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  The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024

  Watched 18 Mar 2025 1

  Some inspired bits of animation but woof, swing and a miss here. The jokes just do not hit at all.

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  Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack 1988

  Watched 12 Mar 2025

  In retrospect it's so funny and wrong that any Universal Century stuff came out after this.

Popular reviews

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  Banned from Broadcast: The Movie - Saiko! The Large Family 2009

  Watched 03 Jun 2023

  An extremely smartly-made movie. Deftly recreates the style of documentary from publicly funded media organizations (PBS, BBC, etc) down to the almost patronizing tone.

  I really admire this for never breaking kayfabe. As much as I love movies like Ghostwatch and Lake Mungo, the confidence this has in never actually revealing its hand as to what is actually going on is really impressive.

  Ostensibly, this is a movie about an unusually large Japanese family, noted as such because of declining…

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  Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom 1975

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  Having watched this a second time has really let me push beyond the spectacle with a lot more clarity about my feelings. I don't think I have much new to say that anyone else hasn't already said about it. The thing that weighs on me lately is how many of the most evil people in human history go on to live contented lives and die quietly of old age.

  After World War II, the United States rehabilitated and hired 1,600…

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