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This is Spinal Tap

This movie is so freaking funny, that while I was writing-up this review I couldn’t stop laughing recalling all the things I wanted to highlight. This movie review is one of my shortest since, I can’t honestly find fresh ways to keep saying how funny this movie is, it’s just funny through and through. This is the type of humor that I like the most and it has inspired countless more in the same vein (Best in Show and What we do in the Shadows to name at least two), and this is why I love movies.

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I'd disagree. Sure noir often times boils down to pulp fiction, but just because the novella or cinematic effort is done on the cheap doesn't mean there's a compromise. I again go to Hitchcock, quoting that he loved working within the confines of restrictions. Heck, I'd even go as far as to say Rear Window is his best picture. Noir thrives on restrictions, by that very element comes many of it's aesthetics. Noir is one of, if not, my favorite genre for the kinds of complex screenplays done on a pennies budget.

Where I will take your bone is the compositional elements of Anthony Mann. However, are we going to salute the parts that make the whole or ask if the parts in question that make up a piece somehow transcend it's work? My philosophy is in the latter. Some films can still hold beauty but miss the mark.

Naked Asami smeared in blood CAN'T be bad.

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San Franciscan lesbian dwarves and their tomato orgies.

Aaaand he's back!

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I was never gone.

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Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)


Truly a brilliant piece of filmmaking by Jacques Rivette. Suffice it to say, it was 3 hours long, but it somehow managed to keep me interested throughout - something I didn't really expect going in. Celine and Julie are, in essence, us, the audience, sitting there with magic green candies in our mouths trying to make sense of this beautifully immersive, dreamy, psychedelic exercise in non-linear storytelling - and enjoying getting their minds bent in the process. The incredibly inventive "movie within a movie" narrative structure, realized through remarkable cinematography and editing, helps Rivette explore the unbridled creative nature of filmmaking (as well as film viewing) in a wildly enigmatic and often hilariously 'trippy' manner. Rivette created a unique world that continues to fascinate audiences to this day, and, although it seems to primarily appeal to young girls' sensibilities, any film buff will find something of interest in it. I sure did and loved every second of it.

Safety Last! (1923)


This is probably my favourite silent film. For me this beats any Chaplin or Keaton that I've seen so far (which isn't many) and would rank as one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. Special praise goes to the building climb scene.

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About Safety Last, I realized once that I had rated the movie on IMDb, though I'm sure I've never seen it. I better get around it for real soon.

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Rewatch in preparation for the new version. I think I forgot how good this was. Some of the animation in this is stunning. Not all of it. The rooftop fight between Gaston and The Beast is the best part.

Say what you will about Snyder, at least he doesn't do shaky cam.
The movie looses me in the ending,

Predictable... but there's good things in this film. They really should stay with that dark version of Batman, I loved! that nightmare scene was very cool.
The 'serious' tone of the movie was nice too, I really hope that in JL they don't try to be the next comedy marvel movie... If they learn with all the mistakes (this and that huge mistake Suicide S**t) they can do a very good film (with more light during the fights please)...

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"This Would Sharpen You Up And Make You Ready For A Bit Of The Old Ultra-Violence."

One of the best Batman animations ever!

In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

Loving (2016)

One of the more under watched films of 2016. Not perfect, but thanks to it's disturbingly true story of an interracial couple who were arrested and jailed in Virginia 1959 for being married, the film's subject is memorable.

My review Loving (2016)

Red Eye (Craven, 2005)


Wes Craven's sleeper masterpiece. One part early 2000s romantic comedy, one part 90s airplane thriller, and one part Craven slasher. Sure, dyeing Rachel McAdams' hair brown doesn't make her a new age business woman, and Cillian Murphy rocking the Batman voice is ridiculous. This is a movie that celebrates its buffoonery with a wink. The way its tone transitions from saccharine to suspenseful to hysterical can accurately be described as jarring, but the absurdity of the transformation is irresistible. It's schizophrenic, B movie gold.

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"I don't want to be a product of my environment, I want my environment to be a product of me" (Frank Costello)

They need to revive this character!



Fanservice at his best! This film delivers everything that I love in Dragon Ball. Great fun and my favorite Dragon Ball ̶f̶i̶l̶l̶e̶r̶ movie.

Le professionnel (1981)

Far far beyond any current action film. Plus who doesn't like Ennio Morricone and Jean-Paul Belmondo. I saw it so many times but it still keeps me engaged.

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Leijonasydän (2013) (Heart of a Lion)



The movie is about Teppo, Nazi looser, who falls in love with a woman, Sari. After while she reveals having a son Rhamadhani with her black ex- boyfriend. Then the troubles start. How to reconcile the extremist racism ideology versus the colored stepson? Teppo agrees and decides to accept Rhamadhani as his own however faces troubles with his Nazi tribe and mainly with himself. He can hide and keep it secret in front of his comrades at the beginning but later he needs to decide. Then his brother (also the member of Nazi tribe) enters his life revealing the secret. That's the moment of Teppo's disunity. He is torn apart between two worlds and he needs to make a final decision. One world is to belong to his group where he's already built the group's respect, where he feels purpose in his life and another world, his new family. He needs to decide. He cannot serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other (allusion to Mt 6). I like the scenes how Teppo and Rhamadhani are building their relationship, mutual respect and love. It is painful for both of them.

Final decision is accompanied with his brother suicide and funeral, his girlfriend coming home from hospital, his brethren renouncing him and literally taking away the symbols (tattoos) that he doesn't deserve any more (according to his tribe). They scraped his swastika tattoo with a grinder. It must've hurt like hell but Teppo is happy. Happy to his new family, happy to make a final statement, happy to make it alive, happy to finally decide.

The message of this movie is crucial and true. We need idealistic movies like this one. Especially today when extremism is no longer extreme, becoming normal. However the cinematography was not that great and it is still a movie as a whole that I'm reviewing here.

Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) - +



You can read my write-up here - http://www.movieforums.com/community...43#post1665843