Charles Brandt

Charles Brandt

Pretentious film snob who hates pretentiousity and snobbery.

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  • 1865

    ★★★★★

  • Dead Man Walking

    ★★★★★

  • Red Gloves

    ★★★★★

  • Strangers in the Night

    ★★★★★

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  • 1865

    1865

    ★★★★★

    A great story well-shot and amazingly acted. The fight scenes were a sight to behold with the sound design giving them the edge they needed.

  • Dead Man Walking

    Dead Man Walking

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  • Heat

    Heat

    ★★

    For the life of me, I could not remember character names. By the end of the movie I realized it was between good guy cop Al Pacino and bad guy Robert de Niro. That's the power of exposition through dialogue. Pacino is hilarious and much of the banter is believable, but there's just so much.
    Overall, it's very indulgent. The cinematography is astounding in some places and abysmal in a few. The action is there, that's for sure. Under the…

  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

    Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

    ★★★½

    I mean it's cool and all, but the amount of Dutch angles is sickening. The edits to and from camera angles are also really strange, but the action is entirely engaging, the score is good (of course), and the aerial stunts are unmatched.

    The locations that this film is shot on are beautiful. Also the entirety of the train scenes continuously remind me of the Polar Express.

    As far as the story goes, it doesn't really make much sense because if an AI was advanced enough to hack everything, I think it could decentralize itself so you couldn't use a key to kill it.

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