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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024
Charming, but it strikes me that things are not necessarily better when they’re bigger and more extravagant. Aardman is still good at making brilliant characters designs, props, settings, and action scenes with the characteristic handmade charm, but it’s sad to me when you watch the movie and the big showdown at the end feels like most of it was composited digitally than done for real. A huge fluid-sim fireball explosion at the end seems like a direct misunderstanding of what…
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Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021
Masterpiece. A tour de force that reminds us why we love Spider-man and what he represents. From the opening logos to the final swing this thing moves with great power. One of the greatest cinema experiences I have ever had, the sheer joy and emotion was unparalleled. This movie understands Spider-man and gives us some of the biggest payoffs in Holland’s run so far. Even the traditionally bland MCU elements were fully revved up this time around—extremely creative action, deep emotions, polished effects. Career best Spidey performance from Tom. Bravo.
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021
It’s the best of Marvel and the worst of Marvel all in one. Marvel is a movie factory and it’s starting to show. But somewhere in here is a really cool mythology and martial arts film gasping for breath through the generic plastic Marvel cinematography and third act animated Power Punching While Flying and Breaking Large Rocks we have come to expect. Somewhere buried in the retinal jackhammering of this movie are more of those hand to hand combat scenes…
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