Salvius23
Movie Buff
Member Since: 07 Feb 2025
Location: Watertown, Wisconsin, USA
Age: 54
Bio: Tech support, gamer, writer/poet, law school dropout.
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The Deer Hunter (1978) - Rated 03 Sep 2025
"For the first hour, I kept thinking to myself, "none of these people should ever drink alcohol." The rest of the film does a pretty convincing job of portraying Vietnam as literally hell, and not just in the POW scenes. Arguably to the point of being a bit racist about it. All the Russian roulette stuff feels unrealistic, but seems to be used more as metaphor than literal reality."
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) - Rated 03 Sep 2025
"Primarily an affectionate goodbye to all of the Fox movies based on Marvel characters. Note that for all the hype about this being the movie to bring Deadpool into the MCU, that isn't technically true: At the end of the film, Deadpool is still in the Fox X-Men universe."
Deadpool 2 (2018) - Rated 03 Sep 2025
"Not quite as good as the first one, but entertaining."
Deadpool (2016) - Rated 03 Sep 2025
"The non-linear storytelling here elevates this one slightly above the two subsequent Deadpool movies. Ryan Reynolds is pretty much perfect in the role, and not just verbally: He demonstrates really effectively how to act in a full-face mask, seemingly treating his own body language & head movement almost as if he were a puppeteer."
Thunderbolts* (2025) - Rated 03 Sep 2025
"Not bad. It's a movie in which a man has a fistfight with his own depression, which is kind of cute."
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) - Rated 28 Aug 2025
"All I want to say is that this is George Lucas doing the same thing Quentin Tarantino does so well: Drawing together a wide variety of styles & influences (Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers serials, Kurosawa samurai films, WWII air combat movies) and synthesizing them into something new. You could also say it's like "what if you made a Flash Gordon movie, but treated it like a real film, not just disposable crap?""
Madame Rosa (1977) - Rated 27 Aug 2025
"Some good moments, but also an awful lot of "why is this character behaving in this way?" moments. I suspect some of those might be due to adaptational changes from the novel leaving out young Momo's internal thoughts. A decent film about the nature of love, but not one I'm likely to revisit often."
Annie Hall (1977) - Rated 26 Aug 2025
"An undeniably great movie, but it feels weirdly transitional to me; like Woody Allen had started wanting to move away from his sillier comedies toward more grounded films about relationships (as he did soon after), but didn't yet have the confidence in that material, and still felt the need to insert a few more just goofy jokes (i.e., most of the 4th-wall breaking, pulling Marshall McLuhan out to win an argument, etc.)."
Taxi Driver (1976) - Rated 26 Aug 2025
"Look, it's Taxi Driver. If you don't already know it's one of the greatest films ever made, adding my voice to the chorus isn't going to make any difference. My favorite thing on this viewing was in the extras: Robert De Niro's introduction to a 2016 Tribeca Film Festival 40th anniversary screening of the film: "Forty years. Every day, for forty fucking years...""
Black and White in Color (1976) - Rated 26 Aug 2025
"A satire about the absurdity and futility of war. Some fun bits, ultimately probably not quite as good as some of the other more-or-less contemporary satires about the absurdity and futility of war. And while the film has its heart in the right place regarding colonialism, it doesn't do a very good job of fleshing out any of the non-white characters."
