Jon Ruffolo

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Favorite films

  • Mr. Nobody
  • 2046
  • Speed Racer
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

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  • Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

    ★★★½

  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon

    ★★½

  • Kill List

    ★★½

  • Godzilla

    ★★★

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Sicario

Sicario

2015
★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

I think now more than ever, even more than when this movie was first released TEN years ago, it is incredibly important for people — especially young people — to watch this movie. But I suppose there’s no teaching people who see the world in binary, in good and evil and black and white, is there? It’s like someone who is unable to see the gradients between primary colors. It’s not something that can be explained. You either see and…

Shōgun

Shōgun

2024
★★★★ Watched

For me the most interesting part of this series was getting a glimpse at the culture of old Japan (Ja-Pan). The respect they up hold for each other, even their enemies, and the land, the sky, the plants and animals, for rituals and traditions— it’s staggering to consider in the context of our world where so little respect is placed on anything. We’re too self aware, too self absorbed with the idea of individuality that we blind ourselves to the…

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Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

2025
★★★½ Watched

Insanely immersive. You forget you're watching a movie with actors and not a documentary. I thought the script left a little to be desired as you kinda see where it's going most of the time and are just waiting for it to happen, but damn that was fun and yeah, just insanely impressive how good this looks. The type of movie that looks effortless asf but was anything but.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

2011
★★½ Rewatched

Spencer: "Once again, the indomitable human spirit saves the day. And the US military."

Definitely the weakest of the original trilogy. By a lot. Just felt lazy and even more drawn out than the others which sucks cuz Chicago etc.

The Victoria Secret model chick is disgustingly hot but like the type of hot where it's like what are we doing here. This movie is really missing the chemistry between Shia and Megan Fox. It really sucks that she wasn't in this but I don't really blame her tbh.

Last pizza Sunday movie for the Fremont boys. RIP.

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American Graffiti

American Graffiti

1973
★★★★ Rewatched 2

A vivid and beautiful portrait of California's youth in 1963, specifically the youth of George Lucas and his friends. This is less of a movie and more of a documentation of a time and place that no longer exists. You can feel how fond Lucas is of his youth in the Valley before summoning up the courage to go away to college; to paraphrase the movie, "to leave a perfectly good life behind and start a new one."

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Color Out of Space

Color Out of Space

2019
Watched 2

So I have to watch this again when I’m not as stoned or tired. That was... um... hmm. I don’t know what that was. Might read the book before watching it again. I feel like I dreamed this whole movie.


Edit: I read the book. The book makes sense. The story makes sense. The characters make sense. But the movie is full send into psychedelic cosmic horror. I’m definitely going to watch it again. It expands on the book in really interesting ways.

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