Pattinson and Ruffalo are awesome but the full thing doesn’t coalesce as well as it could. A rather tell-don’t-show class commentary ends up at its center, when it likely would’ve been better served leaning more into the relationship dynamics and ethical implications of its premise. Pacing is also a bit weird. Very funny though, for what it’s worth.
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Captain America: Brave New World 2025
It’s pretty asinine that they decided to make the Captain America movie a sequel to The Incredible Hulk and Eternals. That said, it has a decent enough story, but pretty consistently terrible dialogue and a poorly-handled villain. Ford and Mackie are both as entertaining as can be expected and the final fight is actually pretty good. I should also mention the credits scene, which is so abysmal and not something I could ever have imagined Marvel putting out prior to the…
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Avatar: The Way of Water 2022
Grand, exhilarating, and simply beautiful. The complaints about James Cameron waiting 13 years to make this movie should come to an abrupt end— this one excels because of its generational, family-based focus, touting a story so much more thoughtful than that of the original. And for a sci-fi setting that was already more developed than most in the genre, the potential of Pandora is truly cracked open here— it’s visually stunning, of course, but Cameron also uses the sea tribe…
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Guardians of the Galaxy 2014
All the bits of this movie that give us an idea of Rocket’s tragic backstory were laid out so well — his line about not asking to get made, Peter seeing the screws/machinery in his back when they get to prison, even things as subtle as his criminal profile that pops up and mentions experimentation on his cerebral cortex. You get the sense that Gunn always wanted to come back to this before being done with these characters, and it’s…
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