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jdwrudy25

Favorite films

  • Zardoz
  • Truck Turner
  • A Serious Man
  • The Beakmann Incident

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  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    ★★★

  • In the Moment

    ★★

  • The Benefit List

    ★½

  • No Other Land

    ★★★★½

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  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    ★★★

    Leave it to Netflix to commission a legacy sequel to the best Wallace & Gromit short instead of just funding Aardman to make anything else. Leave perfect things alone!! The film initially sets a tone of not letting "perfect" technology take away the simple and creative things we enjoy, which I wonder if any exec understood that as an anti-AI sentiment? Probably not. "I knew you'd embrace technology in the end." feels like an executive note.

    Intentional or not, I found…

  • In the Moment

    In the Moment

    ★★

    Befitting of his name, I decided to give Miles Triplett a 3rd chance, mostly because this one looked like it co-starred DeMarcus Curry and I was hoping I wouldn't be duped like I was with his bit part in The Benefit List, but alas, I was... It's a movie that focuses on an actress trying to make it in Atlanta, but in a movie about acting... the acting is... Well, I'll chalk it up to bad writing more than anything.…

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  • Legend of Earthsea

    Legend of Earthsea

    Well, it made the Ghibli film look much better...

  • Growing Fangs

    Growing Fangs

    ★★★½

    Disney learned that you can hire non-white folks, and let them have fun, without directly exploiting trauma. Who knew? Definitely the most directly comedic of the collection but almost feels out of place by comparison.