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  Zardoz 1974

  Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Not a total slam dunk for me but I gotta respect it for many reasons. It's incredible what it manages to achieve under budget constraints. It's a high concept big swing rejection of action sci fi tropes. I got a lot of entertainment just out of watching Connery in this role, there's no shortage of ridiculous scenes that are performed with the utmost sincerity and professionalism from all involved, though with him every now and then I really thought I…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  Watched 16 Mar 2025 1

  Way too heavy handed in so many aspects. The voice over narration was particularly egregious. Zero respect for your intelligence. Don't know if it was the source material, studio meddling or what. That immediately put me off and it never recovered.

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  Challengers 2024

  Watched 11 May 2024 4

  Wow, I really did not expect to enjoy this as much as I did. For me, it's hard not to like a film, especially given the contemporary landscape, that gets so creative with the camera. Add in a killer score and I'm pretty much already there. But there's a lot of substance here too, individual competitive sports as a medium for character development, the literal battle of two different personalities (really three in the case of this movie) has some…

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  Love & Pop 1998

  Rewatched 21 Feb 2025

  With this film and Inland Empire re-entering the public consciousness I'm praying for future filmmakers to take
  up the mantle of digicam

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