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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I absolutely loved this take on the Ninja Turtles. They nailed it, capturing all their teenage angst and longings. It feels like the screenwriters really thought about who these characters are and what their lives might be like. They honestly asked themselves and put the effort in imagining "What would it be like to grow up in the sewers as mutant turtles?" And not just the turtles, every character, from Splinter to April to even the villains, feels fully realized.…
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Empire of the Sun 1987
Incredible how this massive production rests on the shoulders of a little kid. I can’t imagine all the extras, the smoke, the explosions, everything, while young Christian Bale hears “Action!” and has to deliver without messing up.
At some point, it started to feel a bit long, I think for two reasons, the first is that every sequence is a little too self-indulgent.
And the second is that midway through, I had the sense that it was adapted from a…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
I was wondering if this is possibly the first real Gen Z movie. Its nihilistic philosophies and the amount of information happening just seems so contemporary. And I don’t mean only narrative information, I also mean visual information. I kept feeling that a faster-younger brain would enjoy it even more than I did. But the sheer amount of imagination, all turned up to eleven, and all of it coming together nicely in the end, was a spectacular achievement. And, most…
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