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“You just said you love me, now if I say I love you and just throw caution to the wind and let the chips fall where they may and you’re lying to me I’m gonna fuckin’ die.”
My favourite Tony Scott film (and one of the best Quentin Tarantino scripts), it’s a weird and beautiful love story that circles around cocaine, pimps, Hollywood, and mental instability — a flat out riot.
★★★★★
“There is a lesson you will learn / Sometimes you must go back a turn.”
A fun children’s film with the estimable Robin Williams and a young Kirsten Dunst.
★★★✩✩
“Did my heart love ’til now? Forswear its sight. For I never saw true beauty ’til this night.”
Not to everyone’s taste, Luhrmann’s surrealist-neon grounding along with keeping the Shakespearian verse makes this a very interesting experiment even if it isn’t wholly successful.
★★★★✩
“Things are fucked up at the North Pole. Mrs. Claus caught me fucking her sister, now I’m out on my ass.”
Crass, bleak, and heavy drinking, three things every Christmas should be.
★★★★✩
“You’ve been given a great gift, George: A chance to see what the world would be like without you.”
A Christmas classic, a cute story — the love story in the first half is so much better than the angel arc in the second, but still a great movie, and a must-watch at Christmas.
★★★★✩