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Hometown:
Wisconsin
Favorite Movies:
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, It's a Wonderful Life, Amélie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Brazil, Léon: The Professional, The Blues Brothers, Fight Club, Return to Me, Frida, Shopgirl, Ghost World, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Shaun of the Dead, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, My Fair Lady, Singin' in the Rain, Cool Hand Luke, August Rush, Gone With the Wind, It Happened One Night, Funny Girl, His Girl Friday, A League of Their Own, The People Vs. Larry Flynt, Dial M for Murder, The Jerk, Groundhog Day, Thirteen, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Stand by Me, The Band Wagon, Tootsie, Schindler's List, Ray, West Side Story, Cabaret, The Philadelphia Story, Patch Adams, An Inconvenient Truth, City Slickers, Almost Famous, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, This Is Spinal Tap, Rudy, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Die Hard, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Gladiator, Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è bella), Away We Go, American Beauty, Hamlet 2, Gypsy, A Patch of Blue, Punch-Drunk Love, Paper Moon, Monster, The Goodbye Girl, Leaving Las Vegas, City Lights, Judgment at Nuremberg, Whip It, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Girl, Interrupted, Shine, Office Space, Poltergeist, Scream, The Fugitive, Black Swan, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Exorcist, Reality Bites, The Wedding Singer, The Great Escape, Airport, Three Amigos!, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, National Lampoon's Animal House, Knocked Up, The Royal Tenenbaums, Roxanne, A Fish Called Wanda, The Elephant Man, Catch Me If You Can, Forrest Gump, The Queen, Rachel Getting Married, Rocky, The Shawshank Redemption, La Vie en Rose (La Mome), Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Carrie, Juno, Grease, Bridget Jones's Diary, Chocolat, Ever After: A Cinderella Story, Penelope, When Harry Met Sally, Back to the Future Part II, Ghostbusters, The Matrix, Minority Report, Misery, The Others, Reservoir Dogs, The Silence of the Lambs, The Sixth Sense, The Sound of Music, Pulp Fiction, Martyrs, Oldboy, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Battle Royale 3D, The Young Victoria, Dirty Harry, V for Vendetta, Rebecca, The Red Shoes, Happiness, The Haunting, Hannah and Her Sisters, Wet Hot American Summer, The General, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Citizen Kane, Forbidden Planet, Micmacs (Micmacs à tire-larigot), The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band), Jesus Camp, Moon, Metropolis, The Aviator, A Single Man, Planet of the Apes, Inside Job, The Big Chill, Black Dynamite, Into the Wild, Kicking and Screaming, M, A Serious Man, Quiz Show, Dog Day Afternoon, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Midnight in Paris, Best Worst Movie, Troll 2, Mary and Max, Drive, Memento, RoboCop, Margot at the Wedding
Favorite Actors:
Tim Curry, William Powell, Susan Sarandon, John Belushi, Marion Cotillard, Katharine Hepburn, Courtney Love, Gary Oldman, Irene Dunne, Frances McDormand, Juliette Lewis, Kevin Kline, Debra Winger, Steve Buscemi, Morgan Freeman, Jeff Bridges, Carole Lombard, John Lithgow, Malcolm McDowell, Barbara Stanwyck, Audrey Tautou, Gloria Swanson, Harrison Ford, Nicolas Cage, Geoffrey Rush, Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, Robert Williams, Ray Milland, Kathy Bates, Carrie Fisher, Vivien Leigh, Gary Cooper, Sidney Poitier, James Garner, Kevin Spacey, Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Jack Lemmon, Burt Lancaster, Charles Chaplin, John Cusack, Tommy Lee Jones, Elizabeth Taylor, Dustin Hoffman, George Clooney, Sissy Spacek, Henry Fonda, Jamie Lee Curtis, Will Ferrell, Clark Gable, James Stewart, Olivia de Havilland, Barbara Streisand, Glenn Close, Anthony Hopkins, Steve Martin, Julie Andrews, Gwyneth Paltrow, Holly Hunter, Matthew Broderick, Rosalind Russell, Thora Birch, Steve Coogan, Ann-Margaret, Cary Grant, Christopher Walken, Cher, Madeline Kahn, Brad Pitt, Spencer Tracy, Alec Baldwin, Gene Wilder, Gene Kelly, Michael J. Fox, Woody Allen, Paul Newman, Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Hugh Laurie, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly, Allen Covert, Corey Haim, Bill Murray, Liam Neeson, Claire Danes, Tom Hanks, Steve Carell, Jack Nicholson, Tim Robbins, Jim Carrey, Robert Downey Jr., Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Meg Ryan, Mary Stuart Masterson, Walter Matthau, Diane Lane, Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Lee, Albert Brooks, Buster Keaton, Bill Pullman, Goldie Hawn, Daryl Hannah, Téa Leoni, Donald O'Connor, Angelina Jolie, Leonardo DiCaprio, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Wagner, Alan Ruck, John Malkovich, Robert Sean Leonard, Rex Harrison, Demi Moore, Bernadette Peters, Helen Hunt, Evan Rachel Wood, Cyd Charisse, Natalie Wood, Michael Douglas, Salma Hayek, Shelley Winters, Charlize Theron, Judy Garland, Brian Dennehy, Fred Willard, Kristen Bell, Jessica Tandy, Catherine Keener, Howard Keel, Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Tom Skerritt, Slim Pickens, Ginger Rogers, Jodie Foster, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christian Bale, Tim Roth, Loretta Devine, Phil Hartman, Donald Sutherland
Bio:
I am a college student who has some free time, and an insatiable, ravenous obsession with film. I have a wide variety of tastes and I try for quality films, but I almost never say Not Interested. I love mind bending films, screwball comedies from the 30's and 40's, romantic comedies, classic and low budget horror, coming of age films, silent slapstick, feel good, and generally 70's cinema. I rate films with a mixture of "What the film is" versus how much I enjoyed it. Below is my rating system. 5-4.5: Masterpiece 4: It was enjoyable. 3-3.5: Had flaws, but still slightly enjoyable. 2-2.5: Severly lacking. 0-1.5: Worse than a bowel movement made of starving piranhas. I say yes to friend requests if you have your profile filled out. If you really love cinema and are here for that purpose, you should have reviews, ratings, etc. As a young woman I hold the right to not be randomly sent dick pictures and messages detailing your urges. Keep it in your pants; this is the internet, not the couch in your cousin Rick's basement. I keep my reviews pretty short,except on a couple films where I just couldn't help myself. See you around whippersnapper.

