Charadrion

Charadrion

Favorite films

  • Jurassic Park
  • Brazil
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  • Barry Lyndon

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  • Longlegs

    ★★½

  • Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

    ★★½

  • MouseHunt

    ★★★

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  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    ★★½

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

  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★

    Evokes a spartan agoge, ibn khaldun’s asabiyyah, the crusading pilgrim, and so on. It is hard to think of a more inhospitable, inhumane, anti-humanist sci-fi.
    I kind of loved it. But life imitates art: by the end of 3 hours I was dehydrated, mentally perturbed, exhausted. There’s another film to go? please, have mercy, give me an intermission.

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  • Gladiator II

    Gladiator II

    Good brainless action movie spectacle ( with DLSS) smothered by incessant callbacks to Gladiator 1, these scenes featuring abysmal acting.


    Also nobody got my "rob Pedro to pay Paul" comment.

  • Sorcerer

    Sorcerer

    ★★★★½

    Brutal film, hard to imagine how it was to film this. The stablemate of other 70s epic jungle cinema, apocalypse now, Aguirre, and fitzcarraldo.

    A manly film, terrified men on the edge of breaking and yet somehow dragged back into their right senses by a kind of greed. It is suggested at one point that perhaps all that drives the men in the end is fear, however. As such, incredibly bleak.

    One of the sweatiest films around.

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