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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024
This movie was pure fan service for Mad Max people. Mind you, that means fans of the franchise, (read: the 80s pervert Mel Gibson movies) not just Fury Road. That's to say this was made for me: The Wasteland is just a world I like spending time in.
I loved it, but it an uncritical "wow look at all the cool shit" way. Gastown and The Bullet Farm are cool! The tripartite economy of the wasteland is cool! As are…
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All Quiet on the Western Front 2022
Third (maybe fourth?) time seeing All Quiet, and I only like it more with every revisit. Kat stuck out to me this time around: his illiteracy, and erstwhile friendship with the educated Bäumer, drives home how much the trenches leveled Europe's pre-war social divisions. Everyone, caked in mud, became just another impending corpse.
The battle sequences are just incredible. The German push over no man's land, countered by French tanks and flamethrowers, is pretty much the coolest shit possible. This…
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Civil War 2024
This movie rocks, best war movie since All Quiet on the Western Front. This is however NOT a movie about politics: to watch it that way misunderstands Alex Garland's intent completely.
It's a movie that presents Iraq War imagery in the context of the US mid-atlantic. The backstory serves that (meaningful) aesthetic choice to propose what feels to me like closer to a horror story: what if the destruction we wrought in the Middle East literally came home to roost?…
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Napoleon 2023
Teetering between 3.5 and 4 stars on this one.
The battle sequences for Toulon, Austerlitz, and Waterloo were all exceptional. 19th Century line fire and artillery carnage pander to me, shit is so cool. Nice to see it all represented in both sweeping scale and details—Ridley Scott knows how to shoot war. Don't know what people moaning about Josephine are on about, feels like another stupid "there aren't allowed to be girls in WW2 shooters" thing to me. Just watch…
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