Zemeckis. Burton. Lucas. Cameron. Spielberg. Now Coppola with Megalopolis. Even Scorsese with Hugo from what I’ve seen of that movie and some of that de-aging in Irishman. They’ve all gone too far at one point or another with 21st-Century digital advancements. So many of our greatest old-guard auteur filmmakers have lost themselves to this oversized fascination. Let’s hope that they have enough time to back away and return to story-centric blockbusters. Or that people like De Palma who never slipped…
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A Christmas Carol 2009
I have seldom paid less attention to a movie. Two to go. Enough is enough, Robert.
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Dune: Part Two 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
One of my favorite things about the Dune books is how Herbert slow-drips poison into Joe Campbell’s classic hero’s journey formula, quietly corrupting what could have been just another story about a good person doing great things. Instead of good vs evil, the Dune story gives you one side versus another, always changing chapter to chapter. Cribbing from texts both as ancient as The Bible and as relevant as today’s newspaper, the Dune motif of hope vs fanaticism and its…
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