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Recent reviews

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  Titanic 1997

  Rewatched 01 Jan 2023

  New year, same me.

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  Thief 1981

  Rewatched 07 Jul 2022

  "I can see my money is still in your pocket, which is from the yield of my labor. (...) You're making profits from my work. My risk. My sweat. — But that is okay. Because I elected to make that deal. But now, the deal is over. I want my end, and I am out."

  "Why don't you join a labor union?"

  "I'm wearing it."

  (cue ominous suggestion of a gun)

Popular reviews

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  Heat 1995

  Rewatched 13 Jul 2018 2

  I have never had a spiritual connection with a man as powerful as the one these two men have with each other, and I’m bitter about that, which is my right.

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  Cruising 1980

  Rewatched 10 May 2021 11

  “You fingered him.”
  “I fingered him, but I didn’t think anybody was going to get that far with him.”
  “Sometimes you only get that one chance.”

  Okay, fair enough. 

  I’d forgotten about the Black daddy cop(...?) who just shows up to smack white twunks around. There’s a reparations joke in there somewhere. It’s almost not even a matter of memory — I’ve seen the movie, granted it’s been a few years, and yet can’t claim to have seen those images…