Astro

Astro

Favorite films

  • Burning
  • Angel's Egg
  • Tampopo
  • Synecdoche, New York

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  • The Mummy

  • A Silent Voice: The Movie

    ★½

  • One Cut of the Dead

    ★★★★★

  • Seven Psychopaths

    ★★

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  • The Mummy

    The Mummy

    Beni and the Americans were pretty great.

  • A Silent Voice: The Movie

    A Silent Voice: The Movie

    ★½

    It's a prominent issue in animanga generally that women tend to be infantalised but combining that with a character who has a disability just makes it feels all the more gross. Shouko barely feels like a character.
    I get we're telling a story about Shoya wanting to make up for the horrible things he did in his past, and as a concept I actually really like that idea but it shouldn't come at the cost of telling the victims much more interesting story.

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  • What a Girl Wants

    What a Girl Wants

    ½

    A guy telling his estranged daughter "I don't think this is going to work out" is hilarious, imagine just getting sick of your kid and essentially dumping them.

    Also the movie is constantly framed as if the dad and daughter are into one another and it's very odd.

  • Ready Player One

    Ready Player One

    ½

    "Lets take the Iron Giant from an anti war film and put it in this really epic war where it kills a bunch of bad guys"
    - some dude from the writers room