the monkey does a dropkick
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Man of Steel 2013
will admit to enjoying the first 40 minutes or so of this more than i expected to but the last hour is still a complete slog. the biggest obstacle to snyder auteurism for me is that i find his approach to action filmmaking completely uninteresting at basically every level. oh well!
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Tiger on the Beat 1988
A really strange movie with the sheen of a fun pg-13 buddy cop movie but a much sleazier core where every gunshot makes someone explode in a sea of blood and a troubling undercurrent of virulent misogyny rears its head every handful of scenes. It ends up feeling pretty confused as a result, but the action sequences rule (particularly the ending).
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Hurrah, We Are Still Alive! 2020
really liked this! would want a rewatch before i make any broad statements about meaning but i like the way it portrays the conflict and contradictions between art and more direct political action while also messing around with some fun genre stuff (the second visit to 'the crib' kicks ass). primarily, though, what mattered in the movie was that it looked great and sounded cool and i enjoyed watching it with my eyeballs.
(other reviews on here are making this…
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Scream 3 2000
a couple of things here are wayyy too sloppy— the magic voice changer, hastily made up randy tape with the news to me idea that the third movie means "anything goes", and the retcon killer reveal are pushing it. still, the chase sequence set in the hollywood prescott house and subversive commentary on Hollywood's monsters are so good it almost makes up for it (almost).
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Scary Movie 5 2013
extended sequence in this where one character goes down on ashley tisdale and then, in order, these characters pop up from between ashley tisdale's legs: ashley tisdale, ashley tisdale and the other character, the dos equis guy, a leo dicaprio impersonator who shouts "i'm the king of the world!", ted the bear (he says "i'm wicked hard!"), and then tiger woods.
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Scary Movie 2000
i will say this: ghostface having a different mask when he gets high is pretty funny.
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