Favorite films

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  Elemental 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Oct 2023

  This film took a long time to sell me on its concept. I'm used to accepting fantastical, surreal, and even the outright absurd. But for some reason the idea of a world encapsulated by physicalizations of elements just couldn't sell me as a concept, especially with the conceit that they're going to throw a romantic relationship between fire and water. But as usual, Pixar was able to ground the story in emotion. The characters could have been portrayed in any…

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  Polite Society 2023

  ★★★ Watched 11 Sep 2023

  Positive spin feminism as a fun social commentary romp. This is one of those movies where anyone can perform martial arts given the right circumstances and music choice, but totally leans into it.

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  Shin Godzilla 2016

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Jan 2023

  This one has been on my to watch list for years. I don't hold a particular nostalgia to the original movies so I can't really compare it. But this one does get genuinely scary.
  Whether it's a cutting view of stumbling bureaucracy, or another chance to see destruction at a terrifying level, this Godzilla is definitely a different beast from the rest of them out there. While attempting to make more 'realistic' reaction to how Japan would handle a Kaiju…

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  Orlando 1992

  ★★½ Watched 25 Sep 2022

  I'm a patient viewer but this was a slog for me. I'm not studied in the original material myself, and while I was able to run with the dream logic of the film, but it felt drawn out, and yet still very abbreviated. I wanted to get more inside Orlando's mind, which is what I thought the film would be with the fourth wall breaks to the camera, but at most those added to the pretention of the film, consisting…

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