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This took me by surprise. Really great, if you're into weird. Like Cronenberg on acid!
3 days 5 hours ago
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So much fun. More Coen than Macbeth. Sillier than Burn After Reading, but definitely not such a cluster-fuck.

Watch it for the best pair of criminal fuck-ups in a car in any movie since Fargo
1 week 5 days ago
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I got a little bit more than I had any right to expect.

A one-man-army in his late 50s. Villains that are nazi-level evil. Plot holes galore. Fun action set pieces. A young female hero of the story in a genuine dilemma. And unforyunately a final boss fight against a throwaway character introduced just five minutes earlier.

It's entertaining, and that's all of its ambition fulfilled
1 week 5 days ago
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Clearly made by someone who was still getting used to talkies. Old fashioned in style compared to Hollywood movies from 1931.
3 months ago
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- We're having a little crisis on our hands. We're trying to get Evie to come out with her new friend... Randy?

- Randy's already out, Mrs. Roy.
3 months 4 weeks ago
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Fallen Leaves is basically the essence of everything that Kaurismäki is about. Two working class people falling in love, awkwardly. A dog. Lots of vodka and beer. Rock'n'roll and chanson. Men in open shirts and leather jackets. And of course, production design and wardrobe in claret red, teal blue and bottle green. To me that's the best kind of Kaurismäki that I can imagine.
5 months ago
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One of the most arch typical "Disney Princess" films, but I enjoyed the visual style a lot. Almost psychedelic, which is quite a nice surprise for a family fairytale from the 1950s.
5 months 1 week ago
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Slapstick galore! Pie fight within the first minute or so. Special effects worthy of Georges Méliès. Village playboy gets covered in motor oil. Advanced version of the old Lumiere garden hose bit. I was pleasantly surprised by this.
7 months ago
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A great looking film for admirers of the male body. Interesting early use of slow motion, although it gave the wrestling section a vibe that was closer to the 1980s AD than 700 BC...
7 months 1 week ago
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Did I watch this to get an official tick? Yes, I sure did, but it feels like cheating. Thanks to Criterion, there's a collection of three minute long Beastie Boys videos that are infinitely more entertaining, and way more cinematic than many other shorts on official lists.
7 months 1 week ago
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A fun and very 70s movie, with a clever premise that allows Joe Dante to show how he masters all exploitation genres. It's not a good movie at all, but take it for what it is, and you should find it highly entertaining.
7 months 2 weeks ago
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Fan service 101
9 months ago
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After Kong: Skull Island which was a lot of fun, this felt more like a Transformers movie: A bit of back story followed by 90 minutes of mostly meaningless CGI carnage.
9 months 1 week ago
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Very entertaining. And possibly the best rock soundtrack of any movie in the 21st century...
9 months 1 week ago
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A nice little hidden gem from Fernando di Leo, this is more of a crime thriller and less of an action movie than usually from his hand. I really enjoyed watching the kidnapping story evolve as much as I enjoyed the revenge action of the last third
9 months 3 weeks ago
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Snobbery is why this film didn't win an Oscar for best editing. Sublime craftsmanship, even if it isn't otherwise an artistic monument.
1 year 5 months ago
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Basically a French giallo
1 year 5 months ago
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Auntie Swinton Who Can Recall Her Parallel Lives
1 year 8 months ago
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How to make a perfect action movie: One hero. One mission. Zero detours from the mission (hello 3 hour long Superhero movies).

Just sprinkle with villains in black helmets, a heartfelt, tear jerking cameo, and a well handled love interest.
1 year 9 months ago
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This was a painful watch. But I haven't seen the first in the series, so maybe I just didn't understand how a group of twenty-something schoolboys can be so inept at being human?
2 years 1 month ago
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More penis than all of mainstream Hollywood put together through the years? That doesn't scare me, but I far prefer Kenneth Anger's aestethics, for sure.
2 years 2 months ago
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It's not going on any lists for empowering women...

But musically, wow!
2 years 3 months ago
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I voted.

And then I realised that I can't seem to make the forum work. I can't post in the proper thread.

But I voted.
2 years 3 months ago
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For over 120 years, a train entering a tunnel on film has meant the exact same thing...

Very good BFI version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vdb79xXMWg
2 years 4 months ago
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Don't you all think that The Artist and Tree of Life are a bit too artistic? Oscar winners usually have quite a broad appeal. I'm thinking The Descendants is the one to beat now...
12 years 2 months ago
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