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Mickey 17 2025
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While a rather entertaining watch, especially of Pattison in dual roles, it was not as good as "Parasite" or "Snowpiecer". These days, the over-the-top political satire, reminiscent of "Don't Look Up", comes off as depressingly real. The creeper storyline felt like it took away from any deeper exploration of the Expendables/Multiples storyline. Creepers felt a little underwhelming and made me think of the big bugs from Peter Jackson's "King Kong" and the brain bug from "Starship Troopers". Yuen's Timo and…
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The Creator 2023
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I was so disappointed in so many ways with "The Creator". While I can accept that it predates the recent advent of generative AI, the movie engaged in overly high stakes and failed to engage in coherent worldbuilding.
Too much was collapsed into simplistic elements. NOMAD was a trillion-dollar weapon that was the United States putting all its eggs in one basket, in contrast to decades-ago Cold War enemies strategically placing multiple weapons and delivery systems in various ways. "New…
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The Batman 2022
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So many aspects of the film work, but they are overall brought down by a weak storyline. Pattinson's Batman is fantastic as a brooding figure and as a human tank in his war on crime. Gotham City is spectacularly reinvented as a lived-in city with its own personality. Farrell's Penguin and Turturro's Falcone convey wildly different personalities of wickedness. The fights, the Batmobile, and the ensuing car chase are all exciting. Dano's Riddler steals the show, especially in his conversation…
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The Banshees of Inisherin 2022
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I absolutely adore this film. While I enjoyed In Bruges, I took nothing away from Seven Psychopaths and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Here, the dialogue is truly wonderful -- I will be keeping the "one of life's good guys" bit in my head for a long time. The comedy is necessary to offset the bleakness, and the film balances both impeccably.
For me, the film felt like a treatise of the so-called "problem with no name" -- the mid-20th…
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