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in it to win it hell or high water 8.5/10 amazing character interactions that justify a watch on their own but the score and cinematography is by the numbers
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Jan 30, 2024 21:27
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da peace thread
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so hell or high water that shits pretty good had a couple drinks while watching it so lets see how good this review is lmfao uhhh so first and foremost i gotta say i didnt expect hank schrader and steven gomez to appear in this film lol but they totally do its the same dynamic but its pretty classic and good but yeah this is a very character driven film, the action is pretty sparse but when somebody gets shot in the head they REALLY get shot in the head lol it gets pretty graphic considering how little blood there is throughout most of the movie but goddamn the brothers in this film are gold love them love their backstories love their motivations love how they give each other poo poo how they even have a little brotherly tussle its just so good reminds me of the old days when i used to live with my sibling and the old lady at the loving restaurant being super aggro on them and telling them what theyre going to eat essentially no idea what its like in texas but i think i have a decent idea now a hellhole to me but probably paradise to the people that live there i cant imagine the balls it would take to rob a bank in a place where everyone is packing idk what else to say, the main critiques i have is the soundtrack is pretty unmemorable and there isnt any cinematography that blew my hat off but its all Acceptable so its not like bad or anything think im going to give hell or high water an 8.5/10
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Feb 12, 2024 01:16
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kind of busy but ill write some things about conan but not all the things i thought it was pretty funny plenty of levity in the film for how much death and destruction follows the barbarian and i especially liked the ending where james earl jones spells out for conan that his whole life is based on revenge and if he takes it he will be rudderless without him and conan looks like he thinks about it for a second and then straight up beheads him and throws his heads down the step lol i think he was preaching to the wrong choir here also the cult of doom being a bunch of gay fairy pinko commie scum made me laugh a lot too the movie trashes hippies with glee but yeah as for things i didnt like id actually say a majority of the acting, the usurper king was good and so was james earl jones despite being an ill fitting villain lead i also didnt like how the hammer underling illustrates his strength with his weapon by knocking down a pillar then hits conan upside the head and conan shrugs it off it shouldnt have built that up if the payoff was going to be so limpwristed that said the deaths were otherwise pretty cool and well deserved giving this a strong 7.5/10 not amazing or even all that great but it was very good
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Feb 17, 2024 03:25
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wheels on meals was really cool there was a lot of great comedy and karate and i liked it overall a lot things i liked: getting jumpscared at the bulldozer scene that actually freaked me out how sudden that punch was the baseball bat crack to the head that shocked me a bit with how violent it was again, every scene with karate in it kicked so much rear end people were bouncing off walls into full body tackles and throwing some weighty punches and going all in a handful of moments made me genuinely laugh but most of it was sensible chuckling which is fine i think thats just a cultural difference in humor the two henchmen under the main villain had the best scenes in the whole movie its nice to see the ol Second In Commands get their chance to shine in the spotlight the score was cool but i have a nitpick ill get into next things i didnt like: some of the cooler songs were used more as stings than full songs and couldve been allowed to play longer and develop there was some cool synth tracks that played for two bars and then got cut off suddenly when i was grooving the main villain out of the three climatic battles had the least interesting fight and it was also cut too short also i noticed at one point david i believe picked up a knife from the table with what seemed like the intention of using it but the next scene the knife was gone, editing mistake i think call me out on that if im wrong though sometimes the non-karate scenes that werent funny made the movie drag on a little but they were worth waiting through total score: 8/10 really good kung fu with some pacing issues and for a comedy action flick the comedy was just okay through most of it i liked the characters and acting in this one though theyre all hams good stuff
starbarry clock fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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Feb 21, 2024 02:14
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Fungah! posted:interest check btw in a special movie club simulwatch of freddy got fingered when it goes on the criterion channel next month. interested? its one of my favorite movies hell yes
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Feb 21, 2024 18:44
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okay so i will start ths posdt with with that im really really drunkl holy poo poo is m a great movie man i cant write about it without spoilers so here we go fist and formos of all i have to sat that the STREET JUSTICE of this focking movie is so loving good gently caress thiss stupid loving pedophioe killer sack of poo poo gently caress HIM TO DEATH\ this movie tries to mkaer him out as asymphaththic killer but gently caress HIM gently caress PETER LORREE gently caress YOU YOU KILLED KIDS DIE MOTHERFUCKER!!!! DIOE DIE DIE DI!!!!!! so yeah in short uhhh goood movie but fuick peter loreew lol hes a dick and he killed kids and morew too 9/10 drunk rating gently caress you gently caress you fgukc you
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Mar 2, 2024 01:04
