I'm not sure I would ever want to watch this again, but it's certainly a well made movie - very funny to think of Steven Spielberg finishing his goofy Temple of Doom movie and then sitting down and saying "I should make a thoughtful meditation on the external and self inflicted struggles of blacks in the post-reconstruction south". Incredibly, amazingly - he also puts lots of "Looney Tunes" stuff in this somehow??? "why yes, the man will be exploded by…
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Lemonade Mouth 2011
I kinda grade Disney Channel Original Movies on a curve because it's not really fair to hold it up against more mainstream stuff, but this was sincere enough that it took me aback. Yeah the acting isn't great, the music is not really memorable - this isn't a Josie and the Pussycats or Popstar, but the music is catchy enough in the moment, the rival band is a great pastiche of the kind of pop/punk around this time, maybe I'm…
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Iron Man 2 2010
Definitely feels like the "Junk Drawer" or "Appendices" of the Iron Man series. Like they had a whole bunch of ideas, but didn't know which ones to do so they just did them all. Felt kind of meandering and unfocused. I think this is often considered the worst of the MCU, but that's because people are forgetting about The Incredible Hulk which is much much worse than this. At least this one has a bunch of good performances to elevate…
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Die Hard 1988
It's just pretty much perfect. What a hoot. Feels like a big step up from Predator for McTiernan, just in terms of how he directs the action and all the side characters. One great little moment is when the hose reel is falling behind him, and the focus changes - it's straight out of Road Runner stuff.
Everybody gets an arc, everybody gets a satisfying conclusion. The humor and tension are in perfect balance, there are just constant streams of…
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