Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
0.5 star for the OG Tommy and Kim cameo
0.5 star for the original Power Rangers Megazord music
This movie straddles the line, repeatedly, in ways that devastate a film that had such deep potential to succeed. Between trying to be adult, and trying to be kid friendly. Between being an action film and a film with (attempted) character development. Between a coherent narrative and callbacks to the original series.
This is so bad. I waited so long before I finally watched it. I wish I never had 🫣
The pacing is all wrong. The wrong characters are given screen time. The character development is shallow in its best places.
The series needs a fan and a critic to deliver a satisfactory rendition.
If only the whole special was on the same caliber as the closing sequence.
"He is sexually vulnerable" is the best and simultaneously most unnecessary line.
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Villeneuve has a vision of the epic scope and feel of Dune, of Lisan al Gaib, and most importantly, of Paul Muad'Dib Atreides. Unfortunately, Villeneuve's adamance on Dune's lofty scale diminishes the opportunity for the narrative and characterological progress to natively invoke an inherent sense of scale and wonder - Villeneuve repeatedly decides for the audience the moments you should be in awe.
Dune's pacing continues to…