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God Bless America

God Bless America

(2012)
4 days ago via Flixster

This is definitely a film that will divide people immediately, because between the satire and the black comedy, the violence and obvious lamentation of the lost American Way, director and writer Bobcat Goldthwait has a lot to say. Also none of it is positive. Maybe twenty years ago, but not now, not when there are so many differentiations and categories of annoying people doing annoying things in the world today. Picking each of these inane people off the face of that world turns into a revenge fantasy for main character Frank (Murray) and sidekick Roxy (Barr). Struck with the realization that his migraines are being caused by a giant death giving tumor, Frank begins a siege on the country by killing off all manner of horrible people, a teenager at his side, who may not be the best companion but has the same hate that fuels him. The satire isn't anything new, as we've seen in films such as "Idiocracy," but it's finely crafted here and takes its time rather than going for the worst scenario possible. What really triggers people's opinion of this film are the great monologues given by Frank on how exactly these people are playing into stereotypes, their false idyllic thoughts of the world, and their own annoying habits. They pick off religious zealots, singing competition judges, loud neighbors, reality starlets, and hate mongering television pundits, and these people are not dealt with for hateful reasons. Frank simply wants to know why people are so mean, stupid, or acidic when they could act better to one another and towards the world. Though the point is brought about thanks to gunfire, the film has an obviously positive point towards peace and understanding in the world, and the employment of common sense. It may be over the top, but it's an important, and very funny, film.

Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire

(1987)
4 days ago via Flixster

Dealing with the interconnectedness of the human existence as well as the ethereal quality of dreams and the world of angels, Wim Wenders provides his magnum opus with "Wings of Desire." The film has been lauded for its grasp of different foreign languages, veering from the macabre, and showing the romanticism of the relationship between Damiel and Marion. While a later adaptation dealt primarily with this relationship, "Wings of Desire," at its core, is a film about the experience of being human and not taking it for granted. The world is not shown as being exciting, but instead candid and often beatific. The angels' world is superimposed over the humans', but theirs is a dull gray and white landscape. The humans' is in color and they interact with one another, but in the angels' they can hear the people's thoughts. Oftentimes these thoughts are philosophical and heavy-handed, exactly what a person would think if they were alone. These thoughts are oftentimes sprawling narratives about their lives, their strife and worries about the future. The angels whisper into their ears, picking up their moods by implanting thoughts. One of these angels is named Damiel, who floats around a huge library where other angels nest, and also around the massive city of Berlin. He and his friend Cassiel remark on the virtues of being alive, and all the small things that we never notice in our daily lives. While at a circus Damiel sees a trapeze performer named Marion and follows her around, listening to her dense inner thoughts. She gives these long soliloquies about the state of the world and how she fits into it, which are charming and introspective. Between the amazing visuals, the bleak and yet interesting soliloquies from the people that the angels are listening to, the amazing cinematography, the great performance from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and the bleak Cold War landscape of Berlin, this film is unparalleled in beauty or simplicity. Peter Falk is also a great addition in a strange cameo where he plays himself, with a fictitious background as a fallen angel. Knowing someone is listening to your thoughts may seem terrifying, but when it comes to these guardians and their empathy towards humans, even in their times of need, it's an angelic effort all around.

Bully

Bully

(2012)
11 days ago via Flixster

One of the more corrosive deterrents to America's education system has to be bullying, which has becoming an increasingly dangerous public mental health issue in the past twenty years. With the innumerable teen suicides, the school shootings, and outcries from parental groups as well as the cyber sphere, bullying is in the forefront of everyone's mind, and yet causes more harm than adults can even imagine. For those of us who have been part of the bullied masses at some point in our lives, we know the toll that it takes, and the scars it leaves, and that's the main focus of this documentary. It deals precisely with how bullying makes a child feel, how irreparable the damage is to that child, and the oftentimes horrific steps they take in alleviating their pain. Filmmaker Lee Hirsch follows several children who have or are experiencing bullying, to a point where it makes them deeply depressed. One child has already taken his life, and the film follows his family's struggles with taking on the school board, another girl is facing felony charges after taking a weapon on a school bus to stop her tormentors, and another still faces the daily terrors of riding a school bus filled with physically and emotionally abusive bullies. These children, still so innocent at their age, are being made to grow up rather quickly, and without warrant. This Hirsch shows in-depth, just by interviewing them and showing their daily toils. Every scene is powerful, every instance of self-defense is shown as prey rising against its predator, and every child is shown love. I'll admit I even cried, and it's hard not to cry while writing this review as well. That's simply how powerful the message is. The last section of the film does meander as it tries to wrap up all the stories, and there isn't any input from the bullies themselves, but this film does show the lack of intervention of adults and lack of safeguards against these very public problems. This film is important for everyone to see, because it's not just the "weird" kids at risk, it's the helpless.

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