I can't really score a concert movie, but if you know anything about my taste in music, it's how much I love Hans Zimmer. His melodies are iconic; they effortlessly weave together epic scale with beauty and tension.
The medleys in this concert were absolutely fantastic. I got to hear almost all of my favourite songs with a degree of fidelity and performativity that can't help but move me. This is an exhausting experience—but that's because Zimmer's work is exhausting…
Shared Experience
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3½ stars – it's a good movie
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Ari Aster is an absolutely incredible director—every shot, every cut, and every sound in this film is fucking art. Unfortunately, he's a pretty bad writer. These characters are shallow and their behaviour is often illogical. The lack of interesting tie-ins/tie-ups of narrative threads really knock the wind out of this film because all the interesting mysteries it sets up demand an effective resolution so the journey feels earned. That…
Fulfilling the Prophecy
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5 stars – it's a masterpiece
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Yep, absolute fucking masterpiece. It fixes almost everything that's wrong with the first movie (characterisation, character arcs, and action scenes) while doing what the first movie does EVEN BETTER (audio-visual experience, world-building, and ideas beyond human comprehension).
Dune: Part 2 is easily one of the greatest cinematic experiences ever produced.
Primordial Power
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4 stars – it's a great movie
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Alien is one of the most terrifyingly ambient movies. The sets are beautiful and the inky colour palette is drop dead gorgeous (I need to see this movie on an OLED display 😩). The character writing and plot are pretty solid though nothing crazy special, but I really loved the world-building – the technologies, their use, some wider politics, and the design of the alien itself are all really well thought through.
All in all, a great movie.
