If you’ve realised that I’ve rated films “mostly good” here, it’s because I actually just can’t be bothered with the bad ones.
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Geylang 2022
Likely the worst film I’ve seen in a decade.
For the record, I believe Singapore has come up with many great films over the past few years- I Not Stupid, Ilo Ilo, A Land Imagined, etc. so this isn’t a gatekeeping of a certain ‘class’ of film. For people who dislike films like the latter- Geylang isn’t abominably slow or some weird “read into it” kind of thing, it’s the total opposite. Yet, so far from enjoyable.
It reminds one of consumerist…
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Oppenheimer 2023
In my forays into the opinion-threads and articles (mostly the opinion-threads) about the ‘Barbenheimer’ thing that’s going on, I’ve read that Barbie is a “cool movie”, but Oppenheimer is an “experience”. In this context, it’s usually used to justify an opinion that Oppenheimer blows Barbie out of the water. I disagree, in that I loved both films and that they simply fulfilled different parts of an ‘aesthetic longing’, we’ll say. However, the idea that Oppenheimer is an “experience” is totally correct.…
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Prey 2022
Placing this at the end of a Predator marathon after I saw that this came out and wanted to lead up to it had me floored.
This is how you pay homage and still be your own thing. Predator with Arnold Schwarzenegger is incredibly dated in its visual effects but what’s not is the tension and suspense it builds, constantly eating at your toes with kill after kill. This is what Prey takes as the core of the franchise, Naru…
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Barbie 2023
The first 20 minutes of this film are an odd watch.
Later, you understand that it’s because this film is goading you into a mindset that preps one for its unique humour and nuanced message. From the halfway point I was probably slapping my knee and clutching Rachel’s arm every minute in crazed laughter.
I am in awe of Greta Gerwig, who I have to say elevated this film far beyond a- “fun, feather-weight satire” -Jim Schembri (jimschembri.com), who later laments…
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