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  Click 2006

  ★★★ Rewatched 07 Apr 2018

  Adam Sandler makes it hard to respect him as an actor and storyteller at times … a lot of the time actually. If, like me, you have seen The Waterboy or Happy Gilmore, The Longest Yard or Little Nicky as a teenager then the laughs had with friends at the time will stick in your mind and give him some leeway with his insensitive, objectifying and culturally tasteless – easy joke making. Click fits comfortably into this canon: dogs humping…

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  Iron Man 2008

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 17 Mar 2018

  Like watching A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi knowing that Vader is Luke's father, or who exactly Keyser Söze is (to take two well know examples), re-watching the birth of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) nearly twenty films, ten years and the most desired Blockbuster creation template later is delightful to spot character nuances and their personal evolution, but also near impossible to view as a singular creative entity. As a standalone Blockbuster film released…

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  Prometheus 2012

  ★★★★ Rewatched 21 Apr 2017

  It has been 5 entire years since I first saw Prometheus at the cinema.
  I saw Prometheus for the second time 5 years after it was released in the cinema.
  I have been wrong, or at least not entirely accurate, about Prometheus for 5 years.
  Because of marketing and Ridley Scott's comments on the prequel nature of Prometheus to Alien, I brought unhelpful expectations to my first viewing of this film. I have been inaccurately arguing that Prometheus was 'bad'…

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  Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2014

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Jul 2014

  The motto of never working with children or animals needs to be adjusted as here the humans actually bring the high quality of the apes down, not that the humans are uninteresting rather the apes are just vastly more interesting. This is due to the leap in motion capture and photo realistic CG that this film and its predecessor both helped to improve, engaging emotionally and connecting with the apes becomes second nature, you forget that you are watching computer…

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