Do you know how many 40 year old women are going to be at Coachella next year because of this
Reviews tagged ‘with-dad’ by Sydney🚀 Patron
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The Color of Money 1986
Goddamn, what a movie to watch so soon after Challengers. Per usual, Scorsese kinda did it first. The way he shot/constructed the pool scenes is superhuman. Let’s all get over ourselves so we can play some fuckin 9 ball.
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The Killer 2023
When he said “of the many lies told by the U.S. military-industrial complex, my favorite is still their claim that sleep deprivation didn't qualify as torture” I felt that
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Babylon 2022
Still unsure of how to articulate my thoughts on this so am just gonna spitball until i maybe see it again. when I read 5 star reviews I agree, when I read .5 star reviews I agree. I didn’t hate watching it (it is unfocused and consequentially too long though), Chazelle is obviously a more than capable technical filmmaker, and it has some of the best scenes of the year. I also think it was kind of built on an…
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War of the Worlds 2005
Maybe the best that an alien invasion or apocalypse movie has captured the mass terror, uncertainty, panic, and claustrophobia that an event like this would bring. One of my favorite directorial efforts from Spielberg if only because he so masterfully elevates material that would be painfully average and even bad in another director’s hands, creating an experience and imagery that has been seared into my brain since I first saw it as a kid - bodies floating down a river, a…
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Oblivion 2013
Home for thanksgiving so back in my element of watching dad movies with dad. It’s frustrating that the writers couldn’t pull this off because the concept had potential to be a Minority Report style sci-fi epic, and Joseph Kosinski knows how to make a really fucking sleek looking movie. Needed 90% more Scavs and 90% less of whatever Olga Kurylenko was doing (sorry. I wish her and Andrea Riseborough were in opposite roles). It’s best when it’s pretending it’s a video game. Anyways, I still love shit like this and there’s lots to appreciate, just beware of a messy script and frequently laughable dialogue.
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Thor: Love and Thunder 2022
“The MCU is so lucky Taika Waititi showed up, he made all the characters funny and everyone loved it in Ragnarok so he needs to do it again, but this time more. God he’s so great.” -Taika Waititi, probably
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Ambulance 2022
Cracked open a beer and rewatched this with my dad, big dudes rock moment
In a word this movie is exhausting which is ultimately the point, have never been so glad that a movie i enjoyed was over, but it is also so fucking sensationally kinetic. Could’ve been shorter but the catharsis of the last twenty minutes retroactively makes the odyssey all worth it. Worn out, but rewarded. Still just as obsessed with Bay’s sweeping drone shots, but even more…