Why you pursue something is as important as what you pursue.

For those curious, yes, despite having watched the movie not long ago to properly prepare for this paper, I watched it again so this can count as a proper rewatch. Turns out, when you're dealing with an all-time favorite movie, you can seemingly watch it every day and not get tired of it. This in a way, at least at the moment, feels like a culmination of the two…

"We were worried that we'd start a chain reaction that would destroy the entire world."
"I remember it well. What of it?"

Saw this again last night, wanted to give myself another day to wrestle with my many thoughts, as well as have time to write this review, look over it again, and still make sure I believed whatever I would end up typing by the time I posted it. I have two significant announcements to share with Oppenheimer. I'm…

LOOK

David Lynch I believe once said that he considers himself a painter first and a filmmaker second, and considering this is his very first film project he made, I really do have to take him at his word with that. I think this strikes a solid balance for a first short to be something where you watch and think, most charitably, that it's "okay," but you then have to admit that someone making this has to have something valuable…

What the hell's going on, man?!

Thanks, David(?) I'm going to go out of my way, like I do when I watch a short that lasts a grand total of one minute or even shorter, to try to say something of value towards it. With the odd mask on "BlueBob," and the grainy as hell footage from back when digital and video were still barely used within cinema, this fits pretty snugly within that Americana horror sensibility present within almost…

(2025 edit: I am frankly embarrassed that my negative reviews for this and Natural Born Killers are far and away my most liked reviews on this site lol. It has been long enough since I have seen either film that I have no idea if my thoughts on them would still be the same as they were a handful of years ago. I'm not sure when it will happen, but I want to revisit both this and Stone's film eventually…

(2025 edit: I am frankly embarrassed that my negative reviews for this and Barry Lyndon are far and away my most liked reviews on this site lol. It has been long enough since I have seen either film that I have no idea if my thoughts on them would still be the same as they were a handful of years ago. I'm not sure when it will happen, but I want to revisit both this and Kubrick's film eventually to…