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bound was amazing omg!! i was worried the whole time about a certain ending and it wasnt like that at all!! i always love jennifer tilly's work so so much, gina gershon was soooo attractive wow, and joe pantoliano was magnetic. like idk how to describe it but i was kinda attracted to how he played the character (not the actor himself or the character, but like... the acting).

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i keep forgetting about this blog lol

anyway been watching a lot of romances lately because I'm making a silly little indulgent video featuring movies i think have the most impactful romances. and there are of course movies that affect others but not me. and im not sure whether to include really well known ones that other ppl love but which i dont?

like, ppl love carol but i feel nothing about the romance in it. or moulin rouge. considering im making it mainly for me, ill probably omit famous ones if i dont vibe with them

im also trying to expand beyond the us and europe. which is hard, like i can name many famous beloved american movies even if i havent seen them bc i grew up hearing about them. osmisis and all. but like bollywood movies for ex? i have no context for them and have to go by like letterboxd ratings or lists i find. it's kind of like how i feel about a lot of music, like im lacking a foundation to jump off of.

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i can see and appreciate the artistic merit, skill, etc about 8 1/2 and la dolce vita but fuck i just dont like them! i dont care about whats happening, im sick of spending hours watching shitty men be shitty. which is not totally accurate bc there are movies/shows i like that follow shitty men. but idk for some reason those two fellini films (and maybe his movies in general, idk yet ive only seen those two) piss me off. i just dont care! fuck off

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im done! my reviews for my horror list are done! still might do the rest of my "overview of the decade" posts because the last one i did was for the 60s. but also might not do that. depends.

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Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) - 3.5 stars

A bit on the nose regarding terminally online rich, selfish Gen Z TikTok types. The weaponization and misuse of social justice language is notable, although like many films that include that kind of thing, it can be confusing to know what exactly is being mocked. All in all a funny movie that a decade from now will feel like a vivid time capsule.

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We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021) - 4.5 stars

Feels like a meditative and quiet echo of May in how it follows a profoundly lonely girl trying to find something to fill that emptiness. Really beautiful while also a subtle and unnerving look at what can happen when your only connection to the world is the internet.

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Spree (2020) - 2.5 stars

I love a gimmick! I know gimmicks get a lot of flack and I understand why, but I think they're fun. The gimmick in this movie is mainly well done. Unfortunately that's where most of the enjoyment lies. It doesn't seem to know whether to commit to being grounded or not and that wavering works against it and makes it more frustrating than not. The message is a relevant one but gets undercut by the film every so often.

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Us (2019) - 4 stars

This was very good! I had a lot of fun watching it. The cast is really amazing and carries the film. I don't have any major complaints besides it feeling a bit overlong (especially exposition-wise at the end). Overall, it's a really solid horror movie.

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Mandy (2018) - 4 stars

I really thought I'd absolutely love this. I am a sucker for the kind of hallucinogenic filmmaking going on here. Ultimately, though, I think I'm too burned out on violence against women, of disposable female characters, that I had one foot out of the movie the whole time.

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mother! (2017) - 2.5 stars

I mean. I don't know. People seem to either love this or hate this but I feel neither towards it. It didn't really disturb me at all. It made me feel almost nothing. So I'd call that a failure! Good effects.

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The Love Witch (2016) - 3 stars

I really enjoyed the stylization of this movie, from the sets to the acting to the color grading. But ultimately I found it empty. Its apparently feminist message felt really shallow, which is a shame considering a woman was behind its creation. There was nothing to sink my teeth into. Still, I can appreciate the package it comes in.

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Green Room (2015) - 5 stars

I expected this would be a brutal and uncomfortable watch and I was correct. It is extremely grounded and so very scary as a result. The violence is probably the most real and unglorified of all the movies on this list so far. Great cast, great film, will probably never see it again.

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The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014) - 2.5

Yet another horror movie that lost me in the end. So many don't know how to stick the landing. I think there is potential here, but as long as Deborah and her dementia is framed as something scary and inconvenient to others, rather than exploring Deborah's own interiority and agency, it was never gonna land for me. Even if the wrap up had been better.

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The Conjuring (2013) - 2.5 stars

I can appreciate the craft behind this. And... that's it. It's so slick, so studio generated, so by the numbers, so obvious, that I was never scared. Which says a lot because haunting stuff creeps me out the easiest.

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V/H/S (2012) - 1.5 stars

Found footage is effective for me most of the time and the idea of a compilation of creepy found footage is a good one. Unfortunately it's try hard, misogynistic, and often uninteresting. The first and last segment were the best.

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The Thing (2011) - 2 stars

Just boring. It's doing the same thing as Carpenter's masterpiece but worse it every regard. I don't know what else to say.

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Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010) - 4 stars

A fun and sometimes heartwarming comedy. It's not without its faults but by and large manages to avoid the meanness that I dislike so much in some horror comedies. I would absolutely date Dale.