5+ years on the watchlist all for a grave belated-St. Patrick’s Day disappointment
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Au Hasard Balthazar 1966
People sometimes bad. People sometimes good. Donkey always Donkey. I mean this pejoratively
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Damsel 2024
Truly dismal, primarily because I spent all those years in film school and have spent all these years sanding my brain down against the career wall, and to be reminded that nepo babies and people who know people who know people are getting rich off of scripts like this makes me feel very very bitter
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Smile 2022
I think this is another classic entry in the “Hereditary Ruined Everything” evidence base…it makes sense that people are like “this sucks shit” because it’s not Elevated Horror despite the fact that it signifies the modern thematic crimes toward mental health / trauma that Elevated Horror like Hereditary purveys. I got through the cold open fully expecting another “What If The Boogeyman Is Mental Illness” hit parade but I actually ended up really getting a lot out of this. Not…
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Love Letter 1995
Came into this thinking I’d like it much more than I ended up liking it. Good for sure but ends up having a simplicity to it that for me feels more proof-of-concept than straightforward ubiquity. Just not the type of This that resonates deeply with me ig. Regardless it gets a positive rating because the risky casting choice illuminates the film’s intent in a good way. Sadly this also contributes to the movie showing its hand a little early, but such is life. Jihyo
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North by Northwest 1959
Another deep watchlist staple tackled. Excruciatingly slow but Cary Grant has some line deliveries that are funny in a way I don’t think we’ll be able to have again as a society. A relic from a past time
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10 Things I Hate About You 1999
One of the 10 Things Claire Hates About Me is that I’m bad with so-called “girly movies”. It’s not that I don’t like them ya know, obviously I like rom-coms and cheesy shit, but it’s the teenager movie that I always struggle with. Idk, wasn’t made for me, that’s cool. The main thing though is I’ve had this on my actual Letterboxd since like …. 2019? And I’ve had it on my ‘radar’ for longer because I’ve known it’s a Stone…
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The PriceMaster 2001
I can’t explain the authenticity of this to someone who hasn’t experienced the specificity of a garage sale that takes place in the South, and the ~Performance Art~ elements of this don’t necessarily need explaining either because its very self-evident, but I will say that I felt such a potent sense of place watching this. I grew up in a very big neighborhood that had garage sales every couple of months, almost all of which my mom took place in…