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well girls. i simply do not know.

i will always trust ethan hunt and i will try this again but it largely made me feel Not Good this go around.

the people on twitter calling this “evil”…. fix your hearts…

by any metric this is simply not good, except the one where the only question is “do tom cruise and his unlikely sidekick have incredible comedic chemistry and a good time?” and well lads. i’m looking for a jake johnson 2025 re-team up any day now.

an often inexcusably mushy script but my god, rosamund

i stopped regularly drinking socially because i always went home thinking i’d been this guy all night

we’re about 90 days out from every USAJobs listing becoming “WANTED: GENERAL JACK RIPPER TYPES”

guy who’s nostalgic for nyc in the 70s

congratulations addie loggins you are my favorite member of the club to which i am most proud to belong, the “girls who got mistaken as little boys a lot bc of the fuckass bowl cuts their mothers gave them” gang

industry is younger and more beautiful

i hope tom and glen had a lovely time celebrating mother’s day this year

excellent message, exceedingly dull execution,  katharine excessively beautiful….. spencer: tracy

elinor dashwood you would get along soooooo well with me and the mutuals

absolute and total shit from a butt. tony stark i hate you so bad words cannot describe. 

stevenatbucky come over here, ive got you

RELAPSED.

(another mission impossible themed effort which is very funny in retrospect)

you know what i was actually having TOO good a time so im glad the third act was “what if a marvel movie did for mental health what the barbie movie did for feminism” to remind me that im still yknow. watching a late-stage mcu movie. 

jld saying “rogue nation” and “rogue operative” in the first twenty minutes… mission impossible you are so loved ❤️

who up killing themselves

watching any spencer tracy movie feels like trying to force myself to like my friend’s boyfriend… like girl he’s cool i guess but he’s not for me! katharine doing stunning work as always.

everyone logging this but not reviewing it is sooo funny.... real, actually. i dodged several developmental bullets by avoiding real awareness of mister goblin king during my adolescence for sure

heaping dose of Pure Fun, was giggling and kicking my feet!

i love maximalism and messiness and throwing everything on the page and every idea at once!!!!! i love MUSIC!!!!! AND VAMPIRES!!!!!

avoided this for years because i thought it would be bad in a “overbloated technicolor british people in egypt” kind of way, turns out it’s bad in a “caesar and cleopatra were actually inventing ddlg, didn’t you know” kind of way which is its own type of fun if you’re willing to rock with it. love you viv love you claude

i simply adore romantic thrillers that make me say “wow! would never happen to me :)” purely because my taste in men differs from the protagonist…. i have yet to see a film where i’m putting claude rains SECOND no matter what hollywood keeps trying to sell me!!!

every dude in my freshman year philosophy of religion seminar, testing how misogynist the professor would let them be: 

(all three leads excellent)

a sappy sentimental comedy where the big Point Of It All realization results in 62 year old peter o'toole dumping his dead wife's "cells" into the ocean, thus abandoning his project of cloning her, agreeing to marry his 19 year old gf and immediately getting her pregnant.... my biggest "sure why tf not" of all time... my kind of fun

I TOLD YOU I WOULD EAT YOU!

joseph wright i need you to listen to me. it is time to stop FUCKING AROUND you need to get SERIOUS. call keira NOW!!!!!!!!!!

ten more of these STAT

i don’t have much to say here but we started with peter covered in blood and i was locked in!

BLUEBEARD! BLUEBEARD! BLUEBEARD!

so deeply uninterested in bob dylan that it cannot triumph over mediocrity HOWEVER…. timmy, monica, and elle all stellar

could not for even one second stop thinking about how rank he must have smelled

accurate to my experience of living in a fifth floor walk up in manhattan (was absolutely ready to have a breakdown and demand a divorce even though i was single and 20 years old)

a perfect movie is just two of the hottest people you’ve ever seen, a climax in washington square park, a TIGHT script, and edith head ❤️❤️❤️❤️

i wish for his sake that tennessee williams had had an easier time of it but lowkey thank god he didn't.........

rachel zegler BEAUTIFUL rachel zegler TALENTED rachel zegler HERE TO STAY

“this shit got me talkin like tipper gore” is one of the funniest lines in recent memory

when you try to recount a dream, and the events are hazy and the timeline doesn’t seem possible but the FEELING has stayed with you all day…… daniel transcendent and it’s always nice to see my good friend jason schwartzman

james newton howard you LOVE a dramatic swell and so do i!!!!!!!!!!!

this "do not go gently into that good night" ass love story for crazy people.........

