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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 2024
This idea of "children's media" only serves to further infantilize children instead of calling them to maturity, which is the thing they long for. When children make believe, they do not pretend to be other children, but rather, they pretend to be adults. Similarly, so much of "adult media" in the modern landscape is simply kids' movies for adults instead of adult movies for kids. The average person's idea of "adult" cinema is simply to just fill something with violence,…
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Eyes Wide Shut 1999
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Attention is something that has sadly been ignored in the larger film discourse. Even though film is supposed to be a "visual medium," no one seems to care about where his or her attention is at when watching a film, despite attention being the most crucial element. Discourse gets dragged down to boring moralizing and tacky notions of symbolism, but attention comes first. It is closely related with direction, which is where the heart of art lies. If the audience is…
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Sniper 3 2004
Tom Berenger summons more pathos as Thomas Beckett in this second direct-to-video sequel in a franchise that began 11 years ago than many mainstream Hollywood productions can muster in 20 films. He is allowed to because this is the last interesting installment in the series that is fortunate enough to have existed in a time when movies could be simple, unlike the subsequent films in the franchise. The Sniper series develops a strange and unstable mythology as it goes along,…
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Quicksand 2003
A good movie is really just likable and attractive people walking around nice locations and talking, if not something kinetic and maximalist. These two extremes encompass the film spectrum and encapsulate what film is about, which is why my taste is more or less just things made with good intentions that don’t try to manipulate me and either point me in a worthwhile direction or are simply fun and result in accidental kino, such as a movie where a cool…
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016
How Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Puts Life and the Cultural Divide in Perspective
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A few months ago, I got caught up in a discussion with two other guys at work regarding superhero films. I'm often very vocal about my disdain for most new blockbusters, particularly the Marvel films, and I ventured to say to the two men that Zack Snyder's Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice were better than anything…
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