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  Ad Astra 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 15 May 2023

  The Good:
  A genuinely beautiful film. Not only the cinematography kind of beautiful but the sets, the uniforms, the rooms, even down to little access panels and switches it was very nicely done and I felt immersed in it’s slightly strange and unexplained “near future”. Brad Pitt is great in this more serious role and the character itself is a very interesting guy that I want to know more and more about. Quite a varied film too despite it being…

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  The Thin Red Line 1998

  ★½ Watched 02 May 2023

  The Good:
  Some absolutely gorgeous shots! Beautiful cuts to animals, the landscape, running water, ships approaching the shore etc - the colours and imagery in the film were really impressive. Good acting performances on the most part. Nice seeing a movie focus on Guadalcanal. 

  The Bad:
  Oh boy. What on earth was the point? Being a war film gives you almost a free pass in terms of plot - it should be easy! But no, this film manages to be…

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  The Whole Nine Yards 2000

  ★ Watched 02 Apr 2023

  The Good:
  Decent performance from Bruce Willis and Michael Clarke Duncan. Had the makings of a good film.

  The Bad:
  Everything else. Awful awful acting, dreadful writing, the worst and least entertaining accents in the game. The story’s only redeeming factor was that it was ever so slightly confusing. The world felt completely void of any real life - it was like a parody without any real humour. Like actual fart jokes? What? It was like Jackie Brown/Burn After Reading…

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