It's fun, it's competently made, it's a rollercoaster ride, but come on - the guy even looks like Viggo Mortensen.
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Dune: Part Two 2024
A slight disappointment, I'm afraid. Having watched the first instalment and heard everyone talking this up, I put off watching it till I had read the book, and I'm glad I did. This, visually spectacular as it is, is just a recreation of the major scenes from the book, with little continuity or narrative flow. Without the source material I wouldn't have known what was going on.
Despite Villeneuve's meticulous faithfulness to the book, there are a few points of…Translated from by
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Sorcerer 1977
I can't understand why this movie isn't better known. I had never heard of it till a couple of months ago (on Letterboxd), even though:
(i) It was directed by William Friedkin, who had recently directed The French Connection and The Exorcist
(ii) It obviously had an enormous budget - no expense was spared as regards exotic locations, crowds, explosions etc. It even had helicopters, which was a big deal in the seventies
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Upstream Color 2013
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see" (Thoreau)
Pigs and humans are two parts of the same animal. The pig is simple, good-natured and close to nature, it is the better part. The Sampler has separated us from the pig so that we no longer know nature or its simple pleasures, we exist only to work and consume. The Sampler sacrifices the little piglets to feed the hideous maggot that keeps us trapped in our…
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