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  Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time 2021

  ★★★ Watched 20 Jun 2022

  This is a tough one for me because I think the part in the middle with everyone (except for the pilots) being older and building a community and Rei’s search for identity and finding meaning is the high water mark for Evangelion as a franchise, but I also think the final act is messy and bad. I also think the move to 3d models means that all of the Eva’s feel so weightless and lacking the physicality of EoE or the series.

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  The Blob 1958

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Jun 2022

  I’ve met the blob in person. I’ve run screaming from its oozeyness. This movie is a corny, yet earnest classic of 50s horror. I’ve seen it enough times that I can see enough seams to recognize that it’s “objectively” only an ok flick. 5 stars in my heart, though.

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  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Jun 2022

  I liked this. I respect that Guardians of the Galaxy opened the door to Marvel movies getting increasingly weird, and this may be the pinnacle of that. At its heart this is a conventional story that mashes together “power corrupts” with “what if I’d done things differently?” and a dash of “coming of age”, but filtered through a lens of Sam Raimi angles. I wish he could have gone all out, but recognize the studio’s touch on these things and…

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  We're All Going to the World's Fair 2021

  ★ Rewatched 19 Jun 2022

  I really wanted to like this one. The premise is great. The visual metaphor for dysphoria is basically perfect. The rest of the movie is such a slow burn that I’m pretty sure it went out somewhere back there and I’m waiting for fireworks that are never going to come.

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