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Annihilation 2018
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The writers missed the "Show Don't Tell" lesson in third grade creative writing class. The conversations about scientific concepts sound like a liberal arts undergrad's approximation of what scientists talk like and shattered my immersion. (Lena's declaration that mortality is a fault in our genes is strictly false.) The dialogue that is meant to be pithy is written with the subtlety and grace of an anvil. The characters are flat and unmemorable. We have to be told explicitly there is…
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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 2020
The footage was beautiful, but I felt the documentary barely even grazed the surface of its subject. Most of the information contained herein is common knowledge, so much so that the film is more platitudinous than it is educational. The narrative format adheres too closely to a Hollywood three act structure, which feels inappropriate for an issue of this magnitude. Music, sound design, and editing are overemployed to command the viewer how to feel, to compensate for the general lack…
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Gladiator 2000
Unwatchable camera work during the action scenes, banal music, formulaic structure, a villain so flamboyant and irredeemable as to border on parody. Historically innacurate to the point where I would have preferred they just use fictional characters than the names of real emperors.
I’d have given a lower score if it hadnt been made in 2000.
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