A decade+ after its release, I think it’s pretty near the bottom of QT’s catalogue for me. Part of it is just the intensity of the subject matter… hard to consider that on one hand and enjoy the typical QT gunplay-and-banter on the other, at least for 2.5 hours. Inglorious Basterds obviously did the same thing, but it worked way better for me. Maybe the balance is a bit off here… think there is just so much bleak and naked…
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Captain America: The First Avenger 2011
A lot more fun than I remembered. There’s real joy in the simplicity of Captain America and his band of old time-y friends running around Europe, getting into adventures and taking down Nazis (sorry, Hydras) together.
Still, I think for as grounded as these action set pieces GENERALLY are (mostly just strong punches and a lot of gunplay), the action choreography here is so reliant on green screen that it’s still a lot of slop. Yes, I know this is…
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Along Came Polly 2004
Monumental film if you grew up in Cleveland in the mid-2000s and wanted to see a movie with your crush and so you join a group of like 13 fellow teens and against all odds you sit next to your crush and proceed to say absolutely nothing (because you respect cinema
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Unstoppable 2010
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