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  Terminator: Dark Fate 2019

  ★★★ Watched 05 Jun 2021

  Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor is one of my favorite movie characters ever, so I'm so happy to see where she ended up in 2019. Also, I'm all for seeing women in their 60s in lead roles, especially in action movies (so rare), AND women collaborating tactically towards a shared goal (also rare). That's the best thing about this movie, and the rest is pretty MEH.

  I liked some of the thought experiments like, what if the new John Connor…

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  Better Luck Tomorrow 2002

  ★★★★ Watched 15 May 2021

  I think if I would've seen this movie when it came out I wouldn't have appreciated how special it was. I was barely an adult and coming out of the "hey it's all good, it's the 90's we don't have to pay that close attention to identity politics" Clinton era. Looking back on it now, it is DRIPPING with 90's MTV, but it is also kinda amazing that has an all-Asian American cast going against Asian American stereotypes.

  It reminds…

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  Fast & Furious 2009

  ★ Watched 08 May 2021

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Fast and the Furious 2001

  ★★ Watched 01 May 2021

  It's like the Step Up movies but with cars! Dumb as a box of rocks and I like that. Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez give this movie the cartooniness it deserves, it's just too bad the rest of the movie didn't lean into that cartooniness 100%. Did this movie want to be a collection of stylish music videos? A crime drama? A car action movie? It seemed to not know what it wanted to be yet, but the fact they…

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