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  Fitzcarraldo 1982

  ★★½ Watched 27 Jun 2022

  This was exactly what I was hoping for in terms of its setting and the strangeness of its premise, but the actual storytelling and filmmaking are quite unconvincing? It places a lot of weight on the spectacle of the raising of the ship and it's all duly impressive but would have landed harder with a better story building up to it. It also kind of annoys me that Herzog went to such lengths to get massive indigenous participation in the…

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  Mad God 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Jun 2022

  Didn't realize how much this was just "Koyaanisqatsi in Hell" and was delighted as it gradually dawned on me

Popular reviews

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  Brotherhood of the Wolf 2001

  ★★ Watched 05 Jan 2016

  Brotherhood of the Wolf seems like it could be a really cool movie until you start watching it. It's got a fun concept, a super interesting case study in environmental history, and some neat design work that seems to mine the same nature-occult vein that I apparently can't get enough of. We ended up watching this because it provided a lot of very clear inspirations for Bloodborne, and it took Miyazaki and co. to really bring out the potential in…

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  Inside Out 2015

  ★★½ Watched 21 Jun 2015

  Inside Out isn't a bad movie. It's competently told and has some modestly emotional scenes. It's not a dumb movie, for the most part. It's just really not smart, and it's kind of baffling that every single critic seems to have been given that impression somehow? Every single one of its ideas feels like the lowest possible hanging fruit. It has a grab bag of metaphors and idioms about cognitive function and simply puts them on screen and expects us…