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  New World 2013

  ★★★ Added

  Park Hoon-jung claims to have seen the Godfather trilogy hundreds of times, and I don't doubt him. I can't help but shake the vibe that he saw the Godfather movies, thought "wow that's cool", and tried to take all the superficially cool bits and chuck them into a badass gangsta movie. Sort of like how I imagine Troy Duffy saw "Pulp Fiction" one night and decided to make "The Boondock Saints" cause shooting people + saying religious stuff afterwards etc.…

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  Lust, Caution 2007

  ★★★ Added

  Just finished watching this movie. Now it's 2:40 am and I'm seriously bummed out. God damnit. Ugh. I guess there was no other way this movie could really have ended, but given how slowly paced the rest of the movie was, the abrupt transition for the ending was a bit weird and awkward. It really emphasised how much of a bummer it was; there's one scene in particular that felt like a dream, or a nightmare I suppose, and I've…

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  Antz 1998

  ★★★★ Added 1

  Probably the easiest way to make me irrationally upset in a short space of time would be to say "oh Antz isn't that the cheap failed dreamworks ripoff of A Bug's Life???". Uhhhgh. First, Antz may not have done as well as A Bug's Life did in the box office, but it was better received critically and just generally the superior film. Second, they're completely different movies, or at least about as completely different as two films about cartoon ants…

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