Presents a genuinely interesting philosophical conundrum and then uses it as a springboard for utter inanity. Commits the primary sin of lazy satire: failing (refusing?) to understand or seriously engage with the thing it's satirizing.
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Dune 2021
Look, I love byzantine galactic politics. I love moody psychic space princes coming of age on forbidding alien planets. I love terrifying megafauna. I love the word "ornithopter" and the name Duncan Idaho.
I love brutalism and those bassy BWAH BWAH sounds everyone makes fun of. I love Villeneuve's command of atmosphere and imagery.
What do you want from me? Obviously I'm predisposed to enjoy everything about this, at least superficially.
My problem with Dune has always been that it…
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With Every Heartbeat 2011
For its first hour or so, this is a pretty fantastic depiction of that electric feeling of suddenly and unexpectedly falling hard for someone you've just met. Subtract a star for its schmaltzy, cliched handling of the final act (including a head-scratcher of a closing scene that seems to undermine the film's own message to that point), but add one back for some uncommonly good sex scenes and all-around compelling romantic tension. Several negative reviews here suggest the leads lack chemistry, and if that's the case, I guess I don't understand what chemistry is supposed to look like.
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