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Robert Duvall sprints at the end of this and I swear I saw flashes of modern day Tom

I thought I might’ve overrated this the first time around. Turns out I underrated it lol maybe I’m just psyched about seeing Final Reckoning tomorrow but this shit rocked. Let’s finish this Tom, I trust you.

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Let’s get Robert Forster some pants those knees don’t need to see the light of day

Much like Forrest Gump, I’ve seen this a bunch of times but not start-to-finish in a while. It was always on tv and I always loved it. It’s not without its flaws, for example there’s a couple scenes with weirdly bad editing, but I still love it. This movie kinda just rules. And for the people who bring up its historical inaccuracy, I could not care less. If I cared about that, Gladiator probably wouldn’t be my favorite movie.

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Hell yeah

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

It’s a shame the son is incapacitated for most of the movie because he’s electric in the first 10 mins. Denzel is Denzel, he always delivers. I loved this for the most part, but it should have ended 10 minutes earlier and is shot and scored like a soap opera at times.

Peak.

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I was mentally prepared to give this 4.5-5 stars and go to bat defending it, but it just didn’t hold up as well as I thought it would. I’ve seen it countless times, but I don’t the last time I actually sat down and watched it start to finish. I still have a lot of love for the movie, but after Vietnam it’s kind of a drag. I just don’t care much for Jenny’s individual storyline that they keep cutting to, and the NYE party with Lt Dan could probly just get cut. The scenes where they insert Forrest into historical clips felt really goofy this time around too.
I still love the first hour though, and the last hour does still have some great moments. I just kinda understand the criticisms this movie gets more so than when I was younger.

Obviously a crazy Best Picture year. Shawshank or Pulp Fiction probly shoulda won. Gun to my head I guess I’d pick Pulp.

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Beautiful and soul-crushing. Peacock tried auto playing The Pianist right after this, as if I had any tears left.

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A slow burn that’s extremely worth it in the end. We got some legends chewing up scenes for 2 hours, leading to an awesome last 10 minutes.

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Really terrible job by everyone involved

I’ve seen this several times, most recently within the last year, and I still get so anxious during the basement scene. I thought I might be a little less engaged on this viewing having seen it so recently, but nope every time I watch it I can’t look away. The suspense is built so well, and the two leads are so magnetizing, it just makes for a perfect crime thriller.

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Need those sunglasses

And the 90s are underway. I liked this one. Is pushing 3 hours but it really didn’t feel that long which is always a huge plus. The editing felt a little off, though. I know there’s a much longer director’s cut, maybe that has something to do with it.

Remind me to never pick this for film club. In addition to runtime, the animals in this have a worse fate than those in No Country for Old Men, and I wouldn’t wanna go through that again.

Excited to watch The Silence of the Lambs for the 20th time next.

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Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

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How do you beat an unbeatable bad guy? A group hug obviously.

This is bad in so many ways but so good in the ways that matter

Damien, yes Damien from The Omen, is less evil than Mary Tilford.

The first hour and a half of this is pretty good, albeit frustrating at times, but the last 20 minutes is where it really shines. There’s so much good acting from Shirley and Audrey packed into that ending.

Wild cast. Too many to name, but I think the offsprings of James Caan and Gary Busey playing dime-store hitmen sums it up well enough. This movie gets going right from the jump and doesn’t really slow down. Tony Scott is gonna give me whiplash one of these days

I am still of the opinion that Mission: Impossible - Fallout is arguably the greatest action movie of all time, but I think Rogue Nation may actually be the epitome of the franchise. It hits every beat that an MI movie should, and has my vote for best late-franchise character addition in Ilsa Foust.

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Pleasant, easy watch. Nothing really too special. Morgan Freeman is definitely the best part of this movie, his performance is fun and a lot different than most of his roles after this. Tandy and Aykroyd were good too.

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I really enjoy this movie. Dustin Hoffman is great and gets the Oscar, but Tom Cruise needs a lot of credit here. He’s perfect in this role. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid, so I kinda forgot how big of a piece of shit his character is for basically the whole movie. And he plays such a good shitbag.

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Banger. Ghost Protocol through Fallout might be a top 5 trilogy imo. This elevates the franchise to a new level and they don’t look back.

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I was extra eager to watch this after my dear friend Kevin reviewed it recently. It starts off great, young Pu Yi is adorable and it was fun watching him cause havoc in the forbidden city, but it does start to drag a bit when he’s older. The score is lovely, though.

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I’ll still never forgive Oliver Stone for Natural Born Killers, but this was really good. And really fucked up. There are a couple scenes that just make your blood boil. Crazy stacked young cast too. Willem Dafoe runs away with the movie, but it’s always great seeing guys like Keith David pop up. Speaking of casting, John C. McGinley is in the wrong movie. Love the guy but I thought he was pretty awful in this.

