Why you pursue something is as important as what you pursue.

For those curious, yes, despite having watched the movie not long ago to properly prepare for this paper, I watched it again so this can count as a proper rewatch. Turns out, when you're dealing with an all-time favorite movie, you can seemingly watch it every day and not get tired of it. This in a way, at least at the moment, feels like a culmination of the two…

"We were worried that we'd start a chain reaction that would destroy the entire world."
"I it well. What of it?"

Saw this again last night, wanted to give myself another day to wrestle with my many thoughts, as well as have time to write this review, look over it again, and still make sure I believed whatever I would end up typing by the time I posted it. I have two significant announcements to share with Oppenheimer. I'm…

It's the only real thing.

I've been feeling as though I was really slacking with watching queer films this month, so to compensate, while working from home today at the time of writing this review, I rewatched four of my personal favorite queer films to up those numbers. You will notice the theme that unites them is "sad gays" lol. Anyway, starting with this film, as much as he has randomly said annoying things in recent years, and made a…

"It's a difficult moment, but you have to make a decision."
"It sucks."

Do androids dream of slow cinema? This has been a random movie that has lingered on my watchlist for a good while now based on having some mutuals that adore it despite its overall mixed to negative reception. I frankly even forgot it existed for a bit until trying to find another movie on the big LGBTQ+ film list on here, and discovering that someone was so…

(2025 edit: I am frankly embarrassed that my negative reviews for this and Natural Born Killers are far and away my most liked reviews on this site lol. It has been long enough since I have seen either film that I have no idea if my thoughts on them would still be the same as they were a handful of years ago. I'm not sure when it will happen, but I want to revisit both this and Stone's film eventually…

(2025 edit: I am frankly embarrassed that my negative reviews for this and Barry Lyndon are far and away my most liked reviews on this site lol. It has been long enough since I have seen either film that I have no idea if my thoughts on them would still be the same as they were a handful of years ago. I'm not sure when it will happen, but I want to revisit both this and Kubrick's film eventually to…