This movie just casually shows what Joy Luck Club went to great lengths to explain. But this movie couldn't have existed without Joy Luck Club.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 2018
The six vignettes almost trace a stylistic/thematic path through the Coens' career.
1 (Tim Blake Nelson) - Very darkly funny.
2 (James Franco) - Effortlessly funny with the lightest touch of poignancy.
3 (Liam Neeson) - Dark and unsettling. My least favorite of the six.
4 (Tom Waits) - Just brilliant and profound and beautiful. The stand out for me.
5 (Zoe Kazan) - Heartbreaking and bleak as hell.
6 (Tyne Daly) - Thought provoking, somber, ambiguous.Translated from by
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Shallow Hal 2001
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I'm of two minds on this film. The premise is actually really sweet, and I really liked Paltrow's character and her circle of friends (which, duh), but the movie seemed like it wanted to have it both ways: decry our inability to get past looks while at the same time, fat jokes - 'Haha, she's so fat! She broke her chair.' Maybe I'm asking a lot of the Farrelly brothers.
Also, the weird subplot of Jason Alexander's character having a tail? Inexplicable beyond keeping up their streak of having someone with a physical/mental defect in every movie.
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Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! 1998
This movie was horrible. So broad as to bear no resemblance to human activity or speech. It's entire existence is an insulting f-you to the intelligent viewer.
Then again, my 85-year-old Chinese grandmother-in-law found it hilarious, so who am I to say?
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