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Watched on Monday June 9, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday June 8, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday June 7, 2025.
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Watched on Friday June 6, 2025.
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Didn’t like this as much as I did the first time, the first half in particular, but the last half is so funny and I simply must respect Portman’s go for broke performance, basically doing a feature length version of the Lonely Island Natalie Portman rap. Love a crazy accent
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I think they could’ve cleaned things up a lot if they’d started the film with Ethan logging into the Entity coffin, get the montage and the dark version of the “Your mission, should you choose to accept it…” spiel, and then we go right into the Light the Fuse opening credits.
Anyway, I obviously must like this movie a lot if I keep seeing it and having thoughts about it.
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Gerwig’s American exchange student character is the main problem with the movie. The scene where she yells at Yoko Ono’s character is maybe the worst scene in Wes Anderson’s career. Really feel like the movie wouldn’t have been the lightning rod it was if not for this scene specifically but really Gerwig’s character in general and frankly, probably deserved a fair bit of criticism for that. Even beyond this, completely breaks the format and drags too much of the movie.
This is unfortunate because the movie is generally very good otherwise and the central dynamic between the dog and his boy is genuinely moving. Honestly one of Cranston’s best performances. Trash Island is such a fun, bleak world and completely unlike anything else in Anderson’s filmography. The movie features some of his most striking imagery and some of his darkest. Incredibly watchable and often charming.
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Underrated! Love the fantasy storybook version of the ocean. Very much the bridge from his earlier pictures to the Wes Anderson we know now. The cross section of the Belafonte is so wonderful, love that he turns a big salty ship into a beautiful dollhouse. We even see Anderson dipping his toes into action, giving Bill Murray a couple of the only shootouts he’s had in his career.
While Wes Anderson is absolutely responsible for Bill Murray’s cool guy renaissance, I do think he makes a real and earnest attempt to grapple with Bill Murray as a celebrity. Maybe absurd to say, but this is Bill Murray’s Unforgiven. Understands that the lovable scamp we thought we knew and worshipped is an asshole who keeps making life difficult for everyone around him. Lost in Translation dug into Bill Murray’s loneliness a year earlier but Life Aquatic feels more honest in that it lays the blame squarely on Murray. It’s not just his celebrity and stature isolating him, Zissou is entirely responsible for pushing everyone away and it’s his fault he fell from the top. Up to him to make amends, up to him to connect. Anderson gets this and Murray gets this and I believe it’s why they respect each other.
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Beautiful movie. An instant new favorite
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Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.
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Loved it this go-around! I often feel like I need to give every Wes Anderson film at least two viewings, not because I have bad first impressions, but I think that despite the criticism of there being a sameness across his works, every single one of his movies has its own rhythm and it takes a moment to adjust to each movie’s rhythm.
One of his funniest! While I sometimes miss the intimacy of his earlier films, I do love how grand his world has gotten, he’s only grown as an artist to me, and I love Wes in Big Genre mode. Fun seeing him go all in on the pulp serials he grew up on. Really enjoyed the thorniness of the Zsa-zsa Korda character, fun, dark spin on the entrepreneur adventurer. Michael Cera was the major standout to me, always knew he’d fit in great into Anderson’s oeuvre but was genuinely surprised at how well he sells the turn. Great time!
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Really dug it this time! Wouldn’t rank it anywhere near the top but I really settled into its rhythms as an anime movie with a bunch of recap of previous eps. The entire submarine section is some of the best stuff in any of these movies
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A movie about going Beast Mode
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Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.
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Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.
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Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.
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Sort of a huge mess but I had a good time. The first hour is kind of a clip show. However, I cannot hate a movie where Tom Cruise hangs off two entirely different planes
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Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.
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Thought it was just gonna be like Ocean’s Eleven with magicians but it’s actually about a world that revolves around magicians, who all basically have mutant powers. Low key one of the crazier movies I’ve seen
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Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.
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These movies are what theaters were made for.
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Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.
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Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.
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Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.
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Watched on Monday May 5, 2025.
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Genuinely very funny and sweet movie, could watch a thousand movies with Affleck and Bernthal being brothers. Affleck goes line dancing to flirt with a woman and my buddy Thomas and I got so hyped, a feeling that was immediately beautifully met by Bernthal’s character also getting hyped. This movie is good as hell
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Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.
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Funniest movie. Happy birthday Russell!!
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Perfect comedy vehicle
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Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.
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Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.
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Was kinda worried how this would hold up, but I found that it by and large does. None of the violence is cathartic, only ugly and horrifying. The targets are all human beings with inner-lives, all simply want a home. The mission itself is murky at best and ultimately not just fruitless but actively makes everything worse. I think what makes this movie work is the tension between Spielberg and Kushner, it’s a very bleak and thorny film in conflict with itself. The movie has no answers on how to resolve this and while I have my own political beliefs here, I actually don’t think a work of art has to come down on the answers, what it should do is make you ask questions, which was a pretty bold thing to do in 2005.
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This is what Tom Cruise’s life is like every single day
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Hadn’t seen this since I was a kid. Incredible 60s vibes, love the very sketchy artwork. Think this might have my favorite aesthetic out of any of the classic Disney movies? The story is kinda whatever, but it’s a great movie to just hang out in, fun to soak in the images. Every frame is beautiful. A treat to watch on 420 lol
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Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.
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We’re so lucky to have Cronenberg around to walk us through every stage of our bodies and beyond
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Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.
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Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.
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lmao
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Rock ‘n’ roll
]]>- The Brutalist
- Nickel Boys
- Challengers
- The Beast
- I Saw the TV Glow
- A Different Man
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Robot Dreams
- The Taste of Things
- Trap
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Ranking the Sandler films
- Uncut Gems
- Punch-Drunk Love
- The Waterboy
- Happy Gilmore
- Billy Madison
- Big Daddy
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
- The Wedding Singer
- Funny People
- Mr. Deeds
...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Margaret
- Chungking Express
- The Straight Story
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
- Pulse
- 3 Women
- Vox Lux
- Cabin Boy
- Brewster McCloud
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Batmans
- Batman Returns
- Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
- Batman
- The Dark Knight
- The Lego Batman Movie
- The Batman
- Batman Begins
- Batman
- The Dark Knight Rises
- Batman Forever
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Good spook em ups
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