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Nostradingus posted:lmao. drunk reviews should be mandatory here STILL DRUNK but ill say this so many of the shots are so good like uhhh the uh well one i can name off the top of my head is when one of the speakeasy people are looking for escape in the resulting police raid the guy looking up through his secret hideyhole and seeing the boots of a policeman in the grating up above him so good and then at the beginning when the lady is looking for her missing daughter first off the anxitety is PALPABLE but also the shots of the staircase looking down offer such a d espondant and futile outlook that you know her daughter has been tied up with the killer its so hosed up this movie is so hosed up\ but thats what makes it good
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Mar 2, 2024 02:07
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Fucker posted:M its more about street justice vs due process during the faux court hearing its about how people feel vs the ridgity of law and how the law doesnt always serve the people more than trying to paint a child murderer in a positive light that was my takeaway as somebody who was interested in the movie the whole way through as inebriated as i was 
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Mar 5, 2024 06:06
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Fungah! posted:i think he absolutely was tryin to make you feel sympathy for beckert, but its so that you cn realize you're doing it and feel horrified. this isnt a good guy but hes very very sick and his lawyers not wrong that he shouldnt get torn apart by this filthy angry mob, but then you remember he butchered eight kids. fuckin cool trick tbh i didnt feel any sympathy for him seems like a skill issue but uh you underlined my point with the last half of your post that the fact that he is insane and unable to control himself holds no water when the community and families of the victims are your judge jury and executioner the whole scene is pretty much saying that the real court system is flawed and WOULD allow a defense to paint the defendant in a sympathetic light(or at least attempt it lol looks like it worked on you suckers!) and try for an insanity plea but that wouldnt make the mothers of the slain children feel any better nor would it heal the damage caused to community especially when he could later be released after serving his term or possibly even less if defined as "cured" by his doctors to potentially do it all again i guess i see it more as a failed attempt to garner sympathy and not a sincere one and i dont think the scene is trying too hard to make the serial killer look good the defense is trying its rear end off to get him off the hook or at least survive to go into a real court
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Mar 6, 2024 19:07
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i guess my tl;dr is while attempts at sympathy are utilized i dont think its the directors intention to make the audience feel sympathy as the POINT of the whole scene
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Mar 6, 2024 19:10
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nobody shouldve gotten filtered by forbidden zone its just an objectively amazing movie
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Mar 13, 2024 01:55
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i was kind of nervous to rewatch big trouble in little china because i was worried some of the magic of my first watch would be lost but nope it still rocks still has some hilarious scenes, the ending is like a cartoon with the over the top action and slapstick humor jack shooting the ceiling and knocking himself out first thing of the big final confrontation kills me to this day its just a really imaginative movie with a lot of creative effects and shots and characters and even the story manages to throw some curve balls by dodging tropes such as "nope" to the goodbye kiss or the main villain dying before his underlings soundtrack is baller too you really cant go wrong even though this is actually one of my least favorite carpenter movies he sets the bar so high this still gets a 9/10 from me john carpenters vampires is my most least favorite so far so please dont pick it movie club
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Mar 16, 2024 00:56
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bad boy bubby at first i wasnt sold on this because the first 30 or so minutes seemed more gratuitous than clever or all that interesting but it does set up the rest of the movie very well its interesting watching somebody who is 95% conditioned from an isolationist life with his incestuous mother go out and fill that last 5% up with learned behavior from society at large and its nice to see somebody who had most of their life taken away from them by their mother go out and take it back and make something for themselves there were points were i was horrified at the beginning at what was happening, but eventually the movie actually softens and offers a more compassionate view and i think that really hit me when bubby first gets up and sings thats the exact point in the movie theres a tonal shift that redeems a lot of the horrid garbage i had to sit through almost completely i was strongly emotionally touched by this movie and i think i ended up loving it to an extent its pretty loving good 9.5/10
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Mar 17, 2024 01:17
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riki-oh was pretty good, but i wasnt overly wowed by it either the sheer comical nature of the violence was usually amazing, you gotta love practical effects and using like dolls stuffed with m80s and red dye that they switch out right before a big kill lik wong's girlfriend jumping off the building actually made me laugh, but there were some amused chuckles at other low budget death scenes too that said the fight scenes were barely that, maybe im a bit spoiled coming off of wheels on meals but beyond the gory special effects they werent really that interesting and the story was barely there, like yeah he had that underlying motivation throughout the whole movie but for the most part it just seemed a little formulaic at times you killed this person who was nice to me, now die! it was high octane brainless fun though so im not going to be too overly cruel while scoring it or anything, i try to be open minded with the movie club and see where the film was coming from and rate it based on how successful it was in that so id give it an 8/10 overall i think, the sets were boring(yes i know a prison isnt going to be the most interesting scenery, the shots still felt flat to me though), the story was flimsy, but the action was at 110% almost the entire way through so i have to give it props for that oh and i forgot to mention it but the character designs were very cool and betray this movies manga origins but this is no detriment it was a lot easier to follow the plot when i could tell people apart with their unique looks
