Brian

Brian Pro

Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Blade Runner
  • Heat

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  • High Plains Drifter

    ★★★★

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★

  • Radical Hardcore

    ★★★★

  • Deadly Venom: The Best of Sting

    ★★★

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  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★★★★

    History. It means everything, but nothing if it’s forgotten. For such a future like this you have to consider the idea that the memory of life and of this point in time is actually lost to history. That in our current cycle humanity winds up crumbling from within to such a degree of collapse, all that survives are crumbs. The grist of our collective pain left behind with technology and maybe the old fables. Glorious victory, tragic defeat, civilizations rising…

  • Oppenheimer

    Oppenheimer

    ★★★★★

    The bomb is a naturally nervous subject. The role anxiety plays in this, was the tipping point from interest to personal investment. It’s a thankless task for actors to bring themselves to that point at which either a panic attack or something worse comes. Cillian Murphy delivers an evocation of creeping dread and nerves flecked with the pressures of life in the face of overwhelming change he was at the head of, while also cutting a frame across all three…

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  • Outland

    Outland

    ★★★★

    Sawdust in space

  • High Plains Drifter

    High Plains Drifter

    ★★★★

    For his first Western as director, Clint Eastwood strayed a bit surprisingly closer to the psychological, noir-y realms explored in The Beguiled and Play Misty for Me then to mine similarly along to what Leone had done. The themes of resurrectional justice in the form of a literally fiery third act places this as a pretty influential narrative of brutality later epic movies like RoboCop and The Crow would later take some of the flame themselves.

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  • Die Hard

    Die Hard

    ★★★★★

    More gratuitous than the violence are the constant reminders of how much this was a movie of it's time. When "breaking news" wasn't just a buzzword and used only for something as serious as a terrorist take-over, limousines had tape decks, and the price of gas was less then a dollar. This extends to some of the production details too, namely using real locations in Los Angeles, painted backings and relying almost entirely on practical physical effects.

    These things conversely…

  • The Color of Money

    The Color of Money

    ★★★★★

    This is my favorite Martin Scorsese film. A big reason why is nostalgia. My father played pool and himself was a fan of this, and we had a VHS rip of it in my house for years. I'm not a big sports fan, let alone pool, but the cinematic poetry applied here is never boring to watch. Defining performances from Paul Newman and Tom Cruise feel like the cherry on top. I still get goosebumps whenever I see the montage of Felson getting his act together before arriving in Atlantic City.