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"Foot Chase To Nowhere"
A stylish jazzpunk neo-noir that is a darkly funny and relentlessly graphic look at Hong Kong in the death throws of late-stage capitalism.

One of the most emotionally manipulative movies I have ever seen. (Complimentary)

Very faithful adaptation right down to the paranoid hallucinations and burned-out dialog. Rarely varies from the source enough to develop it's own voice.

A quintessential Italian horror.
It has everything: Great music, dreamlike visuals, wildly inconsistent tone and awkward sexualization of an underage Asia Argento.

This is how you do a heavy handed metaphor.

The visual language of this movie is jarring in the most effective way.

So much fun, really wish I could have discovered Sailor Moon when I was younger.

Pure cake.

"Wipe that face off your head, bitch"
A no-stakes, slice-of-life period piece with an absolutely stacked cast and loaded soundtrack.
Infinitely quotable.

Bigelow's style really shines here though it lingers longer than necessary.

Deliciously styled and fun.

"No kings, no presidents, no senators; just Corey."

Explicit.

“No free man needs a God; but was I free?”

I don't know the story behind this movie but it feels like a bunch of FX and stunt guys got together and made a movie.
Cool looking shit bookended by a boring story and awkward humor.

The absolutely stacked cast delivers an existential gut punch of hard sci-fi horror while Boyle' visual language deftly manages the oscillating tones.

Preservation media for The Glendale Galleria circa 1986.

“Oh Ivo, You’re No Maria”
That it manages to balance irreverent humor with genuine, incredibly dark moments just makes this a delight to watch.
For my money, this is the best kids movie franchise going.

Funny enough to illicit a few sustained belly-laughs from me.
An overall great sequel.

Inspired casting across the board and genuinely funny and affecting. A great kids movie.

The most pre-9/11 Hollywood film and my personal favorite of the franchise.

Why this movie has massively effected horror for the following decades but pop-culture as a whole is still evident in this re-watch.

This deserves to be studied.
Unrated because it is absolutely not a good movie but also undeniably hilarious.

Has more restraint than Feig's later movies but thanks to obvious and continual adlibs is still 20mins too long.

“Big rooms get bigger in the dark”

A mid-aughts nostalgia trip full of low-rise jeans, gay-ass European racing shoes, Juicy velour tracksuits and whale-tails. Also doubles down on the series hallmark of killing ugly white boys.
Hilarious and entirely unserious. Watch with friends.

Lags in parts but otherwise is just cool as hell.

The strongest, most subversive first hour of a horror sequel ever is followed by 40 minutes of an adequately good horror movie.

Of all the centuries to be alive and I happen to live in the one with central air-conditioning, flushable wipes and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.
Truly a gift.

The movie that invented fast-zombies.
The Dogme 95 influences really shine through on this re-watch, Boyle manages to make it look effortless.

Goofy, scary and fun.
The opening scene makes out the Romani people to be extremely petty. Werk.

THAT POOR DOG!
Cool anime movie.

Surprised at how this manages to be creepy, funny and dramatic without feeling overly ambitious.
Happy 40th!

These movies are just too fun to riff on with friends.

The tone is set in scene one and it does not waver. A surprisingly fun watch.

Calling this CW quality is an insult to CW.

This movie smells in all the right places.

There's something very special about this seemingly rote slasher.
I recommend seeing the restored cut.

Up until yesterday I thought I had seen this movie. Turns out, I have never seen this movie. I merely conflated it with it's better sequels that expand on the excellent premise. That and a bizarre osmosis due to this film's immense cultural presence in my early aughts adolescence.

This feels icky the same bad way Promising Young Woman felt icky.

When Gilgamesh looked over the wall of his palace he saw the dying man, the dead man and the sick man; That would be his lot also.

This is just a fun pressure-cooker story all dressed up in Catholic vestments.
However, the sharp string music, ripped straight from a horror trailer, is comically overused in the early half of the movie, making it more annoying than effective.
Somehow, that cardinal hitting a vape is the funniest shit.

Another parody of action films that despite it's self-limitations is an exemplar of the genre.
Infinitely quotable and an funnier every time I watch it.

Likable characters brought to life by amazing performances elevates this from being mostly a trope filled romp through poverty voyeurism to partly a treatise on class solidarity. 
45 minutes too long.

I can objectively say this isn't a great movie, but it is often on my mind.
There isn't a better movie a Dad could hope to see on TBS on a Sunday afternoon in 2006.

Almost a terrific movie. Unique premise, cool look and amazing cast with equally great performances.
As it is, however, it feels simultaneously plodding and rushed.

Who needs a well told story when the story is well told?

I've watched this a hundred times and I am still in awe at the economy of it's construction. The most perfect film I may ever get to see.
RIP.

This is quickly becoming my favorite Rami film for it's bombastic visuals, heightened drama and "how'd he do that?" effects shots.
Use of easily avoidable and very ugly greenscreen is my only quibble with this movie.

Despite beautiful visuals, this movie is brought low by shameful attempts at emotional manipulation that ring as hollow as it’s heavy handed allegory.

Japanese only, live list, will update.

1. Godzilla: Final Wars
2. Godzilla Minus One
3. Shin Godzilla
4. Godzilla
5. Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla
6. The Return of Godzilla
7. Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
8. Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
9. Godzilla vs. Mothra
10. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II

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Live list, will continue to update.

1. Dead Ringers
2. The Fly
3. Crash
4. The Brood
5. Videodrome
6. Naked Lunch
7. Scanners
8. The Dead Zone
9. eXistenZ

1. Twilight

   Instant classic of American Cinema.

2. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2

   If the devil was real I would sell my soul to him so I could see this movie opening night in a packed theater.

3. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1

   No one has slayed harder since Kristen Stewart in the final seconds of Breaking Dawn Pt 1.

4. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

   A cuck army in Forks? It's more likely than you think.

5. The Twilight Saga: New Moon

   This movie invented jean shorts.

1. The Exorcist III
2. The Exorcist
3. Exorcist II: The Heretic
4. Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
5. The Exorcist: Believer
6. Exorcist: The Beginning

1. Halloween
2. Halloween II
3. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
4. Halloween Ends
5. Halloween
6. Halloween: Resurrection
7. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
8. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
9. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
10. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

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

1. Damien - Omen II
2. The Final Conflict
3. The First Omen
4. The Omen
5. Omen IV: The Awakening
6. The Omen

1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

   Perfect. No notes.

2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

   A movie completely unconcerned with it's legacy.

3. The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

   Iconic. Taps into elements of high strangeness so prevalent in the original TCM.

4. Texas Chainsaw 3D

   Camp AF

5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

   ngl these early aughts movies are indiscernible.

6. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

   A mismanaged tone and message. At least it was trying something new.

7. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
8. Leatherface
9. Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III

   This movie was censored into a nightmare of trash.

1. Scream 3
2. Scream
3. Scream 2
4. Scream 4
5. Scream
6. Scream VI

1. Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
2. Hellraiser
3. Hellbound: Hellraiser II

   "To think I hesitated"

4. Hellraiser: Bloodline
5. Hellraiser
6. Hellraiser: Deader
7. Hellraiser: Revelations
8. Hellraiser: Hellworld
9. Hellraiser: Inferno
10. Hellraiser: Judgment

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