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  The Substance 2024

  ★½ Watched 01 Nov 2024

  I wrote all this crap 5 months ago and never posted because lol but if anyone ever actually reads it I just want to add as a pre-addendum that I did and still think it was a high-concept idea tapping Demi Moore, whose age as a woman has been notably, derisively at the forefront of any discussions about her in this century, to star in this movie. But after watching I was left wondering how much if at all she…

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  Birth 2004

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  When the real Sean dies, Anna begins to form an idealized mental image of him: an impossibly pure, infallibly loving image that knows and thinks of nothing but his infatuation with and devotion to her. When she's about to marry another man, that image finally becomes too overwhelming to ignore any longer, walking into her life to fuck it all up.

  I must admit I found it a challenge at first to not get too bogged down in the actual…

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  Promising Young Woman 2020

  ½ Watched 27 Dec 2020 3

  Gregg Araki directs a Joss Whedon Netflix original as scripted by an AI that was programmed to write no-effort "eyeliner so sharp it could kill a man" tripe for the lowest echelons of the baldly exploitive and insulting fourth-wave feminist content mills. Wants to be cultural diatribe but only injects more trite, incendiary bullshit into the discourse cesspool by making the complexity and implacability of broaching "justice" for victims into fodder for shallow make-believe confrontation and revenge fetishization (think the ending…

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  WandaVision 2021

  ★ Watched 16 Jan 2021 1

  So I'm not trying to be dramatic but I really think the 2010s were culture's last gasps before it dies an agonizing internet-related death