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Powell is literally a Trump appointee. I see no reason to single out the board members and then conveniently leave out the same fact for Powell. Be better NBC.

The Big Heat (1953) 4/5

Fritz can sure direct a movie. A rarity where I’m glued to the screen the entire time. Glenn Ford is definitely not your typical lead but it’s certainly a powerful performance.

The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) 4.5/5

Smiled the whole time. I want to live in this incredibly colorful world.

Paris, Texas (1984) 5/5

Finished the last 45 minutes or so after being unable to finish it a couple months back. What a beautiful film. Some truly emotional, very long cuts at the end are quite remarkable. Stanton puts on one hell of a performance.

Blue Collar (1978) 4.5/5

All three of our protagonists really nail it. The whole movie is raw, from the fact that it’s Shrader’s first go at it, to the soundtrack, to the gritty, dangerous work of building cars in the 70s. Prior somehow manages to standout even with Keitel and Kotto putting in strong performances.

Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972) 4.5/5

I just watched it today and it took over half an hour for my brain to start forming a string of thoughts again. I was utterly captivated. The dub is terrible. Shot-to-shot congruity is nonexistent. The environment is steadily more alien. The hubris and brutality of man is on full display. It’s a boon that’s there’s very little spoken word and even less actual dialogue. I am in utter awe of the sheer audacity of even attempting to tell a story in such a remote location in the 70s. I felt like Kinski was gonna reach through the screen and throttle me at any moment.

These are all normal words…

No it’s not.

DLSS is proprietary. FSR (apart from the latest revision as pointed out) is not.

If it looks like a duck, Quacks like a duck, and hangs out with ducks….

A bunch of movies I’ve never seen. What’s your reasoning on the picks?

I read that as aromatic and got very confused.

It’s not a bad movie by any stretch. Its shortcomings just outweigh what’s great about it is all.

I think the bar needs to be higher than a comic book romance. It’s probably hard to do it with a character in full costume but then again he did it with Shape of Water.

The other thing I forgot to mention that still applies to the romance is that it feels like none of the characters have any agency of their own. They just get whisked along by whatever new plot device has suddenly appeared. There’s no plan at all. That only works if the characters have no time to breathe and plan but that’s precisely what Del Toro does mid movie. The secondary romance between the two “aliens” as Abe puts it doesn’t feel organic. It feels like it’s only there to drive the story along.

Yojimbo is probably his most accessible to modern audiences. It’s under 2 hours and it goes at a breakneck pace most of the time with pretty much every conversation being interrupted for some action. Mifune also might be at his coolest here.

Yea but is it a typo or do people actually say word to word?

Word to word?