Velvet Crowe
TCI: not enough ratings
Films in Common: 0
Not in Your Top 1000 TCIs
Bio: Former journalist, invested in humanities, fitness, and consuming garbage.
Subtlety is overrated.
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| 70 74% | The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) - Rated 16 Apr 2024
"The movie is most interesting when it's making goofy scenarios out of the Bushman not understanding anything about the modern world and consistently misconstruing everything which not only can be funny but also interesting as an exploration of human nature. A lot of people feel this is undercut by the slapstick seen outside of that and narratively I somewhat agree, but the slapstick is charming and entertaining anyway so I can say that at least brought me some amusement."
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| 36 31% | Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) - Rated 14 Apr 2024
"But hey, it's just a theory...."
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| 58 61% | Lion (2016) - Rated 14 Apr 2024
"Thematically this movie is about sense of belonging and rediscovering what was lost. It's common to say that the first half is more interesting because of how it plays with childish naivety existing within depravity, but everything in the second half is still thematically consistent and serves the purpose of landing on its ending with some degree of emotional highs. But I feel that the emotional highs of that ending rely more on the first half than the second, which often feels very tacky."
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| 57 60% | Pretty Woman (1990) - Rated 11 Apr 2024
"This movie garners interesting reactions. People do not believe that a whore and a billionaire could genuinely fall for each other; which yes, seems non-sensical in this context but "poor to rich" stories like this have been a literary trope for centuries and I don't believe this deserves scrutiny for that more than those in the past. In its own right? It's shallow but the chemistry between the two leads is charismatic and fun, even if this is hinging on a puerile fantasy."
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| 90 97% | My Last Valentine in Beirut (2012) - Rated 11 Apr 2024
"I love this movie visually wherein it never moves outside out of one frame and yet allows us multiple visuals through objects on the sets. The narrative conceit is brilliant, conveying a surrealist view of prostitution mixing together vague ideas of what is and isn't real putting us in a place to question what about ourselves is truly real and whether or not what we convey about ourselves is legitimate or not, putting shade on our idealism as well. Sartre would be proud!"
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| 33 26% | Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012) - Rated 10 Apr 2024
"The whole thing looks like a PS2 FMV and a very bland one at that. It's a very nothing movie that has stiff animation and a lot of shitty dialog performed by hilariously amateurish voice actors. It's also not even trying to build on or utilize anything this franchise is known for beyond the very surface level. The movie has John Rico, but for some reason they give him an eyepatch and a completely different voice building off of nothing from previous films. Pretty boring overall."
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| 76 85% | The beach house (2016) - Rated 10 Apr 2024
"The movie suffers from not really having a landing to fall on but I just love the dialog here. It succeeds in conveying big topics in mundane, conversational ways and the discourse between the main characters is fun to follow, even if it does run into some awkwardness. But you know, when a couple of adults are drinking and just shooting the shit, sometimes that sort of awkwardness is warranted."
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| 38 34% | American History X (1998) - Rated 10 Apr 2024
"I'll give it credit that it comes to some reasonable conclusions about skinheads but this movie is so goddamn daft. For one it preaches anti-racism but Derek's beliefs are never challenged and he all of a sudden becomes not racist because he realizes neo-Nazi's are hypocrites and gets one black friend, which is a total joke. It's also full to the brim with some insanely nauseating editing choices that makes its drama impossible to take seriously. Not to mention so many dumb fucking twists..."
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| 40 37% | The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) - Rated 08 Apr 2024
"Suiting to watch this 40 years after it was made. I do like that the movie takes the differences of the 40's vs the 80's as a source of discomfort for the leads but it never goes beyond that with no attempt to make any real distinctions or commentary on this. Instead, the narrative opts for this really boring romance and snoretastic focus on the sci-fi elements of its premise which is far off what anyone would care about in this film that I find it baffling how much time is put on it."
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| 82 92% | Train to Busan (2016) - Rated 08 Apr 2024
"What people seem to miss about this movie's originality is how it uses its setting to create its setpieces, utilizing tight corridors and specific rules for how the zombies work in that setting to create tension. For a lot of narratives, nuances like that add a lot and in this movie's case it uses it to great effect consistently making every conflict exciting. Even then I don't think the narrative beats are awful even if conventional, the ending scene with the father is damn great."
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