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Godzilla vs. Biollante 1989
Watched again with Samm Deighan’s delightful and informative commentary. Thank you Criterion for releasing great editions like this!
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Star Trek: Insurrection 1998
Basically feels like a TNG two-parter (and that's fine!)
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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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