Self-serving, stagey, speechifying, tying itself up in knots to argue that snitching on your colleagues and benefactors is good, actually. Obviously there’s quality stuff in here, but it kinda made me feel sick tbh.
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The Settlers 2023
Extremely interesting, forceful, and ugly-beautiful western in a Cormacian style, that ends on a minor note and thus ultimately feels a bit minor. What this really needed was a final bloody reckoning to push it over the top. Instead, it stays a strong curio - not that that's anything to sniff at.
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Fight Club 1999
The only thing that still feels remotely dangerous about this film is the bit where they pull a fuse out of the fuse box while standing in six inches of water.
The rest is the most nauseatingly smug sixth form philosophy bro bullshit, and it is irritating and tasteless and mind-numblingly dumb but most of all just tiresome. And I know we’ve all loved it, then hated it, then re-evaluated it for the biting critique of toxic masculinity that it…
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Weird Science 1985
If John Hughes was still alive, Woke Twitter would have killed him by now.
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