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  The Motive 2004

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Dec 2023

  What a wonderful surprise this was! Not that I expected a bad movie or anything, but this film is barely ever spoken of, so while I was expecting a decent film, I wasn't expected to be wowed.

  But wowed I was. At its core, The Motive is a murder mystery about clueing together what happened that fateful night in apartment 2025 where 4 people tragically lost their lives.

  However, it's not really the core of the film at all. In…

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  Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters 2017

  ★★ Watched 08 Nov 2023

  This movie has it all: stiff animation, unfocused cinematography, characters looking at computer screens, boring characters, armchair philosophy, dull colors, almost 5 whole minutes of Godzilla action. Well, maybe action is not the right word. He barely does anything. I can forgive some of the old movies with their limited budget to have limited Godzilla screen time, but this whole movie is animated, so what gives?

  Anyway, I doubt it'd do much good. The entire thing feels just so uninspired,…

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  Meow 2017

  ★ Watched 06 Jan 2023 1

  I hate this movie. It features Louis Koo and his family and this alien cat thing who landed on earth but lost his super necklace (or whatever the hell it's called), therefore, logically, has to merge with a cute fluffy red cat, which results in a guy wearing a cat costume and a CGI cat head farting, meowing, pretending to be a mother and generally being completely useless for roughly 109 minutes.

  That's pretty much all I'm willing to write about this pathetic excuse for a movie.

  PS: I rated 1 star instead of 0.5 because I may have chuckled at the farting jokes. Sue me.

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  Shogun's Samurai 1978

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Jan 2023

  After spending the largest part of his career up to that point on crime dramas set in the 20th century, from 1978 onward Kinji Fukasaku would often dabble in period pieces set during the Edo Period. This is the first of those films. Although it's set in the mid 17th century, the structure of this film reminds very much of his crime films, "Battles Without Honor Or Humanity" in particular. It features a large cast of characters, angry men, narration,…

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