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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  KOP iMax.

  Ultimately fun but a bit scattered & over-indulgent. Bong has a lot of things he's pissed about (Trump, colonization, capitalism, social media, sauces?) and crams it all in here. Some things work, some things don't. Felt like it sagged from the middle until the finale starts to pick up. The ending is quite satisfying though. Everyone is overacting intentionally here and it's all quite good.

  Felt kinda redundant in Bong's filmography?

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  Vampyr 1932

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Streamed.

  Really cool. Experimental, surreal, looks ancient and haunted. The effects are so much more interesting than Dracula's little bat puppets (which came out around the same time). The shadow sequences, skeleton dreams, and especially the funeral procession scene are really memorable. The whole thing feels like a nightmare.

  But it really is more of a visual treat than anything else. There's barely a plot or characters here. It certainly doesn't have the emotional resonance of something like Passion of Joan of Arc (the only other Dreyer I've seen to-date).

  In terms of old timey vampires, this is better than Dracula and on-par with Nosferatu.

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  Interstellar 2014

  ★★★★ Rewatched 10 Dec 2024

  KOP iMax.

  Previous viewing was on a flight. The iMax experience definitely improves how I feel about it. It still has a shaky script and the ending transitions from a semblance of scientific reality to movie magic in a somewhat corny way. With the iMax screen and sound though, once it gets into space it becomes maybe the most visceral and enveloping movie watching experience. Also the organ parts of the score shred.

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  Ms .45 1981

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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