I think it’s interesting to have a handful of movies that do the whole “character being brought somewhere secluded by a group of people that have a secret and evil motivation” but having seen a bunch of them now it’s not strong enough to be its own subgenre
This one has a handful of interesting and unique ideas but at its heart feels pretty same. There is a lot to like about this movie too, I mean it feels very fleshed out and well designed. The fun parts are really fun. Just feels limited by its format.
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Novocaine 2025
Ok I started typing thinking I was going to write like 3 sentences but ended up typing a whole thing. I realized that they actually had somewhat of a nugget of something that I would have really liked but essentially completely squandered the opportunity to make the movie that accomplishes what should have been the point.
This does the thing where it’s trying to be a goofy take on the modern action film but leans too hard into copying the…
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Deadpool & Wolverine 2024
The last month of my life has been a living hell. The movie Deadpool and Wolverine overloaded my brain with dopamine to the point that the receptors in my brain seem to have lost all of their abilities to function. I lie awake at night thinking about Wolverine’s banter. My performance at work has plummeted and my managers are starting the process of firing me. I want to tell you that bothers me but I feel nothing, I just recite…
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Where the Wild Things Are 2009
I have so much and so little to say about this. It perfectly encapsulates the feeling of not knowing your identity. Somewhere between childhood and adulthood you form one, but the world around you is constantly shifting. Realistically you always have a couple of identities that you are juggling. It’s a bad feeling when one of them falls out of balance. What Max experiences in this movie is the forming of his first identity. You form it by interacting with…
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