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Reviews tagged ‘rewatch’ by Sydney🚀 Patron
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Shutter Island 2010
“God gave us violence to wage in his honor.”
Always loved this one, best viewed not as a thrill ride but a tragic journey through the mind of a violent man in a violent society. Trauma ricocheting like bullets in the wake of World War II, a new world that those victimized by it can’t recognize or be a part of anymore. In certain ways, one of Scorsese’s bleakest. “Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?”
House of Horrors: Psychological Horror Month - Shutter Island
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Spider-Man 3 2007
Like an entire season of your favorite comic book soap opera scrambled into 2 hours and 19 minutes, forgiveness as a superpower and selflessness as a nonnegotiable lesson when coming of age. Sam Raimi the man who can animate drying paint, that there isn’t a drop of irony in the whole thing is both a comforting escape and sad reminder that these just don’t look like they used to. Mary Jane Watson you are literally stronger than the marines.
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Final Destination 2000
Me during the first part of the movie: it’s fine. I like the concept but it could be executed better. Clear Rivers is a dumb name.
Tony Todd: *exists*
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King Kong 2005
Certain scenes in this film are permanently seared into my brain from watching as a kid, and to this day it is the gargantuan spectacle that we deserve out of a Kong movie. The wilderness of Skull Island and the commotion of NYC are painted with the same brush, both unforgiving death traps depending on who’s walking in. The runtime is exhausting for sure, I would gladly sacrifice a couple of the Skull Island thrills to get it under 3…
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Kong: Skull Island 2017
Hitting this with a 4 not only because I think I might love it but from where I’m sitting it’s the only monsterverse movie really worth a damn. A real deal adventure blockbuster that actually feels like it is looking at its creatures with humble awe, and at humans with a healthy amount of disgust. I wasn’t the least bit surprised to read that Jordan Vogt-Roberts drew from Miyazaki, but add in Apocalyse Now, classic Kong elements, Cannibal Holocaust (?!) and…
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
Chose to watch this again instead of the Oscars, best decision ever, masterpiece, movie of the life
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Anaconda 1997
Cinema kind of peaked with horny 90s creature features, in which Oscar winning actors were using accents the world had never witnessed before and practical effects/CGI were at odds with each other more than the characters. Even the movies that were ‘bad’ had sensual on-location sunsets and delightful camerawork. Bring back blowing shit up don’t make me say it again!!
House of Horrors - Creature Month: ANACONDA, with Claira😎🐍
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The Fourth Kind 2009
This traumatized me as a child and is definitely responsible for my firm belief in aliens. I think it’s prime real estate for a remake. Revisiting I can safely say the so-called “real” elements hold up as pretty creepy possession-like found footage… but there’s some royally silly stuff in here and the foundation of it all doesn’t make a lot of sense. In the end though, what you believe is yours to decide.
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Dune 2021
They see what they’ve been told to see
I hope Denis Villeneuve cries with joy every night because he made this, as good as a cinematic adaptation could be of every spiritual, cosmic, environmental, political, cultural layer of probably the densest sci fi text ever created. This was my 6th time watching it, fourth time in theaters, and it hasn’t lost an ounce of its impact. They showed Paul’s first sandworm ride at the IMAX exclusive sneak peak and I…
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Cloverfield 2008
Absolutely bonkers to revisit this and see that the scary monster movie that got seared into my brain as a kid is actually directed by Matt Reeves and a reflection on the events of 9/11 through the eyes of young people. J.J. Abrams may have been inspired by Godzilla but it’s still a testament to how much more rewarding even slightly original concepts are. We have our own trauma! A bit rough around the edges but can’t be replicated. The…