Bill Griepenstroh

Bill Griepenstroh

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  • Beasts of No Nation

    ★★★★½

  • The Hangover

    ★★★

  • Gladiator II

    ★★½

  • Twisters

    ½

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  • Gladiator II

    Gladiator II

    ★★½

    Had some great performances, a great cast, and a lot of great moments, but overall felt like a missed opportunity from a story standpoint. The right ingredients were there but it got bloated by unnecessary layers and relied way too much on convenient plot tropes and coincidence. It was about 45 minutes too long and yet the ending felt rushed and predictable.

    As a big fan of the first gladiator movie, I wouldn’t say I’m upset with this movie and I don’t regret seeing it. I’m just not sure I’d watch it again because of the length and the unnecessary storylines.

  • Twisters

    Twisters

    ½

    Painfully predictable from start to finish and dialogue felt like it was generated by chat GPT. Decent CGI but sometimes asked way too much of my suspension of disbelief. This movie is definitely for people who haven’t experienced or don’t know much about tornadoes in real life. A tornado is not going to knock over a city’s water-tower with debris while it’s still a mile still outside of town, and then conveniently sit in the same spot until the lead character shows up 5 minutes later and uses “science” to destroy it.

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  • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

    ½

    This is a terribly written pile of trash with so much wasted potential. Time for marvel to go back to the drawing board because the river of cash is gonna run dry pretty quick if this is the new standard. Marvel movies have lost their soul!

  • Barbie

    Barbie

    ★★★★★

    The perfect mix of comedy and truth- this film is a brilliant picture of what it means to be human. I expected and was rooting for the critiques of patriarchy, but I felt the real critique was in the shortcomings of worlds built around stereotypes. Whether in barbieland or “the real world”, all of us are more than who and what our worlds tell us. Highly recommend!

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