You Are What You Watch

Former political scientist and philosopher turned current political atheist. Living more intentionally. Movies & plays are my very favorite things.

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You are witnesses at the new birth of @PoliticalBodies Mark II. Hope you enjoy our new direction.

This account was for my research on the body in political thought. After one too many rejections in academia, I've successfully moved on. Now here for others going thru the same.

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@letterboxd @neonrated Mixed bag:

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@historyinmemes This is one of the more wild inadvertent great shots in cinema. I watched this recently and that ending was so anomalous with the rest of the movie, which made it that much more impactful. I puzzled over this for a while. It really made me think. And it was a fluke. Love it.

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@letterboxd Couple of comfort rewatches, and two from @criterionchannl 24/7. Kind of a mixed bag, but it was all good stuff. Ratcatcher was quite good. A little hard to take, but in a good way. And such an intriguing twist at the beginning.

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@mikemovies My ★★★★ review of The Devil Strikes at Night on Letterboxd https://t.co/u8gUe642Cg This one blew me away with a fascinating history. It's just well done and I STRENUOUSLY recommend getting the Kino Classics Blu-ray with the commentary track by film historian Imogen Sara Smith

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@rxbeccajohnson I find so few horror movies to be be genuinely compelling and not just cheap jump scares, I'd LOVE for this to measure up. The original is so good (in an effed up, deeply disturbing way), I am just worried that this remake will chicken out at the end. Fingers crossed it holds up.

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@PhillyMovieNerd I've loved this one since my VHS copy of it way back when. So much so that when Glen Hansard 'reappeared' in the 00's he was (and still is) "that guy from The Commitments!"

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@Gibboanxious Kind of surprised to not see any mentions of him in The Tailor of Panama as the disgraced MI6 agent and delightful cad Andrew Osnard.

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@historyinmemes This shows why he was so preternaturally convincing in Boogie Nights...

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@rxbeccajohnson I have literally 40 minutes left on the finale of my 5th rewatch. Walter White is obviously a loathsome person, but the thing I really hate about him is his wardrobe in general and those G-D color coordinated Wallabees he aways wears specifically. Probably just me, though.

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@letterboxd @gametheoryfilms Now that's an odd random collection of recent watches to be proud of. I was all over the ice this week, and it was glorious.

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@SonnyBunch Seconded. Akin to people who give bad reviews to movies because they didn't think the protagonist was a good or likable person, independent of the quality of the movie. 'This wasn't the movie I thought it would be,' is not a valid criticism. It's a juvenile, emotivist reaction.

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@CryptoWatch_er @RealEmirHan This is when I finally walked out of the movie on opening night. I thought, 'Raves in a dirty cave is what they're fighting the machines and eating amino porridge for?!?' It made the whole Zion mission seem so pointless it actually convinced me Cypher was right. Blue pill, please

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@letterboxd Hot and horny. Late dinners with the curtains flowing in the breeze. A flamenco guitarist on a patio under the trees, the Gaudi House. And I love all of Javier Bardem's summer fits. Really aspirational stuff.

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@Gibboanxious Wow. I don't know if this would be my final choice, but it is a helluva opening gambit. This is definitely one of those movies I recommend to people all the time when the talk is about crime dramas or French crime movies. What a fantastic film.

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@mucha_carlos @gran1te_mtn Or all of that is going on in a different book and movie about a sheriff from the jurisdiction that happened in while this book and movie follows Sheriff Ed Tom trying to work a different case in his own. I love how self-congratulatory you are over a nothing burger like this.

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@DylanHasMovies @PhoenixBlackNow Godspeed on your journey of self-discovery.

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@ThatEricAlper I'm not sure, but I think they might be nihilists:

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@DavidRenner7 @Gibboanxious Noticed that. Thought it was kinda amusing. And also understandable as The Firm (1989) is pretty obscure over here. It is also quite good. I think about the look Gary Oldman gives at the very end a lot. The mix of bemusement and pathos is... A sign of the talent to come.

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@DylanHasMovies Man. I have been circling the original for years (waiting for a reasonably priced DVD). So this is a French language remake directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa? Yes, please.