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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim 2024
It looks okay visually, but the plot and writing are HORRIBLE. This is a boring rehash that steals lines and plot beats from better LOTR movies.
Could not recommend this to any true Tolkien fans. Hera is a corny Mary Sue.
“She could ride a horse before she could walk.” Barf.
Skip it.
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High and Low 1963
High and Low asks the question, “Would you pay the ransom for someone else’s child?”
While in Japan there seems to be a higher moral, I sadly feel like in 2025 America that the kid would be toast.
Executives routinely commit economic violence to their employees(layoffs, benefit cuts, stagnant wages, etc)
This is still a masterful film and has a Hitchcockian feel + has some great lines.
Kingo Gondo: “Why should you and I hate each other?”
Ginjirô Takeuchi: “I…
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985
Thunderdome: 2 Men Enter, 1 Man Leaves
I like the allegory of Bartertown and this film creates an anthropology for the politics of Bartertown, with Auntie being the ruler on paper and MasterBlaster ruling the energy.
It’s flawed, and they spend too much time at the end doing pure action chase, and not developing the story as much
They also should have done more than 1 Thunderdome fight
Still enjoyed this one
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Mad Max 2 1981
When George Miller went to make Mad Max, his goal was to produce a film that could be “read purely as visual music.”
“Somehow it tapped into universal archetypes” across cultures, with audiences relating Gibson’s character to their own individual, mythical heroes.”
In Japan, Max read as a samurai, Miller says. In Scandinavian countries, he was perceived as a Viking. Americans saw him as a Western-style cowboy
“That solitary figure against the world, wandering the wasteland.”
This film is a…
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