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Favorite films

  • Django Unchained
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Gladiator
  • Oppenheimer

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  • The Alto Knights

    ★★

  • The Electric State

    ★★½

  • The Butterfly Effect

    ★★★

  • Black Swan

    ★½

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  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    ★★½

    It was fine. Easy to follow, switch off your brain sort of movie.

    Chris Pratt is Chris Pratt, the other performances are fine. Keep your expectations low and you’ll probably have a fine time.

  • The Butterfly Effect

    The Butterfly Effect

    ★★★

    Positives:
    - Interesting, ambitious concept, even though it’s not amazingly executed. 
    - Engaging and unpredictable. 
    - Emotional depths and dark scenes.
    - Intense and immersive atmosphere.

    Negatives:
    - Messy execution with poorly written dialogue. 
    - The cast was mostly poor in my opinion with no great performances. The best of the cast was Kutcher in the lead role, however I do not feel he has the dramatic depth to carry the film.
    - Unpolished B movie/TV-like visuals. 
    - Slightly struggles…

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  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★½

    Just not for me unfortunately. 

    Positives
    + I appreciate the attempts behind its expressions of gender fluidity.
    + Decent score. 

    Negatives 
    - Really dull, relatively boring plot that doesn’t really go anywhere.
    - Secondary elements e.g the horror elements, tv show moments, monologues don’t really work, they really fizzle out. 
    - Messaging was very messy.
    - Acting was very flat, this may have been the point but it made all the characters very one note and un-unique. I don’t mind…

  • Blink Twice

    Blink Twice

    ★★★

    I quite enjoyed it. I liked the build up and I personally quite liked the long, drawn out set up. I liked that it took a while for them to notice things even though we know somethings up.

    Tatum was good, as was Arjona. Everyone else also put in fine performances, no one stood out particularly but no one was bad.

    I thought the plot was fine but it was quite obvious what was going on and where we were…