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  Mobile Suit Gundam F91 1991

  ★★★ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  F91 is a 50 episode tv show scrapped for parts and cobbled together into a 2 hour movie. The first 30 minutes is Gundam at its best. It’s a tense and chaotic spectacle in which humanity is caught under foot of these Godlike machines of war. After those first minutes F91 devolves into an incoherent clip show. The common refrain online is that it’s a recap movie for a show that was never made. Gorgeous mecha designs, jaw dropping animation,…

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  RoboCop 1987

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Jan 2025

  As part of the pre-production Paul Verhoeven was given a stack of Judge Dredd comics. As he spoke no English, he probably read them in French. This isn’t relevant to anything. I just felt smart for making that connection. Robocop is great. Go watch Robocop.

Popular reviews

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  Megalopolis 2024

  Watched 26 Sep 2024

  The worst movie I’ll ever recommend. And the best movie I’ll never recommend. An unquantifiable enigma. I won’t give it a rating because Megaopolis transcends any rubric I have for movie quality.

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  Light of Darkness 1998

  ★★ Watched 07 Oct 2024 1

  A homeless black man is shot as if he’s Jason Voorhees. Then he violently drags a woman out of her car. Only (surprise!) it turns out she had parked her car on train tracks. How she didn’t notice the tracks (because it’s not like they’re hidden) and why the homeless man was completely mute and illiterate, is left to the audience’s imaginations. In case the hammy performance of amazing grace at the end doesn’t clue you in, it’s another one…

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