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Don't Look Up 2021
Some of the satire is a little over the top, but it still manages to have poignant moments. While not as clever as it hoped to be, I have a hard time understanding the level of negativity against something that is not meant to be taken entirely seriously. Maybe some people saw a little too much of themselves in the film. Harder to laugh at the joke if you are the butt of it.
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Transformers: Age of Extinction 2014
Pointlessly meandering, plotless, and painfully cliched, this financially successful film demonstrates that a movie composed solely of a series of progressively larger explosions would likely turn a buck. I watched this movie roughly a year ago, however I found it so traumatic that the experience is still burned into my mind.
For the first hour and a half of the film one can actually find a marginal amount of enjoyment in simply basking in the special brand of awful the…
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Chappie 2015
While having most of the hallmarks you would come to expect from a Blomkamp film, "Chappie" cleverly develops themes of humanity, morality, and the nature of consciousness without forcing you to dwell on them. The relatively deep subject matter is broken up well by moments of humor which were for the most part smartly executed, though occasionally cartoonish.
Ironically, the weakest performances probably came from the two most seasoned actors in the cast; namely Hugh Jackman and Sigourney Weaver. Both…
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