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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  This was mostly a fun watch. It could have been great but isnt. a lot of developments just feel contrived, the politics stuff is kinda dumb, sometimes really dumb, and could have been left out. Perfectly good movie hidden in there (a movie about what the trailer makes it seem like the movies about) with a ton of junk (a clumsy Trump metaphor) piled on top of it.

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  Twelve Monkeys 1995

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Much better than Brazil! Lots going on in the world here, the time travel mistakes are a great touch

  World feels real and has a depth to it. Really wonder about it.

  I really like the picture of time travel physics where the history can't change and where the time you go to can't be "the present", but you can bring information to the future.

  The movie has a whole bunch of wacky scenarios that happen to require violence against…

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  Rising Sun 1993

  ★★★ Watched 17 May 2022

  The movie is super sexual for a 1993 movie, very graphic (though the murder the plot revolves around is not very violent/graphic). Virtually no asian women in it, which might be for the best as the racism would not have intersected well with the sexualization. Re: the racism the movie is a very late example of anti-japanese racism rising to the level of a geopolitical analysis, helping us imagine an alternative universe in which Japan was the main rival of…

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