starbarry clock fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Mar 21, 2024 |
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Mar 21, 2024 00:41
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never seen it but ive seen the one at the house and the one at the mall
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Mar 22, 2024 22:13
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I LOVE BUB AND DAY OF THE DEAD 10/10
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Mar 30, 2024 22:47
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who doesnt
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Mar 31, 2024 19:03
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trying to jack off posted:this thing is a sham! this is such loving bullshit
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Apr 1, 2024 15:45
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Bicyclops posted:it's written by Armando Iannucci so it might be good anyways. i don't get hulu though. enjoy. ive seen it its good alan patridge is a very funny character on par with jiminy glick you could rent it on amazon if you wanted id suggest it
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Apr 3, 2024 20:33
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oh you can also do a 7 day free trial of magnolia selects and watch it for free
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Apr 3, 2024 20:50
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alan partridge alpha papa really funny movie, not outrageously funny the whole way through like some comedies can be but it microdoses you with little laughs peppered throughout that culminate in big laughs its really well paced with the comedic bits though so you never feel like the movie is dull even if the funniest moments are sparse as far as comedies go its not my favorite but im glad i rewatched because i think there were some jokes that whizzed by me my first viewing that i only caught this time and it made it even more enjoyable otherwise yeah simple premise nothing we havent seen before with like airheads but the performances are spot on going to give this a 7.5/10 as a comedy because again not gut busting the whole way through but a fully enjoyable ride with some fun characters and thoroughly solid jokes with a few standout moments where i did laugh my hardest
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Apr 3, 2024 22:39
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huh
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Apr 5, 2024 20:43
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Fungah! posted:
sick pick i just listened to all the daft punk albums at work the other day and was sort of feeling like watching this on my own soon anyway
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Apr 12, 2024 00:30
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parenthood is interesting, usually movies are for escapism but its probably the realest movie ever made at least in terms of well parenthood lol i liked the grandmothers little speech at the end, its a pretty inspiring movie, lots of little messages about compromise and overcoming insecurities and all sorts of good stuff maybe i should ride the rollercoaster more meself sometimes and get off the ol merry-go-round id say the only things that hold the movie back are some of the plot lines are a little whatever, i didnt super care for the single mother one it seemed a little too on the nose and boring, that said she was pretty funny and had some good lines the rick moranis one was kind of played out too, same with the moocher son movie couldve used more focus i think and trimmed the fat and been better for it but i guess its still fun to see all the different perspectives on parenting even if it muddles the overall film with some stereotypes that dont actually reflect real life too well 7.5/10
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Apr 16, 2024 00:42
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herculon posted:I'm not watching another movie on archive.org https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.bab3b0ab-f2bb-a8ed-4ea0-673601be6e93?autoplay=0&ref_=atv_cf_strg_wb
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Apr 19, 2024 21:18
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herculon posted:I ain't paying for this  anyway interstella 5555 review coming very soon
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Apr 19, 2024 21:38
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interstella 5555 ive listened to daft punk intermittently throughout my years but never watched this movie before and its really cool theres a lot of psychedelic imagery and fantastical visuals both on the alien planet and earth, its all lit up and colorful and almost assaults the eyes with its vividness if it wasnt so interesting to look at character designs are cool but i feel bad for the black one that gets tased and then people see that and put on blue face on the streets seems a little insensitive lol the animation is usually just OKAY and sometimes it feels too sped up for its own good, i get they are trying to match the kinetic energy of the music but at certain points its almost comical, like at the beginning when the blonde guitarist is running away from the masked dudes, almost gives me a benny hill vibe at times id say i overall liked the film a lot but im going to have to dock a further point because the music is so good but i couldnt find an ost for it 8/10
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Apr 19, 2024 22:16
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Sub-Actuality posted:lol newly divorced dad FB post
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Apr 22, 2024 14:16
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Apr 23, 2024 23:16
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Roth posted:This review on Letterboxd for the movie predicted Starbarry picking this lol lol
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Apr 24, 2024 02:55
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Sub-Actuality posted:Dirty Duck i cant say im sorry because it made this post lol
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Apr 24, 2024 05:11
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Sub-Actuality posted:
i like how the arrow points at johns head when he pops out first then when yokos out the john arrow points at the toilet because a toilet is a john!
