Bong Joon Ho was exposed to one too many twitter threads about how "Starship Troopers is not a satire because the humans did nothing wrong and the bugs are gross" and made this movie out of spite
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Restore Point 2023
Aesthetically the film is great with a clear sense of worldbuilding. But a lot of the morals and themes felt unexplored or only there at the surface level. On multiple occasions, memory and specifically the control and modification of it are alluded to but never truly addressed in a meaningful way. A lot of this ends up then feeling like kinda half-hearted anticapitalism that's too afraid to really dig into it. Overall the film was entertaining, sure, but it had the potential to be so much more.
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Megalopolis 2024
This is a movie deeply stuck up its own ass in ways I couldn't have imagined. From constantly mentioning quantum physics and string theory, to having Adam Driver do the entire "to be or not to be" monologue, the movie is obsessed with sounding smart in the worst ways.
While the movie explicitly denounces its Trump stand-in, the film nonetheless feels distinctly reactionary in almost every other respect. LGBT people are only presented as a symbol of depravity, decline, and…
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