(a movie is not a Favorite unless i've logged it here at least three times and once each with syd and megan)

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bloated, confounding, plodding…. and YET anchored by an o’toole performance that is so against type and so mesmerizing that the whole thing is worth it. many such cases!

i have never been so stressed and disturbed by primarily diegetic (enhanced) sound editing in my entire life

an 80 degree weekend in march called for this

this is a one and a half star rating delivered with so much love…… they used to film television movies with some of the greatest actors of all time and the worst fake music ever written…. peter’s nosferatu hungarian accent and jodie’s “so are you gonna shut up and get into bed with me, old man” energy DELIGHTFUL, everything else just truly bottom of the barrel. perfect sunday afternoon couch viewing. baffling!

you held me like water in your hands

now that's what i call cary grant vol 3

managing to make this story BORING was a herculean feat and yet they managed it! best scene was the brief nun roleplay

it’s interesting how o’toole’s painstakingly curated RADA accent, his irish spirit, and his place in time made him an ideal actor to constantly be in satires about british colonialism and culture….. this one was more affecting than i anticipated, altho it’s also very silly (and again, dated). richard roundtree slay.

writing anything here would actually devalue my feelings about this movie

such is cary grant’s charm that i have never once felt the romance between the leads in one of his #dramas but everytime he goes silly with a woman im like woahhhhh is anyone seeing this??? and thats how i know he fucked men too ❤️ 

also insane the lengths the story has to go to in order to stop me from rooting for claude rains (making him a literal nazi)

HOW TALL IS KING KONG? 

honestly i very fun part of #otoolewatch has been how many times i click play on a film, assuming it will be a schlock fest redeemed only by peter’s performance, only to be delighted by a silly little gem of a film. he is always the best part (as here) but i’m having a good time!!! anyways. eli should’ve been WORSE!

i was doing my paint by numbers and this got a fair number of giggles

deb…….your sparkling eyes…..

the franchise of all time

1. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
2. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
3. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
4. Mission: Impossible
5. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
6. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
7. Mission: Impossible III
8. Mission: Impossible II

• Harold and Maude
• Paper Moon

if i said this list was for my baldur’s gate oc and
her boyfriend would you believe me

• The Duke of Burgundy
• Stoker
• Only Lovers Left Alive
• The Neon Demon
• Dogtooth
• Dead Ringers
• The Double
• Byzantium
• Bones and All
• Benedetta

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

ineffable Thesis movies

• Sanctuary
• Dead Ringers
• The Piano Teacher
• Stoker
• Secretary
• Persona
• Dogtooth
• Possession
• Titane
• Crash

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

unapproachable women, frigid bitches, aloof women (with hidden desires).

• Belle de Jour
• Stoker
• The Piano Teacher
• The Philadelphia Story
• Red Rooms
• The Piano
• Persona
• Thelma
• The Lion in Winter
• Summertime

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

trying to find a name for this phenomenon that’s like. erotically condescending slowly combining personhoods….. a good old fashioned “my girl”, a little bit of a “wiping tears away and cooing as a woman cries” misogyny with either an age gap mentorship or a sexual gothic haunting or both… hmmmm 

edit: making this more general in the condescending but beloved mentor/age gap vibes bc you can’t always get everything exactly how you want it but at the end of the day. Brat.

• The Red Shoes
• Rebecca
• Emma.
• Gone with the Wind
• My Fair Lady
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Shadow of a Doubt
• How to Steal a Million
• Deception

trying to combine personal enjoyment of the film + personal appreciation for peter's performance is sometimes difficult bc he is simply always Great. stardust at the end on a technicality bc i don't peter with any specificity and also he dies but it's not as slay as caligula. will rerank when i rewatch that one.

1. How to Steal a Million
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. The Lion in Winter
4. The Ruling Class
5. Brotherly Love
6. The Stunt Man
7. Goodbye, Mr. Chips
8. Becket
9. My Favorite Year
10. What's New Pussycat?

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Challengers
3. The Brutalist
4. The Beast
5. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
6. Anora
7. Nosferatu
8. I'm Still Here
9. A Different Man
10. Wicked

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

1. Spencer
2. The Lost Daughter
3. Dune
4. The Power of the Dog
5. Titane
6. The Tragedy of Macbeth
7. No Time to Die
8. tick, tick... BOOM!
9. Malignant
10. Benedetta

nicole kidman movies ranked by how much i scream about her performance. every six months i decide this is ranked by how good the movie is and then i switch is back to how good she is. we’re vibing!

1. Moulin Rouge!
2. To Die For
3. Stoker
4. The Others
5. Big Little Lies
6. The Hours
7. Eyes Wide Shut
8. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
9. Practical Magic
10. Margot at the Wedding

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Days of Heaven
• The Lost Daughter
• Sarah, Plain and Tall
• Bones and All
• Call Me by Your Name
• The Power of the Dog
• Picnic at Hanging Rock
• My Brilliant Career
• Columbus
• A Room with a View

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

1. Sanctuary
2. Poor Things
3. Anatomy of a Fall
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
5. Oppenheimer
6. The Zone of Interest
7. Godzilla Minus One
8. The Holdovers
9. Asteroid City
10. The Boy and the Heron

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Top Gun: Maverick
3. Bones and All
4. Babylon
5. RRR
6. Resurrection
7. After Yang
8. Women Talking
9. Cha Cha Real Smooth
10. Nope

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