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Love the 70s placement. Tone is intriguing (even though the tone established in the opening credits is very much abandoned 5 minutes later.) Gaap's portrayal of a demon is fun and interesting. And the idea had promise.

Unfortunately there were way too many moments that made me stop and think "what the hell is happening here?". Overall, the rules of the universe are just too incomprehensible for me too fully enjoy the experience.

WTF!?! That's not a twist. That's a mash up. And not one that is well done.

Something beautiful happens when sci-fi stories use future tech to tell a human story without just exploring how the technology could be dangerous.

This movie avoids the common theme of: How mught future technology bring out the worst in humanity? How might it cause us to lie, fuck, kill, and exploit each other in new and elaborate ways.

The story is more gentle and mature. Technology is advanced but we are still human. Death is still terrifying, marriage is still hard, family is still a core value, and a story of personal sacrifice for those you love is still profound and moving.

Contrary to the trope that many of these types of stories adopt, we find a narrative that is less, what if technology goes wrong? And more, what if technology goes right?

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

Completely lacking subtlety. And, for me personally, a bit too dark.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

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Watched on Wednesday April 16, 2025.

The amount of times that David just had to marginally, in the smallest ways possible, acknowledge that something about the house was maybe, just a little odd, but instead chose monumental levels of ignorance, is infuriating. Acknowledge your wife's feelings just once asshole.

People seem to be applauding this as if it's some complex commentary on the patriarch. "Look how everything in the movie is essentially a man's fault." But that's not what this was. David's character is just a badly written character. He was stupid to the point of the story losing any chance at being emapthizable. Same thing goes for Horst. Those aren't characters worth watching.

By itself, the stupidity of the male characters is enough to make me regret the hours I spent watching this show but it's sins definitely don't stop there. Continuity errors, a general lack of subtlety, a half dozen sub plots that ultimately don't matter, and a final twist that falls flat all contribute to my low rating.

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

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I know it's a kids movie but Im over the "Capitalism, ignorance and fear are the enemy" trope. I like the original better.

Watched on Sunday March 2, 2025.

Some good tone setting. But the pay off just didn't totally land. I think partially due to the fact that I, as an audience member, felt intentionally misled on several occasions. Which muddied the story telling and lessened my investment.

Interesting questions and a fun philosophical hypothetical overall. However, the characters were all a little too 1-dimensional to really drive it home. Ever character clearly represented a single character trait to an extreme. Not a failing but it did take away from the ability to empathize with the moral dilemma.

Watched on Thursday February 13, 2025.

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Watched on Friday January 24, 2025.

This movie is beyond ridiculous. But I feel like it knows that. And it gets points for that.

Watched on Thursday January 16, 2025.

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Watched on Saturday December 28, 2024.

Overall, I enjoyed the two tone, spooky/goofy ambiance of this movie. It was entertaining. It was relatively predictable and the characters were forgettable but I liked the mood and was decently engaged through most of it.

On realism though, this movie scores low. For real, how many times can one person get knocked out in the course of one night? Also! Have you ever been in a forest at night? Once she left the house, there's absolutely no chance a single guy with a flashlight would have found her.

Watched on Friday December 20, 2024.

That acting though. Or is it the writing? Either way, I have never felt chemistry less.

Watched on Wednesday December 18, 2024.

Not for me. I get I was meant to feel uncomfortable but damn.

Anything cerebrally satisfying feels lost in the sheer absurdity of it all. Any reflection on life or beauty standards is drowned out by my over active gag reflex. Any "profound" statement about culture that might have been intended is as absent as subtely is from this film.

It's also confusing. "You Are One" is often repeated but, Are they? Is it a single stream of consciousness?

For people who are into this sort of thing. Power to you. But I'm not.

Relationships are not just one thing. People are multi-faceted. Stories have different meanings in different contexts. Life is a network of complicated stories that are constantly evolving.

We strive to put narratives and simple facts on top of the mess, hoping to make it make sense but something is always lost in the translation. We often don't even know our own motivations or feelings.

Anatomy of a fall captures this messiness well. The emotions, the ambiguity, the choice to believe with incomplete knowledge, the way our understanding of how reality is, is shaped by how we want it to be.

In short, Anatomy of a fall captures something real.

Watched on Sunday December 1, 2024.

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Watched on Friday October 18, 2024.

Appropriately moody, good pacing, relatively entertaining.

However, the climax felt kind of meh and there were parts that, despite being animated, were too dark and icky for me to enjoy.

I.... Um.... Need a minute.

Watched on Friday September 27, 2024.

Bit of a mixed bag this one. In some ways it had a lot going for it! Aaron Pierre delivers an amazing performance, the commitment to non-lethal force was a really enjoyable twist to the classic "Jack Reacher" style, one-man-army trope, and some of the conflict scenes were very well done.

However, I also have a lot problems with it. I found myself kind of bored a lot of the time. It also didn't feel like it communicate very well. General plot points, character motivations, geometry of the scenes, relative location and movement of characters all often felt muddled and it was unclear exactly what was happening.

All in all, for me, it was a solid "meh". Not a waste of time. Not something to recommend.

Honestly, pretty enjoyable movie. Sets a good tone, good pacing. The action isn't perfect but the hits feel heavy and real. Not a regrettable way to escape for a couple hours.

Watched on Friday September 20, 2024.