Ben

Ben

Favorite films

  • Baby Driver
  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople
  • The Avengers
  • Paddington 2

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  • Se7en

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Asteroid City

    ★★★★½

  • Battle Royale

    ★★★½

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  • Se7en

    Se7en

    ★★★★½

    If the FBI trawled library records today and found someone borrowing Mein Kampf they'd probably give them a job

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    Good fun, excellent acting and a very unsubtle but impactful metaphor that I think hits home. The movie runs through a lot of social issues and combines them all well but maybe could've focused on some in more detail.

    The premise of printing a new version of yourself is applied here to 'expendables', the lowest of the low class, and it's a really great premise, but I would've been interested to see a version where the ruling class used it…

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  • Father Christmas Is Back

    Father Christmas Is Back

    What the fuck was this and why did I watch it almost all the way through?

  • Challengers

    Challengers

    ★★½

    There is a good movie in here somewhere...but:

    - no one in real life speaks like this
    - you need to have some likability in the characters for us to care about them
    - if you spend too long building tension the audience will eventually check out and not give a shit about the climactic story point you're building up to 
    - the video game POV shots are ALWAYS bad 

    I will say it was a lot better than Bones And All though!