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  It 2017

  ★★★½ Rewatched 13 Mar 2025

  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

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  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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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 31 Aug 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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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Jul 2023

  All of Nolan’s recent ventures have had gigantic set pieces, jaw-dropping stunts and insane action. Oppenheimer is a departure from all this, yet it’s also as Nolan-esque as any Nolan movie has ever been. It’s a culmination of all his talents blending fluidly to depict the psyche of a deeply sophisticated character - J Robert Oppenheimer.

  There’s a shot of Oppenheimer where he’s shown naked as he sits trial for his security clearance; Nolan doesn’t try to be sympathetic to…

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