At times, this film was high camp postmodern art of a kind I have not witnessed before. At other times, it was rather shit.
I'll start with what I liked the most-the unhinged moments. The film was at its best when it was crazy in a kind or self-aware way. The best moments of this were Rita's gasp at pre-op Emilia/Matimas doing a boob reveal, the infamous vagioplasty song (from penis to vaginaaa), Selena Gomez saying 'my pussy still hurts…
I watched this film ages ago but am only now sharing my thoughts with it in the format of a review, or really a meta-review. There's been a rather frustrating trend with regards to this film in that, I think as an over-reaction against the overly gushing maybe slightly fetishising positive reaction that some hetero-sexual women had to this film, there's been a far too big course correction in the other direction where it's now trendy/woke to shit on CMBYN,…
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Incredible. The wait was worth it ajd then some.
Thoughts:
I loved how they humanised the fremen/created the divide between northern skeptics and southern fundamentalists, as it made them much more believable and real, plus made it seem less like everything fell into Paul and Jesica's lap.
Lady Jessica as something of a villain (but with very understandable motives) was great- I loved the image of Paul fighting his battles out in the desert, while Jessica, remaining in the sietch,…
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I have lots of thoughts. Loved how each of the crime squad were profoundly irritating in their own way. I loved the Americana/Lana Del Rey ride music video vibes and I think casting retired musician (it's been 10 years, let's be for real) Sky Ferreira added to this greatly. Debora was a classic manic pixie dream girl who seemed a bit lacking in her own motivations/personality but honestly I think that's kind of the charm of her/the film. In many…
