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Recent reviews

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  Spirited Away 2001

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2024 4

  Lovely, Charming, Colorful, Fun, Melancholic, Wistful, Compelling, Hopeful, and Beautiful.

  A confusing and oddly paced film. It has some of the most strikingly beautiful compositions I’ve ever seen. A testament to the power of animation as a medium.

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2024 1

  Really solid worm-type movie. As far as desert, man-eating worm universes go, big fan of this one. 

  I really like how they rode the worms. I’ve always considered Timothy Chalamet something of a worm-rider.

  I like the worms used in warfare. They’re like battle horses or battle elephants, but they’re battle worms. 

  There’s a moment in the film where a worm eats a bunch of corpses, which I thought was pretty neat. 

  I like how there’s a sequence with a little small worm guy, but I don’t like how they kill it and extract it’s worm-juice. For that reason I’m removing a star.

Popular reviews

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  Five Nights at Freddy's 2023

  ★★ Rewatched 23 Jan 2024 1

  Narrative did not compel me.
  -dream sequence got stale and felt like it missed narrative potential
  -characters felt one dimensional and never fleshed out
  -story pacing was off and stakes never felt truly raised
  -rules of the universe were never clearly established

  Visuals were not motivated.
  -large format cinematography felt unnecessary and distracting, especially in a horror scenario where seeing less can be more valuable
  -lighting was nice, but a little plain—> one nice moment was when all the robots…

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