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  Postcard From Earth 2023

  ½ Rewatched 11 Mar 2025

  The most inane, condescending Gaia fanfic tripe I hope to never think about again. Nauseatingly naive nonsense.

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  Le Trou 1960

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Feb 2025

  A good 20 minutes of this is long takes of these guys taking turns at whacking away at real cement and barely making a dent, until finally— hands blistered, ears ringing from the cacophonous din—the smallest of cracks is begrudgingly granted.

  That prolonged sense of futility morphing to  awe, watching one impenetrable problem after another start to give way, is satisfying to a degree I haven’t experienced in recent memory, if ever?

  For so many films of this genre, obstacles are co-stars that give way because the script says so. Here, this dead, uncaring stone and steel could give a shit.

Popular reviews

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  Idiocracy 2006

  ★★★★ Rewatched 22 Nov 2021 7

  My first LB review happens to be for Idiocracy. So be it.

  Although the pacing falls off a cliff around half-way through, this is still an intensely funny and painfully plausible satire of capitalist consumerism that's overflowing with brilliant ideas that are still funny almost 2 decades later. This movie gave us:  

  • Gatorade (BRAWNDO) replacing water
  • Ow! My Balls is the #1 show
  • The tribal tattoo police aesthetic
  • Costco's appropriating "I love you" as an empty…

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  Prey 2022

  ★★★ Rewatched 14 Aug 2022

  Disney-esque and trite as the writing & plot are, there are some fairly well-executed action scenes and neat visuals, mostly in the last half, that make it a serviceable action film.

  Strange choice to have the predator face off with a bunch of low-stakes CG animals when there are plenty of human opponents to stage more interesting set-piece battles amongst...

  The bear fight was pretty metal though.

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