bensontmac

bensontmac

Just your friendly neighborhood yapper

Favorite films

  • Inception
  • Good Will Hunting
  • The King's Speech
  • Darkest Hour

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Ever After

    ★★★★

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★★½

  • Yesterday

    ★★★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    "Parasite" made Bong Joon Ho an "auteur" instead of a director, so now every movie he makes has to be inspected under the most critical lens possible. What is he saying here? What does this symbolize? What is the deeper meaning? The possibility that maybe this was just a fun, ambitious project made by an excellent filmmaker has slipped a lot of people's minds.

    As an "artistic piece," Mickey 17 is okay but kind of muddled, unfocused. The movie shifts…

  • Ever After

    Ever After

    ★★★★

    Another example of classical Western Judeo-Christian values (Cinderella) getting spoiled by the woke radical left (Thomas More)

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  • Free Birds

    Free Birds

    ★★★★★

    Free Birds and the Perils of Disunity in a Dark World

    Free Birds — released in 2013 — could not have been more timely or more prescient. That year, Xi Jinping entered office as the president of China; only a year later, he would begin his campaign of terror and repression in Xinjiang Province, even as his ally Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Crimea. The rules-based international order was beginning to crumble by 2013; the United States’ status as…

  • Hundreds of Beavers

    Hundreds of Beavers

    Top five favorite scenes from this film
    1) Hundreds of beavers chasing man
    2) Man says “you must bring me…” and then it cut to the title: HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS
    3) Beaver fight scene
    4) Beaver legal drama
    5) Using a spittoon as a shield (rare non-beaver scene)