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Scrooge (1970)
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Not at all good, but maybe not as horrible as it could have been. Get rid of the kid actor, though.
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12 Monkeys (1995)
The ultimate predestination time travel movie with a puzzle box plot of clever timeline interactions and consequences. Visual verve and invention blend with rich themes of subjectivity and the perilous state of sanity in modernity.
It’s Chrsitmas!
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Network (1976)
Amazing screenplay. So clever and nasty and evocative, and the satire is more relevant than ever. The “I’m mad as hell” scene is truly an all-timer moment.
Faye Dunaway stole my heart.
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Step Brothers (2008)
Unnecessarily mean-spirited with shoe-horned emotional development that just doesn’t work. But some of these gags are gut-busters. And they’re all in the 2-minute trailer, so just watch that instead.
Epochally great, super influential, iconic zombie flick that I somehow missed before the age of 32. I could do without the “radiation from Venus” goofball stuff, but otherwise this is low-budget perfection with some strong social commentary at its core.
Lots of hilarious screaming, practical effects, and horror-comic chaos. I honestly might be underselling it with this rating. The birth of “brains.”
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House (1977)
What an inventive, ludicrous joy of a movie. Emotionally evocative at the right moments, too. Brimming with postwar satire and angst as the fuel for the insanity. A great, apocalyptic climax and ending. This one really stirred me.
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Robert (2015)
A total zero of haunted doll movie.
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