Ryan

Ryan

Favorite films

  • Children of Men
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Arrival
  • In Bruges

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  • Bound

    ★★★½

  • Tekkonkinkreet

    ★★★★

  • Blue Velvet

    ★★★★

  • Enter the Dragon

    ★★★★

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Bound
★★★½ Liked Watched

How many heterosexual women have seen this and thought "Oh wow, I didn't know sex could be that good?!?" The sex scenes with Violet and Corky were so erotic, so hot, so sensual. That shot of their lips before they kiss for the first time... wow.

This was my first time seeing Bound. I knew that this movie came out before the Wachowskis made The Matrix, so I was definitely not prepared for how Matrix-coded the cinematography, music, and sound…

Tekkonkinkreet
★★★★ Liked Watched

I went with the subtitled version because I felt the Japanese voice acting matched the animation's vibe better after watching the trailer for this and the English dub. The original Japanese voice acting was fantastic. And the music and sound design were great.

It's just my personal aesthetic taste, but I liked the style of the background animation more than I liked the character designs. But I did love the way they animated motion, including the motion of the "camera,"…

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Gangs of New York
★★★ Rewatched

It's fine I guess. Several actors have accents that feel inconsistent which I find distracting. Daniel Day-Lewis gives a good performance as the disturbing Bill The Butcher, but honestly he wasn't given much to work with in most scenes. The writing of the main revenge narrative is pretty boring IMO.

There are a lot of ideas about scapegoating immigrants, racism, local government corruption, and socioeconomic inequality, but it all feels a bit scattered. In the middle of the movie, there…

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
★★½ Rewatched

My dad and I rented this shortly after it came out in 2011. I remember us both thinking it was boring. I wanted to give it another chance since it was so well received. But worse than being boring, this movie is confusing. Needlessly confusing.

It is really hard to make an interesting mystery when you aren't telling the story from a specific character's perspective. We are shown all these shady things, but we can't tell whose perspective we are…

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