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Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II 1987
"See ya later, alligator."
Hello, Mary Lou: Prom Night 2
Dir. Bruce Pittman
1987Wow. Revisiting this two years later, it holds up exceedingly well. Extremely pointed and delightfully nasty carnage that plays in sacred and uncomfortable spaces for most of middle America. This is a defiant film - an angry and satirical pushback against social norms and morays.
Lisa Schrage is charming as the titular villainess (although I think she's an anti-hero tbh), who was murdered by a vindictive…
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Resident Evil: Extinction 2007
opens up with alice ending bunch of nasty fuckers and zombie doggos, jumping higher than on trampoline in the old fucked up building...YOU HAVE TO LOVE THIS
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 1989
the soft version of beavis and butthead for the harmonic age of late rock'n'roll videoclip capitalism is a sweet depiction of a fever dream of primary narcissism: "we have to do a history class presentation so we just gonna do the best one possible!"
means bending astrophysics and reality and do some mean time traveling action. means catching historical characters who just follow suit without further questions, letting themselves getting hostage by this bonkers situation. means the two dudes just…
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Top Gun 1986
Rewatching this for the first time in more than two decades makes me realise that it’s actually pretty stupid. How this came as a surprise is beyond me.
A bunch of 80s dudes just dudeing around playing shirtless volleyball and flying aeroplanes and shit.
Dude dies during A FUCKING EXERCISE MISSION and in classic 80s style, everyone is just like fuck it. Just get over it and fly some more.
All of it topped with the cringiest sex scene ever.
Also how fragile is your ego if you throw a tantrum just because you get told off in class? -
Oblivion 2013
plain, clean and silky. you can see that it could have been much more, there are enough hints, that this was probably a postproduction massacre for some good ideas and scenes - f.e. the wife/husband relationship situation, involving control and outbreak, and love as rebellious act.
the more ambitious stuff though got overwhelmed by studio decisions for some formulas and worn-out images. it is as neat and professional as its main star - entertaining, but much too light on something which could have created a big coaster.
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Making The Shining 1980
Did it hurt? As a Film Bro? To see vivian kubrick make a great documentary and then become a racist, anti-vax scientologist, suggesting that her father would’ve supported the proud boys if he were alive today, which sure certainly sounds like the ravings of an idiot but also does reflect an inherent tint of white supremacy underlying so much cinema made by Film Bro-approved directors?
Did it hurt?
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Dog Day Afternoon 1975
Some movies you just keep on missing out on, even though you already know they’re good and you know you’ll probably like them, but somehow you just keep avoiding them for years and years until you one day - finally - watch them and realise that they were even better than you could have imagined in a million years.
Watching this was like losing my virginity all over again.
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988
silliness can be
glorious but not when forced
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The Shining 1980
happy birthday to The Shining, a movie that exists in my own life experience as both one of the most rewarding film watches i’ve done and a movie that diminishes on its returns more and more each time i watch it. i love it, AND can’t be bothered with it. a slog on purpose, featuring some of the best nightmare fuel ever created.
forever will stand as by far my favorite piece of work from its two central artists who…
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