i’ll argue that this all totally suits the character
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It does suit him as a total clown who thinks he’s great at video games and takes them too seriously but absolutely sucks. But if you translated his hand movements to gameplay footage, I think his character would be flopping around in half circles, halfheartedly jumping and shooting straight into the sun.
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Problemista is fantastic. I think from the preview I thought Tilda Swinton’s character would be too stressful (yes, but) and the rest would be a quirky dreamer scraping by (yes, but), it all works because the characters and their relationship are so fully inhabited
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the filemaker shit hit way too close to home
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every part of that dynamic hit way too close to home but, since it worked out in a non nightmarish way, i liked it anyway. my job for a while was trying to get stressed women’s photos to sync to the cloud
her flashlight being stuck on as she records the last message, 
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problemista was so truly, miserably like dealing with my mother’s neuroses that i had to quit halfway through to read the wikipedia summary and watch it in five minute a day chunks
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Quartermass and the Pit was great, I loved it.
As a scifi-ass scifi movie of the late 60’s, the effects absolutely suck balls but the story is great, and the characters are generally very charming. I’m glad they aimed high beyond their means with this one, it makes all the difference in a genre where others pull back on the reigns so as not to confuse the average cromag. Commit to your story! Put the fucking space grasshoppers in there!
There’s something about scifi of this era that completely refuses to have characters react with the appropriate amount of horror or shock for the various world-shaking cosmic revelations of the story. In fact, most of these reveals are met with mild interest, cataloged, and later delivered without emotion. Madness.
I feel like they probably could have spent a little less time in the tunnels and a little more time in the final ordeal, but whatever.
Oh! And the soundwork was great. Very creepy and alien.
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11:20 PM on Thanksgiving… going back for more Love Streams
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this is absolutely my favorite movie about dying and honestly may be my favorite cassavetes (I hadn’t watched it in a while)… Gena Rowlands is like a normal amount of crazy in it and the way that the characters’ weird diminished circumstances wind up feeling increasingly surreal and surrounded by such arbitrary coping mechanisms really hits for me
I hate to say it but there is something so powerfully ethnic about “well, not only are we barely keeping it together, but now we have to spend all of our time looking after these barnyard animals too”
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home for the holidays (1995) - my brother told me this was one of the movies robert downey jr was high as fuck during filming, and i just said “that makes sense”. great performance, tho
sneakers (1992) - what a cast… i love the “image enhance” abilities of this crack team. the keyboard they are trying to steal the password from goes from like 7 pixels to a pristine image when they zoom in
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woo sneakers my local movie. I am so obnoxious about it because I have a story for like everywhere it’s shot
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I need the pook commentary Sneakers experience
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i see a cinebutts experience in our future…
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Hard Boiled
Five Bags of popcorn. loved the long action shots plus the ninjas trying to save the babies and then the Tequila shootout with baby in one hand scene.
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had not watched the wizard of oz in forever and i don’t know if anyone has been brave enough to say this before but it is a really good movie
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which one (and if it’s the 1939(?) one, yes indeed, even in 4K)
speaking of absolute legends, La La Land got a re-run at the cinemas today here, so of course I had to catch the OV and it was nice to watch it on the silver screen again. Last time I’ve experienced such a big crowd turn up to a flick was … idk when, tbh. Maybe Twisters? Def not Megalopolis tho, that’s for sure.
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Juror #2 was good… nobody does it like Clint
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Watched A Better Tomorrow which is an incredible film. Probably more visually poetic than Hard Boiled, but still lots of really good shootouts. It’s interesting to see John Woo’s progression, as it were. I am just really a sucker for this era of Hong Kong, the shot of Kai Tak airport in A Better Tomorrow is…ah wonderful.
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Saw the Jesse Eisenberg written and directed film A Real Pain starring himself and Kieran Culkin as once-close cousins reuniting on a holocaust tour through Poland, and had a very very profound experience while watching it. Like, it’s partly due to the movie. I recommend it whole heartedly, but I understand it may be a bit soft and blunt for some tastes. But it just really really spoke to me.
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