JoeMystery

JoeMystery

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  • Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
  • Knives Out
  • 10 Things I Hate About You

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  • The Electric State

    ★★½

  • The Internship

    ★★½

  • Thor: Love and Thunder

    ★★★

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★

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  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    ★★½

    Really like the idea of this dystopia- which this movie cannot the the credits for. Again Giancarlo Esposito is the villain and an interesting one. Chris Pratt got a role as boring version of Starlord. For me Millie did not fit too well for Michelle. I had the feeling she looking older than the character is behaving. Also did not really get the character. What exactly is wrong with her parents and why is she refusing to wear the VR…

  • The Internship

    The Internship

    ★★½

    Mediocre comedy. Fun but very unlikely. Some of the gags got me good: „on the line“ or the whole interview sequence. The core message of the movie is nice (but also not true IRL).

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  • The Lobster

    The Lobster

    ★★★½

    Dystopy that also could have been a long episode of Black Mirror.

    I think this is a well done piece in taking a enjoyable premise and playing around with it. Yorogs Lathimos shows us what society we would become if we considered being in a relationship as the superior lifestyle. The resulting dialogues are cold and simplistic or even dull. Together with characters being unable to open emotionally, some scenes really know how to let you cringe. 

    I definitely will…

  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

    Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

    ★★½

    There are a few things that make it not really work for me:

    It is a lot of CGI and would be hard to achieve without it - but especially in the beginning there are shots where the CGI does not look real and I am reminded that I am just watching a movie.

    The story is too simple and after watching Wandavision also a little repetitive. The movie is called „Multiverse of Madness“ but it lacks of Multiverses (that…

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