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  Starship Troopers 1997

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 27 Jun 2024

  Love Verhoeven and have always held this film in very high esteem, though I haven’t revisited in well over a decade. 

  I was unsurprised to find I still loved this, but I was particularly pleased by how well the CGI visual effects still hold up. The practical elements in Robocop and Total Recall are absolutely masterful, but he really showed that same level of craft could be applied to digital effects even 25 years ago.

  Phil Tippett obviously has always been lauded for his effects work, but with Mad God now out, I am really curious to check out Starship Troopers 2.

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  Cube 1997

  ★★★ Watched 26 Jun 2024

  Quite a bit dumber with way shoddier acting than I was anticipating. I do feel like ‘cerebral’ low budget sci-fi in general tends to get overhyped. This isn’t as staggeringly overblown as say Primer, though.

  The kills are super graphic with great VFX. There is some nice variance in the carnage due to the nature of the traps, which definitely elevates it.

  All in all a totally fun watch, better than a number of Saws, but lacking in the pageantry…

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  Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones 2002

  Rewatched 17 Dec 2016

  Anakin sure puts the shitlord in Sith Lord.

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  Dad & Step-Dad 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 27 May 2024

  Needed something light to curb any potential nightmares from my viewing of I Saw the TV Glow, and I was thankful to see this was available on my beloved Tubi.

  This movie is pretty much entirely composed of scenes where two deeply insecure men try and make small talk. Thankfully the two men in question, Colin Burgess and Anthony Oberbeck play off each other wonderfully, and any interaction between them is the perfect level of strained and ineffectual.

  Part of…