emptystrings

emptystrings

Favorite films

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Nope
  • The Shape of Water

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Princess Mononoke

    ★★★★

  • Flow

    ★★★★

  • The Princess Bride

    ★★★★

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  • Dungeons & Dragons

    Dungeons & Dragons

    Just an incredible feat of (at best) mediocrity. This 2000 adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons features a main cast entirely devoid of charisma and chemistry, cheap looking props and costumes, dull fight choreography, weirdly grating music, and a boring, uninspired story which was poorly executed to boot. The visual effects have aged terribly (if they ever looked decent to begin with), which I could forgive a bit if they didn't decide to make the climax a pure CGI-fest. The only small…

  • The Martian

    The Martian

    ★★★★

    A remarkably faithful adaptation to one of my favorite science fiction books. What was added and removed make sense for bringing the story to the screen to both add some drama and keep things from dragging.