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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim 2024
A frankenstein creation. Instead of creating some monstrous but superior creature, this is just a dismembered Two Towers rearranged into a shambling husk, sprinkled with bits of the rest of the trilogy
The animation while overall passable has some real rough patches. Particularly the opening shots (reminiscent of framerate drops on my old PC) and one long monologue near the start where a monologuing cgaracter loops through tbe same gesticulation to the point I was completely taken out of the…
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Nosferatu 2024
It is beautifully shot and the costuming and sets are fantastic. That being said, not one I would particularly recommend.
Lily Rose Depp and Aaron Taylor Johnson give respectively, wooden and leaden performances. Even Wiĺlem Dafoe is reduced to being passably camp with some of his very cheesy lines just about carried by it. Nicholas Hoult did a great job looking sweaty and scared, not much more he could have done.
More fundamentally, I agree with my friend James when…
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Stardust 2007
I had watched it as a young kid so only had a faint glow of appreciation for it but little actual memory.
It slaps. Of course it's camp and maybe cheesy but it is paced extraordinarily well and written with enough life and snark and bite that despite the tropes and the general ridiculousness, I cared an awful lot.
The perfect way to spend a nigh-on-winter evening with friends.
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Before Sunrise 1995
I think this movie is a perfect filter for me. If you think it's too sentimental or earnest, then to paraphrase the philosopher Mari Silva "I don't like the way you perceive movies". On the other hand, if you think Celine could ruin your life, you are one of my people.
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