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  Les Misérables 2012

  Watched 27 Feb 2025

  russell crowe can't sing but he sure as hell can command a screen...javert kept this thing alive for me

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  Spectre 2015

  Watched 01 Mar 2025

  the first hour is still mesmerizing: the seamless opening in mexico city, the ten minutes that monica bellucci commands the screen with her haunting portrait of a widow living chained to a terrible man (a mirror to what bond makes of others too?), the bit of catharsis for bond regarding mr white, the elegant beauty of the eternal city...it all starts to fall apart during the uneventful chase between the DB10 and the C-X75, and absolutely hits rock bottom with…

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  Castle in the Sky 1986

  Watched 02 Apr 2023 3

  unfortunately castle in the sky occupies the weaker end of miyazaki’s filmography. the plot is one of his most simplistic and least engaging. none of the characters, particularly sheeta, are developed beyond a surface level and always feel swept up in the tide of action rather than invested in their personal desires. it lacks miyazaki’s later sophisticated understanding of class stratification and his nuanced explorations of the false dichotomy of humanity vs nature (see: princess mononoke). the closest i came…

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  Quantum of Solace 2008

  Rewatched 20 Feb 2025

  my feelings on this are forever doomed to remain complicated and irreconcilable. it struck me this time how well they continued developing bond and M's relationship in this, especially leading toward skyfall. as much criticism as the plot receives the fight over water rights is both of its time and also prescient as to where conflict will erupt in the next decades. the most bond goes leftist before it starts getting scared