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  The Big Lez Show: Choomah Island 2 2015

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 21 Mar 2025

  A nostalgic blast from the past that opened my younger self to a lot of spiritual and philosophical thinking, with the themes of spiritual enlightenment embedded within skitz shit.

  The commentary on the plane, between the first and second act is scarily more relevant now than it was 10 years ago.
  Time goes far too fast.

  The Big Lez Show is, whole-heartedly, the reason I aimed to study animation; always going to love it!

  [watched, while working on a my main degree animation project, in the uni studio]

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  Tales from Earthsea 2006

  ★★★ Watched 23 Feb 2025

  It's difficult not to critically compare Goro's work to his father's... so, that's exactly what I'm going to do.

  The approach to the nature of people within Goro Miyazaki's work differs (almost as a complete opposite), in comparison to Hayao Miyazaki's films. In Tales from Earthsea, the world feels a lot more pessimistic. People are inherently bad, with good souls being the outlier -- in stark contrast to Hayao's philosophy in his films.
  It's not worse; just different.

  My girlfriend…

Popular reviews

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  Cocaine Bear 2023

  ½ Watched 11 Jan 2025 2

  The bits where you see the Cocaine Bear are fun to watch. They should make a movie where it's mostly a Cocaine Bear on screen and call it Cocaine Bear.

  Porn writers make characters more engaging than this.

  For this to be boring was a crime. The movie is so bad, it actually offends me. How was a movie about a bear on coke boring?

  [watched, drunkenly, with my mum, dad and brother]

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  Nosferatu 1922

  ★★★ Watched 14 Jan 2025

  While incredibly influential and culturally enduring, unsurprisingly, a 1922 horror film does not hold up to today's modern psychological standards.
  Myself and my girlfriend were giggling at things that (at the time) were likely frightening to audiences. Now, that we know the inner workings of how films are made, a lot of the effects seemed goofy and silly (along with the silent performances; that were pantomime-quality (again, by today's standards)).
  This is not to say I didn't enjoy the film…

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