film. Story was fire and the training montages were fucking awesome. It may seem basic but the way LKL shows how the training directly pays off in actual situations makes watching the training pay off so well. Monkey Style is fire

Criterion’s that I bought but still have not watch. (I may have seen the movie before but have not watched the physical disc copy I have bought)

• My Dinner with Andre
• The Battle of Algiers
• Zatoichi the Fugitive
• Zatoichi on the Road
• Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
• Zatoichi's Flashing Sword
• Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
• Adventures of Zatoichi
• Zatoichi's Revenge
• Zatoichi and the Doomed Man

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

The top ten is not in order but they are my ten favorites above the rest of the films on this list. Any group of films belonging to a franchise or sequels to another in the list count as one entry in my book i.e.: Star Wars, any film with Spider-Man, Godfather I & II, etc. Hopefully with that math, this list will add up to my 100 favorite movies. It’s probably not definitive. If you don’t like my rules or list that’s ok. In my opinion, favorite movies don’t have to be the greatest films ever made, they can be personal, they can just be how you feel.

• Good Will Hunting
• Parasite
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Rear Window
• Harakiri
• Super 8
• The Social Network
• Hereditary
• The King
• The Matrix

...plus 183 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films I had seen for the first time that also had a theatrical release in the year. The top ten is my top ten in no specific order (Brutalist and Conclave tie for the list), the rest are honorable mentions in no specific order outside of the 10.

• Dune: Part Two
• Femme
• I Saw the TV Glow
• Nosferatu
• Challengers
• Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
• Sing Sing
• Kneecap
• Anora
• Conclave

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Saw these in 2024 but maybe did not specifically come out then. Not in any order.

• The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
• Matthias & Maxime
• Tetsuo: The Iron Man
• Us and Them
• No Dogs or Italians Allowed
• The Eight Mountains
• Tombstone
• Society of the Snow
• Peeping Tom
• Drugstore Cowboy

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Came out in 2023; or at least I saw them in 2023 and they might’ve appeared at a festival in 2022 or something. Not in any order.

• The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
• John Wick: Chapter 4
• Beau Is Afraid
• Joyland
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Past Lives
• Oppenheimer
• Barbie
• Killers of the Flower Moon

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Saw these in 2022 but maybe did not specifically come out then. Not in any order.

• Pig
• Take Out
• Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
• The Worst Person in the World
• Boiling Point
• Oldboy
• House of Games
• The Tragedy of Macbeth
• Drive My Car
• Videodrome

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

Came out in 2022; or at least I saw them in 2022 and they might’ve appeared at a festival in 2021 or something. Not in any order.

• Nope
• Aftersun
• Bullet Train
• The Fabelmans
• TÁR
• The Batman
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• Top Gun: Maverick
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• The Menu

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Saw these in 2023 but maybe did not specifically come out then. Not in any order.

• Nebraska
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
• Ruby Sparks
• No Bears
• The King of Comedy
• Happening
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
• They Live
• Closer
• Shithouse

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Romance, low budget, rom-coms, indie

• Rye Lane
• La La Land
• Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore
• Past Lives
• Funny Ha Ha
• You Hurt My Feelings
• Emily
• My Year of Dicks
• Bodies Bodies Bodies
• Cha Cha Real Smooth

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Read the title

• Drive
• Drive My Car
• Titane
• Cars
• Thief
• The Batman
• Locke
• Crash
• Taxi Driver
• Stuber

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Oldboy
• Akira
• Brokeback Mountain
• The Gentlemen
• Dragon Ball Super: Broly
• Last Night in Soho
• The Lego Batman Movie
• Game of Death
• Game of Death Redux
• Pig

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

Five Non-English
Five Classic
Five Modern

• La Haine
• The Handmaiden
• High and Low
• Y Tu Mamá También
• Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)
• Booksmart
• Time
• Belfast
• The Mitchells vs. the Machines
• Man Push Cart

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