Rich Johnson

Favorite films

  • Jaws
  • The Thing
  • Blade Runner
  • The Red Turtle

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  • Without Limits

    ★★★★

  • Scream VI

    ★★★½

  • DC League of Super-Pets

    ★★★

  • The Spine of Night

    ★★★★½

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Without Limits

1998

★★★★ Watched

Not so much a teview but a shoutout: No body talks about Tom Cruise's DEFINITIVE 'running' movie WITHOUT LIMITS (1998) that he served as producer for during Cruise/Wagner years. It's a really good film.

Scream VI

2023

★★★½ Liked Watched

I enjoy the SCREAM movies, they're fairly consistent and with a new setting and continuation with the Carpenter sisters this was another fun entry. The reveal felt like a cop out though... which... I'm not sure was intentional or not.

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Harold and Maude

1971

★★★★★ Liked Watched

What a wonderful film. All the way through I was thinking, 'Wes Anderson's major influence, surely?' and low and behold, there's the link with Bud Cort. He's bound to be on record somewhere confessing his love for this film. It still feels fresh as a daisy today and not as it needs a remake but I couldn't help feel that Elijah Wood and Carrie Fisher would have been perfect on-screen together and if anyone was to have directed that version, it would be Wes.

The Tiger

2015

★★★★★ Liked Watched

An epic endearment to both the power of nature and the loss of a nation's identity. Full of analogy and distinct iconography, Hoon-jung Park's film is a testament to his own sensibilities as a writer and director and are embodied within the central characters. Not only does he convey emotion through subtle gestures of the Lord of the Mountain but also his deft camera work when it comes to the more dramatic portions of the film. Mythic, cathartic, romantic, operatic...there are few films made today that can instantly placed on such a high pedestal.