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Starship Troopers 1997
The scale of this movie’s resurgence was lost on me until I worked at Emerald City Comic Con a couple weeks ago and the photo op with the core cast had a massive crowd. Don’t get me wrong, I loved dropping into Helldivers 2 with friends, and that game was a runaway success, but I didn’t know there was that much love for the whole conceit.
Starship Troopers pretty much forgets to keep being satirical after the first act,…
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The Devil Wears Prada 2006
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Huhhhhh always weird to watch a nostalgic classic for the first time as an adult. I can’t begrudge anyone’s attachment to this but I can’t pretend it aged well either.
So many of the wrong lessons are evoked here with a weirdly upbeat close that doesn’t actually feel like the natural endpoint of all that came before… but you can see how the script’s pieces could be arranged into a classically satisfying, albeit predictable, version of the story. For one…
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Anora 2024
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I’m surprised by how far I am from the consensus on this one… but maybe my expectations were made too high by watching after the Oscars sweep? Maybe I’m missing the point a bit? I’ll do some thinking and see if my rating changes…
With that context in mind, I’m hard-pressed to see why each award was earned — other than Mikey Madison, who is outstanding. The movie is overly long and repetitive, takes half its runtime to establish a…
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Wicked 2024
Much better than it’s oversaturated (get it? double meaning!) trailers and advertising made it out to be, and certainly on the better side of musical adaptations (kinda by default). Generally speaking, it’s well-paced and fun enough to not feel boring as it unfolds, though you quickly realize all the padding and dragging out of scenes as you exit the theater. The stage show is obviously tighter and the different medium lets it get away with things that a movie can’t…
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