Rewatched Jin-Roh for the first time maybe since high school, and realized, "Oh, it's not an action movie - it's a really deliberately-paced, anti-fascist political thriller told from the point of view of people working for the fascist police forces." Its animation, visual and audio design, and music are all just as beautiful as ever.
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Star Wars 1977
Watched Star Wars for the first time in forever. Foundational to my childhood. And even though I can see all of the strings now, there is something still magical about this movie. Luke looking out at the sunset. "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi - you're my only hope." The escape from the Death Star. Han coming back to save the day in the end. I'm happy to find that some of the wonder I felt as a boy still remains in this movie - even though the version on Disney+ is the "remastered" travesty 😭 .
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Aquaman 2018
Started out very promising, and all of the actors do a fine job with the material they are given to work with, but it is too long; has too much cliched, cheesy dialogue; too many drawn-out CGI action scenes; and by the end my eyes were rolling into the back of my head with all of the "one true king" nonsense. We left the idea of monarchy behind in 1789 - why are we still making movies, whether they be…
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Missing Link 2019
It has gorgeous stop-motion animation, solid performances from Grant, Galifianakis, and others, and some good messages, but the script isn't consistent with how or why the world responds to Mr. Link, and the finale plays so loose with physics, and sets up nothing clever to pay off in the action, that by the end I was just waiting for it to wrap up.
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