story in which the protagonist is constantly improving his skills, and faces increasingly strong opponents, his development goes to infinity against the sky. At the same time he faces the injustice of the world, and solves various problems to make the lives of the people around him better. It's fun to watch and well worth the time
4.1 Stars An adventure film with serious themes, stakes and consequences, yet a jestful mood thanks to the two jack-of-all-trades, enterprising protagonists played by Sean Connery and Micheal Caine. The film is set up as a tragedy from the first scene where Micheal Caine's character appears, which makes parts a bit predictable, even if you are unfamiliar with the text, but the film is definitely worth...
3.8 Stars I was never fully able to get into a Gundam movie or series till I saw this. The lore of Gundam doesn't really resonate with me so an episodic series seems slow and tedious. This movie was the opposite of that experience, it's concise, exciting and keeps the pace up. The dialectics between the films rivals, Char and Amuro, are delivered quickly and don't break away from the mech action,...
4.3 Stars The Yakuza was Box Office failure on its release that has some great pacing, acting and cinematography. The film probably could have reached mainstream success if Lee Marvin was cast in The role of Harry Kilmer, but Robert Mitchum does a great job in the scenes that matter most. The beginning of the film takes its time setting up the characters relationships and the mood, but the action...
3.3 Stars Instead of focusing on crafting smooth scenarios, escapes, chases and sword play At World's End focuses more on planning, betrayal and deals struck between a cast of characters that has expanded to be too big for so many over blown egos. A lot of the characters conveniently know details, disappear for most of the film to come back on what feels like a rushed queue in a play, characters form...
3.6 Stars Dead Man's Chest is an improvement on The Curse of The Black Pearl, it has the same fun thrills and light spooks, but doesn't need to use runtime for exposition. The humor is is sharper, the long gimmick action sequences are more captivating and the musical score has more variety. The film does, like the first instalment, waste a bit of time with trying to make an unnecessary morality arc...
3.5 Stars A amusement park ride of a film with intentional over acting, mid CGI effects and solid Special effects. The characters are all pretty silly, the plot is stitched together ideas of scenes that would look cool and gags for slapstick humor. The first 30 minutes of the film are pretty slow, I think too much time was spent introducing and settings up character arcs for Orlando Bloom and Keira...
2.9 Stars If you have seen one Wes Anderson film you've seen em all. The Actors are all toys playing generic descriptions of people who have the same personality, just different physical traits and superficial pasts. Watching Astroid City, it was rare to feel like any of the scenes had any emotional content or significance. It was probably one of the most unsatisfying films I've ever seen
4.1 Stars One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is probably one of the best cautionary tale films out there. I think its biggest strengths are how real the interpersonal interactions between characters feel and it's exploration of unpredictable consequences as the main characters actions giving him unexpected negative and positive feedback in his unfamiliar and restrictive environment. Even though I would...
3.8 Stars It seems like almost every reactionary poster has a positive take on Taxi Driver, mentioning it's themes of social alienation, the emptiness of city living and modern employment. I can't deny that there are some inspired and iconic scenes in Taxi Driver, but for me the film feels incomplete. Watching The film, certain parts felt disjointed, repetitive and unrealistic. Hearing the same jazzy...
Star Wars is REALLY About THIS!
My hottttt take. Star Wars is well known for being based on the works of Joseph Campbell and his watered-down Carl Jungian approach, but the more recent viewing I did...
3.2 Stars I gave this short series a look after I heard it was influenced/made reference to Neon Genesis. Only after I finished the 6 episodes did I see that references were just simple stylistic choices, the show also mimics South Park's iconic art style briefly. The main thing about that disappointed me FLCL was the humor, the jokes are all along the lines of shallow parody and references to real...
There are cool fighting scenes, guns, ships. Modern day pirate anime depicts a crew on the eastern seas with a new japanese office worker kidnapped that who becomes a sailor. There are historical and neo-nazis in this film, quite cool to see them represented. The dialogue has no consideration for political corectness, highly recommend watching it with english voice actors. There are however a few feminist...
This was a very good comedy, no propaganda, no vices or nudity, just some solid fun for an hour
3.8 Stars No country for old men is a long bleak & quiet film with one extremely iconic scene, a pretty decent plot, great actors, and an abrupt unceremonious ending that you will either be indifferent about or hate.
I really enjoyed the first half of the film, but the framing and plot choices in the second half left me a bit underwhelmed and disappointed
3.7 Stars A Retro FPS in the Warhammer 40,000 style that is pretty fun, but basic and repetitive. There are 3 chapter in which the player's weaponry of the same 12 guns resets after every level, to be picked up again in a different order in the next. The same 3 bosses appear at least twice throughout the game and there is not a unique final boss. There are some platforming aspects to areas that...
3.8 Stars I've tried to watch Gallipoli a number of times before finishing the film this time around. Gallipoli is pretty slow, especially the exposition, which I think takes a bit too long to establish emotional connection between the audience and the two focus protagonists played by Mark Lee and Mel Gibson. After the characters meet and develop a friendship however, the film got a better grip of...
4 Stars An enjoyable fluid & imaginative animation that fuses many different art styles, real actors and themes/tropes from other media. There were parts where I felt like sequences were getting too nonsensical, but I enjoyed the film's peculiar spin a basic life affirming positive messages
3.7 Stars Discourse online about whether Star Trek (original, Next Generation, & DS9) is proto-woke enough to fit the label or not seems to pop up every so often, I went into watching some episodes believing that the people claiming Star Trek wasn't woke were arguing through a lens of nostalgia, trying to salvage memories of a good old show they remember liking. After watching some episodes I...
3.1 Stars Starts off slow and has a lot of corny quips and wasted runtime, but Chris Farley and David Spade play off each other well on their sales road trip that contains most of the funny scenes and makes up the bulk of the main story. Lots of fat shaming and other politically incorrect jokes
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