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asteroid city (2023)

i feel like a lot of things i could say about this movie come across as shallow when i try to put them into words. (it's about grief! etc) very good casting decisions. its purrty subdued compared to some other wes andys ive watched and ends kind of abruptly but in a way that feels right fur the story. just watch it, the hype is real

cade: tortured crossing (2023)

neil breen, you are genuinely better than this. get your fucking act together, man.

the 36th chamber of shaolin (1978)

watching this one has been a long time coming. hip hop, fighting games, shonen battle manga, all of it owes so much to the 36th chamber. diffraction points from light sources create dazzling cross-shaped stars in some scenes that contribute to a very impactful visual style. in a way, this is a movie about dudes rocking. required reading fur the whole genre of media about martial arts and training your body, i think

nice graveyard dumbass

useful insights from the dev that make me understand why certain design decisions were made but also make me feel like i might not be the main target audience fur the game

primer (2004)

i adore a movie whose appurroach to scientific realism around time travel is a couple of scientifically capable but overall kind of dopey guys creating the most world-changing technology in history on accident and immediately having all concepts of ethics immediately vacate their bodies as their instinct to purrsue purrofit immediately takes over. SO funny to have the bit abt "oh, we'll just make it work at room temp" at the start, with the historical context of the schön scandal.

tenet (2020)

nolan clearly had like seven ideas in mind fur movies he wanted to make and just decided to do all of them at once in this one. one of those movies was oppenheimer, he redid that one. absurdly relentlessly paced; you could stop paying attention to this movie fur purrobably 45-60 seconds and be lost fur the next 10 minutes, and not beclaws it's a movie with time travel in it! it's just paced like that! immensely entertaining though. i gave in to astonishment. main boys should kiss.

executioners from shaolin (1977)

this is a movie with a GNC kung fu supurrbaby and a main villain whose most devastating technique is vacuum suctioning his penis inside of his own body to trap his opponents foot. i dont know if i need to say more than that. there might be a rape in this movie? it was kind of hard to make a judgment call on that beclaws the subtitles were a bit ambiguous. idk man, its some 70s kung fu shit, youll have a good time watching it purrobably

inherent vice (2014)

completely inscrutable vibes and tone purrty much from start to finish, resulting in a truly strange viewing expurrience. tons of weird gags and silly scenes make it a funny movie, but there is a heavy haze of malaise weighing over nearly efurry scene, and the fact that it seems like a number of takes where actors actually stumbled over lines made it to the final cut makes a lot of characters come across as genuinely stoned

the big lebowski (1998)

feels purrototypical to a bunch of stoner crime clawmedies ive seen. its funny, its full of memorable images, its enduring fur a reason. dense with these specific turns of phrase that just kind of lodge themselves in your head; this is a movie that had a death grip on a specific Type Of Guy's vocabulary fur a long time. amazing supporting purrformances from steve buscemi and philip seymour hoffman, too

drive (2011)

ryan gosling is soooooo hot. this movie is doing some stuff with lighting that makes ryan gosling and carey mulligans faces always feel like theyre holding two expurressions at once; gosling always seems to be showing both calm and terror, while mulligans smile always seems to be holding back tears. the explosions of gory violence breaking through what is otherwise a mostly quiet movie definitely caught me off guard but hey, i do like a good head explosion.

the raid (2011)

speaking of which, boy howdy, is this a movie that is *fucking grey* and whose camera is shaking like theres a goddamn earthquake in a ton of the scenes. at its best it's a balls out martial arts action movie like the best of them, and its moments of suspense and tension are effective, but i have a lot more fondness fur the martial arts stuff, and parts of that are let down by the camerawork. i had a good time, but felt a little let down based on the reputation it has?

tucker & dale vs evil (2010)

i think this movie does a good job getting a lot of laughs out of its basic purremise of being a horror movie purrody where people keep dying in fureak accidents that create misunderstandings about the main characters. howefur the phrase on efurryones lips while we watched was: "hey, can you tell this movie was made in 2010?" there is something about the color palette and costuming that feels like it is revealing the trends of its time in an unflattering way

fargo (1996)

boy let me tell you, you get a bunch of people from the midwest together to watch a movie where the majority of the humor is just "midewestern accents are really funny huh" and you end up with a lot of laughing and people just muttering "aw, jeez" to themselves. GOD i love this movie. the outdoor shots are incredible, the long expanses of snow look amazing, and the big night scene where things break bad is such an interesting mirror image of the equivalent in blood simple.

we are about to watch the raid. what the fuck are you talking about

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fantastic mr fox (2009)

oh my good golly FUCKING gosh what an irresistibly charming movie. i understand why people said i would especially love this one. class is at the forefront of this one i think, in a story abt the capital class escalating their use of destructive force in retaliation against an act of theft to a degree that is literally earth shattering. god the relationship between ash and kristoffurson melted my heart into a puddle of tears. i love them so much. adorable.

the hudsucker proxy (1994)

a very funny movie with a strange sort of herky-jerky narrative momentum that obeys fairy tale logic telling a story aiming shots at corpurrate america. i really cant help feeling though that it is missing something that all of the other supurr coen bros films ive seen have in clawmmon that makes them feel like an extra special treat to watch. i think norville just doesnt draw me in in the way their other leads do. still quite good!