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Welcome to my vague ramblings that sometimes don't make sense, or do they?

Favorite films

  • Batman Forever
  • The Doors
  • Real Genius
  • Top Secret!

All
  • My Best Fiend

    ★★★½

  • The Dead Zone

    ★★★★

  • Congo

    ★★★½

  • Virtuosity

    ★★★½

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My Best Fiend

1999

★★★½ Watched

Two Germans descend into the Amazon jungle like two demons entering Hell—the jungle and its habitats will never be the same.

Werner Herzog reminisces about his battles with Klaus Kinski (the zit on the asshole of cinema) while filming several movies together. The two Germans had a love/hate relationship, to put it mildly, and were always on the verge of killing each other—or, in Kinski's case, other people on set.

It's no secret that Kinski was difficult to work with,…

The Dead Zone

1983

★★★★ Liked Watched

"The Dead Zone" proves that milk doesn't always do the body good—just ask Johnny Smith. David Cronenberg adapting a Stephen King book sounds like a match made in hell, and for the most part, it is. "The Dead Zone" feels like an outlier in Cronenberg's hot streak that took place between the late 70s and the late 80s—probably because it wasn't written by him in any capacity. If you're looking for the body horror and deep personal messaging Cronenberg usually…

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Congo

1995

★★★½ Watched

Grab your safari hat and some bug spray; we're heading to Cheese Mountain in the Congo! Another in the long line of cheesy '90s blockbusters, Congo isn't what it appears to be—a killer monkey movie. Instead, it's a jungle adventure movie with some 'gorillas' along the way. These gorilla suits are genuinely the only real impressive thing about this movie. Sure, you can tell they're not real animals almost immediately, but there are a few times you question if it's…

The Nail Gun Massacre

1985

★★★ Watched

The Nail Gun Massacre feels like one of those regional slashers where a guy gets his buddies to make a movie on the weekends, and nobody has any idea what they're doing. That's because I'm pretty sure no one knew what they were doing.

Don't get me wrong, this isn't a good movie, but it has its charms. None of the actors can act, the kills are as low-budget as I've ever seen, and there is scene after scene that…