Oshi

Oshi

Anything but a connoisseur.

My opinions are likely to be very unpopular.

Favorite films

  • The Prestige
  • Inception
  • The Batman
  • Apocalypse Now

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  • John Wick: Chapter 4

    ★★★★

  • Barbie

    ★★½

  • The Lego Batman Movie

    ★★★★

  • Brazil

    ★★★★

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  • John Wick: Chapter 4

    John Wick: Chapter 4

    ★★★★

    After this and Rogue One I actually had to look up if Donnie Yen is blind

    Great film, better than the previous one. Hopefully they don’t screw it up with the next one.

  • Barbie

    Barbie

    ★★½

    Painfully robotic delivery (I thought this was Barbie, not Transformers?) of what could’ve been a decent Plato’s Cave allegory and anti-patriarchy piece. Ryan Gosling almost made the experience worth it, but this was still a dull film despite the fact it tries to drive home the moral of the story with a steel chair.

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  • The Martian

    The Martian

    ★★★★

    Yeah yeah yeah, The Martian is a great film, etc. etc. But actually, for those of us who read the book beforehand, I think this ultimately shaped up to be a disappointment - relative to the novel, that is. If you watched this as a standalone piece of media, it holds up as a great film. But does it do its source material justice? I don’t think so.

  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    ★½

    Puerile and mediocre. Yes, I’ve come back after five years just so I can add to the not-insignificant number of brutal - but honest - reviews left here. This was not only the worst Star Wars film in existence (yes, the Phantom Menace looks like a cinematic masterpiece once you’ve seen TRoS) but also a magnificent failure of filmmaking technique. Poor dialogue, incessant tropes - it’s impressive that a film can fall so flat with such a ridiculously large budget.

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