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Terminator Salvation 2009
My friend and I watch movie series as a structured hang. So far we've done:
- The Mummy
- Fast & the Furious
- Alien (plus a lot of Predator)And now we're watching Terminator. I think I forgot to log a lot of these. The third one was utterly forgettable. This one's a bit better.
Terry Crews is in it as a dead body; I guess all his other scenes got deleted, which is sad. Christian Bale is the same…
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The Leopard 1963
Saw this and read the book in undergrad as part of an "Italian History Through Popular Culture" class. I reread the book a couple years back, and when I nice old man sold me a bunch of Criterions for $5, I was happy to get this one.
A plot recap if anyone needs it: Italy is being unified as a constitutional monarchy in 1860, with lots of violent fighting and lots of previously unlanded people buying up land and getting…
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Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021
What an absolute nothing. What a collection of charlatans.
The CGI is bad. Sometimes the Spidermen pull off their masks, and it looks like they're pulling down a static-electricity nylon sheet that is the alien enemy of all known human materials.
All the sets look fake and flat. Sometimes there are multiple people in these fake sets, and they're talking to each other, but only one is ever on camera. That one says something, and then it cuts to another…
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Thor: Love and Thunder 2022
What a mess. Uneven, unfunny. Why does every Marvel character need to make jokes now? Natalie Portman, god bless her, is not good at making jokes. At least not the jokes in this script.
Christian Bale seemed like they teleported him in from a different movie, which I guess I say because he actually seemed emotionally engaged.
Russell Crowe was utterly unhinged and seemed to be drawing inspiration from early Ralph Bakshi cartoons. If the whole movie had been that…
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