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  • Interstellar

    ★★½

  • The Hunger Games

  • John Wick: Chapter 2

    ★★★

  • The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

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  • Interstellar

    Interstellar

    ★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • The Hunger Games

    The Hunger Games

    My eyes hurt.
    The movie does not trust that you are paying attention and attempts to force you to pay attention through the use of constant jump cuts. I'm seriously talking like, you cannot go more than 5 seconds without the camera cutting away to a different angle even in the most subdued scenes. The first hour was mostly full of asking "why is it edited like this" and the second hour was spent trying to ignore the editing. I…

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  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes

    Rise of the Planet of the Apes

    The monkey isn't smart. I refuse to buy into the premise that the monkey is smart given how every 3rd scene has the monkey running Wiley Coyote style into a tunnel painted onto the side of a mountain. The highlight of the entire movie was a single match-cut to the Golden Gate Bridge about 15m in.
    It is wild that the CGI monkey has a greater acting range than James Franco, though. The man cannot act to save his life.…

  • John Wick: Chapter 2

    John Wick: Chapter 2

    ★★★

    Good evening, 47. Your target today is a man named Johnathan Wick, an assassin for hire with a penchant for murdering his targets in the most goofy way imaginable. The target rarely travels with anyone other than an unnamed dog, and frequently is seen interacting with a coterie of 2-dimensional characters in a weird hotel. Be careful though, Wick himself has a near-supernatural ability to cause long action scenes to occur around him at any given moment - likely due…