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American Sniper 2014
American Sniper is a modern masterpiece. It does well to have you realise that war never stays where war is fought.
However, it’s a glorification of the very thing it strives to emphasise is bad. A slow mo, Sniper Elite - style bullet cam only manages to push that point. It’s hard, also, to seperate from blatant propaganda. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a wonderful movie, but it makes this man the victim time and time again.
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Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
There is one shot in Mad Max Fury Road that will be with me until I die. The convoy is in motion, and the camera cuts to a shot of every vehicle, real and powered by the genius engineers behind the film. In the foreground is the Doof Warrior - flames emerging from his guitar.
That is what Mad Max was always going to be. From a tiny Australian film with a black XB Falcon, equipped with a fake supercharger…
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024
It seems that the biggest crime this film committed was not being Fury Road - an undeserving branding that marred Furiosa with underwhelming numbers when stacked up against the 2015 epic.
What a joy, for a change, to watch a Max Max film and be able to sympathise with what a character has been through, not just in the last few days or weeks, but their entire lifetime.
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Clerks 1994
Here’s the story - I needed to buy the film poster after watching Clerks. It became this desire of mine to suddenly jump into this cultural moment, this way of seeing the world as a distraction until the next fun thing happens, the next opportunity to play hockey on the roof.
I was Dante, our protagonist, for 5 years, and for some of those days, I shouldn’t have even been there. But for myself and anyone else made to stand…
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