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Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Very quietly brilliant. Not my style at all (my grandma showed this to me) but man it was way better than I expected. Very moody and quiet but powerful and it narrowly evades the white savior narrative I thought it would have. It’s just a pure love letter to nature and it’s filled with a bitter hatred for capitalism.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

Very in your face with its themes like most marvel movies are, but those themes are depression leading to SUICIDE which is just crazy. A lotta really great moments here.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 30, 2025.

This overwhelming and gross experience has such an incredible release at the end that makes me cry more than almost any other movie I’ve seen. It’s super tempting to give this a perfect score, there’s not much wrong with it (other than Robert Pattinson making out with an actually underage girl, gross, maybe the one bad thing Robert Pattinson has ever done and I’m very disappointed in him) this shit just really works from an atmosphere level.

I’m just not sure if I vibe with the structure of it all the way. I can’t even really explain it, it’s just something about the way the movie flows just kinda doesn’t work with me. Idk tho maybe my mind will change.

Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

A movie that is so good that it’s absolutely insane to me that it isn’t one of the most praised movies of the last 20 years idk man.

The people who call movies “too stylistic” have no idea how damaging that mindset is. You’re telling me you watched this entire movie filled with some of the most creative editing techniques and shots and scenes ever and you went “eh there’s just too much cool stuff.” 

That’s just insane to me. I watch this and go damn I’m never gonna see another movie as stylish as this and that’s amazing.

Fucking insane. A perfect revenge movie that also has weird ass experimental editing and crazy music, the atmosphere of this movie is absolutely amazing. It’s so gritty but so ethereal and strange at the same time, and the way it flows is perfectly slow and methodical. 

the only issue I have is that there are actual pornogaphic scenes in this movie, which at first I was like ok I can see what this is doing (it adds a level of dehumanization and it’s clearly intentional) but there’s JUST enough of it to where I’m like alright idk if you needed to do all that lmaoo. It does help that the scenes aren’t shot like porn and they very clearly are using a different actress, but yea it bothered me a tiny bit. 

Overall tho this is seriously one of the craziest movies I’ve seen in a while and I love it a ton just on a first watch so I’d say this is an instant favorite.

Watched on Wednesday April 23, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 23, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 23, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Still a fun ass movie, I had it on in the background cuz it’s just such a vibe

Only a movie like this could break through my movie slump.

See now this is what im talking about

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

“I hate your reality.”

Watched on Wednesday March 26, 2025.

fun ass dumbass movie

Fucking crazy. I love the feeling of this being too far gone. It feels like it takes place in a time where technology has long since taken over, we’re going further and further down the rabbit hole of violence and commodification. The soundtrack is always just pulsing away keeping the tension alive, there’s very few scenes of actual violence but there’s always the threat of it looming. 

I don’t like AI because it looks like shit and there’s moral issues, that remains true here though I think it works aesthetically. I do appreciate that the second half really eases up on all the ai usage except for one scene. For the most part tho the ai really adds to the uncanny and gross feeling the movie has of this techno hell where nothing feels or looks correct. 

Also the entire sequences that seem to take place in an actual video game engine?? Fucking awesome lmao.

It feels weird to give something like this a 5 but I love shit  that gets so deep into its own style that it’s like it’s own dimension. This also has a really creepy atmosphere that makes me appreciate it more.

Changed it to a 4.5, unsure if it’ll change back later but this is a weird one. I’m not sure how much staying power it’ll have for me.

It’s interesting to me that the main takeaway a lot of people get from this is that it’s saying the world needs to be feminized and the “in-betweeners” are bad. That’s not what I got from it at all. I saw it as an ideology being forced onto these flawed people who are then convinced it’s good after it’s already shoved onto them. I see Tanguy as a tragic character who’s been abandoned by their friends and I don’t know how you could see all that and say the movie meant for it to be a good thing. This is clearly shown by this group of now women murdering a bunch of dudes right away 😭. 

Not saying there isn’t valid criticisms to be had here in the way the message is delivered and I think you could interpret some of this as being anti trans (and I’m not personally experienced so I can’t argue too much) but it’s just strange that so many people on here seem to believe that the movie is just straight up saying we should all become women.

