Mummies of Guanajuato ruled. El Santo showing up in the last ten minutes and solving everything with the trio of flame throwers that he just so happened to have in his car during his road trip ruled. Blue Demon not only got his mask stolen but he also gets pantsed and he never addresses it afterward.
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The Shakedown is a celebration of American civic virtue and the duty of zealous representation
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theyâre legitimately moved by peter wellers speech about how like just because a guy is a drug dealer doesnt mean cops can run around murdering people!
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I watched Spirited Away
I wasnât sure if Iâd seen it or not.
Either I forgot all of it over twenty years or I hadnât seen it before.
The only thing that seemed familiar was when her parents transform into pigs, so maybe Iâd seen a clip of that.
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Naked Gun good? a studio comedy with actual jokes and itâs dumb as hell and it keeps swinging and most, if not nearly all land? they even work in absurd ZAZ-style wordplay stupidity and an absurd running gag and actually give it time to breathe. Iâm amazed.
not the Tivo/Buffy bit. itâs insane that made it through when everything around it was so strongly locked in (even the bizarre music video/snowman bit)
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Electric State is a boring, quiet and slow discharge of an idea that could/should have been at least mediocre, but instead we got the boring Slogfest it is.
Ah well, better than Kraven, thatâs for sure.
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Spent 11+ hours at the movies yesterday for Tsaiâs entire Walker series. It was a pretty lovely way to spend the Sunday, we brought snacks and edibles. Tsai and Lee Kang are very goofy and both were lightly self deprecating about the whole thing. They advised the audience to please try and keep snoring to a minimum and to make sure to leave your seat quietly so as not to wake your neighbors. I got super stoned, but only dozed off for a bit during Sands. Each of the films are moving and engaging in their own way. It was fun to guess where Lee Kang was going to enter the screen and see all pedestrians different reactions. Lee Kang shared that a lot of people tried to give him money and some people tried to bother him, but he was ready to tell them he knew kung fu if Tsai said cut, lol. At one point, Lee Kang asked if anyone wanted to practice slow walking with him and a bunch of the crowd went on stage to follow his movements.
Some man got really upset for some reason during Sleepwalk and yelled something about Jodorowsky (??) while leaving. He was a Santa Monica douchebag, but at least 35% of the crowd stayed for the whole thing which isnât too bad I think. Wish I could have stayed for the whole Q and A because Lee Kang was talking about how he got a stroke in the middle of filming and Tsai kept on ranting about how cinema needs to be liberated, but our dog was alone and hadnât eaten dinner so we had to leave early.
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My mother, who as a Puerto Rican has understandably not developed a tolerance for temperatures lower than 70 degrees Farenheit, brings up the scene where one of the players bundles up in all his clothes immediately after touching down at the airport constantly. It may be the most sheâs ever identified with a fictional character.
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Cinema Paradiso
Sometimes you have to watch one of the greatest films of all time
Aw man, aw man. wow ahhaha.
I loved the couple that fell in love because they are both into freak horror shit. I loved that little toto genuflects before entering the projection booth early in the film. âah something badâs about to happen I can feel itâ and, yeah. I didnât cry at the end until I closed the tab and posted about it. What a fucking ending haha. This movie has so much set up and payoff itâs kind of unreal. âDonât give in to nostalgiaâ is something Iâll think about a while. This movie has so many funny little moments itâs hard to list all of them.
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Watched Night of the Living Dead, Fist of the North Star, and Hackers recently. What else to say except theyâre all awesome classics? Love to rewatch good film.
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watched Abrahamâs Boys. It was a pretty good period horror thing. Started off very slow and got very fast at the end. There was no Dracula in the film but his shadow loomed over everything. Good times. There was not a lot too it, and it didnât try to make the story take up more movie than it needed. A Good solid ninety minutes. I liked that there wasnât really the ambiguity of are vampires real. At the very least Dracula was real and that fucked van Helsing up. Itâs clear that at least some of the people heâs killed were not really vampires, and that his kids donât believe in the vamps but heâs seen some shit. All the actors turned in solid performances. Gonna watch Last Voyage of the Demeter next since Iâm on a dracula kick.
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I think my biggest laugh was specifically when she pulled out the book of spells and incantations and Drebinâs reaction to that. that was classic out of nowhere Naked Gun stuff.
I think the Weapons movie I imagined in my head from seeing the first trailer was maybe better than what I saw, but I also wasnât sure what to expect.
Theater was hootinâ wildly at the ending, the comeuppance. I see why Benny Hill was always runninââŚ.
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Happy Gilmore 2
idk, this somehow wasnât as bad as i expected?
⌠had more fun watching this than Electric State tbh 
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i went into it completely blind other than that first teaser and was v surprised by how boring the whole thing was
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amanda and the alien: p fun dtv romcom about a 90s slacker archetype gal who falls in love with a kind of shape changing slug alien that constantly kills and eats people. the movie is nonjudgmental about this, which is a nice surprise. the alien is played both by a rubbery football-size slug and by some alex mack style morphing effects. since it turns into whoever it ate last itâs kind of a fun effect to have a romcom where one of the people is played by a different actor every act or so, various genders and ages etc, like if dr crusher had been less of a prude with the worm alien in that one episode. michael dorn is in it as an fbi agent and later as the alien (his last words are âstar trekâŚ?!â). i liked how much emphasis it put on the alien getting horny from ingesting random household spices, incl cartoon âboing-g-g!â sound effects. weirdly seems to be made by I.R.S. Recordsâ filmmaking arm (?) and despite this has the most dimestore we have buttrock at home soundtrack, although imdb says a wall of voodoo song plays at one point (uncredited)
austin powers intl man of mystery: watched some of this for genre research. its kind of funny how much funnier the set design is than the actual script, like i like the opening bit combining every possible swinging london signifier into a single shot (british bobbies, those beefeater guys, doubledecker bus, underground signs etc) and then most of the jokes are like a weird sample of that moment when the hottest thing in comedy was drawing out a joke way too long in hopes itâd eventually wrap around to becoming funny again. or theyâll put in a decent bit and follow it with a full minute of characters repeating it and mugging at the camera. maybe this is the powerful transgressive comedy of âSNLâ. poor elizabeth hurley has to do the âexasperated but secretly smiling and charmedâ face basically every scene sheâs in to i guess take the edge off being constantly hit on. terrifying sudden seth green appearance.
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while it is unconfirmed, Carrie Fisher did script doctor work in the 90s, and she only had a cameo appearance in the first austin powers movie. We may be able to attribute the lack of egregious sexist and racist jokes in the first movie, and their proliferation in the later movies, on her.
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yeah i vaguely remembered the first one being more of a real movie than the ones with the fat suit, which is true but perhaps not enough
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rewatching La La Land for the umpteenth time and it still makes me go awwwwwww at the usual bits and root for Mia and Seb 
just hits the right notes every.damn.time.
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a year or two ago: watches digital black and white neo noir detective movie, about killer who preys on young women, that premiered at the Berlin film festival in the last few years, called Limbo
a week or two ago: watches another digital black and white neo noir detective movie, about killer who preys on young women, that premiered at the Berlin film festival in the last few years, called Limbo
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