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Apr 24, 2024 22:23
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watch it with your wife
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Apr 25, 2024 23:06
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Bicyclops posted:Down and Dirty Duck this post is more psychotic than the movie do not read this review
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Apr 26, 2024 19:08
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yeah thats fine but why did you talk about a high school suicide? it feels like sub-actualitys car door trauma posting where you try to equate a movie to a horrible life event but needlessly darker and way less funny lol
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Apr 26, 2024 19:35
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seems a little nutso to me but when i post my review on the 4th i expect my interpretation of the film to be seen as pretty out there too
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Apr 26, 2024 19:36
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just to make sure you do know that crumb didnt make this movie right also no offense by the gently caress yous they made me laugh
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Apr 26, 2024 20:01
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herculon posted:Also, sorry to hear about your friend from high school
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Apr 26, 2024 20:11
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ive been convinced to post my review a little earlier than i was planning so buckle in we are going for a wild ride so i want to start off with that i think the smutty cheap sex joke ladled part of the movie is indeed the weakest part but i also feel its a smokescreen for a brilliant narrative its all tongue in cheek, its clear that the movie sets out to be hyper offensive from the start when a guy motorboats a flowers tits and plops a turd in the toilet then keyfucks his car theres also the song that calls the film cheap and a great big hunk of poo poo at the outset and its there for the entire length of the movie, this never goes away, but even though this seems over the top and unnecessary, i think it does add to the film ultimately and ill be explaining why shortly i feel this is a journey of self-actualization for willard he was both horny and impotent, sex crazed but resentful of who he is, strung-out from his negative self-image and feelings of worthlessness in every aspect of his life he lives in a dingy flat, cant get his car to start, missed the bus because somebody more self-assured was asserting himself on a lady in the doorway, screwed up his chance with the girl of his dreams which he refuses to admit is anything more than his regressive libidos overt desires pretty much, the guy loving sucks. and his approach to life blows. and he hates himself. Enter(eventually literally) The Duck this is where i get a little heady, because the duck is the only anthropomorphic character in the whole film. he stands out. He Means Something. and what i think the duck is... is an avatar of willards ideal way of being the duck hangs loose, doesnt let things become a drag, goes with the flow, does everything to prop up willard from the depths of his misery, the duck is everything that willard wishes he could do but cant because of his own mental barriers that limit his success in life and i think when you realize that, certain events make more sense im going to skip to the ending for a moment to clear this up before i reverse course and talk more about what The Locations mean so after not getting laid the whole film and crashing and burning, willard returns home, defeated, and regresses back into his masturbatory habits, essentially giving up but the duck doesnt give up, and after devouring the seemingly last method of satisfaction willard can achieve in his miserable life, becomes female in the process this is reference by a "you are what you eat" throwaway joke about eating the pussycat, but i think eating the sex doll contraption is what really locked in the duck as a girl and if you take the duck as an extension of willards potential, willard then having sex with her, Becoming One with her, is actually willard finally loving getting it after getting his dick kicked in the entire movie being ruled by your primal desires only sets up an unrealistic expectation of yourself, but all he really needed was to love himself to give him the confidence that he so desperately needed in his life its a simple story of self-acceptance, but done exceedingly well through a veil of irony laden sexual, racist, homophobic verbiage and surrealistic imagery and psychedelic visuals you just need to brush all that aside to see what the film is really trying to say, at least in my opinion also about the locations, ill just briefly go over this since ive already written so much the prison is how willard sees his life, the whorehouse is willard confronting the crux of his sexual inadequacies and where all the lust takes him, which is then the desert, a barren land of no direction, he feels listless there and questions what hes doing and why hes doing them and wonders if hes going crazy at this point because without love, passion is pointless. you have to love yourself before you can love others glad he figures that out anyway thats what i think about the film, its not overly complicated or deep but it spoke to me when i watched it and i thought it was very touching, its nice to see a loser like willard figure out whats really important also, i love the art, background images, music, some of the humor(but not all, i dont see it as a pure comedy though so that doesnt really matter as much to me), even the story as convoluted and cluttered with vulgarity and nonsense as it is thats life baby 10/10
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Fucker posted:u made two different people remember painful moments of their lives by asking them to watch this horrible movie and now ur trying to make one of them feel bad for it yeah its pretty funny that a movie about loving a duck can do that
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Apr 26, 2024 23:30
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