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Battleship Potemkin 1925
To modern sensibilities, Battleship Potemkin is a better historical document than a movie, but the fast pace of Eisenstein’s montages doesn’t make it feel as stilted as other silent films. For being a century old, this shit holds up.
A film that exemplifies the almost maddening optimism that was prevalent in the USSR in 1925. The Tsar was done for, the reactionaries were running, the Civil War has just been won; it must have seemed as if the very world was…
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Conclave 2024
Feels a little too much like this was made for the Oscars committee and incidentally the public got to see it as well. BUT, Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Lucian Msamati, Isabella Rossellini - everyone’s on fire here. Though I’m not sure how it all adds up at the end. There’s an effort made here to make Papal politics seem Relevant™ to American audiences, so every social issue Berger could think of was ham fistedly put into the script.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie 2004
The best part of this movie is when Kaiba hops into a Blue Eyes White Dragon shaped jet and flies away while Sonic-tier butt rock plays in the background
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Gods and Generals 2003
This is straight up neo-Confederate propaganda, but honestly, that’s the least of its problems. It’s biggest offense is that it’s just so fucking boring. Clocking in at 13 billion minutes, this piece of shit has no lasting entertainment value, no intelligent commentaries on slavery, and no great reflection on the Civil War other than “state pride” and “lost cause” which fucking blows lol. Django Unchained is a better Civil War movie than this and that doesn’t even take place during…
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