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kind of a let down after dead reckoning. I still love watching cruise do crazy stuff but the movie really lacks a cohesive villain. Gabriel just sorta shows up from time to time to cause mischief and the entity isn’t really personified enough to rally against. grace is just a really flat character, especially when you’ve killed off ilsa in the last movie very unceremoniously.
I do absolutely love everyone on the submarine, tramell tillman & katy O’Brian are fantastic
Rewatched after reading the book, still fantastic and beautiful but the film flattens out the fantastic personalities of most ing characters.
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Coogler coming in 200 years late on the “are Irish people white?” question. Turns out it depends
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Evil Raylan Givens and the most electric action scenes I’ve seen in years
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David Ayer has a unique ability to take relatively talented character actors and have them deliver their worst ever performance. Deeply evil movie and not in a good way
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Soderberg is such a breath of fresh air. Wonderfully shot, actually has lighting and shadow, tight script, snappy editing.
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I loved this, how can you not enjoy pattinson doing an insane voice, dirtbag steven yeun, and a big fuck you to all the colonise mars dipshits.
Also did I miss an explanation or is Tim Key just dressed as a pigeon the whole time for no reason? (Not a criticism)
Val Kilmer is absolutely hilarious
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Largely a movie about how Statham is a great swimmer and diver, and looks great in a wetsuit. And I agree.
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God these movies are depressing, how do you make giant red Harrison Ford destroying the White House boring?
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Absolutely beautiful and every actor is faultless, particularly strong ing performances from Bankolé, Hyde, and Nivola.
Seen so much discourse about whether this film is Zionist or not, I think it would be a weaker film if it chose to ignore the attitudes at the time and make its anti Zionism more explicit. I find it unlikely that Pearce would attach himself to a piece of propaganda he disagrees with and Corbet himself appears very sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.
In my eyes its criticism is more aimed at the role that the hostility towards postwar immigrants played in the creation of Israeli colonialism. The characters of Atilla and Hoffman are the clearest examples, they avoid the hostility (although not wholly) by assimilating or converting. Toth’s integrity and stubbornness exposes him to the worst from all sides, cast out whenever his utility ceases. Zsófia is obviously the embodiment of the Zionist sentiment but I don’t believe that we are meant to take her word as truth more than any other of the characters. Her final monologue feels so obviously like a cynical whitewashing of history that it cuts against everything she believes. The irony of “it’s not the journey, it’s the destination” despite the enormous suffering of Toth during the Holocaust and his time in America, what destination has he reached to make this worth it? The love of his life is dead, he’s mute, and miserable.
Pretty decent cosmic horror, very mismatched performances from the cast, Chris O’Dowd plays it like a comedy whilst Debicki is ice cold throughout.
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Really solid paranoid thriller, holds up on second viewing
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Inscrutable sinister colonial horror?
I think I got more enjoyment from trying to figure out what this was about than I did watching it. My initial read was as a consequence of the British’s unwillingness to adapt to Australia, the girls being taken not just as penance but also as their absence causes complete destruction of the community they leave behind. But the alien abduction seems compelling when you consider Miranda’s foreknowledge and seeming detachment from the other girls when she looks back on them. I do love how it creates an unknowable and terrifying horror through its absence. Reading Peter Watts makes me leap to some kind of cognitohazard, perhaps the landscape itself implanting the seed of destruction into everyone’s minds, not just the four who disappear.
I struggled with the execution itself, the styling as a documentary or reenactment felt too channel 4 in the 00s, and the soundtrack was so Crystal Maze I kept expecting Richard O’Brien to come round the corner and offer to return the girls for three crystals.
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Ja she was in great pain and then we cut off her head and drove a stake through her heart
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Movie that seems desperate to say something but I have no fucking idea what
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That’s enough of these now, I would like seven Daniel Cleaver spin offs though
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Topher desperately needs a new agent
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Soderbergh at his best, tight, funny, sexy, stacked cast. Really hope he knocks out a couple more like this in years to come
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Little Enos is Paul Williams?!?!??!!!!!
