John DeMarsico

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Baseball Director. Film Junkie.

Favorite films

  • Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
  • Brazil
  • Blow Out
  • 25th Hour

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  • The Flintstones

    ★★★

  • Déjà Vu

    ★★★★½

  • GOAT

    ★★★

  • Big

    ★★★★½

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Big
★★★★½ Rewatched

Zoltar: The OG One Wish Willow and way more terrifying.

Black Sunday
★★★★½ Watched

This thing take a little while to get cooking but the final act is GAS. A disaster-espionage-thriller against the backdrop of Super Bowl X where we watch Robert Shaw run around the Orange Bowl intercut between shots of Terry Bradshaw and Roger Staubach — all set to a John Williams NFL Films style score.

Imagine being able to make this film today. Using the real teams, trademarks, and players is one thing... shooting the bulk of your movie about terrorists…

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One Battle After Another
★★★★★ Liked Watched

This is a lot. Organized chaos. The incredible movie we were sold in the trailers happens eventually but the first 30-40 minutes of this was something so surprising and electric, that I left the theater still kind of paralyzed by it. This prologue, which focuses on Teyana Taylor's character, is filled with sex, action, betrayal, and kinetic revolutionary energy. Its intoxicating but it's also such a perfect contrast to the 2nd act where the film finds its action/comedy tone, yet…

Weapons
★★★★½ Liked Watched

An absolute breath of fresh air and the most riveting film of the year. It teases you with what looks like an elevated allegory on grief/trauma and then proceeds to go full gonzo. It lures you into its grasp with tiny, little, terrifying mouthfuls, spread out over it's 2+ hour runtime.

The film has a few things to say but it's more interested in just forking your expectations in the face. It's a little bit of everything genre-wise, but is…

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