Favorite films
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Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Fun game inspired by this film: Every time someone calls your baby cute, give them your baby. Every baby you call cute, you get to keep (until someone else calls your new baby cute, in which case you will give away the baby in question). Play musical babies until someone gets killed by a local grocery bagger.
Clink, Clink, and Cheers to the only couple I would happily watch fight for hours on end
This portrayal of Brand was so exceedingly balanced that I left without a real sense of why his work is controversial. This film centers on two camps fighting climate change: Brand's camp advocating for gene modification & de-extinction and the opposing camp advocating for minimizing human destruction & allowing nature to run its course with limited intervention. However, Brand's views & the opposing views were fleshed out to such a limited degree that I came away learning too little about the debate.
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Tension buildup so good, for 1 hour and 52 minutes, you'll start believing in capitalism again.
Fun fact: Michael Jordan doesn't allow anyone to play him in film... so that leaves some interesting behind-the-head, over-the-phone moments with his character. I kinda felt like Matt Damon was telling me *I'm* special during his impassioned pitch. Watch this film if you want to suddenly become Michael Jordan.
Thank goodness Jordan had a mother or there wouldn't have been a single woman - or interesting character - in this film.