Bertrand Mandico clearly views gender as a very fluid concept that transcends simple behaviors and physical features, as proven by his other two movies. I don’t think he’d make a movie that flat out says something so simple and dumb about gender. Idk man maybe I’m just coping lmao.

Watched on Wednesday February 26, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 22, 2025.

Perfect little bite sized version of this story, love the animation and music and the little surreal touches, also lowkey this movie has AMAZING one on one scenes?? The scene with Bilbo and Gollum is so good and so atmospheric and so is the scene with Smaug, this is super underrated imo.

Watched on Thursday February 20, 2025.

A sparse, minimalist world where apocalyptic futures are communicated in dreams. This doesn’t quite stick the landing as well as it should, but overall it’s got a great atmosphere and I love the minimalist style. 

Really wish there was a blu ray release of this, I watched it on YouTube and the quality sucked and this just feels like a movie id wanna rewatch a lot.

Also, I just watched an edit of this movie that made me realize a NieR type soundtrack would have fit this way better than the actual soundtrack does. The soundtrack is still good, but damn that shit would have gone crazy

A complete deconstruction of a rich American man, using the cool guy actor personality as a mask and then pulling it back to reveal… nothing. 

I love the dreamy atmosphere and I think the moments of melodrama (which I usually don’t like) kinda work well here as they are purposeful and acted very well. My only real issue with this is that the ending feels like it lacks confidence, it has to really show you something that could have been communicated in a much better way.

A dreamy cataloguing of the deepest and darkest fears and feelings a child experiences, and a mature look at how afraid you can be of yourself.

Strangely not… dreamy enough for me?

I wish this had less cliche fantasy moments and iffy dialogue, and was more of a dreamy mood piece. It needed MORE existentialism, MORE surreal moments, and less “kids movie stuff.” 

Obviously it is a kids movie at the end of the day, and I think that is what kept this from being a masterpiece, as it just doesn’t go far enough into the really interesting themes that it has because I don’t think they work for a kids movie.

This reminds me of House with the way that it plays with tone. It’s purposefully kind of goofy and cliche in weird little ways while being horrific and genuinely scary at the same time, without ever losing that zany feeling. 

It almost makes the parts that seem dumb kind of charming, like the movie has two personalities that compliment each other.

I could see this rating going even higher, as this seems super rewatchable and the vibe is so strange and unique that it makes me appreciate it more and more as I think about it.

Watched on Saturday February 15, 2025.

Genuinely pretty scary, I didn’t like the very shallow “I’m gonna be a mom and I’m scared” story tho that just felt very cliche and poorly done, it could’ve worked with better dialogue. One of those “This is very clearly written by a man” stories imo. 

The demon mom went off tho she was freaky as fuck and acted very well.

Watched on Thursday February 13, 2025.

watched on a dvd that I have now learned is censored. motherfucker. 

But anyways this movie is one of my favs of all time, this shit is so weird and haunting that it’s also hilarious, and I love the slow pace and creaky music. There is definitely a lot left to interpretation here, though there’s denial of sexuality and a disgust with femininity, which are both done in horrific and amazing ways. 

This movie is just perfect to me. One of my favorite vibes of all time.

This peaked in the first 20 minutes unfortunately, as I couldn’t stand the older mc and his brothers at all. This whole thing is visually gorgeous tho, and the soundtrack is just beautiful. 

I find that the movie seems to beg for a return to myth. It shows modernity as this cold thing to be destroyed, so that the color of the old world can return. Pretty beautiful. 

I just think the dialogue for 80% of the movie is really bad and some of the rule of 3 stuff got on my nerves, the spanking shit is also so dumb. 

Crazy and surreal experience overall just could’ve used a better story.

Could move up half a star. This has way more meaning than I thought it had when I watched it years ago, but also I just appreciate it more because I’m not a dumbass who thinks everything has to mean something specific anymore lmao.

A lot of my appreciation of this comes from how beautiful specific scenes are, my favorite being simply the arrival of Gorgeous’s new stepmother towards the beginning. It’s so ethereal and with the interpretation of her being this symbol of moving on it makes it really sad later. 

The last 30 or so minutes of this are really incredible, I don’t love the first half quite as much but the more I think about it the less I think it’ll bother me.

Watched on Monday February 10, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 8, 2025.

