TobyWilkes

TobyWilkes

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  • The Big Lebowski

    ★★★

  • The Guilty

    ★★★★

  • The Guilty

    ★★★★½

  • Don't Look Up

    ★★★½

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  • The Big Lebowski

    The Big Lebowski

    ★★★

    This film felt like a cult classic made in a lab. Rightly or wrongly, I felt it to be disingenuous purely for this reason. It felt too classically cult classic, like every aspect of it from the storyline to the line delivery was calculated.

    Every time there was a line said that sounded suspiciously like a quote I'd see on a T-shirt (an "up to eleven" kind of quotability), the film began to sound more and more self-aggrandizing, formulaic, or…

  • The Guilty

    The Guilty

    ★★★★

    Was skeptical going into it seeing as it basically only has one real character in it but it had my attention the whole time.

  • Don't Look Up

    Don't Look Up

    ★★★½

    "Don't look up" and "drill baby drill" are starting to sound scarily similar.

  • Obi-Wan Kenobi

    Obi-Wan Kenobi

    ★★

    Felt like star wars through the eyes of someone who doesn't give a shit about Star wars. Despite the sequels' faults, I thought they did do a decent job of keeping the whimsy alive in the aesthetics. But this just has that same flat lighting - as if Tatooine has constant cloud cover - and those same flat colours that I see all the time now fsr. Even the neon lights in the faux blade runner city seemed flat and…

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