Dream for an insomniac
Hardly anyone I know has ever even heard of this movie and that makes it even more precious to me.
This movie has a lot of dialogue; every scene is rife with verbose commentary and none of the narratives overlap.
It’s cute, it’s fun and it’s like a tender love you read again and again, even when you’ve memorized not just the words but how every single letter is scrawled out on the paper.
Ione Skye has that perfect, perfect restless energy that makes me fall madly in love with her every time I watch the movie.
By no means it’s a great movie or even a good movie. It’s a testament to silliness and cuteness of movie making and moving emotions.
It is a staple 90s movie. So much cliché and coffee culture, but I love it. still wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.
ALIENS
This movie is a deep cut that bleed you out, emotionally frustrating, relentlessly exhausting and does not stop take time to breath, at all. And that’s why its absolutely fucking perfect.
James Cameron looked at the original and decided the sequel needed adrenaline and dread, a fuckton of it.
Sigourney Weaver is a broken shattered person trying to be human around aliens, robots, soldiers and corporate assholes. She stands out because she’s so odd and seems useless and yet she’s the most badass heroine of all time.
The action? Iconic.
The tension? Unrelenting.
The aliens? Still some of the most terrifying creatures ever put on screen.
The claustrophobia of this movie is unnerving and intense. I love it.
OFFICE SPACE
It’s not a movie. It’s a documentary, from the future made in the past as a warning. Like everything he does Mike Judge makes painfully realistic funny movies and Office space is one hell of a shock and reality check if you work in IT.
It is considered essential viewing for IT professionals as a warning on how life really is for software and IT companies.
Its endlessly humorous, the memes are eternal and the message it delivers is quite easy to understand and absorb. “Work just enough not to get fired”.
The Man From Earth
John, the soft-spoken professor at the center of it all, drops a single question that turns an ordinary farewell gathering of a high school teach into a philosophical detonation:
What if I tell you I’ve been alive for 14,000 years?
Words cannot do justice how this movie captures the complexity of time, space, religion, science, politics and history into one long conversation among friends. So utterly beautiful. It’s the only movie in my collection that I converted to audio and I listen to it every now and then.
A Day At the Races
The masterful wit and humor of Marx Brothers. There’s never been anything like it, there will never be anything like it.
This is a classic. Marx Brothers at their zaniest—madcap, witty, and delightfully anarchic. Groucho with his razor sharp one liners that work on so many levels, Chico’s simplistic humor paired with Harpos chaotic silence. A brilliant combination of chaos meets charm.
It’s chaotic, it’s clever, it’s silly, and it’s heartwarming all at once. It’s the definitive Marx Brothers movie.
This is the movie that made me read autobiographies of Groucho and Harpo Marx and both the books are so well written, so much depth and so many emotions.
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