A bit of an indictment of things in Hollywood that someone whose life has been so distant from regular human experience as Gia Coppola is making one of the most honest pictures of the past couple years. Someone else on here said it was her trying to make a Sean Baker movie. Completely disagree. Sean Baker's films have heart and some level of bootstrapping visual style that makes them popular on the indie circuit, but they ultimately drip with a…
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A Complete Unknown 2024
I went into this one expecting a by-the-numbers, slightly hagiographic biopic where I'd have fun watching Timo, Ed Norton, and Elle Fanning wear period costumes and present a story I've heard 10,000 times to me in an inoffensive way. I was actually pleasantly surprised at where this one was willing to go in a few places, but even taken on its own terms, there's some framing issues that I take real issue with. I've been wrestling with how to present…
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Garm Wars: The Last Druid 2014
The perfect movie for people who would rather get a Wikipedia PhD in Theology to understand the hollow Christian imagery of Evangelion than listen to the explicitly outlined themes of the series. The final boss of hackneyed and joyless worldbuilding, Garm Wars almost feels like a practical joke: what is the precise amount of JRPG mumbo-jumbo that would have made the live action Aeon Flux appealing to vulgar poptimists? How little modification of Star Wars do you need to make…
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016
Warner Bros.' DC Comics' Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Ultimate Edition finds itself in a tug-of-war between studio pressure for franchise potential and a desire to develop the themes of its excellent predecessor, Man of Steel. The film manages, through almost pure philosophical ambition and a strong effort by Snyder for aesthetic grandiosity, to overcome its more by-the-numbers elements.
Batman v Superman is indeed a hodgepodge of (commercially) successful elements of other franchise films. There are loads…
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