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snallygaster

snallygaster
Cinema Addict
# Film Ratings: 1665
Member Since: 09 Oct 2010

Recent Ratings

64 69%
The Trip (2010) - Rated 27 Jul 2025
Rating the film version here because that's what this entry is for, and I'm going to rate the TV series on the entry for that version, and personally I think that's a nice way to live but you all do what you want.
62 66%
Coherence (2013) - Rated 25 Jul 2025
Turned out better than I expected, but I'm a sucker for time loop/multiple reality movies. I don't necessarily mind an absurd premise, but its insertion does clash a bit with the characters and dialogue which seem intended to be realistic. (having a new age crystal type character helps smooth it out it a bit).
44 40%
Lifeforce (1985) - Rated 20 Jul 2025
Completely nuts. Compare & contrast with "Under the Skin". (Watched 1:56:13 “director’s cut”).
62 66%
Aftersun (2022) - Rated 13 Jul 2025
68 75%
Lady Bird (2017) - Rated 14 Jun 2025
There seem to be a lot of specific indications that there's an abusive relationship here that goes beyond the rough language mother & daughter throw around. I don't know if Gerwig sees it that way; maybe she wanted to make a movie about an abusive relationship without the abuse being the point of focus. It's also unclear if the ending is meant to be optimistic or devastating. But I can say with certainty that Gerwig still holds a grudge against the popular kids at school for excluding her.
52 51%
Je, tu, il, elle (1974) - Rated 22 Apr 2025
57 59%
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) - Rated 09 Feb 2025
If you watch this without having read the book, you'd better have impeccable facial recognition skills for when middle-aged white guy #4 who we saw for 5 seconds in the first scene reappears with MAWG#7 who it turns out isn't dead after all, I guess, except maybe it's another flashback, and what about Johnson, and look at this photo I just found of MAWG#5 & MAWG#2 together, and Cooper says MAWG#3 is the mole, but then after that MAWG#1 says Smith is the mole, so I guess Smith is the mole. Fin.
41 35%
My Cousin Vinny (1992) - Rated 10 Dec 2024
39 32%
Bone Tomahawk (2015) - Rated 04 Dec 2024
Held my interest. What would be good, and what I think most fans of this movie are responding to: A Western/Horror crossover where the "Indians" turn out to be... something else. That wasn't really my takeaway. One baffling point is how little comment there is on the bizarre way the Lili Simmons character is written and presented. Unrelatedly(?), I was unsurprised that, according to Wikipedia, Zahler "is an atheist"... "not very politically interested"... "has no interest in ever marrying."
68 75%
Skinamarink (2023) - Rated 13 Nov 2024
Taken as a "found footage"-style horror movie, it's a bit glib and fractured. But for a lot of the same reasons -- for example, the way it inconsistently shifts between implying footage from a physical camera (complete with artificial film grain, etc) and subjective POV -- it really captures the childhood dream experience.