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2001: A Space Odyssey

1968

★★★★★ Liked 6

I am nowhere NEAR intelligent enough to properly dissect this film after my first (full) viewing but... Jesus Christ, Kubrick.

Truly one of the most audacious artistic achievements in cinematic history, with a potent and powerful philosophical core to further captivate the audience. Honestly, I’m wholly content with the ambiguous atmosphere it occupies at the moment. In many ways, this felt like a revelatory religious experience, and like religion, its ultimate strength seems to lie in the unknown.

Now off…

Saving Private Ryan

1998

★★★★ Liked Watched

The first 20 minutes of this are arguably as terrifying and stomach-churning as anything I’ve watched in any horror movie ever.

Spielberg honestly deserved ten Best Director Oscars for the Omaha Beach sequence alone.

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The Deer Hunter

1978

★★½ 5

YES I know I just went on a long spiel yesterday about the importance of not preemptively judging a film on its runtime before actually watching it but... this is sadly an example of my fears coming true.

There’s a lot to appreciate here (and Christopher Walken turns in WONDERFUL work), but it’s stretched FAR too thin over 184 minutes. Really wish I connected with this one more.

And, as with every movie, it needed MORE MERYL STREEP.

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Gone with the Wind

1939

★★★★ Liked 1

Never thought the day would come where I could mark this off my watchlist but it HAS and I feel ACCOMPLISHED!!!

It definitely peaks in the first half in my opinion (and it does drag a tad in the final hour), but the filmmaking here is just too exemplary to ignore. And yes, it is most certainly a product of its time, but the direction, the cinematography, and the ACT-ING (Miss ! Vivien ! LEIGH !) all resonate just as much…