Favorite films
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Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I was so angry at this movie until around 40 minutes in when I realized this has to be fed propaganda. The movie's so shit in every single way that it had to be on purpose. It's reverse psychology 101.
So yeah, the Russos are feds, artless pigs whose career highlight was a few sitcom episodes, and Simon Stalenhag is a simpleton for defending this movie.
I have a theory about the ending. Michel Franco realized during production that he was making a movie that didn't outright suck, remembered how close he got to getting it right with Sundown, panicked, and just sort of stopped making the movie to prevent himself from ruining it.
Congratulations, man, you did it! Your dialogue is still trash regardless of language, but whatever.
While there are some interesting and fun visuals and the robot was charming, I absolutely hated most of the story and that dumb loser dog specifically. A hapless character can be relatable but this incorregible idiot made me think of all the "uwu that's me" 30+ year old city-dwelling millenials with wrists so limp that they need to pop a viagra just to wave at someone on the street. Just the kind of people who take the message "sometimes people…