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★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Mar 2024
“No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero”
Call it Stockholm Syndrome but on a fourth viewing I'm starting to get the idea that this whole Dune thing kinda rules? R(D)Ul(N)Es?// D(r)UN(l)E(s)? (That anything?)
That Denis can navigate the confronting nature of Dune's approach to colonialism, religious fanaticism & charasmatic leaders (the triple whammy) with the confidence and maturity he does, while still making an endlessly entertaining donkey brained action…
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★★★★★ Rewatched 10 Jul 2024
For good or ill, "Mission", ":" & "Impossible" are three words now synonymous with Tom Cruise and his valiant attempts to kill himself for our entertainment. Whether it's riding a dirt bike off a cliff, hanging from a cargo plane mid-flight or merely sharing a scene with Alec Baldwin, TC's more than willing to risk it all for the some thrills and// or miscellaneous spills. And while I love that - love the spectacle, love Cruise's suicidal ideation (I do not.…
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★★★★★ Watched 16 Dec 2024
Antoine Fuqua might be the only dude in recorded history who's ever dared to try and improve the work of Hideo Kojima, let alone successfully do so, because what do you *MEAN* we're doing the Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots "Solid Snake vs. Liquid Ocelot" CQC-Fight with Denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal in the midst of a fucking hurricane my guy!? You can't do that in a film-- They've killed Makers for doing that in a film!…
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Where the cynical mind might look to the movie The Equalizer thinking "Oh this is just John Wick in the visual styling of a Taken 3"// "Oh this is almost John Wick if John Wick were marred with the same editing flaws of say, 2014's Taken 3"// "Oh this is John Wick but so harmful and so blatant in it's pro-bald propaganda that, in that one respect, it couldn't *possibly* also be mistaken for Taken 3 on account of that…
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With peace and love to the Casting Makers of the movie Hot Frosty: Dustin Milligan simply does not possess the heart or soul to believably convey the childlike wonder and whimsy of a "Snowman turned Flesh-man" BUT™ if you were to tell me that "Jack" here was *meant* to be an off-putting freak pervert with a paraphilic infantalism fetish? I'd be liable to call this an A+ performance... Maybe consider a Denzel Washington of the movie Unstoppable-type next time?
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Hey here's an idea! [NOTE: I feel it pertinent to state upfront that I do not condone (though nor would I neccesarily condemn (à la: Doctor Manhattan)) political violence BUT™] If anyone happens to be in the larger Washington DC-area on and around January 20th 2025 with a spare few moments to kill, maybe consider pulling a (The) Manchurian Candidate and save the world some troubl-- I mean, isn't it CRAZY that a film released in 2004 used the phrase…
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