3.6 Stars A funny, corny and goofy, self aware Western genre parody, in mostly good ways; Mel Gibson's character, Maverick, has a recurring trait of throwing out quips decrying whites killing Native Americans and casting Native Americans as completely innocent non- combatants. The three main characters back and fourths with each other are pretty entertaining and funny and most of the film is pretty...
An addictive rpg with a huge amount of content and replayability. Such gems have not been on the gaming market for a long time
3.8 Stars Follows a hired killer on the biggest job of his career and the French Law Enforcement who are sniffing for his trail. The Day of The Jackal is a slow methodical film, devoid of any introspection into the minds, motives or feelings of the characters, beyond actions happening on screen. That is probably the biggest strength and weakness of the film, everything feels understated, like every...
3.7 Stars I went into the Patlabor film thinking it would mainly be mech on mech action, what I found was a surprisingly relaxing late 80s perspective of a near-future sci-fi criminal investigation film. The plot is laced themes of collective and individual worry about industrialization. Fears of losing the past of a civilization or culture do to rapid technological booms. Biblical references and...
2.4 Stars I saw some clips and tweets of The Flash on accompanied by comments saying that it looked and felt like it was made by AI, after watching, I definitely felt a paint by numbers, bare minimum, capesh*t broad stroke running through the production. Its crazy to me how referencial The Flash was able to be, without bringing anything fresh the product's that are it's sources and predecessors. ✓...
3.6 Stars Oppenheimer is a film that's made for IMAX. Christopher Nolan's effort to make special effects that represent possible imaginings that Robert Oppenheimer may have visualized throughout his schooling/working theorizing the atomic world and nuclear Explosions, accompanied by a dramatic string orchestral musical score for the effect of adding tension and gravity to many frankly static and mundane...
Sound of Freedom is a movie based on the true story of Tim Ballard, a government agent who quits his job in order to rescue children from sex traffickers in Colombia. Directed by Alejandro Monteverde,...
4 Stars Though It might be the least based of Adam Curtis's documentaries framing wise, it still has an impactful style that comes from the editing together of archive footage and music. Full Film: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GH24MpqiDxI&pp=ygUfQWRhbSBjdXJ0aXMgaXQgZmVsdCBsaWtlIGEga2lzcw%3D%3D
3.3 Stars After seeing The Sound of Freedom, I tried to differentiate what was plain fact and what was done for the sake of the film to coalesce events into a single narrative. I listened to the Jordan B Peterson podcast featuring the focus of the film Tim Ballard and Jim Caviezel, who plays him in the film. Tim Ballard more or less says that different events from his career were combined to make...
How do you find yourself today? https://youtube.com/watch?v=GKBtMLOC2oU&pp=ygUHVXRvcGlhIA%3D%3D
A solo physical performance based off a traditional slapstick British puppet show. Characters: Mr. Punch Judy The Baby The Constable (a.k.a. Policeman Jack) Joey the Clown The Crocodile The Skeleton The Doctor The Hangman (a.k.a. Jack Ketch) The Devil The Beadle Pretty Polly It's 20 minutes of Johnathan Bowden running, jumping around, rhyming and laughing manicilly. Short...
3.6 Stars Things that are of note about this adaptation of The Classic Revenge Story were the addition of Napoleon Bonaparte into the plot of the first segment of the film, the decision to Make Edmond Dantes and Fernand friends in an attempt by the screenwriters to make the betrayal delt by the latter more personal. I don't think these changes make the film any better, they just kind of adds more...
2.2 Stars Very Generic and formulaic Revenge Story with boring extraneous dialogue. I have no idea why the film is tilted the "Old Way" besides that Nick Cage plays an aged outlaw who somehow settled down from a life of crime while still using his original alias, imagine my shock when his past comes back to haunt him. In the classic John Wick Level logic he pulls a seemingly normal cardboard cutout...
3.9 Stars For me the best thing about this film is the Aramaic and Latin spoken throughout, it got me more absorbed than any other film I can think of that depicts the death of Jesus. Jesus really gets torn up, even before crucifixion, there is so much blood loss even just from his initial scourging after being sentenced to death. The inclusion of the Devil as a character that only Jesus can see...
3.5 Stars The Dark Knight Rises has got to be the silliest instalment of the Dark Knight Trilogy, The more you think about any of the three films, the more silly internal logic you notice, but the final film takes the cake. It feels like Nolan wrote himself into a corner and had to try to craft a highest stakes epic finale that needed to cut corners to get 2 or 3 big budget wow scenes on screen
3.7 Stars Even though I think I might be allergic to stylistic tropes I picked up on by watching too many Chris Nolan films, there was enough original ingredients going into this production to break the mold for me enough to enjoy it more than any of his other films. The advanced technology used in the plot of Batman Begins is toned down for more realistic feel. Heath Ledgers Joker is still a pretty...
3.6 Stars Decent musical score. A plot that has been told a million times with little original or standout differences. I feel like Chris Nolan characters are always given too many dialogue scenes to explain/rationalize the more outlandish sci-fi elements and whatever pop philosophical archetype the characters are acting out in the plot,which feels like a waste of time and makes those devices seem...
3.0 Stars A stoner comedy that has a almost as many bad jokes as good ones. Pete Dante, playing a character, who goes only his own surname on screen, contributes some of the funniest comedy in the film. Pretty much all of the sex related humor is just gross, poorly delivered or both
3.7 Stars Solid family/comedy film that gets laughs out of adults and kids. Good mix of physical comedy and humourous quips and insults from the kids on Sandlot. The best parts of the film are the shorter anecdotal stories about summer shenanigans that have less to do with the kids playing baseball. I could have watched a whole film filled with just those and gone without, or with less focus on the...
3.5 Stars Great Casting, average directing, overuse of CGI. A deplorable butchering of The Hobbit Book to stretch and mold the screenplay into 3 films as greedy aping of Peter Jackson's Lord of The Rings film Trilogy.
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