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Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
Meh day, but this is always a pick me up! One of the greatest ever.
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Black Hawk Down 2001
Genuinely an incredibly impressive feat of war film-making, but it also felt frustratingly inert in so many ways? I think it falls into the historical film trap of hewing too closely to telling a specific historical event without investing enough time and effort into developing compelling characters to go along with it. The absolutely stellar cast carries it a lot of the way, and the combat scenes are really well done-Ridley clearly loves to shoot his war scenes-but there’s basically…
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Deadpool & Wolverine 2024
Intellectually, ideologically, creatively bankrupt. The MCU clearly has nothing left to offer the culture if this is the best they can do.
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