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  Stop Making Sense 1984

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by ankle_burn 22 May 2022 1

  Had to check and yep, this film still the best to ever do it

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  Stewart Lee: Content Provider 2018

  ★★★★½ Added by ankle_burn

  "What makes things funny? well...
  If we knew the answer to that question, there'd be no need for this whole charade, would there? If you know what made things funny, you could stay at home, couldn't you? Making yourselves laugh.

  Instead of paying a professional to do it for you."

  One of the most succinct and lucid pieces of longform individual expression of the 2010s. Doing a 10 minute bit about millennials with his pants down is some of the best standup I've seen in years.

  I'd take a bullet for Stewart Lee

Popular reviews

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  Parasite 2019

  ★★ Watched by ankle_burn 29 Jun 2019 9

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  class consciousness in the 2010s deserves a lucid and incisive critique of capital and the way it warps our minds, and this trite 'Us'-level allegory ain't it, fam.
  more complete review forthcoming if i get more mad about how bad this was in the next few days

  
  (a few days pass)

  
  i think i've figured out why i didn't love this film. while it's good, and i'm glad it exists, it's not a particularly well done or well communicated allegory.…

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  Us 2019

  ★★ Rewatched by ankle_burn 08 Apr 2019 2

  (after having a week or so to think about this film -) 

  
  cloying, frustratingly vague and muddled. this film offers so little information to its audience and tries to lead us all down the garden path of simplistic duality metaphor bullshit, posturing itself as some kind of incisive political allegory though at no point bothering to adhere to its own internal logic, nor volunteering any specific mention of the structural factors it keeps so grandly gesturing towards, getting wrapped up…