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  Twister 1996

  ★★★½ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  Cinefex Tour

  Film #131

  Source: Warner 4K UHD Blu-ray

  History: Saw this in pieces on HBO in college. Watched it straight through for the first time last year, right before the sequel came out.

  Overall Impressions: Still a lot of fun. Doesn’t feel long because it’s always moving fast, and gets a lot of mileage out of shooting where it’s actually set. Paxton’s overdue for a hero turn, and he and Hunt have good chemistry. Phil Hoffman picks up his…

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  Megalopolis 2024

  ★½ Watched 28 Sep 2024 2

  Gruelingly terrible, but in charmingly old-fashioned ways: the garish excess of early Baz Luhrmann, the desperate psuedo-intellectual posturing of 90s Woody Allen, the sporadic horniness of Verhoeven, and the preposterous “As you know, Bob” exposition of Ed Wood. Useful, like Kurosawa’s Madadayo or Hitchcock’s Family Plot, to demonstrate what happens to the brain of one of the greats when they get so old that no one tells them no.

Popular reviews

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  Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 01 Apr 2023

  Most of the emotional payoffs felt rote and predictable, and there were about three times as many quips as there are in the Marvel films that everyone complains are too quippy, but I truly appreciated all the shout-outs to the dorkiest bits of D&D lore: Gelatinous Cube, Bardic Inspiration, clashing Alignments making it impossible to agree on a plan, etc.

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  The Creator 2023

  ★★½ Watched 10 Oct 2023

  It hardly matters that a science fiction film is “original” when the script is a trash fire of 80s cop cliches and Mandalorian-style hand waving (the child can control all technology with zero side effects because, um, technology??). Great design work from Weta and ILM, but the worldbuilding is surface level only and the morality is childishly simplistic. A mindless, hollow experience.