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Fuck NATO
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Heat if it Hanna and McAuley were both addicted to steroids and waging psychological warfare on each other, then it turns into the usual suspects.
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Clint was going through some shit in 2000 huh. The most written for old men movie I’ve ever seen. Computers suck, all young women want to date 70 year olds, the Cold War never ended.
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Worthy of its place as a successor to 12 angry men
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dressing like zoomer gordon gekko and being so bored in your internship that you decide to totally focus entirely on fucking your boss rocks, unfortunately not a particularly good movie
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Trent Reznor snubbed
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Do not understand how people can watch this and not be swept along by Craig as Lee’s devastating desperation to be loved. The sound is absolutely incredible, not even Ross & Reznors scoring, just the texture of the space and actions. My only gripe is the miniatures in the travel scenes, the cars on the freeway in particular, just jarring and tonally a poor fit with the beautiful look of the rest of the film.
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Man if I had to talk to British journalists in the 60s I’d be a lot ruder than Dylan
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rest in peace garth hudson
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Loved it, unsurprisingly, although you could have just shown me an hour of jangling keys and 5 Dylan songs and I’d probably say the same thing. Chalamet is genuinely surprising in the role. Would have liked a lot more detail and exploration of both his relationships with Baez & Rotolo, felt quite neglected. Also feels a little harsh on Seeger
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Absolutely awful cinema experience, would have been much more engaged watching it on a laptop at home. However still absolutely brilliant. Hoult & Rose Depp sell it, the movie pivots on the authenticity of their relationship. Ineson and Dafoe are always great character actors, but unfortunately I just really dislike Taylor Johnson despite him being a great casting for the role. I think a lot of people criticise Eggers for his technical commitment but in my eyes the style and detail of his films play as big a role as the narrative.
“For me the atmosphere, lighting, costume, and styling is the juice”
Watched on Sunday December 29, 2024.
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Imagine having a hangover so bad you forget that you threw a German pseudo terrorist bank robber off a building like 18 months ago
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Spectacular, Fiennes is fantastic, plays the brute so well. Love how it’s paced and delivered, it’s not an action movie, it’s a Homeric epic. Enjoyed him calling himself nobody, gonna be fantastic on a Friday afternoon classics lesson after reading a pdf on the Greek concept of Xenia.
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On a rewatch this plays a lot wackier rather than chilling, probably not helped by the absolutely awful dialogue written for cooper and the beastie boys remix over the credits.
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Watched on Thursday December 26, 2024.
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Obviously great, but I don’t enjoy how Wallace has become a tech bro who dismisses Gromit so harshly (although it’s a logical progression of his character). Nice to see an explicitly anti automation and AI statement though. Just feels a bit too modernised for me
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Glenn Freemantle is a maniac with a sound mixer, absolutely obsessed with the sound of this as well as Sunshine, and seemingly he’s also done sound for a lot of other all timers
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Can we have this Alex Garland back
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Fantastic, so refreshing to see a new release shot this well, excellent performance from Jude Law, look forward to seeing what roles he takes on as he gets older
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Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.
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As much as I loved Oppenheimer, and I’m fascinated to see what he’ll do with the Odyssey, Nolan is at his best when he’s making grand complicated sci fi about how love is all we have
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Arguably pretty good all round, but denzel is operating so far above anyone else that it makes it painfully clear that Mescal just doesn’t have the charisma to play a successor to 2000s Crowe
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Clever giving them German names to explain why the fuck they talk like that
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I watched this cause I saw a YouTube short where Harrison Ford looked hot, and then she didn’t even get back with him? In what world do you pick stalker effective altruist over dilf Harrison Ford?
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maybe their best
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They’re calling it the most made by a polyamorous married couple movie of the year
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What do you call a próvai that’s become a yoga teacher?
Bobby Sandals
actually going to have to read Heat 2 now
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Quintessential verhoeven, over the top criticism of powerful men and freedom from consequences produced in a way that 50% of people take it as an endorsement
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