A delightfully weird and fun analogy. It ends pretty abruptly and it never really felt like it knew what it was doing in terms of character development. But the artwork is so pretty and I see its influence on sci-fi (Scavengers Reign in particular comes to mind).
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Alexander Nevsky 1938
This certainly feels like a film Joseph Stalin had to approve every frame of.
But it’s also about as good of a movie as you could make under those constraints. The way that the German villains were portrayed (and all the Nazi imagery) was super fascinating and a window into USSR/German relations at the time of the film.
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The Program 2024
Poorly edited, disparate, and unfocused, this “documentary” adds nothing new to the discussion of UAP/UFO phenomenon and merely exists as a way for these people to make money by cobbling together terrible AI images with a bunch of interviews of random government officials who all say they know something that would convince the public that aliens exist if only it weren’t classified (cut to a super serious close up of James Fox nodding in slow motion as the tacky score…
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Parasite 2019
This one didn’t quite live up to the hype. Maybe it’s because these films about class struggles aren’t really my thing. It’s a hot take, but they’re hard to do well. They’re so obvious and easy… Many of them are smug, pointed films directed by some millionaire that just scream the word “society” at you for 90+ minutes. Parasite certainly isn’t the worst offender, but it still feels easy. Nobody but rich assholes like rich assholes, so it’s very easy…
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