I must admit that my expectations for this one were somewhat tempered. Millennium Actress is the red-headed stepchild of the Satoshi Kon films; it's not as renowned as Perfect Blue, as beloved as Tokyo Godfathers, or as notorious as Paprika. Fittingly, the story at its core is more simple than any of Kon's other three films as well. The audience will find no psychological twists and turns, no city-wide odyssey, no surreal dream world. Millennium Actress is about a woman,…
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Colossus: The Forbin Project 1970
One's first instinct upon watching this film in 2025 might be to laugh smugly at the seemingly ridiculous independent thought capabilities of the AI antagonist, but this movie isn't REALLY about a sentient computer program. No, Colossus is an allegory for something we've all understood for generations now: the bomb. I mean, think about it: in the film, the national defense of both the USA and the USSR hinge on AI programs that ultimately fuse with each other and hold…
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Daredevil 2003
No good whatsoever. Turns the character of Matt Murdock into Batman-lite, with some of the worst CGI I've seen from a movie of this era. Duncan is underutilized as Kingpin and Farrell is poorly directed as Bullseye. Utterly laughable in its attempt to capture the superhero zeitgeist, and the pacing seems to have been completely wrecked in the process of cutting it down to PG-13. The only reason why I'm not rating it even lower is because it contains the single funniest needle drop I've ever seen in a movie.
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Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star 2011
"AT LEAST IT CAN'T GET WORSE THAN MASTER OF DISGUISE," I SAID, STUPIDLY, WITH NO IDEA THAT THIS FILM'S SPECTER WAS HOVERING OVER ME LIKE A RAINCLOUD. THE FACT THAT THERE WAS A WIDE THEATRICAL RELEASE FOR BUCKY LARSON: BORN TO BE A STAR IS A BIGGER INSULT TO CINEMA THAN ANY MARVEL MOVIE COULD EVER BE. WHOSE FUCKING IDEA WAS IT TO GIVE NICK SWARDSON HIS OWN MOVIE? AND THEY DO THE FUCKING MIDWESTERN ACCENTS THE WHOLE FUCKING MOVIE!…
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Monica and Friends: Lessons 2021
Dumb, boring swill that was clearly only made with kids in mind. I haven't seen the first one, but I doubt that would make much of a difference. It's kinda cool that there's an underlying theme of body positivity, since the main kid is kinda heavyset and it's never remarked about, but other than that, there's not much of value here. I know that it's based on some long-running comic that some Brazilians might be nostalgic for, but damn, this sucks. Letterboxd really needs to do something about the Brazilian bot accounts that are actively attempting to undermine their ranking system.
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