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It 2017
This movie prompted 16yo me to read a 1300+ pages Stephen King novel and made sure I'd never watch the sequel to this movie knowing well how unadaptable it was. Six years later my stance remains the same.
I'm not a big fan of the horror genre, the cheap jump scares and the creaking floors never did much for me but the young cast made this movie rewarding. Even when the movie ignores the history and politics of Derry and…
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Mission: Impossible II 2000
I'm someone who prefers to see the aesthetic choices of a movie carry over in their successors. One example that always comes to mind is the Captain America trilogy where the first one sticks out like a sore thumb because it shares no stylistic choices of its sequels, but then the last few Mission Impossible movies has felt like an antithesis to this concept. The repetitiveness of it had me enjoying the last film lesser than I expected. So, I…
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The Brutalist 2024
The hardships of the immigrant experience is on full display here, starts off strong and ends stronger. And in the middle, we're given three decades with Laszlo Toth as his life derails from his vision of the American dream. Sure by the end of it, when put in words he's survived the holocaust and has become a renowned architect but his legacy of which we're shown intricately throughout the three hour run time is downright a depressing and demoralising tale…
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Oppenheimer 2023
Third time watching and it rocks still. Appreciate Hoytema and Downey a lot more now. Also, I finally understand the IMAX hype.
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