Chirstopherson

Chirstopherson

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  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  • Django Unchained
  • Jojo Rabbit
  • The Social Network

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  • (500) Days of Summer

    (500) Days of Summer

    ★★★★★

    (500) Days of Summer is a fantastic, often misunderstood movie. The writing, editing, acting, story structure, music, score - damn near everything - is top tier. I remember it getting a lot of praise when it came out (somehow in 2009), but it’s suffered a fair bit of pushback in recent years criticizing its message. Plenty of people seem to think the movie glorifies Tom and men like him (Wolf of Wall Street syndrome), but this couldn’t be further from…

  • After Yang

    After Yang

    ★★★

    After Yang starts off extremely strong with a fantastic opening credits sequence that shows off its best trait,  incredible worldbuilding. I like fictional futures that don’t try and paint technology as inherantly evil or scary. Most Black Mirror episodes have more of “warning” feel to them and that’s not really the case here. There’s instances of corporate privacy violations and other messages of technology separating humans from one another, but I liked that it’s a robot that ends up bringing…

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  • Tetris

    Tetris

    ★★★

    About as enthusiastic a 3 star review can be. I thoroughly enjoyed it throughout its runtime and liked all the performances, especially Taron Egerton. The story is very compelling, although I don’t think it needed so much embellishment to make it more exciting. Nevertheless, it was fun to watch videos on the differences and I really enjoyed the pixel effects they’d use periodically. I won’t think of this movie very often and likely will never see it again, but I’m happy I watched it and appreciate the (mostly true) history lesson.

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