Mickey 17 has about 5 or 6 interesting ideas here that each could have been the basis for its own movie, but as it stands none of them come together in a meaningful way. Every 20 minutes or so the movie introduces a new idea through clunky exposition drop that becomes the focus of the next section, and even core premises like the resurrection machine and the multiples feel like they were forgotten about in the second half of the film.
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Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979
This was... fine. There were a couple of places where Herzog surpassed the source material, specifically making van Helsing feckless in favor of giving Lucy more agency, and the ending was a nice twist. I also enjoyed spending a bit of time with the Romani in the early parts of the film. But overall, the film played it safe and sought to mimic Murnau's version instead of expand on it. This was most apparent in the scenes were the Count…
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Interstellar 2014
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Interstellar wasn't bad, but the allusions to 2001 made me wish I was watching that film instead. Nolan's movie wanted to be more high minded than it was, and he had a tough time balancing the philosophical with the blockbuster. There were too many scenes, such as the journey to the ice planet, that felt like they were inserted only to give the movie a bit more tension and appeal to the popcorn crowd. Nolan competantly portrayed some complex ideas…
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The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967
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While it started out fairly conventionally, Demy's skill in weaving tangled relationship webs seems is at its strongest in this film. I also like how he undermines the upbeat nature of the film with the out-of-left-field revelation that one of the minor characters is actually a murderer, and the nonchalant way everybody else is able to brush this fact off.
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