I wasn't aware this was a remake! Feels disappointingly defanged on the social commentary in a way that I'd imagine the original isn't. Still, has a great cast and made me laugh.
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The Lord of the Rings 1978
To honor the one-year anniversary of my wife and I visiting Hobbiton in New Zealand we decided to take a trip back to Middle Earth by watching The Lord of the Rings animated film for the first time.
While this may have been good enough for 1978, it simply doesn't compare to the Peter Jackson trilogy. It's an admirable attempt to faithfully adapt the first two books, but at 132 minutes it's just too condensed to do the story justice.…
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A Complete Unknown 2024
Like many other moviegoers, I'm sure, I went into A Complete Unknown with a set of expectations (such is the burden of biopics). I wanted to hear the music. I wanted to feel transported back to the early 60s. I wanted to see the notable figures: Guthrie, Seeger, Baez, Cash. And I wanted to watch Timothée Chalamet transform, like a chameleon, into the chameleon-like enigma that is Bob Dylan. And on all these fronts the movie delivered. Its biggest shortcoming?…
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A Real Pain 2024
A short but sweet portrait of loss, friendship, family, and yes, pain. Feels a little stagey at times, but A Real Pain ultimately pulls through and delivers an effective and occasionally touching story of two cousins searching for a new way forward together, thanks to good performances and convincing chemistry from Eisenberg and Culkin.
Funny to me that I couldn't decide which character I was most alike, but I suppose that means I could relate to them both! I must be (wait for it)... a real pain (roll credits).
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