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Spider-Man 3 2007
It's so bizarre how good this movie can be at the same time it's being bad. The script is terrible, but Rami as a director still had unparalleled levels of sauce; the visual storytelling comes damn close to selling scenes that DON'T deserve to be sold. Even the infamous dance sequence looks incredible! It's just... also so, so painfully stupid. Not a "good" movie by a long shot, but I had a blast nevertheless.
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The Village 2004
Supremely underappreciated; shout-out to 16-year-old Alana for recommending this to me, I'm sorry it took me just shy of a decade to get around to watching it! Though implausible on a certain level, Bryce Dallas Howard and Joaquin Phoenix both turn in performances strong enough to keep me from feeling too skeptical, and the thematic truth of the film is just... palpable in a "post"-pandemic world.
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Kung Fu Panda 3 2016
The Kung Fu Panda trilogy concludes more satisfyingly than the Godfather trilogy and I think that's beautiful
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Halloween 1978
It's impossible in practice to separate media as artwork and as historical artifact given that both are qualitatively rather than quantitative elements, but they aren't the same thing. Halloween is a decent piece of art with an incredible history born out of it. I'm happy I've finally seen it, and it's far from being the biggest disappointment I've had with classic horror, but i can't help but feel this movie has an outsized reputation relative to its quality.
John Carpenter is still one of the goats though!
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