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The Magnificent Seven 2016
i could trash this movie for hours, but at this point i'll just quote my father (71 at the time), who distilled it perfectly:
"have you seen this shit? the one with the black cowboy? just imagine a black guy with a gun riding on a horse into a town during this time! they'd hanged him straight from the saddle before he even had a chance to get off the horse for this! and what's with that asian guy? what the fuck was that?"
and no, he didn't said "black cowboy".
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The Ring 2002
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it's fascinating, how unoriginal the us-american film industry sometimes is. or maybe it's just some lack of confidence in their own original material; maybe they used anything good already up. hollywood really has a hard on for remaking asian and european movies, most of the time completly butchering them in the process. anyways, that's not the case with this one. i actually think this remake is superior to it's japanese original.
the basic story is very japanese and i can…
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Inglourious Basterds 2009
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as a european, this movie is unwatchable. "juni, are you a NAZI?!" - yeah, no, that's not the take you should roll with. so, what are the problems? mainly, it's a power phantasy. if you remove all the big hollywood names, the script reads like something a jewish kid came up with in 1993 after finding out his grandma was shot by the SS in poland. it's just bland revenge porn. i mean, they have "the bear jew" to "smash…
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001
i can still remember watching this movie at a pre-premiere in a cineplexx on the other end of the city. i was there with many friends i knew from an ultima online rpg freeshard we ran for a few years and it was free entry for everyone rolling up in a movie themed cosplay. good thing that i was a goth kid back then, so my combat boots, the black long leather coat, the school shooter shades and undercutted long…
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