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beautiful british woman at the aeon said the reds would pop and boy they fucking POPPED

lee marvin in this carries a giant machine gun that looks like a laser rifle and i couldn’t stop picturing him as batou from ghost in the shell

wanted it to be weirder and more oedipus-like but tim robinson’s schtick does lend itself surprisingly well to feature length!

if ben affleck and jon bernthal are me and marshall how am i the one with autism

maybe the first masterpiece of this year? everything good that i have was given to me by someone else but that won’t stop me from enjoying it till the sun sets 🙏

for those wondering, not explicitly woke enough to offend your parents 

also fun to find out this was mississipi-based bc all my family is from there

10 seasons and 20 years of countless danny mcbride uber macho-isms and this is still the gayest character he’s ever played (complimentary)

rami malek is like if tommy wiseau was a good actor

the jurassic park of teen comedies every single line is funny on a molecular level

new personality unlocked 😎

this is lowkey the coolest a film has ever looked and high key the most fuckable cillian murphy has ever been

feels strangely unfinished and underwhelming… however corey stoll as uncle junior is a great laugh

very charming :) 

i love how weird and off-model everyone is looking. some real good daffy antics in this one!

crazy how this is only the second most sexual car-fucker movie i’ve seen

funny how 70 years later we keep remaking/homaging, even unintentionally, Vertigo

it’s his epistolary masterpiece

there’s enough information and colors and moving parts in each frame for me to rewatch this a thousand times

took a huge ass edible and just sat in awe the entire time

easily a version of this film where another actor. plays vinny as a more manic-neurotic in-over-his-head loser but joe pesci gifts us a vinny with the burden of atlas wordlessly shouldering the entire world (i.e. loud italian wife)

more comedic performances deserve acting noms for sure but marisa tomei specifically deserved her own for her monologue where you really buy how horny she is getting this entire film by belittling her short italian stallion

#reallovers

I LOVE MY WIFE

incredibly surprising and lovely with a laid back vibe evocative of quiet anime and the slower slice-of-life moments from the graphic novel

still, i think what makes the graphic novel a masterpiece for me is those moments of novel-like rough pathos that are absent from either adaptation. scott’s repressed trauma and disassociation. ramona as a genuinely flawed human being. wallace’s unrequited affection for scott. the glow. the slow character arcs for each of the ing cast that build up over the series.

fladerization is inevitable for any media with a fanbase and i really enjoyed this series, but the OG just has a maturity that gives it it’s awe and impact. 

i love the animation and art style!! the music rocks and (SPOILER) will forte as scott was a perfect casting choice meant for me and 30 other people and left me genuinely ecstatic.

i wayyyy prefer cera’s performance as scott here compared to the film, he’s way more boyish and genuinely charming!

i found the moments henry spends awake, contemplating in the middle of the night, terrified of his wife’s sleeping presence, to be some of lynch’s best and most vulnerable

there are some real damning shit in here, i can’t
imagine lynch ever opening those thoughts up again - likely why he was hesitant to ever give a definitive interpretation

i thought we lost this type of mid-budget-goofy-sci-fi sauce back in the 90s

pound-for-pound probably the coolest film ever made!

this might sound horny but i really like the emphasis on putting on or taking off an outfit and how it relates to identity, vulnerability and perception

probably the lamest takeaway you can get from this film but hey, i also really liked her tattoos!

i’ll be honest i didn’t know groucho marx was an actual guy

locking in for 10 minutes to have mental sex with your competitor is just every day at the goodwill bins for lil old me

i’m sorry but chucky would not be that hard to deal with just sit on him or something 😭

i know ivy league is a big deal but it’s hard to imagine anyway giving a shit about its values… anyway i like ivy league style ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

interesting how all the best comedians nowadays have evolved from playing exaggerated versions of themselves to just playing straight-up characters lol

legally, yes, i was present for this

if you ever wanna feel like you dress uncreative and that your personal style sucks watch anything japanese from the 80s, you’ll want to set your entire wardrobe on fire

bummer movie i get why people kill themselves

japanese street-racing vertigo was not what i expected when i threw this on but lo and behold this kicked ass

also that ‘iphones aren’t cinematic’ tweet but unironically for modern cars how the fuck are you supposed to make a 2019 nissan rogue look cool

came in halfway-through and locked tf in on some chicken biryani shoutout to all my british west indians 🔥

very fun adaptation that understands the fundamental appeal of scott pilgrim while also misinterpreting almost every character lol

which i know is inevitable when adapting a 6 volume series into a digestible 2 hour movie but i think the way they truncated things while also showing lip service for the source material is really interesting!