Watched on Friday February 7, 2025.

Watched on Thursday February 6, 2025.

Watched on Thursday February 6, 2025.

Watched on Thursday February 6, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday February 5, 2025.

Bro got groovy damn

Watched on Tuesday February 4, 2025.

• Lessons of Darkness
• Sara
• Cristaux
• Maternal Filigree
• LEGO: The Adventures of Clutch Powers
• Dreams
• The Zone of Interest
• Morvern Callar
• Aleph

I have seen:

Branded to Kill 
Tokyo Drifter
Pistol Opera 
Youth of the Beast
Gate of Flesh
Story of a Prostitute 
Zigeunerweisen
Kagero-Za
Yumeji
Fighting Elegy
Take Aim at the Police Van
Fang in the Hole 
Love Letter 
Underworld Beauty

• Branded to Kill
• Zigeunerweisen
• Kagero-za
• Yumeji
• Pistol Opera
• Tokyo Drifter
• The Fang in the Hole
• Youth of the Beast
• Gate of Flesh
• Fighting Elegy

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Including arrow academy or whatever

• Versus
• Shinjuku Triad Society
• Ley Lines
• Audition
• Horrors of Malformed Men
• Red Angel
• Dead or Alive
• Dead or Alive 2: Birds
• Rainy Dog
• Dead or Alive: Final

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Thor love and thunder is really fucking bad

1. Avengers: Infinity War
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
4. Avengers: Endgame
5. Captain America: The First Avenger
6. The Incredible Hulk
7. The Avengers
8. Iron Man
9. Captain America: Civil War
10. Spider-Man: No Way Home

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every movie or show that I have on my shelf.

• Red Spirit Lake

  
  

• Black Tight Killers
• Funeral Parade of Roses
• We Await
• The Animatrix
• Metropolis
• Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
• Excalibur
• Ultraviolet
• Samurai Chicks

...plus 257 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

(my favorite movies)

Roughly ranked by how much I like em

1. Branded to Kill
2. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
3. Fallen Angels
4. Dead or Alive 2: Birds
5. Gozu
6. Zigeunerweisen
7. Sexy Beast
8. Audition
9. El Topo
10. Alice in Wonderland

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

• Video Diary of a Lost Girl
• Litan
• The Trip
• 1001 Nights
• Phase IV
• Decoder
• Inferno Cop
• Targets
• Spring and Chaos
• Some Call It Loving

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The House That Jack Built
• All About Lily Chou-Chou
• She Is Conann
• Love Exposure
• More Things That Happened
• Possessor
• Phantom Thread
• Fallen Angels
• Izo

These are the films that I feel like I could flip the switch and turn em into 5’s and it wouldn’t bother me toooooo much

Or they’re just movies I really think could turn into 5 star movies in the future

• The Swimmer
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Legend
• Antiporno
• House
• Door
• The Angel
• Orpheus
• Alice
• Natural Born Killers

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Anguish
• Angel Heart
• Dementia
• Sanctuary
• I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse
• Alucarda
• Zëiram
• Mute Witness
• The Taste of Tea
• Retribution

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Lil embarrassing ngl

• Prisoners
• Memento
• Chinatown
• GoodFellas
• Blade Runner 2049
• Only God Forgives
• Stand by Me
• Blade Runner
• Casino
• The Wolf of Wall Street

...plus 57 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Ichi the Killer
• AGGRO DR1FT
• She Is Conann
• The Last Unicorn
• Demonlover
• The Zone of Interest
• Space Is the Place
• Cure
• Let the Corpses Tan
• Angel's Egg

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
2. Twin Peaks
3. Inland Empire
4. Blue Velvet
5. More Things That Happened
6. Lost Highway
7. Mulholland Drive
8. Twin Peaks: The Return
9. Wild at Heart
10. Dune

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

7 Wong Kar Wai films are here because I have his collection

1. M
2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
3. Pale Flower
4. Onibaba
5. As Tears Go By
6. Days of Being Wild
7. Chungking Express
8. Fallen Angels
9. Happy Together
10. In the Mood for Love

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Neptune Frost
• MirrorMask
• Leviathan
• Junk Head
• Only Lovers Left Alive
• Dreams
• Millennium Mambo
• Labyrinth of Cinema
• Phase IV
• I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse

