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  Extraction 2020

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  I have trouble imagining what role, if any, Sam Hargrave played in this production because the end result seems just like any Russo brothers movie with extra steps. His credit as director seems like a symbolic acknowledgement of the fact that stunt coordinators are the lifeblood of their films. I understand the motivation behind the comparisons to John Wick, but those films would never throw a brown child off of a roof without a second thought. Lots of notes to be taken from the masterful camera work and weighty action but there is much, much more here that I hope is left to be forgotten.

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  Thelma & Louise 1991

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  I wrote a review of this for class, so here's some bits of it. Aside from being all formal for class, a non-academic review of this would be much gayer. I don't attend a film school and strict requirements from aging professors = neutered analysis
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  Thelma & Louise aims to reconcile the road movie genre with the developments in feminist film theory in the decades prior, while disguising itself as a film that agrees with the dominant ideology. A singular…

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  Tron 1982

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  The plot is about as interesting as watching two computers play Pong AND it's nowhere near as robust. Even so, I will be damned if Lightcycles and those glowing frisbee things are not enough to save the whole thing. The animation looks dated, sure. I'd have to watch again to say why I think it works so well, all I know is 10 million polygons and tracing each individual ray of light doesn't make audiences respond to a film. Having…

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  The Two Popes 2019

  Watched 17 Feb 2020

  All of the apologetics of Silence, none of the brevity.

  At its best, The Two Popes is an oddly romantic therapy session for disciplinarian bigots put together by enablers (case in point they all but shrug and crack another beer when Ratzinger is all “yeah I knew what they did to those kids but God doesn’t talk to ME either”).

  At its worst, it’s a montage of two self pitying patriarchs doing geriatric mental gymnastics and then high fiving each…

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