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“It’s not how long you wait, it’s who you’re waiting for!”
A masterpiece, a romantic farce set in prohibition featuring Lemmon and Curtis as musicians who cross-dress to evade the mob and team up with Marilyn Monroe and Joe Brown for a knockout film.
★★★★★
“This is not a murder. This is an intervention.”
Another movie I saw at just the right time in my life for it to have a profound effect, The Nines is about free will versus destiny, creating and controlling the world around you; told in an episodic format it’s creative story structure weaves and leaves little clues all over the place, Ryan Reynolds is great in this (and the only thing I’ve enjoyed Melissa McCarthy in to boot).
★★★★✩
“Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window.”
This feels the most real of any infantry film I’ve seen — overwhelming odds, in a country where you don’t speak the language, not entirely sure why you’re there or why you’re killing people, and you can’t identify whether the people staring at your are civilians or potential soldiers, it’s a perfect description of the recent wars, held up by great direction and fantastic acting from a cast that’s miles deep.
★★★★★
“The world is Hell. We have a chance to start over in the rubble. But first, there has to be rubble.”
Duncan Jones has a way of making sci-fi stories deeply personal and relatable, figuring out the most empathetic aspect to them; Source Code is no different, told in the same 8 minutes over and over it’s deeply interesting and posits some interesting questions about parallel realities and what’s real.
★★★★✩
“When a country has five percent of the world’s population but does fifty percent of its military spending, then the persuasive powers of that country are on the decline.”
A gripping thriller focused on an oil co merger, spider-webbing out from there to involve the CIA, Saudi royals, and Washington power-players — it’s a demanding film, complex and never stopping to explain anything, it weaves a complex political portrait of the US’s capitalism and foreign policy.
★★★★✩