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  The Penguin 2024

  ★★ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  I watched a little over half of season 1 and threw in the towel. This is just kind of relentlessly dour, bleak, and mean. It's baby's first Sopranos, but I'm sorry to say Oswald Cobblepot is no Tony Soprano. At first it's somewhat entertaining to watch him get one over on the other assholes, but after a while it just starts to grate and there's really nothing to latch on to with this guy. There's no tragic pathos like with…

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  Captain America: Civil War 2016

  ★★ Rewatched 10 Feb 2025

  This is such an immense downgrade after watching GotG in tone, visuals, and characters it's crazy. The decision to shoot almost all the action like a fan film in a parking lot was so bad. So much of the first half is all tacticool zero dark nonsense. The airport scene is thoroughly bad on every level, as mentioned. The aesthetics and direction, the constant undercutting of what should be a dramatic climax with bad quips, it just doesn't work. The…

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  Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life 2016

  ★ Watched 14 Jan 2017

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017

  ★★½ Watched 13 Dec 2017

  Safe. That's the last thing I wanted this movie to be, but I can't think of it any other way. Sure, The Force Awakens was a fine movie, but it was basically a retread of A New Hope. I, and many others, hoped and thought the sequel would strike off in a new direction, or at least throw some curve balls. But despite some general gesticulation in the film's middle in the direction of upending the balance of things, this…