Unironically, this is genuinely really good. No really, I feel like I’m going insane. This was actually really fun. Highlander II: The Quickening was actually good?!?!?
(Michael Ironside and Sean Connery chewed so much scenery they bankrupted Argentina.)
The Willem Dafoe Crime scene reenactments — fuckin A. The editing — fuckin sucks.
It’s a little too ‘lad-y’ for me — like it’s probably the equivalent of 2001 for those insufferable Peaky Blinders/The Gentleman fans (you know who I mean) — but it does have its moments.
The Boondock Saints has sequences that I think are genuinely brilliant but on the whole… looking back… it’s something of a shouty, angry mess.
I am now wondering though… was this Bandit Hat scene on Wes Anderson’s mind when he was making Fantastic Mr Fox?
I’m enjoying the discourse on Facebook and Twitter today. The Meep twist was predictable and the way they deal with the one thing giving this episode stakes — that Donna will die if she remembers the doctor — is almost laughable. I am however looking forward to seeing how this progresses. Up with Trans Rights and Allonsy to David Tennant, down with frankly baffling writing choices!
Barbie’s a wierd one. Although the pastel-hued euphoria doesn’t really wear off I can’t help but feel a strange sense of dissonance as I write this. As much as I think critiques purely based on Mattel‘s involvement and the cynic‘s stance that Gerwig’s meta-irony ultimately only encourages more consumption are fundamentally naïve and low-hanging fruit, I do think that these forces cannot be ignored. Barbie is a fascinating case study for the brave new world of films based on toys.
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