Miyazaki is like a rapper in that I don’t believe he is really ever going to retire
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I’m incredibly torn over this movie. While I have loved and been completely swept away by Miyazaki in the past, most notably with Porco Rosso, The Boy and The Heron really did not work for me. It felt incredibly uneven and scattered. I enjoyed about half of the choices made in this film (mostly aesthetic ones) and was really disappointed in many…
I relate to Tony, if only for the fact that throughout the movie he asks people to watch movies with him and they say no.
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Tony is a British serial killer film similar at least in subject matter to films like Angst, Man Bites Dog, or Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. It features the same kind of gutsy and cold blooded murder but in this film Tony asks if they want beans on toast before suffocating them.
The…
Anti-war and Pro-babies propaganda that society desperately needs.
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Godzilla Minus One is a fantastic movie.
The film follows a kamikaze pilot who narrowly avoids death in war by pretending to have a faulty plane only to evade death on the island of mechanics by Godzilla. Japan is crushed and WWII has completely upended the lives of many. The film is both large and small in scope as it follows the post-war Japan slowly attempting to rebuild itself from the…
One of the movies of all time
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Every time I watch a movie, I intend on liking it. There’s something that I look forward to or some reason why I am interested in seeing it. For this reason my letterboxd is largely skewed positively, and for the most part I enjoy what I spend time watching. At my core i’m a lil Christian boy who loves seeing it interpreted in media, and many favorites deal explicitly with religion including…
