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The Dam Busters 1955
I’m glad this existed so that young George Lucas could watch it and go “what if I took this same climactic mission but made it exciting?” Other than that, it plays the “stiff upper lip” mentality of the British RAF so seriously that the whole film is rigid and unexpressive. When the most dramatic moment comes at the expense of listening to various soldiers call the dog by THAT name, you’ve missed the plot along the way.
The footage of the bouncing bomb is pretty cool, though.
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Norma Rae 1979
It's noteworthy how at the start of the film I thought the film's sound design felt like an unfortunate side effect of having to film so many scenes in a working textile factory, so the dialogue is literally having to be shouted constantly, resulting in lots of dialogue sounding muddy and ugly. Over and over, throughout the film, this constant roar of the machines would drown anything but the loudest voices, until we get to the now-famous UNION scene, and…
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Smile 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Technically proficient but morally bankrupt movie that has precious little to say, and what it does say is abhorrent and simplistic.
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.I can’t think of a take more boring and wrong headed than to make a “personal trauma monster” movie about someone battling lifelong depression and guilt that ends with the message being “there is no escape, you might as well kill yourself” just so you can do the eighty millionth “surprise, the curse isn’t broken after all!” *~surprise~* ending. Fuck SMILE, you won’t have one leaving the theatre.
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The Wedding Party 2016
My wife is Nigerian but elected not to have a traditional wedding, so much of the enjoyment of this movie was her saying over and over “See?! This is why I didn’t want to do that!”
Very fun screwball comedy!
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