Wish I liked it more. It does feel like it actually has something to say and it’s an alright exploration of keeping your morality during war and if you can fight fascism without giving everything of yourself. I wish it was a bit more focused on those ideas but I can’t believe it was still committed enough to kill every character off at the end. I think part of why it’s aged worse is because Tony Gilroy took all the…
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The 4:30 Movie 2024
Cannot emphasize enough how much of this is just Andy Samberg’s out of breath jogger from the 80’s bit but still really charming! Best Kevin Smith since Dogma because he’s actually writing about teenagers instead of 40 year olds acting like teenagers.
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Oppenheimer 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This might be Nolan's best work. Need to see it again because most of my thoughts are scattered. I love Nolan's pulpier movies but it's been a really interesting career turn to focus on these gloomy real-life, world ending anxieties. Most of Nolan's movies are embedded with father's guilt but it gets pretty meta-textual here with his real daughter playing a woman who Oppenheimer imagines getting her face burned off from the bomb.
Pretty much every Nolan protagonist is stuck…
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Celtics/Lakers: Best of Enemies 2017
The Lakers acting like it didn't take a death, the clearly wrong out of bounds call, Bird missing a shot he makes 99/100 and injuries to Bird, DJ, Walton, Parish, Ainge and McHale's foot literally being in two pieces to win in '87 is bullshit. Also did not care for the erasure of the Bill Laimbeer phantom call in '88.
But it's the only place for some worthwhile M.L. Carr content and they did a fantastic job painting how much…
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