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just another idiot watching movies

Favorite films

  • The Thing
  • Drive My Car
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Le Samouraï

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  • Le Doulos

    ★★★½

  • Game Night

    ★★★

  • Hokum

    ★★★

  • Inception

    ★★★★½

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Le Doulos
★★★½ Liked Watched

Admittedly I was fighting my early morning wakeup for the last hour of this film — the last few gun shots were edging into parody territory BUT I love the twists, bleakness, patience and lots of the cinematography (the lighting in the opening scene with the jewelry fence and the swinging lamp, ugh)

I guess a benefit of a national airline in a bilingual country is they sometimes have classic French films in the mix for in-flight entertainment.

Game Night
★★★ Liked Watched

If you think about it (but not too hard) there’s some very subtle foreshadowing for No Time to Die plot lines here.

I know he’s barely on screen but the Danny Huston casting was absolutely spot on. Jesse Plemons, one of our greatest. Unbeatable!

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The Secret Agent
★★★★ Liked Watched

What a treat to watch with a large show-out of Brazilians — the way the entire crowd “oooooh”-ed when the coxinha was revealed was the best endorsement a nation’s dish can receive. 

What can you say really about Wagner Moura here — absolutely captivating, his lack of presence was felt in scenes with the sole exception of anything with Tânia Maria, my God she was a delight and reminds me so much of my grandmother. 🥺

There was a moment maybe…

The Gorge
★★½ Liked Watched

The first rule of staffing The Gorge needs to be only 100% uggos allowed. I’m talking, they’d rather bang a hollow man than creep on the other person through the most powerful binoculars in history. 

This was pretty fun when it became a mash-up of The Mist / The Fog / Annihilation but the rest of it was quite cheesy and predictable. I guess props to them waiting until the very end for the All Along the Watchtower needle drop.

Interesting time…