Added A Man of His Time to Movie Watchlist
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Rated La Chimera 9/10
dreamlike, beautiful and tragic, melancholic yet intimate, even bordering on fun at times. also unfair to get Josh O'Connor here
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Rated Spider-Man: Brand New Day 10/10
Amidst all the multiversal commotion, these are the kind of grounding stories that touched my heart. I have always been a spiderman fan, and this is how I want to see my Peter Parker. MCU bought in a very different version; movies were cool but never quite hit home like this one did. Love you spiderman.My one critique, made Punisher kid friendly and it did upset a lot of hardcore Punisher fans.
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Rated Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender 8/10
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Rated Josee, the Tiger and the Fish 8/10
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Rated Battle Royale 6/10
first time watching the extended cut and i can say that i heavily prefer the original theatrical release
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Rated The Lost Boys 9/10
incredible lines throughout (you're a shit-sucking vampire! wait until mom finds out!) but I have been knocked dead in my boots by that final line/fade to black/needle drop. That's Movies!
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Rated Gremlins 8/10
I didn't name my cat gremlin after this movie although everyone assumes I did, I did however go get him when the evil landlord got shot out of the window and point at the screen and say ”That’s praxis. Be that kind of gremlin, please”he just yawned but I think he got the message
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Rated Big Trouble in Little China 9/10
“Wait a minute wait a minute I am a reasonable guy but I’ve just experienced some very unreasonable things”This is probably the first John carpenter movie I ever saw, I used to watch it with my parents when it was on TV so I’m biased, but this movies hilarious. Probably right next to Starship Troopers on the pantheon of moves where you really gotta understand that it's a joke going in.
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Rated Romancing the Stone 8/10
Last time I watched this was about the time I went to Colombia b/c let me tell you people in Colombia are still mad (or were still mad like, what, ten years ago) about how Michael Douglas pronounces “Cartagena” in this. Anyway let me do a little Colombia Board Of Tourism and say I got the worst sunburn of my life but only because the beaches were so nice I didn’t want to leave.
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Rated Locke 8/10
I found myself enjoying this mainly because of its taut construction, but what was a bit of a letdown was the recycled narrative of the 'man divided by his responsibilities' bit. That being said, the writing is good enough to explain the nuances of Ivan--and Hardy's acting is top-notch--but his matter-of-fact approach to shifting life circumstances doesn't inspire enough dread or tension (often leaving viewers with a vague sense that everything will resolve itself).This makes it particularly crushing--or annoying, I'm not yet sure--that the film doesn't end with Ivan's demise. Others have talked about the symbolism of the passenger as a stand-in for Ivan's leviathan, but I've seen less commentary on what's depicted outside the BMW. Shots of speeding police cars and road crews suggest a possible car accident involving our protagonist, but this reality is never consummated or realized.Looked at as a one-way road trip to his inevitable end, it's hard not to assume that the film is largely about his descent into hell (a la Dante Alighieri) and how coming to terms with his nature is the focal point. The fact that his descent changes him in the eyes of other characters is unsurprising and I was pleased that it was at least referenced, but this film could've been so much more. It seems like writer-director Steven Knight had all the pieces, but was unsure of how to piece them together.
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