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The Great Silence 1968
ℝ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘: 🌨️🤠🤫🔫💵
𝕍𝕚𝕖𝕨𝕖𝕕: DVD Personal CollectionThe Great Silence is such a gripping winter western set in the bleak, harsh, and unforgivingly beautiful frontier. Where Bounty Hunters are just as crooked as the men the are hunting down and the law can't stop them. And because of that men like the infamous Silence are bred to seek out revenge and add balance to the world. Silence is a badass fast drawing mute gunslinger, who is a hired gun to seek…
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In the Heat of the Night 1967
Really impressed with both Poitier and Steiger. The social commentary and overall story isn't just about race but also about conflicting cultural identities and pent up anger. Impressive.
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The Karate Kid 1984
Finally got around to seeing this after so many years. While it's certainly far from perfect, including a needlessly cocky lead character that is hard to root for, but once it all comes together in the finale you can't help but be 110% supporting him right to the very satisfying finish. There is a reason people still talk about Pat Morita's Mr. Miyagi to this day, he's just that memorable. I didn't realize how much Showdown (1993) blatantly copied this…
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The Quick and the Dead 1995
This is much better than I remember it being with a very solid cast. Leo showing all his potential here even if he still looks about twelve years old. Sharon Stone is smoking hot and the sex scene between her and Russell Crowe was completely necessary...... for international audiences anyway.
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Hollow Man 2000
The turn of a new century and an exciting era for filmmaking would soon sour. It is the reaction to adaptation and the appeal of seeing similar stories time and time again that weakens film, but some can take tried and tested source material to new areas and modern times. Paul Verhoeven applied that with this loose adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man. He does not riff on the set designs or the moral impact that could come from a…
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Final Exam 1981
A rare example of tonal inconsistency working in a film’s favor. The bulk of it plays like an unassuming college comedy, complete with standard-issue ensemble of rambunctious miscreants and the lovably love-starved. The characters are fun and it’s all fairly amusing, but your guard is down for so long that when it hard-lefts into suspense territory, it is genuinely nerve-wracking and effective, and even though its low-budget trappings don’t initially inspire confidence, by the end you realize they threw all…
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Tenebre 1982
As Argento expert Kim Newman or Alan Jones said (I can't remember witch one) on their commentary track, describing that long one shot where the camera goes from one window to another and then up on the roof: "meaninglessly brilliant".
I probably write this in EVERY Argento-review but I like his ideas and way of thinking, how to use dream logic and iconography - I just don't love his movies. His execution always feel sloppy to me.
But I do…
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Blood Diamond 2006
did not finish. too tasteful to be trashy fun, too exploitative to say anything outside of a couple centrist neoliberal talking points. the worst aspects of both generic 2000s action stylistics and oscarbait tedium, a music video for colonizers.
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The Descendants 2011
What a great movie but so emotional with such good performances !!
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Hard Boiled 1992
Yet another stylish, cool, supercharged action thriller from John Woo. He opts to glamorize and glorify the police department this time around, but does pack it with his trademark themes and elements. The visuals and music are kickass as always. There’s less of logic but full on explosive action galore and destruction from start to end, with some breathtakingly choreographed gun fight sequences. Chow Yun-fat and Tony Leung deliver charismatic performances. It’s a genre defying masterpiece, that’s a must watch for action movie junkies.
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Hellraiser 1987
I might take off one one thousandth of a star because of the small complaints I have, but Letterboxd doesn't allow that option.
Such a great, low budget and imaginative film. I figured I'd watch the rest of these, because what else am I gonna do? So I may as well enjoy this moment, it's going to be all downhill after the next one.
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Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia 1977
A super entertaining entry in the Ilsa series, of which I had seen the Don Edmonds original and the unofficial Jess Franco Greta sequel. Dyanne Thorne (and her impressive mammaries) returns and she gets into all kinds of nasty antics. Mostly threesomes/ impalements.
There is so much crammed in here that it almost feels like multiple movies condensed into one. The movie starts off with Ilsa being the director of a Siberian Gulag before the story jumps 20+ years ahead…
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