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Star Trek: Insurrection 1998
Basically feels like a TNG two-parter (and that's fine!)
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Starship Troopers 1997
I enjoyed the satire—particularly the notion that you only need to turn the insanity up 10% on archetypal scenes of a standard war movie to point out how fascist and violent those fantasies are. Kind of turned repetitive and boring in the back half, albeit with great special effects and production value.
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That Darn Cat 1997
This movie includes a moment where a coffin pops open, a woman looks inside and screams “it’s not him!” and then it’s never addressed again. I will never stop thinking about this.
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Dune: Part Two 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
A valiant attempt at a truly unfilmable novel (or at least an unfilmable second half). The book is such an ambivalent freakout, dominated primarily by characters' inner monologues, that it's an awkward fit for a big, Hollywood spectacle. They end up splitting the difference in a way that felt uncommitted to me. The climactic defeat of our three primary Harkonnen villains, for example, feels like a shrug in each case. I wonder if this would have been better if they…
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