Overwrought, zero tact and subtly. All of which can be fun but there's an arrogance to the way this is presented as the film gives the impression of charting new ground through its ellaborate production but it ends up just a thin retread of a million different robot and familial stories youve experienced before with a pretty dumb political drama sprinkled on top. Characters are just constantly making broad grand statements, theres not a single character with a personality of…
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Nosferatu 2024
Didn’t help that we watched Bram Stoker’s Dracula for the first time a week prior but even without that reference point this is a pretty dismal effort.
There’s just no texture at all to this, we get no sense as to the internal lives or personalities of any of these characters, not even a morsel to give this a little something interesting to latch onto. It also very annoyingly relies on smash cuts for dramatic effect and I’m sorry but…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
The way this slowly weaves the Bene Gesserit thread offered a glimmer of the dreamy understatedness and borderline arthousiness that made up the majority of the first film. Unfortunately this is otherwise a compilation of the worst of part 1 - primarily the very conventionality of its last acts and most of the action. Although here the closing moments are excellent but the film is choked by some very typical action and simplistic character building and dialogue up to that…
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Godzilla Minus One 2023
At least Shin Godzilla, which I thought was only half great, went for something. This on the other hand is so safe and so generic that I wonder why they bothered.
A tragedy of its higher budget and "better" visual effects is that the threat of Godzilla or any stakes are not felt because everything is so silky smooth, so pristine and so perfectly orchestrated. Add to this high sheen are some very staid characters and floppy notions to survivors…
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