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Casablanca 1942
Pretty good, especially the last 10 mins!
However, I'm baffled that many consider this to be a great performance by Bogart and I was frustrated by his character throughout my watch. He plays it too cool as the cool man with a troubled past and comes off wooden and one-note. Perhaps he gets a pass because of Rick's privately virtuous persona? His actions spoke louder than his words and his words spoke louder than his face, which said very little.…
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Oppenheimer 2023
Well it's a thrilling flick with an endlessly escalating soundtrack, replete with both snippy and quippy dialogue. In the vein of Shoah and Zone of Interest, it doesn't showcase any atrocities. But its catchy blockbuster aspirations lack the cinematographic reverence that this kind of subject demands imo (see Threads). Feels a little tone deaf to make a commercial, melodramatic movie about the atom bomb.
Kind of like a wikipedia exposition dump with fancy production tricks. And like most Nolan flicks,…
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