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"This is the best thing I've done in a long time."
Simultaneously the worst one and the best one but also the best movie ever made? I'll never be able to fully explain it. Holds the record for the most times I've seen a film in theaters (in a film's original run) at four times. After that fourth viewing it might have become my very favorite film and after this fifth viewing for the first time…
Can't believe Roger Ebert led me to believe that this was "scandalous cinematic waste" for my entire life. He did the same with Heaven's Gate, Brown Bunny, even Freddy Got Fingered. He'll always be the one that got me into this filthy art form and while I still and always will enjoy his writings I'm sure as hell glad that I've outgrown his POV and learned to love movies in my own way. I mean, he's probably 100% correct on…
Anything involving submarines/the hour + long stretch of when Cruise goes underwater to when he eventually resurfaces is this franchise at its very best. Includes the series best crosscutting involving a knife fight & a burning house and then right after that we get a silent voyage to the bottom of the ocean that’s maybe the “biggest” I’ve ever felt a cinema screen get. Drowning in existential dread as Ethan trudges through the blackness of the depths. Great stuff where we’re…
Flanagan’s recent film work, with this and Doctor Sleep, conjures up the same feelings I have for almost all of Jeff Nichols’ filmography where while I can fully understand why some don't at all vibe with them they somehow manage to reach me on another particular transcendent level that I still can’t properly explain just yet. Something no other recent/current American filmmakers have been able to hit for me. Chuck is more lite in it’s heft both on it’s own…
I was always peeved that this film won the Palme d'Or over Spike Lee's film. So much that when I first watched it, a few years ago when I was getting started in film, I turned it off after 15 minutes and claimed it to be one of those film classics that I didn't approve of. Because I was being edgy back then. Finally coming back for a full viewing on a Saturday afternoon, I prove my young self-worth wrong…
So, I'm reading some of the less favorable reviews of The Deer Hunter and I noticed a common complaint, other than the cop-out "too long" one, that the film only shows one side of the Vietnam War-that both sides of the Vietnam War were needed to be shown in order for them to deem the film as masterpiece it is known by.
First of all. Shut up. Second of all. Really? That's not a complaint that's just lazy writing and…
