Watching
My last 10 watched from Letterboxd.
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Presence
Fuckin' zoomers, man. I didn't see a joint until I was in college and these kids are on some Fear and Loathing shit. Anyway, I spent most of this movie mad because my 100-year-old house isn't anywhere near as nice as the one in this movie. An interesting concept, but one that is better realized in A Ghost Story, which I also didn't love but featured Rooney Mara eating a whole pie in one take. Nothing as daring on display here and a little too much exposition. But it was good to see Cleary from The Knick as a suburban dad.
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Companion
I liked this movie better the first time I saw it, when it was called REVENGE. Seriously though, I had an okay time with this one. It seems to think it's more clever then it is. Rupert Friend gave me a chuckle and Sophie Thatcher (who went to my high school!) did a pretty great job with what she was given. Wish the poster wasn't so spoilery.
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Thief
This movie just gets better every time I watch it. So many great shots and great lines. And such an authentically Chicago-ass movie right down to the Portillo's wrappers on the dash and someone using a Jewel bag as luggage. Makes me wish they'd make a GTA game set in 1980s Chicago.
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Darkman
This should be on the Mt. Rushmore of superhero movies. Without this there's no Spider-Man, and without Spider-Man and it's sequels, there's probably no MCU. Marvel has had like 30 shots at this point to make a movie this fun and have maybe come close a handful of times. Watching this again has me excited for Liam Neeson's Naked Gun reboot.
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Oh, Canada
A character study about a mediocre white guy who became successful in spite of himself, coming to terms with his life in front of a documentary crew as he's dying from cancer. Great performance by Richard Gere but woof.
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Virtuosity
An extremely dumb B-movie that somehow lucked out in convincing Denzel to lead it and finding a young Russell Crowe to play its over-the-top VR villain come to life. The writing is awful but you can still see Crowe is a star in the making, and Denzel just naturally elevates everything he's in. It's hilarious to me that despite its sci-fi premise, nothing about this world aside from the concept of VR in the 1990s is particularly futuristic.
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
I don't think I'd seen this since it came out and at that time I thought it was pretty forgettable. But wow, this thing really holds up and is a helluva movie. There's scenes where I'm just like, "how did they film this without anyone dying?" That's when you know you're watching greatness. Being a dad definitely gave me a different perspective, particularly around the young crew members. Why did we get like 30 MCU movies but just one of these?
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A Bridge Too Far
Like the operation this WW2 movie depicts, A Bridge Too Far is overly-ambitious and doesn't quite succeed. The cast is stacked with a who's who of famous actors, but like the Avengers movies, there's too many characters to give any meaningful time to develop. A lot of the action looks like stock footage, even though it's not. The movie gets more interesting in the last third as it focuses more on the plight of the soldiers on the ground and less on the logistics that the first third painfully drags out. It could have easily been an hour shorter and much improved if it just focused on the soldiers and didn't try to give equal screen time to all the higher-ups played by big name actors.
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Mickey 17
I had a huge grin on my face through most of this movie. Everyone is just hamming it up and having a good time. Landed in a way that Snowpiercer didn't for me. Robert Pattinson continues to make interesting choices, both in his projects and characters.
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V for Vendetta
Decided to revisit this for no particular reason. This movie predicted the Ulcered Sphincter of Ass-erica that we find ourselves in today. It's a little heavy-handed in its imagery, but that finale is just what we need right now, except instead of Guy Fawkes masks they're wearing Luigi hats.