At no point did I have more than the vaguest sense of what was going on. Every character is played in a heightened style bordering on sarcastic, like a spoof of itself. Although it isn't a comedy, being only intermittently funny -- but it is intentionally funny in spots. It's a sarcastic, unserious, deeply earnest paean to hope and the common good, in the face of terror and selfishness.
A paean to the common good and a screed against selfishness,…
UPDATE 11/11/24: Hahahahahahahaha well then 🙃
Knock on wood, but the nascent American fascist movement appears to have been stymied, at least for now, by a mass movement to point out (to their faces, especially) that they're a bunch of weird creeps.
It's an argument they can't refute because it's irrefutably true. All of their notable political candidates, pundits, and spokespeople have ceased even pretending they offer anything to the world beyond their own ill-defined grievance, a vague but seething…
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Well, Palpatine fucks now. That's canon.
Did they have the second unit shoot the entire first act? I swear, from the opening crawl until they boarded the star destroyer (or whatever the hell it was), every single shot with characters in it - even a freaking helicopter shot circling a group of people - was shot at chest/face level. Every. Single. One. It was so lifeless, and artless, and un-creative. And, well, that's the movie in a nutshell. Only the…
On my umpteenth rewatch here, I only just noticed that line, "If [Sharon Tate] ever wants to put a bounty on Roman [Polanski]'s head, she just has to go next door." And shortly after that, Rick Dalton mentions certain weaponry that he possesses. I thought the film just elided ~the whole Polanski thing~ since that happened some years after this one takes place, but no, there's, well, one oblique line about it after all.
