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In case you haven’t seen the intro from my entry dated
1/26/19 (it’s in my archives whenever you want to read it), I’m no longer going
to review every single movie I see. I’m
going to review one, with the occasional bonus, and just give ratings for the
rest from now on (unless I decide to pick it up again in the future). You can always ask me why I gave the ratings
for the films without reviews though (via comments or the e-mail addresses
under the ‘About Me’ section).
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Red Rocket OK/G
Sean Baker directed The
Florida Project, a realistically entertaining feature (which you can read
my review for here---https://vampireclown82.blogspot.com/2018/03/mooby-reviews-3818.html). His Tangerine
was also good (I didn’t write a review for it, but my archives tell me I gave
it a G rating). Apparently he made four
other movies before Tangerine, the
only one I saw being Starlet with no
recollection (Netflix said I rented it back in 2013 and my archives say I rated
it G as well), and I might like to check out the others. Judging by the three movies I have seen (that
I remember), he appears to make fictional pieces depicting very real people and
situations (the people not exactly of the highest class). This newest film is mostly no exception. In it, Simon Rex, I still remember him from
the 90s-era MTV days (he still looks somewhat good for his age; 47, to be
exact) and his appearance here is the sole indication this is fictional, much like Willem Dafoe’s in The Florida Project; anyway, he plays a porn star from L.A.
returning home to Texas City, proving you can be “on top” one minute and down
on the bottom another. He ends up living
with his ex-wife and her mother while looking for work, eventually meeting a
17-year old girl that works at a local donut shop. I enjoyed this movie a decent amount of the
time, but it ended up feeling too much like a romance involving a dude with a
midlife crisis. I may not have liked it
as much as the aforementioned two features (the ones I remember), but it’s
still not bad to check out and Sean Baker is definitely a filmmaker to follow. 3/17/2022
Other movies and TV show(s) I’ve seen and their ratings (see above):
Children of the Night (1991) >>>B
Maid >>>OK/G
(Netflix; 10
episodes)
Mystery Road >>>EH
Windfall (2022) >>>EH
(Netflix)
---Sean O.
3/21/2022
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