Dr. Oppenheimer or How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate The Bomb and Also Myself
Need to watch again to fully process but holy shit.
Top Gun: Maverick 2022
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I for one would like to thank Mr. Tom Cruise for his commitment to making the sickest, most visceral and rad action movies purely for our enjoyment.
In a few years after we’ve been gifted two more “Mission” movies and a trip to space, he should then be added to Mt. Rushmore.
All else I can say movie-wise is that the planes go real fast in this one, there are a lot of big booms, and one of the great montages (set to The Who, great choice) in the history of film is put to the screen.
Movies!
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Knives Out 2019
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This is everything I hoped it would be and so much more.
With a reverence for the genre that runs so deep he just about destroys it, Rian Johnson has delivered his 3rd consecutive knockout with, uh, Knives Out.
Surgical-like attention to detail, excellent characterization, devilishly funny sense of humor, and outright mastery of storytelling make this one of 2019's most well-rounded cinematic experiences.
I spent the last 45 minutes literally leaning forward in my seat, in awe that he was really pulling this off. Can not wait to watch this again. And 50 times after that.
Grade: 9.5/10
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Ad Astra 2019
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Sad Brad Is Mad And Sad, Looking For Dad
I'll need another watch to figure out how I feel about the last 20 minutes or so.
Worst-case scenario: it'll be a somewhat disappointing ending to an outstanding first 2/3.
Best case: I'll appreciate this more once I know what to expect.
Some things won't change, however. One being that Brad Pitt delivers one of his best performances to date as Roy McBride. It's the kind of performance that's so good the…
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Captain Marvel 2019
Gooooooooose I love youuuuuuuuu sooooooo muuucchhhhh. I understand that cats are impossible to train to do stuff but you needed to be in this movie mooooore.
2019's first Dumb Discourse movie has made talking about this online (not that I do outside of LB) suck because smelly neckbeard MRA dweebs just aren't able to understand anything ever.
Brie Larson is, of course, right that media representation is skewed way too far to one demographic at a time when movie journalists…
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To Kill a Mockingbird 1962
A truly beautiful movie. We need more people like Atticus Finch in the world.
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The Florida Project 2017
I don't care how good a movie is, if there are screaming children: I. WILL. HATE. IT.
Sean Baker does a good job capturing the feeling of this particular time and place, but building it around the most aggravating character in the movie (Halley) instead of the most interesting (Bobby) was a missed opportunity.
I will give the movie some credit for how it rolled out its plot. It's the kind of movie that seems uneventful while you're in the…
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1917 2019
There's a moment when the main character is running through a crumbling town at night that honestly felt like I was staring at the face of god.
1917 is the war movie for people that don't like war movies. An intense, harrowing, odyssey that for the umpteenth time shows the brutality of war. Set in one of the last truly honorable wars the world has fought in, this rivals Saving Private Ryan in heart and Dunkirk in execution (The Thin…
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The Batman 2022
Robert Pattinson (Patman? Battinson?) is gonna kill it.
Stoked for this!!! Only thing that could make this better is if Mr Freeze is the main villain.
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Sorry to Bother You 2018
Sorry to Disappoint You, this just didn’t do it for me.
Sorry to Bother You definitely is a creative movie. It’s also pretty imaginative and even more unique.
But I don’t think it’s particularly good. Or even all that entertaining. Boots Riley definitely has a lot to say, but I don’t think this movie did a good job conveying those thoughts.
I’m glad people are getting a lot out of this, but it just isn’t for me.
P.S.
The best scene in the movie is when Cash raps and you can see the white extras kinda-sorta-but-not-really singing along.
Grade: 4.5/10
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016
So. Here we are. 2016's superduper hero movies have come and gone. And I've seen them all. Now, I can say with certainty that somehow, some way, Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice is the best of them all.
Yes. The best.
While Civil War blows more and more air into an air-balloon gone wild and spoonfeeds it's audience an argument about world politics, Batman V. Superman does the opposite. It pops the balloon before it's finished expanding and doesn't…
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The Irishman 2019
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It’s what it is.
The Irishman is a masterfully assembled epic of breathtaking scale and substance.
Martin Scorsese’s 3+ hour chronicle of the last gasp of organized crime in America is undoubtedly the best picture of 2019, and it just might have to be in the conversation for one of the best films of the decade. The way things seem to be going it might be the best of the next decade too.
While their age certainly shows (though not to…
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