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Favorite films

  • Casablanca
  • Roman Holiday
  • The Long, Long Trailer
  • Now, Voyager

All
  • The Jacket

    ★★★★

  • What a Way to Go!

    ★★★★★

  • Bottle Rocket

    ★★½

  • The Sound of Music

    ★★★★★

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Wings

1927

★★★★ Liked Watched

Clara Bow in uniform is my spirit animal

The Children's Hour

1961

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Annoying ass children

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The Jacket

2005

★★★★ Liked Watched

This was surprising a lot better than what I was expecting. Everything about this movie, down to the poster, the war veteran serving during the Gulf War, and the leads (Adrien Brody is lowk a throwback actor to me even if he won an Oscar this year) feels extremely dated in the early-mid 2000s but I think it only adds to the appeal of this film. An underrated masterpiece if you wanna get your mind fucked for 100 minutes. Oh, and there were crumbs of Old Hollywood (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and I Love Lucy) so yay me.

What a Way to Go!

1964

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Social media tricked me with Edith Head's amazing work and this wasn't the film I was expecting but still hilarious. The way poor Louisa got stuck with so many husbands who kept on dying the nanosecond they get rich sounds like a cliche plot but it works due to the hilarious performances from the actors. The way they got Paul Newman, Dean Martin, Dick Van Dyke, and Gene Kelly makes me to happy because most films at the time didn't…

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The Sound of Music

1965

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer saw how many iconic Old Hollywood romances ended in tragedy so they decided to give us one with a happy ending right as the era was ending.

Bottle Rocket

1996

★★½ Watched

Welp, I've officially reached the end of Wes Anderson's filmography and this was sadly my least favorite one.

It's not a bad movie per se but you can tell that Wes was still developing as a filmmaker. There wasn't a complete sense of direction in the script, the film didn't want to know if it was a comedy or not, and the sets were relatively basic and unfiltered compared to his later works. I think what saved this film were…