Still really good.
Do have my issues with it as an adaptation now though, chiefly with the omission of Alia and the outwardly evil turn of Jessica, but hey, what would be the point of any of this if it was just page to screen?
1986
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Coming into Blue Velvet for the first time felt very much like a return home for someone who started their Lynch journey with Twin Peaks. Fully entrenched in Americana, diving into the darkness beneath the veil of suburbia and with MacLachlan towing the line between the realms of good and evil, it’s impossible not to at least attempt to see how the pieces communicate with one another.
Blue Velvet immediately distinguishes itself from most other neo-noir affairs by eschewing the…
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1954
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A bit sleepy at points but a real ass movie regardless.
Didn't expect Rear Window to be as funny as it is, saw this with a packed crowd and all of the gags were met with raucous laughter. Really fascinating little study of how steeped in McCarthyism the American populace were in the 50's, that rampant paranoia that every person, even your neighbour, is a suspected communist. The actual leanings of Hitchcock on the matter are made a little muddied…
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2010
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There are specific shots and certain sounds that Scott employs here that make the 777 feel like an actual monster. That shot of the interior of the locomotive is genuinely evocative of creature features.
Missing Tony Scott like a motherfucker. Rest easy you diamond.
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2025
In one ear and out the other in a way this franchise never really has been before.
Its just kinda uniformly fine. Very few "holy shit" moments in comparison to its predecessor but the general flow of everything worked. Too much backstory but hey if that means we get more David Castañeda I'm not gonna complain too much. Idk man. I'm kinda tuckered out of franchise stuff like this. I'd like to be wowed more.
Between this and Final Reckoning, maybe I'm just jaded and need a break from action movies.
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2025
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KILL INFANT BABIES.
Final Destination is one of those franchises I spent the bulk of my youth surrounded by. I've got vivid memories of my sister putting the DVD's on at a sleepover with my cousins and watching with a sick sense of glee at the gore equivalent of Looney Tunes. Safe to say Bloodlines carries the torch well with creative set pieces that build a sense of comical dread with the kind of shit we don't even parse as being a potential threat. Great stuff from all involved, I hope they get to keep making these.
Cried at the Tony Todd scene 👍
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2003
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Kind of a really good movie.
Feels like every big action / CG heavy blockbuster in the years since has been chasing this high. Stuff like Avatar and the Snyder DC stuff (yes I don't want to hear it) feel like the only times anybody has come close.
There isn't really anything like this though. So confident in its full committal to paying off the pieces laid down in Fellowship. Lean in a way that a four hour movie really…
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2002
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Came out of this feeling a little colder than I did on Fellowship. Did some surface level googling and found out many feel that the extended version of The Two Towers isn't as good as the theatrical and went "oh thank god". There's so much faffing around for the first hour of this, but once the ball starts rolling (Gandalf reappears) it all kicks off.
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2001
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3 and a half hours of pure movie making magic. Was crying through the credits.
I don't know what else there is to say. I get it. I instantly get it. I could have spent a whole movie in any of its insanely varied locales and yet the film just swaps between them like it's no big deal. Unfathomable filmmaking.
Good god man. Don't expect anything coherent from me after any of these. I'm gonna be reeling from these for the rest of my life I can feel it.
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