The best thing about Moana was that the characters felt emotionally resonant, and they had great emotional arcs. Moana and Maui both had internal struggles that they had to overcome, and that's what made them interesting characters. Moana 2 has a lot of flaws, but despite all of them, the movie could have still worked if it actually gave Moana and Maui even a tiny percentage of the emotional arcs that they had in the first film. Instead, they basically…
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The Glassworker 2024
I really wanted to like this but it just fell completely flat for me. The story and characters are so underdeveloped, as is the movie's underlying anti-war message. There's just no depth here, which makes the whole movie feel quite hollow. I mean, all the characters in the movie are so bafflingly pro-war to the point where they have ostracised Vincent and his father for being "pacifists." Yet, we never really learn what the war is about and what they're…
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The Stepford Wives 2004
Yikes. I read the book by Ira Levine a long time ago and though I don't remember it super well, I remember it well enough to recognise just how badly this movie understands it. The heavy-handed satire wasn't my favourite, but I could have almost forgiven it if it wasn't for that utterly reprehensible ending. How do you take a source material that is a critique of misogyny and make it the exact opposite?
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