when i was in high school i worked a job in which a couple of hooligans tricked me into licking fryer grease and the taste still haunts me to this day

freddy beefing with these teenagers the same way i’m always beefing with my 40-year-old coworkers 💀

we be to rap what key be to lock

i don’t think i’ll ever be the same without him

white people don’t say metteur en scene anymore, they say vulgar auteur

love how they acknowledged gerard butler looking older but not o’shea jackson looking like he evolved like a pokemon into his dad

i feel like bank robbing should be a gentleman’s sport, if you get a good clean heist off the cops should just let you keep all the money

for how much israel discourse floating around i was expecting to spend like 1/3 of the film there. instead they mention it like 5 times and all 5 times pretty conclusively negative. viewing comprehension is at an all time low 🔥

for the longest time i thought i hated musicals, then i just thought i hated being dragged to wicked as a kid and now i’m wise enough to know i just hate weird green freaks🙏

i love the part where the gremlins are doing all the normal human things

as a server i would fuck up the flow of this conversation so badly, i’d basically interrupt every anecdote to ask if they needed more napkins or some shit

feels like a predecessor to juror #2 in the way it depicts american fatherhood as the arbiter of ultimate evil lmao

they would never let a wasian person drive the batmobile

the cinematic equivalent of a cartoon character floating through the air when they smell a delicious pie

much more conventional than i was egg-specting! but those first 45 minutes *chefs kiss*

my dad didn’t understand a damn thing🔥

• Conan the Barbarian
• Excalibur
• Legend
• The Sword and the Sorcerer
• Your Highness
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Heavy Metal
• Conan the Barbarian
• Fire and Ice
• The Beastmaster

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Subject to change

• Seven Samurai
• Rear Window
• Memories of Murder
• When Harry Met Sally...
• The Long Goodbye
• The Matrix
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Nope
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

• The Roads Not Taken
• Capone
• Enemy
• The Game
• Pawn Sacrifice

The Essence of California.

• Marriage Story
• Speed
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• The Nice Guys
• La La Land
• Dope
• The Hidden
• Hail, Caesar!
• Los Angeles Plays Itself
• LA 92

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

look i like these movies but i also never wanna hear the word marvel again yknow

1. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

   james gunn didn’t have to go so hard writing a poignant script about flawed fatherhood figures and toxic masculinity but he did and its one of my favorite movies ever

2. Guardians of the Galaxy

   saw this for my 14th birthday, kinda taught me that movies can still contain pure unadulterated joy

3. Ant-Man and the Wasp

   only film in the mcu that really takes the inital premise and just runs with it. the cast is pure dynamite. would rewatch this on a whim whenever

4. Captain America: Civil War

   they made a tony stark a bootlicker in this one which is also what most billionaires are in real life  so this movie owns

5. Avengers: Infinity War

   damn the pacing and editing yall

6. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

   good, not as good as heat tho sorry russos

7. Iron Man

   jon favreau please make cowboys vs aliens 2

8. Captain America: The First Avenger

   hey this is fun

9. Doctor Strange

   prob the most interesting origin story

10. Ant-Man

    dumb fun

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

Life's a bitch!

• Babel
• The Revenant
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Amores Perros

There’s fuckery afoot.

• The Gentlemen
• Snatch
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

• Marriage Story
• s Ha
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
• Mistress America
• Mr. Jealousy
• De Palma
• Kicking and Screaming
• Greenberg
• The Squid and the Whale
• While We're Young

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

• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
• The Last Supper
• RoboCop
• Dope
• Mad Max 2
• Knives Out
• Snatch
• Army of Darkness
• Moonrise Kingdom

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

Your move, creep.

• Total Recall
• Starship Troopers
• RoboCop
• Basic Instinct

Il est un bon réalisateur.

• Prisoners
• Enemy
• Arrival

They really get a bad rap.

• Stuber
• Don Jon
• Ant-Man and the Wasp
• Solo: A Star Wars Story
• Jingle All the Way
• Speed Racer

The Art Life.

• Eraserhead
• The Elephant Man
• Twin Peaks
• Blue Velvet
• WHAT DID JACK DO?
• The Straight Story
• Wild at Heart
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
• Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008

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

A great writer first and foremost.

• Knives Out
• Looper
• Brick
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• The Brothers Bloom

Her own creative force.

• The Virgin Suicides
• Lost in Translation

2019 was a pretty formative year for my taste in movies. It was also one of the best with a multitude of phenomenal films releasing in very quick succession. I loved all of these and each one of them I revisit over and over again in my head dissecting and then reassembling them to further appreciate the greater whole. So no, Joker isn’t on here.

1. Parasite
2. The Lighthouse
3. Knives Out
4. Marriage Story
5. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
6. Little Women
7. The Irishman
8. Uncut Gems
9. Ford v Ferrari
10. Jojo Rabbit