I'm not even sure what I'm gonna say about this. Once, there were people who dreamed of peace, and were sure that "Never Again" meant never again. 40 years passed, and something like this came along to warn us all that we're forgetting where we came from, and what we should've learned. Now, another 40 years have passed, and "Never Again" has just kept on happening, and happening, and happening. I can only imagine that the horror and discomfort of…
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The Battle of Algiers 1966
Why did Europe resist Nazi occupation? Was it ideological opposition? Or was it just jealousy? Colonel Mathieu says it himself, and says it perfectly: "Should France stay in Algeria? If your answer is still yes, then you must accept all the consequences." Ironically, he says this as a way to deflect accusations of fascism, yet the very notion itself is a symptom of fascist thought across Europe. If you believe that any nation can colonize any other, then you must…
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Permanent Vacation 1980
Aimless and unbearable, but I guess I could've anticipated that. I thought I'd give Jarmusch another shot by looking a little deeper into his roots, and it turns out that aimless ripoffs are just sort of his bag, judging by the evidence I have. Like many other films, student or otherwise, this fails from the outset to understand that the meandering of French new wave is acceptable because the people who made it were actually talented. Someone like Godard only…
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Mickey 17 2025
You know, it was alright. It wasn't unbearable by any stretch, but there were parts of it that certainly were. For example, Mark Ruffalo taking a baffling swing at a trump impression by way of like, '00s SNL or something. He's playing trump the way liberal journalists imagine that trump is when they write about him--lots of bravado, wants to do everything himself, always attached to his wife--rather than his actual prissy, disinterested self who hates all his surrogates and…
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Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan 2017
Araki speaking out for leftism, you love to see it folks. I mean all his protagonists are like intensely bourgeois, and famous, and popular, and sex icons, and superheroes, so maybe he isn't exactly the hero of the downtrodden. But, sometimes he sticks it to classism. It's just great to see.
Anyway, I was surprised to see this on letterboxd, so I threw up a 5-star out of respect. I've been rewatching the part 4 anime with Ethan, and it's…
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Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar 2023
You're all lucky that the pesky letterboxd bug spared you my original thousand-word review of this. I would rather kill myself than write it all out again, and rest assured I will kill somebody for every time the mobile app has swallowed one of my reviews, so I'll sum it up before the bloodlust takes me:
Obviously after a decade of downtime, it's not gonna live up. Why they relegated the conclusion of this series to 83 minutes when clearly…
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