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

• Demonlover
• AGGRO DR1FT
• Baby Invasion
• Inland Empire
• All About Lily Chou-Chou
• Ghost in the Shell
• Videodrome
• Holy Motors
• Twin Peaks: The Return
• We're All Going to the World's Fair

• On the Silver Globe
• Braindead
• The Hourglass Sanatorium
• Dust Devil
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
• The Devil
• The Little Mermaid
• Ecstasy of the Angels
• The Boxer's Omen
• Dante's Inferno

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

• Red Spirit Lake
• Gozu
• Videodrome
• Visitor Q
• Psych-Burn
• My House Walk-Through
• Thunder
• The Alphabet
• Angst
• The Wolf House

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

• Hours for Jerome
• Harry Hooton
• At Uluru
• O-DE-KA-KE Diary
• The Illiac ion
• Imaginary Light
• Begotten
• Sleep Has Her House
• Chrysanthemum Inspiration
• Crystal

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

I’m here from the future to say I have now idea how pale flower and Sicario made me cry

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• The Pursuit of Happyness
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Requiem for a Dream
• Stranger Than Fiction
• Good Time
• Avengers: Endgame
• Avengers: Infinity War

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

• Stalker
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Possession
• A Clockwork Orange
• Perfect Blue
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn
• True Romance
• Do the Right Thing
• Scarface
• Spirited Away

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies that literally or figuratively take place in hell, or have a satanic feel to them

• Hell's Bells
• Copy Shop
• Climax
• The House That Jack Built
• Angel's Egg
• We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Funny Games
• House
• Ichi the Killer
• Enter the Void

...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Until recently, I hadn’t seen like any tv shows but I am slowly getting through some this year. I’m also counting collections of anime OVA’s 

Shows not on Letterboxd that I’ve seen: 

Arrow (shut up) 
Æon Flux
Daredevil 
Steven Universe
The Shivering Truth

• Twin Peaks
• Twin Peaks: The Return
• Over the Garden Wall
• Steven Universe Future
• Devilman Crybaby
• Paranoia Agent
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica
• Cowboy Bebop
• Genocyber
• Devilman - Volume 1: The Birth

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

For three extremes, I am only ranking Miike’s part in it, called “Box” 

I have seen:

Audition 
Ichi the Killer 
The Happiness of the Katakuris
Gozu
As the Gods Will
First Love
Pandoora
Imprint
Dead or Alive
Dead or Alive 2: Birds
Visitor Q
Shinjuku Triad Society 
Rainy Dog
Dead or Alive: Final
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Izo

I own: 

Gozu 
Audition 
Dead or alive 
Dead or alive 2: Birds
Dead or alive: Final
Three extremes: Box 
Happiness of the Katakuris 
Deadly Outlaw Rekka 
Izo 
13 Assassins 
Blade of the Immortal
Family 
Family 2 
Bodyguard Kiba 
Bodyguard Kiba 2
Shinjuku Triad Society
Rainy Dog 
Ley Lines 
Big Bang Love: Juvenile A 
Graveyard of Honor 
Hara Kiri: Death of a Samurai 
Sukiyaki Western Django
Visitor Q 
Ichi the Killer 
Imprint 
Crows Zero
Zebraman 
The City of Lost Souls 
Young Thugs: Innocent Blood
Imprint

1. Dead or Alive 2: Birds
2. Gozu
3. Audition
4. Dead or Alive
5. Dead or Alive: Final
6. Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
7. Izo
8. As the Gods Will
9. Visitor Q
10. Shinjuku Triad Society

...plus 61 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
3. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. Jackie Brown
6. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
7. Reservoir Dogs
8. Death Proof
9. The Hateful Eight
10. Django Unchained

Featuring: My Girlfriend’s opinion

• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
• Midsommar
• Lady Bird
• The Hunger Games
• Jennifer's Body
• Last Night in Soho
• The Craft
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1
• Raw
• Titane

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies referenced in No More Heroes 3

• Audition
• Gozu
• Ichi the Killer
• 13 Assassins
• Visitor Q
• Dead or Alive
• Crows Zero
• Zebraman
• Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
• Ninja Kids!!!

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.