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  Taxi Driver 1976

  Rewatched 28 Jul 2020 2

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

  travis bickle is the ID of america. lives to work and works to live, fascinated by sex and violence and purity, unable to socially bond, and uninterested in politics even when it's staring him in the face. he absorbs everything around him like a sponge and takes it at face value when it directly aligns with his emotional state. the first person travis meets after betsy dumps him for good is martin scorsese as the wife-killer, who reinforces travis's feelings…

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  RRR 2022

  Rewatched 17 Oct 2022

  i have officially claimed this movie for the commies and the lgbts. thank you!

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  Elvis 2022

  Watched 30 Jan 2023

  I am no fan of Baz but I gotta say the first half of this banged hard and the musical numbers in the 2nd still banged so I'm giving him the W. The Colonel is the most annoying character in cinema but boy howdy Austin Butler was fantastic !!!! Idk I had a fun time with this and laughed so hard at all the Walk Hard bits. Also the sound editing was really good and Baz intelligently included Mahalia Jackson…

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  Infinity Pool 2023

  Watched 28 Jan 2023

  Everyone wanna make eyes wide shut but the thing that makes that movie special is the camera work is beyond perfect and Brandon my boy you gotta work on that for your next one. There was some solid imagery but there was a lot of idk ... Filler? Idk how to explain as I'm not a photographer or director or whatever but it distracting.

  But, nice themes and ideas which follow the 2022 trend of "rich people really are different."…

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  Parasite 2019

  Watched 12 Oct 2019 5

  bong owns my whole ass. amazing. so funny! so sad! somehow fantastical?! beautiful cinematography--HE HAND-DRAWS THE STORYBOARDS HIMSELF! truly struck by that shot of the stairs in the rain, with the family going down, down, down, down. only thing missing for me was a scammer montage cut to a talking heads song, which would have made it the greatest film ever made. still, comes pretty close!

  after joker i was feeling kinda depressed about the state of film, how so…

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  Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019

  Watched 19 Dec 2019 5

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

  I wanted to like it. I did. Indeed there are moments and themes that I found myself compelled by. But I also went into the theater with pretty low expectations and a learned distaste for Disney and its processes, and a hypersensitive radar for anything that resembled corporate evils.

  All told I came out of the theater more ambivalent than anything, disappointed but not surprised, though still musing over the ideas that had promise. I gave myself a couple days…