"Put an end to this farce!"
"Which one, your lordship?"
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1999
Some complaints hold up. The tone is all over the place, trying to reconcile a bright kid-friendly adventure with the authoritarian doom creeping in on the edges. The CGI elements aren't always well integrated; Lucas' imagination was still far ahead of the technology. But that imagination is what made me love Phantom Menace as a kid and keeps me loving it now. The Gungan city spilling into view, a whole bioluminescent world just beneath the surface; the circles within circles…
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1999
Some complaints hold up. The tone is all over the place, trying to reconcile a bright kid-friendly adventure with the authoritarian doom creeping in on the edges. The CGI elements aren't always well integrated; Lucas' imagination was still far ahead of the technology. But that imagination is what made me love Phantom Menace as a kid and keeps me loving it now. The Gungan city spilling into view, a whole bioluminescent world just beneath the surface; the circles within circles…
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1999
No one can agree on what EYES WIDE SHUT is actually about. This...thing cracks open so many potential reservoirs of meaning only to neatly deny them all, one by one, that it’s easy to come away thinking that’s the whole point. That message delivered primly to our hero through the gates of power is meant for us as well as him: “Give up your inquiries, which are completely useless.” There’s nothing to see here. Nothing happens in EYES WIDE SHUT,…
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2013
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
“We want to be free! We want to be free, to do what we want to do! And we want to get loaded, and we want to have a good time. That’s what we’re going to do!”
It’s a line from THE WILD ANGELS, delivered at a funeral by a friend. But in the context of THE WORLD’S END, it is first and foremost from “Loaded,” the Primal Scream song which samples the film dialogue. “Loaded” is itself a remix…
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1999
No one can agree on what EYES WIDE SHUT is actually about. This...thing cracks open so many potential reservoirs of meaning only to neatly deny them all, one by one, that it’s easy to come away thinking that’s the whole point. That message delivered primly to our hero through the gates of power is meant for us as well as him: “Give up your inquiries, which are completely useless.” There’s nothing to see here. Nothing happens in EYES WIDE SHUT,…
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2013
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
“We want to be free! We want to be free, to do what we want to do! And we want to get loaded, and we want to have a good time. That’s what we’re going to do!”
It’s a line from THE WILD ANGELS, delivered at a funeral by a friend. But in the context of THE WORLD’S END, it is first and foremost from “Loaded,” the Primal Scream song which samples the film dialogue. “Loaded” is itself a remix…
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