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“You could have asked, Denys.”
“I did. She said yes.”
HA that’s right fuck you Bror.

Tbh outside of the above exchange, the plane sequence, and Meryl Streep being Meryl Streep, this movie was kinda boring.

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Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

This is the first time during my Best Picture watch that I’ve been faced with the dilemma of which cut to watch. After some deliberation, I have decided the best thing to do is watch the theatrical cut of every movie, since that’s what won Best Picture. And yes, unfortunately that means — for the first time in a long time — I will not be watching the extended cut of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. I’m as broken up about it as you all are, but I think it’s the right thing to do.

Anyway, onto Amadeus. Speaking of cuts, if there was a 3 hour cut of just old Salieri talking to the priest, I would watch that. F. Murray Abraham puts on a show in those scenes, I couldn’t get enough of it. The rest of the movie is great too. Mozart is such a little shit, and I know he’s being seen from the perspective of his #1 hater, but still. I thought the way the movie used his music was really well done, especially the way they would play it as he writes in real time.

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Just like all Wes Anderson movies, this was a very pleasant watch. He has a high floor. I’ll never dislike any of his movies.

Had a blast with this. Ben and Jon are so fun together.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

This has to be up there for most words per minute in a movie damn it doesn’t let up for a second

Love Keke and SZA together everything else in this is not great

Such a beautiful movie. It’s a perfect combination of happy and sad. Shirley MacLane and Debra Winger are outstanding, they give maybe my favorite portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship. Adding Jack Nicholson as a ing character feels like a cheat code. He crushes it, bringing just the right amount of levity to the movie.

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I feel like the Best Picture winners have gotten heavier as the years have gone on and it’s affected my pace on this journey. I can’t find time for a 3 hour movie just any day of the week. Alas, we persevere. This is a really good movie and worth the runtime. Long and heavy, but very good.

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Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

Phil isn’t in this as much as I ed. But he definitely makes the most of his screen time.
You can really feel this franchise start coming together on this one.

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Mostly meh but a perfect ending

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Rarely do I ever un-recline my movie theater lazy boy, but Sinners hits a point where I had to just completely lock in and was upright the rest of the movie. Banger.

I think Tony Scott and Denzel are the best director/actor combo of all time

There’s really no one to blame here except John Woo.

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I chuckled a few times picturing these guys racing against Usain Bolt lol he was a full second faster than the record set in this movie that’s wild. Anyway this movie is pretty good, the score is iconic, and I enjoyed the ending.

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Tony Scott only made 4 star movies it’s incredible

Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

Gut-wrenching. Great performances all around. I’m not sure in what world Timothy Hutton qualifies as a ing actor, but I’m glad someone got an acting Oscar here. And how bout Robby Redford coming in and winning Best Picture and Best Director in his directorial debut. Since I’m name dropping, I can’t not shoutout Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore. They killed it, RIP love you both.

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• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
• Mission: Impossible III
• Mission: Impossible
• Mission: Impossible II

1. The Godfather
2. Casablanca
3. The Silence of the Lambs
4. The Sound of Music
5. Schindler's List
6. All About Eve
7. Gone with the Wind
8. The Bridge on the River Kwai
9. Braveheart
10. The Godfather Part II

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• Heat
• Scream
• Good Will Hunting
• Saving Private Ryan
• The Green Mile
• Gladiator
• A Knight's Tale
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• Finding Nemo
• The Incredibles

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1. Furious 7
2. Fast Five
3. The Fast and the Furious
4. Fast & Furious 6
5. Fast & Furious
6. The Fate of the Furious
7. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
8. 2 Fast 2 Furious

1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. The Exorcist
3. Jaws
4. Psycho
5. The Thing
6. The Conjuring
7. Rosemary's Baby
8. Young Frankenstein
9. Signs
10. Interview with the Vampire

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Need to rewatch a few of these. Don’t really feel like watching Cars 2 and 3 but we’ll see.

1. Finding Nemo
2. The Incredibles
3. Inside Out
4. Toy Story 3
5. Coco
6. Toy Story
7. Monsters, Inc.
8. Toy Story 2
9. Ratatouille
10. Up

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1. Alien: Covenant
2. Aliens
3. Alien
4. Alien: Romulus
5. Alien³
6. Prometheus
7. Alien Resurrection

1. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Mad Max 2
4. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
5. Mad Max

1. Star Wars
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
4. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
6. Return of the Jedi
7. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
8. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
9. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
10. Solo: A Star Wars Story

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1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
8. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets