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  Jazz 2001

  ★★ Added

  Ken Burns' Jazz isn't bad per se, just frustrating. As many have pointed out, the overall tone towards the end of the series swings back and forth between implicit and explicit dismissal of any development in jazz music beyond the mid-1960s. Even in the later episodes the script still harkens back Ellington and Armstrong in a tedious conservative fashion, at the expense of discussing actual back then contemporaneous sound. And when those developments are discussed, they're mostly dismissed as "unpopular",…

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  Kung Fury 2015

  ★ Watched 28 May 2015

  I have always been put off by films merely pandering to tropes. I guess this film had to happen though, it was inevitable. The Expendables wasn't enough, someone had to go that one step further to make the ultimate 80s cliché flick. Even though personally I resent that category of filmmaking, I'm willing to grant it a chance.

  What I don't like, is that it doesn't even attempt to be a competent film by any traditional merits. The bad acting…

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  3 Women 1977

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2013

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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